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Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists

Open your mind with Naked Neuroscience, the spine-tingling, interactive monthly exploration of the w

Episodes

Total: 83

Why are some psychiatric illnesses, like anxiety and depression, on the increase? Could conditions,

Brainy Babies!

2014/2/24

Should you raise your baby to be bilingual? Are video games rotting or rejuvenating children's brain

Naked in a Brain Bank

2014/2/20

Reporting from New Zealand on how a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, ho

New Zealand adventures with sheep, finding the Huntington's gene, developing new therapies for the b

Neuroscience Nuggets 2013!

2013/12/20

Touring the brain by visiting a laughter clinic, the sauna and psychadelic goats, plus neuroscience

Bombing the Brain

2013/11/20

Chemical warfare, how serving in Afghanistan left it's mental scars plus brainwashing to tweak beli

Can we make a fake brain?

2013/10/19

A special edition Question and Answer show: how do prosthetic limbs work? Can you train your brain?

Toddlers addicted to smart phones, speaking to a cyborg, computers that predict emotion, electricall

Rats being tickled, a visit to the laughter clinic, and a toddler's favourite joke. We uncover the b

Are you Addicted?

2013/6/19

Recovering from alcoholism via community creativity, goats high on psychedelics, cheeky monkeys on m

From Russia with Love

2013/6/6

From Russia with Love! Reporting from Lake Baikal in Siberia. In this special episode, I visit Russi

Music and the Mind!

2013/5/19

Infected by earworms, what Mozart does for the mind, plus are creativity and delusions linked? Like

Paying attention to ADHD

2013/4/19

Is ADHD overdiagnosed? How can parents and teachers help those affected? What happens when ADHD chil

Combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation in the brain. We ask how starlings flock

Addicted to Love?

2013/2/20

What happens when you fall into, and out of, love? We get to the bottom of the cuddle hormone oxytoc

Probing Parkinson's

2013/1/20

Why are researchers punching into people's skin if they are on a quest for knowledge about the brain

Could genetics pave the way for developing schizophrenia or Alzheimer 's disease? Is there a genetic

Smart Drugs, Anyone?

2012/11/20

We find out exactly what is going on in the brain during the teenage years. Plus we ask should we al

New Brain Cells, Anyone?

2012/10/20

What does exercise and experience do for the brain? Improving maternal care, the brain networks of i

How nerve cells make decisions, how genes control behaviour, using light to interrogate neuronal ci