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2009-01-03 A day in the life of...Meet the Ingersons
Four-year-old Tara has a very special brain. Like Rain Man, she was born without a Corpus Callosum. It s the head s su...

2008-12-27 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze [Part 2 of 2]
Maori people believe the body is derived from the earth, and returns to the ancestral earth at death complete. The fle...

2008-12-20 Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part 1 of 2)
The incredible saga of Ishi, California s last 'wild' Indian, is the stuff of American folklore. It s also the quest f...

2008-12-13 Untangling the talk
What humans say to each other is perplexing at the best of times. But what if all you have is sight, no sound? Deaf peo...

2008-12-06 Extraordinary Cases in psychology: Part 4 of 4 - Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex
The Oedipus Complex - Dr Sigmund Freud s unusual theory that children desire their parent of opposite sex, and want har...

2008-11-29 Extraordinary Cases in Psychology: Part 3 of 4 The man with the hole in his head
Extreme cases of brain damage litter the history of neuroscience. Phineas Gage is perhaps the most famous. A railway wor...

2008-11-22 Extraordinary Cases in psychology: Part 2 of 4 - The wild boy of Aveyron
In 1800, a young boy emerged from the woods of the Aveyron District in France, naked and wild. He became a scientific en...

2008-11-15 Extraordinary Cases in psychology: Part 1 of 4 - The story of Kitty Genovese (broadcast not podcast edition)
When a young woman, Kitty Genovese was brutally killed in a prolonged attack in New York in 1964, not one of 38 witnesse...

2008-11-08 The voices within...
Many people hear voices inside their head - some are diagnosed with schizophrenia, others live privately with the experi...