Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

All in the Mind

Podcasts

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.

BBC Radio 4 LW

All in the Mind: Brain bank dismantling, Climate change psychology, Trigger warnings for books

08/12/2015

Brain bank dismantling, Climate change psychology, Trigger warnings for books

BBC Radio 4 - All in the Mind, Brain bank dismantling, Climate change psychology, Trigger warnings for books

Including a look at the dismantling of Europe's largest brain bank.

Including a look at dismantling Europe's largest brain bank, tackling climate change with psychology and trigger warnings for English literature students.

Europe's largest brain bank is to be dismantled. The Corsellis Collection in west London contains tissue from 4000-6000 brains and includes a wide and unusual range of pathologies, some dating back as far as the 1950s. But now funding pressures mean that new homes must be found for as many as possible. Claudia asks which brains will be kept and hears about the value of brains without pathology.

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21, continues in Paris, Claudia talks to Dr Sander van der Linden in Princeton about how psychological science can help policy makers to communicate about climate change.

We hear what being nominated for the All in the Mind Awards meant to last year's finalists in the groups category.

And at Lancaster University English literature students have requested that trigger warnings be added to texts on their reading lists which contain potentially distressing passages. Richard McNally, Professor of psychology and expert in anxiety and trauma, talks to Claudia about the evidence.

Producer: Lorna Stewart.

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

Accessibility links

Programme Index

All in the Mind

Brain bank dismantling, Climate change psychology, Trigger warnings for books

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4