Original version

BBC World Service Online

Health Check

Factual: Health & Wellbeing

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.

Healthcheck

Health Check: 29/02/2012

29/02/2012

BBC World Service - Health Check, 29/02/2012

Claudia Hammond slays common myths about the brain and its workings

Claudia Hammond slays more common myths about the brain and its workings - are we either right brained or left brained and does the moon make us crazy?

Claudia Hammond makes it her cheerful mission to slay common myths about the brain and its workings. 

Neuroscientific nonsense in Claudia's cross hairs includes the notion that if we are creative arty types we use the right hand side of our brains and if we are logical and scientific we are dependent on the left side. She meets Professors Sophie Scott and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore from University College London, Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh from Oxford University and Dr Sergio della Sala at Edinburgh University, who have done research that shows this idea isn't true. 

The second myth Claudia busts is that a full moon makes us do strange things. Dr Eric Chudler of the University of Washington is her guide to why this idea has taken hold and why there is no evidence to support it.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Health Check

29/02/2012

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service