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Factual: Health & Wellbeing

The show with the latest evidence on psychology, mental health and neuroscience.

The show on how we think, feel and behave. Claudia Hammond delves into the evidence on mental health, psychology and neuroscience.

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All in the Mind: Big Brain Projects; Anti-depressants; learning disability and bereavement

21/05/2013

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

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, 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?

Europe and the USA are both running large projects to map the brain, but will this approach pay off? Plus bereavement counselling for adults with learning disabilities.

In the US scientists are working out the details of President Obama's $100 million BRAIN initiative,
and the EU is funding the billion euro Human Brain project. What will these expensive projects tell us, and are we even asking the right questions? Mind Hacker Vaughan Bell analyses the debate.


Novelist Alex Peston talks about his essay on creativity and antidepressants, and Claudia Hammond asks Nooreen Akhtar of Aberdeen University about her analysis of how antidepressants are portrayed in the press.


Noelle Blackman of Respond discusses the benefits of bereavement counselling for adults with learning disabilities.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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