Sleep - Hysteria

The power of sleep to improve memory and why hysteria isn't a thing of the past.

• 30 mins

The "Nudge" to Good Behaviour

Can we be 'nudged' into good behaviour? We report on the UK's Behavioural Insights Team.

• 30 mins

Daniel Kahneman - Conjoined Twins

One of the world's most influential psychologists, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman.

• 30 mins

English Riots - Anchoring - Bullying

English riots; "anchoring" and credit card minimum payments; bullying and BPD.

• 30 mins

Anxiety - Fraud in Psychology - Earworms

Mentoring scheme for people with anxiety, fraud in psychology and earworms.

• 30 mins

Bipolar Disorder - Complaints Choirs - Employment and Mental Illness

Bipolar disorder and misdiagnosis; complaining; employment support with mental illness.

• 30 mins

Taxi Drivers - Mental Illness and Work - Neuroscience and the Law

Taxi drivers' brains; disclosing mental health problems at work; neuroscience and the law.

• 30 mins

The Stress Special: The Results - Time for a Laugh - Disclosing Mental Health Histories

The results from a scientific study of UK stress levels: how stressed are we as a nation?

• 30 mins

01/05/2012

Could future health reforms affect mental health services? The psychology of online dating

• 28 mins

08/05/2012

Claudia visits HMP Grendon, the only prison in Europe that runs as a therapeutic community

• 28 mins

Money and Motivation; Street Therapy and Insanity Law

Money and motivation, street therapy and reforming the law on insanity.

• 28 mins

22/05/2012

3D body scanners and eating disorders, rise of the 'neuro-novel', and teenagers' brains.

• 28 mins

29/05/2012

Could there ever be a vaccine against depression? Claudia Hammond investigates.

• 28 mins

05/06/2012

Claudia talks to Jacopo Annese from the San Diego brain observatory about brain donation.

• 28 mins

12/06/2012

The senior executive and her female stalker; babies as jokers; sports participation.

• 28 mins

19/06/2012

Death while detained on psychiatric ward. Does parenting make you happy? Club drug clinic.

• 28 mins

26/06/2012

Richard Mabey on depressive illness, ecotherapy, and the evidence for 'green therapy'.

• 28 mins

30/10/2012

Claudia Hammond reports on 60 years of the Anna Freud Centre and how it uses neuroscience.

• 28 mins

CBT for psychosis; US elections and mental health

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy trial for psychosis, plus US elections and mental health.

• 28 mins

Gaydar, the Me Generation, IQ tests and learning disabilities

How 'gaydar' works, narcissism and the Me Generation, IQ tests and learning disabilities.

• 28 mins

20/11/2012

The chilling history of the Victorian 'mad doctor', and the boredom of the drone operator.

• 28 mins

27/11/2012

Polygraph testing for sex offenders, birdsong and wellbeing, body image and disfigurement.

• 28 mins

Alzheimer's Disease

Claudia Hammond on understanding the changes in the brain leading to Alzheimer's disease.

• 28 mins

Preventing PTSD; Archaeology and mental health; Organophospates

Preventing PTSD by 'thinking' differently; organophosphates; archaeology and mental health

• 28 mins

Mind mindedness; communicating risk; dyslexia

Claudia Hammond investigates how reading a baby's mind helps its development.

• 28 mins

Doomsday prophets; News consumption and wellbeing; Christian Jarrett

Doomsday prophets and belief, news consumption and wellbeing, plus Christian Jarrett.

• 28 mins

DSM-5; Should therapists cry? Sleep and mental illness

Sleep and mental illness - Claudia Hammond on research looking into a shared mechanism.

• 28 mins

Exam revision; Therapists who cry; NHS acute bed shortages; Skin disorders

Which methods work best for exam revision? Not the highlighter pen, apparently.

• 28 mins

Big Brain Projects; Anti-depressants; learning disability and bereavement

Europe and the USA are spending millions mapping the brain but will this approach pay off?

• 28 mins

Neuromyths in schools; psychosis and prisons; the case of HM

Neuromyths in the classroom - how brain facts and fiction are being muddled up in schools.

• 28 mins