All in the Mind
All In The Mind is Radio National's weekly foray into the mental universe, the mind, brain and behaviour - everything from addiction to artificial intelligence.
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2008-08-02 Is being gay in your biology?
What makes someone gay? The quest for the biological roots of sexual orientation remains rife with controversy. Is it in your genes, handedness, or the hormonal soup of the early foetus? Or, is the answer hidden deep inside the brain? Homo or hetero - the science of sexual attraction captures every ...
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2008-07-26 Special Series (Part 3 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: Patient rights and staff fights
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. During a time of major institutional and cultural upheaval, the Office of the Patient?s Friend opened its doors in 1977, the first patient advocacy service to ...
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2008-07-12 Special Series (Part 1 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the asylum - UP...
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia?s largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series All in the Mind shares stories from people who lived and worked there; from a nurse who worked there from the 1940s to a woman incarcerated as a ...
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2008-07-19 Special Series (Part 2 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the asylum
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series All in the Mind unearths stories from people who lived and worked there. A nurse reflects on life in the asylum during World War II before the d ...
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2008-07-12 Special Series (Part 1 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the asylum
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia?s largest and oldest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime. In this series All in the Mind shares stories from people who lived and worked there; from a nurse who worked there from the 1940s to a woman incarc ...
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2008-07-05 Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky
In Austria, animal activists have taken the case of a chimp called Matthew as far as the European Court of Human Rights. Controversially, they?re fighting for his right to legal personhood. And, the incredible saga of Nim Chimpsky. A landmark effort to teach a chimp sign language and raise him like ...
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2008-06-28 Brain hijinks: out-of-body experiences and other tricks of consciousness
What happens when your brain sees the world not as it really is? This week, the scientific effort to simulate out-of-body experiences to probe the limits of the self. And, remarkable stories of vision gone heywirewhat they reveal about our `seeing brain?. Two scientists join Natasha Mitchell with ...
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2008-06-21 Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales
One of the big names of the brain is Michael Gazzaniga, whose career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry. His striking experiments continue to uncover the differences between your left and right hemispheres. Today he?s on the US President?s Bioethics Council, heads up a major projec ...
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2008-06-14 Brave New Mind: Smart drugs and the ethics of neuro-enhancement
An April Fools prank this year saw the launch of the World Anti-Brain Doping Authority. Jokes aside, drugs like Ritalin for ADHD and Modafinil for sleeping disorders are now being popped by people who want to be weller than well. Some argue that the spectre of 'smart drugs' and 'cosmetic pharmacolog ...
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2008-06-07 Courage: Guts, grit, spine, heart, and verve.
Polish-born Sabina Wolanski, now 80, was a teenager when her entire family was killed by Nazis, and was the sole Holocaust survivor to speak at the launch of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Russian-born Maria Tumarkin came to Australia as a teenager in 1980s. Her new book unearths coura ...
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2008-05-31 When Words and Science Meet - All in the Mind at the Sydney Writers' Festival
Stefan Merrill Block?s debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, is a clever tale about familial Alzheimer?s disease. Spanning time and place, it's the surprising story of a gene, a fantasy land where memory is absent, a hunchback, and one boy?s quest to understand the disease stealing his mother?s mind ...
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2008-05-31 When Words and Science Meet - All in the Mind at the Sydney Writer's Festival
Stefan Merrill Block?s debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, is a clever tale about familial Alzheimer?s disease. Spanning time and place, it's the surprising story of a gene, a fantasy land where memory is absent, a hunchback, and one boy?s quest to understand the disease stealing his mother?s mind ...
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2008-05-24 Museums Week: A magical mystery tour through the scientific psyche
A collection of butterfly genitalia gathered by novelist Nabokov; a precious sand dollar from Darwin?s epic Beagle voyage; tapeworms from the stomachs of wealthy Bostonians - Harvard?s acclaimed Natural History Museum is a vast treasure trove of biological objects and oddities. Reaching back to the ...
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2008-05-17 The science of happiness
The pursuit of happiness is a global obsession. But can science investigate its slippery, subjective nature? What are the metricsself report, brain activity, or the good deeds we do? Five world leaders in the field join Natasha Mitchell in conversationneuroscientist Richard Davidson, Buddhist monk M ...
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2008-05-10 Quitting the habit: neurobiology, addiction and the insidious ciggie
Smokers cling to the ciggies for dear life, knowing it will likely be a much shorter one. An anti-smoking drug released in Australia targets nicotine receptors in the brain, working differently to traditional nicotine replacement therapies. But are we too fixed on a quick fix for addiction? And, ...
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2008-05-03 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze [Part 2 of 2]
Maori people believe the body is derived from the earth, and returns to the ancestral earth at deathcomplete. The flesh, and all its bits, are sacred. The new Human Tissue Bill in New Zealand has provoked debate over who owns your body at deathyou or your family? The Maori Party argues the legislat ...
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2008-04-26 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part 1 of 2)
The incredible saga of Ishi, California?s last "wild" Indian, is the stuff of American folklore. It?s also the quest for a lost brain, taken from Ishi?s tuberculosis ravaged body at death only to be rediscovered and repatriated 80 years later. And next week - a young Maori scientist working with po ...
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2008-04-19 Stone Age brains in 21st century skulls
Front up to your shrink, and you bring a menagerie of hunter gatherers, anteaters and reptiles from your ancestral past with you. Or so Professor Daniel Wilson and Dr Gary Galambos believe. Both clinical psychiatrists, they provocatively challenge their profession to look to the Darwinian roots of h ...
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2008-04-12 A day in the life of...Meet the Ingersons
Four-year-old Tara has a very special brain. Like Rain Man, she was born without a Corpus Callosum. It?s the head?s superhighway -- a thick band of nerve fibres connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. Join Natasha Mitchell as she experiences a day in the life of the Ingerson family, with rare i ...
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2008-04-05 Poetic Science: Bodies, brains and the art of experimentation
Meet polymath Ian Gibbins -- neuroscientist, anatomist and university professor by day; poet, performer and composer by night. In a unique audio portrait, All in the Mind takes you inside all of his worlds; contemplating cadavers, nerve cells and the creative arts.
All in the Mind
