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Brain

Podcast: Neuroimaging, neurononsense and gender stereotypes - with Gina Rippon

This talk aims to offer ways of rooting out the neurotrash, stamping out the neurosexism and making way for neuronews.

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Brain

Podcast: The psychology of thinking - with Richard Nisbett

In a lightning tour of human reasoning, world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett shines a new light on the shadowy world of

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Podcast DNA helix

Brain

Podcast: Epigenetics and parental origin effects: with Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith explains what epigenetics is and how our environment interacts with our genome and if these

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Brain

Podcast: Autism: A personal journey – with Dame Stephanie Shirley

An estimated 700,000 people in Britain are affected by autism. In this Discourse, Dame Stephanie Shirley shares her hands-on

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Podcast Walnuts

Brain

Podcast: What our brains want - with Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan

This month, Ray Dolan, Wolfram Schultz and Peter Dayan, winners of the 2017 Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, discuss their

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Podcast Photo collage

Brain

Podcast: Unruly memory – with memory experts: Vin Walsh, Julia Shaw and Jennifer Wild

Memories give us a sense of who we are. But how can we be sure that what we remember is what really happened? And why is it that

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Brain

Podcast: Anatomy of a conversation - with Elizabeth Stokoe

This month, Elizabeth Stokoe explains how conversation analysis can produce a scientific understanding of talk.

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Brain

Psychedelic therapy for depression: hope or hype? - with Alex Riley

We’ve long been trying to find a cure for depression. From the ancient Greeks to Freud, and from therapy rooms to the Prozac

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Podcast Busy night in Times square

Brain

Podcast: How advertising works – with Rory Sutherland

Rory Sutherland uses case studies from the world's biggest brands to reveal our understanding of 'Psycho-logic'

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Brain

Podcast: What is love? – with Laura Mucha & Kate Devlin

Does love at first sight exist? How does your attachment style influence how you love? This month we hear from lawyer-turned

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