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Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists

Open your mind with Naked Neuroscience, the spine-tingling, interactive monthly exploration of the workings of the nervous system from the Naked Scientists.

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Diverse roots: Investigating youth mental health from 2023-11-24T04:36:40

This time on Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko explores the miracle of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with Stephanie Brown from the University of Cambridge, including a new innovation to decrease '...

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In the brain of the beholder: Music across cultures from 2023-10-21T09:42:51

Kicking off a new series of Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko serves up the latest research making waves in brain science with the help of Stephanie Brown and Francis Madden. This month, the brain ne...

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Inside the Mind from 2021-04-23T05:50:01

This month we're pondering the mysterious mind - what is it? Are us humans unique in having one? And where does the brain fit in? Plus we chat over some of the latest neuroscience news with local e...

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Eating for Your Nervous System from 2021-03-25T05:53:33

We all know that vegetables and fruits are good for us - high in fibre, lots of vitamins. But what good do they actually do the brain? Do certain foods really benefit our nervous systems? How does ...

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I'm soooo bored! from 2021-02-23T05:27:26

This month - we're boring into boredom! What does it mean to be bored? Should we embrace it? Should we avoid it? How do you get through it? Stick with us to find out... Like this podcast? Please he...

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Hallucination Science from 2021-01-29T01:30:06

From internal vision to things that appear to go bump in the night, we're talking about hallucinations. Plus, as usual, we're joined by our local experts to digest some of the latest neuroscience n...

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Dogs vs Cats: the Human-Pet Relationship from 2020-12-18T03:13:34

It's nearly Christmas! Grab a mince pie and get comfy as this month Naked Neuroscience navigates the relationships we have with our pets. What makes some cat noises so annoying? Why are we such suc...

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A Walk in the Park from 2020-11-20T05:40:02

This month, take a stroll outside as Naked Neuroscience hears about the brain benefits of exercise, and the ways in which the great outdoors can do us good. Plus, as usual, we're joined by our loca...

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Food on the Brain from 2020-10-21T05:05:57

Snacking, craving and the microbiome! This month Naked Neuroscience looks at what's going on in the brain when we're hungry and thirsty... Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Having a Laugh, Throughout Life from 2020-09-21T05:29:45

Last month, we considered animals at play. And this month, Katie Haylor is joined by a couple of guests to consider the importance of play in human animals - from little kids, right into adulthood....

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Larking About: Play Science from 2020-08-26T04:37:10

This month and the next, we're having a laugh! We'll be getting stuck in to the science of play. What exactly is play? Why bother? And are we playing enough? Plus some of the latest from the world ...

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Migraine on the Brain from 2020-07-20T04:46:47

This month, we're digging deeper into the world of headaches, asking what's going on in the brain when a migraine occurs? And meet the stripes that can do your head in... Like this podcast? Please ...

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Honing in on Headaches from 2020-06-19T04:49:11

Nearly everyone has had one, with some merely a nuisance and others severely debilitating.... we're honing in on headaches in this and the next episode of Naked Neuroscience. Plus, we're talking ab...

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The mind under lockdown from 2020-05-26T12:30:51

This month, we're lifting the lid on the mind under lockdown. What's going on in the brain when you're having a virtual conversation, compared to one face to face? Could teenagers' mental wellbeing...

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Brain development - decisions, decisions... from 2020-04-21T07:28:15

This month, we're talking development and decisions. From some of the cellular decisions involved in actually making a brain, to delving into teenage decision making... Like this podcast? Please he...

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Colour on the Brain - part 2 from 2020-03-20T05:38:59

This month - Naked Neuroscience continues its colourful journey! We're exploring amazing animal colour vision, colour perception and development, and how colour relates to emotion. Plus, some of th...

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Colour on the Brain - part 1 from 2020-02-21T07:05:09

Be it burnt orange, millenial pink, inky black, dusky, deep purple, colour is everywhere! Over the February and March 2020 episodes of Naked Neuroscience, we're opening up the paint box of colour. ...

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Coming off Antidepressants from 2020-01-20T02:50:29

This month - with about 1 in 10 people in the UK on antidepressant drugs, we're asking what's it like to come off of these medications? How well is this change managed? And how can this be improved...

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When Gaming Gets Out of Control from 2019-12-20T03:34:16

This month, we're getting to grips with gaming disorder. With the NHS's first specialist clinic to help people with gaming disorder now open, we're asking what's it like to be addicted to gaming, a...

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Anxiety and Sex: Naked Neuroscience top up! from 2019-12-18T05:03:14

Welcome to a bonus episode of Naked Neuroscience, the podcast exploring the workings of the brain and the nervous system, in our bodies and beyond. In this short show Katie Haylor chats to Anglia ...

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Go with your gut from 2019-11-20T06:09:40

This month - we're riffing around the concept of "gut feelings". In a digestive sense, an emotional sense, and asking whether these concepts overlap at all... Like this podcast? Please help us by <...

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Understanding addiction from 2019-10-20T11:15:02

This month, we're dipping our toes into addiction. What exactly is addiction? Who is likely to become addicted? And what's going on in the brain? Plus, stimulating better short term memory, and lin...

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Making moves from 2019-09-20T11:20:24

This month - what's going on in the brain that allows us to move? How might control over our movements change as we age? And why do armies march in time with each other? We're mulling over the neur...

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The Lonely Mind from 2019-08-20T06:20:51

This month, we're unpicking the neuroscience of loneliness, asking: Why do so many of us get lonely, what's happening in the brain when we are lonely, and what can be done to help? Plus, we'll be p...

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How Do I Smell? from 2019-07-20T12:00

This month, we're talking smelly neuroscience! Can how we smell, and what we smell like, say anything about our health? Plus, we pick apart some of the latest neuroscience papers with the help of l...

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Getting serious on sleep from 2019-06-20T00:00

This month - are we taking sleep seriously enough? Should we be changing the way we view it? We're talking sleep and mental health, body clocks and genes, and sleep's impact on learning and memory....

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Naked Neuroscience news roundup! from 2019-05-20T12:00

This month - from digging into dementia, to asking "are bigger brains always better?", we've had a glut of neuroscience news harvested in the naked scientists office, so prepare for a neuroscience ...

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Can Music be Medicine? from 2019-04-20T00:00

This month, Naked Neuroscience is putting music therapy under the microscope. We're tuning into the therapeutic properties of tunes, asking - what actually is music therapy? What health conditions...

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Uncovering Consciousness from 2019-03-20T00:00

This month, Naked Neuroscience is delving into the curious concept of consciousness - asking what exactly is it? Why should scientists study it? And what has the unconscious mind got to do with gen...

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Best Behaviour: Rolling out Change from 2019-02-20T00:00

This month, Naked Neuroscience is back at the Rosenthal Symposuim conference on changing behaviour for the healthier, organised by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and the US National Academy of ...

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Best Behaviour: Neuroscience and Health from 2019-01-20T00:00

This month we're lifting the lid on health-related behaviour at the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and USA National Academy of Medicine's Rosenthal Symposium. We're asking what neuroscience can tel...

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Nerves on the Edge from 2018-12-20T00:00

This month, we're peeling back the science of the peripheral nervous system, looking at some of the injuries it can sustain, and taking a closer look at exciting new developments on the horizon for...

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How Do We Remember? from 2018-11-20T00:00

This month - what exactly is a memory? How does the brain suppress unwanted memories, and what can we do to improve our own memory? Plus, news hot off the press, and do our brains have their wires ...

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Scary Science: Fear in the Brain from 2018-10-20T00:00

This month, we're peaking out from behind the sofa at the science of fear. Why are some of us so scared of seemingly harmless things? What's going on in the brain when we're frightened? And does ch...

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Criminal Minds? from 2015-03-20T00:00

What power does science have? We explore the influence of neuroscience in the courtrooms. Could brain scans shape prison sentences? Can it predict who will re-offend? We put the brain on trial with...

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Botox, Anybody? from 2015-02-20T00:00

Botox injections in the nervous system, keeping brain tissue alive, and the shifting axis of scientific influence... Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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A Brainy Man on a Mission from 2015-01-20T00:00

From rags to riches: how a fruit stall selling boy became a brain surgeon and, inspired by the NHS, built a community hospital and neuroscience institute back in his homeland of Kolkata. We meet th...

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The Wanderings of a Naked Brain from 2014-12-20T00:00

This month we'll be trotting the globe to open our minds! We soak up some naked brain wanderings, including visiting the banja, a Russian sauna, to be whipped by birch leaves. Plus, from the State...

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Blame the Brain? from 2014-11-19T00:00

Putting the brain on trial: did your brain make you do it? Neuroscience in the courtroom exposed. Plus the dark side of new neurotechnologies and do we have free will or are our actions pre-determi...

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Robots in Society from 2014-11-18T00:00

Meet Brian, the robot programmed to help look after the elderly. Plus we explore the role of robots in combat and in the classroom and we explore the ethics of how science shapes society. This spec...

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Peering into the Human Brain from 2014-11-17T00:00

Millions invested in brain research across the globe. It's the decade of the brain. But how will the results shape our future societies? Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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The Importance of Play from 2014-10-20T00:00

We examine the child brain: looking how the Victorians viewed babies, ask could early childhood stress, like changing schools, parents divorcing or having an anxious, overbearing mother, EVER be a ...

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Teenage Kicks on the Brain from 2014-09-19T00:00

Does smoking dope decrease your potential for pleasure? How the simple act of dieting can rewire brain and a blood test for depression. Reporting from the British Association for Psychopharmacology...

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A Wired Society from 2014-08-20T00:00

Memory boosting drugs, the military, the legal system and enhancing athletes mental focus and muscle tone. Where should neuroscience stop? How a revolution in technology is bringing an unprecedente...

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Remembering to live to a ripe old age from 2014-08-06T00:00

Hello I'm Naked Scientist Hannah Critchlow and I'm concerned about aging. Alzheimer's disease affects around half a million of us in the UK alone, and this number is predicted to increase as the po...

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Is your sleep account in credit? from 2014-07-08T00:00

Fruit flies to understand getting our sleep bank account in credit, how we perceive passing of time to help make up our minds in tricky situations. Plus in the news, people prefer shocks to thought...

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Morality and Motivation from 2014-07-06T00:00

Would you kill a person to save five others? Does religion evade morality by omission? And can you tweak people's motivations? Reporting on Morality and Motivation in Milan, with breaking hot neuro...

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Can chocolate make you happy? from 2014-06-20T00:00

Beat anxiety, form healthy habits and induce a happy state of mind. We open our minds by tackling your questions about the brain. Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Addressing Autism from 2014-05-20T00:00

Could environmental pollutants play a role? Why is autism sometimes thought of as simply extreme male behaviours? And since genetics are involved, could you diagnose newly born babies and start t...

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Inside Alzheimers from 2014-04-20T00:00

How are memories formed and lost? Is Alzheimer's just an extreme version of normal ageing? And to what extent does genetics play a role? Can we protect ourselves from developing the disease? We get...

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Genetic tests for psychiatry? from 2014-03-20T00:00

Why are some psychiatric illnesses, like anxiety and depression, on the increase? Could conditions, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, confer an evolutionary advantage? And is ...

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Brainy Babies! from 2014-02-24T00:00

Should you raise your baby to be bilingual? Are video games rotting or rejuvenating children's brains? We find out! Plus in the news, personalised breast milk, modelling the brain with computers, h...

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Naked in a Brain Bank from 2014-02-20T00:00

Reporting from New Zealand on how a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves religious and scientific beliefs and scientists creating human brain circuits ...

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Naked Neuroscience, Down Under from 2014-01-20T00:00

New Zealand adventures with sheep, finding the Huntington's gene, developing new therapies for the brain and unravelling its complexities. Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Neuroscience Nuggets 2013! from 2013-12-20T00:00

Touring the brain by visiting a laughter clinic, the sauna and psychadelic goats, plus neuroscience nuggets from Prof Nutt! Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Bombing the Brain from 2013-11-20T00:00

Chemical warfare, how serving in Afghanistan left it's mental scars plus brainwashing to tweak belief systems. Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Can we make a fake brain? from 2013-10-20T00:00

A special edition Question and Answer show: how do prosthetic limbs work? Can you train your brain? And is a brain transplant possible? Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Is technology tweaking our brains? from 2013-09-20T00:00

Toddlers addicted to smart phones, speaking to a cyborg, computers that predict emotion, electrically inducing human creativity and is technology widening the inequality gap? Like this podcast? Ple...

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Tickling your brain: why do we laugh? from 2013-07-20T00:00

Rats being tickled, a visit to the laughter clinic, and a toddler's favourite joke. We uncover the brain basis of funny! Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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Are you Addicted? from 2013-06-20T00:00

Recovering from alcoholism via community creativity, goats high on psychedelics, cheeky monkeys on mojitos and can expectant mothers drink? Like this podcast? Please help us by Listen

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From Russia with Love from 2013-06-07T00:00

From Russia with Love! Reporting from Lake Baikal in Siberia. In this special episode, I visit Russia for a conference and from there, we'll be finding out how Russian neuroscience is getting a col...

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Music and the Mind! from 2013-05-20T00:00

Infected by earworms, what Mozart does for the mind, plus are creativity and delusions linked? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting th...

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Paying attention to ADHD from 2013-04-20T00:00

Is ADHD overdiagnosed? How can parents and teachers help those affected? What happens when ADHD children enter adulthood? And do diet and genes pave the way to developing the disorder? Plus in the ...

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Get Lost! Navigating the Brain from 2013-03-20T00:00

Combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation in the brain. We ask how starlings flock in such a synchronised murmuration. And in the news, inducing creativity by electrically tweaking...

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Addicted to Love? from 2013-02-20T00:00

What happens when you fall into, and out of, love? We get to the bottom of the cuddle hormone oxytocin and find out if the contraceptive pill is good for relationships. And we navigate our way arou...

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Probing Parkinson's from 2013-01-20T12:00

Why are researchers punching into people's skin if they are on a quest for knowledge about the brain? What does the birth of new brain cells do for memory? Plus can a 'tumour paint' be developed to...

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The Genetics of Brain and Behaviour from 2012-12-14T00:00

Could genetics pave the way for developing schizophrenia or Alzheimer 's disease? Is there a genetic link between optimism and obesity? Is it ethical to screen people's DNA? Plus we find out what a...

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Smart Drugs, Anyone? from 2012-11-20T00:00

We find out exactly what is going on in the brain during the teenage years. Plus we ask should we all be taking drugs to make us 'smarter'? And we find out about wiring up bats for neuroscience res...

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New Brain Cells, Anyone? from 2012-10-20T01:00

What does exercise and experience do for the brain? Improving maternal care, the brain networks of impulsive behaviour and the rewards of sharing experiences with friends! Plus turning hair into ne...

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The Brain Uncovered: Naked Neuroscience from 2012-08-26T00:00

How nerve cells make decisions, how genes control behaviour, using light to interrogate neuronal circuits, anxiety attacks, deep brain stimulation to bust addiction, how the immune system can cau...

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Exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience from 2012-07-17T00:00

Find out about the exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience, providing scientists with the tools to unlock the mysteries of the mind and nervous system and paving the way for...

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The Naked Scientists unravel the connections in your brain from 2012-07-16T00:00

We find out what happens when your immune system attacks the brain, how a protein providing the architecture of brain connectivity may help to treat people with autism, explore how scientists are u...

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The Naked Scientists strip down the brain in Spain from 2012-07-15T00:00

The Naked Scientists strip down the brain in Spain - attending the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona. We find out how your brain computes information, ask if wat...

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