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This month, Dr Lora Heisler discusses the brain mechanisms controlling our appetite and subsequent body weight. She explores the many drivers behind hunger and appetite control and how these differ from person to person as well as how obesity can be avoided by increasing our energy expenditure...


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Dr Lora Heisler takes us through the mechanisms controlling our hunger and appetite in the brain and how this could be manipulated to treat obesity...


22nd Nov 2011 - The Biology of Behaviour

The human brain

Professor Tony Holland provides a window into the biology of behaviour and how genetic syndromes are helping open this window to provide greater levels of insight into violent behaviour, appetite control and Alzheimers disease...


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22nd Nov 2011 - The Biology of Behavour

Professor Tony Holland explores the genetic basis of Prada-Willi syndrome and how further insight into this disorder could provide a window into the biology of our behaviour...


11th Oct 2011 - NHS Rationing





11th Oct 2011 - Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - NHS Rationing

cardiac defribrillator

Dr. Linda Sharples gives an insight into the workings of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and how new medical treatments, drugs and procedures are analysed and assessed for use within the UK National Health Service...


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14th Jun 2011 - Learning about Sheep Learning

Sheep

Professor Jenny Morton provides new insight into the cognitive abilities of the supposedly dim-witted sheep and explains how these quick learning animals can be used to model Huntington's Disease...


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This month we hear investigating the cognitive abilities of sheep can enable a better insight into the development and onset of Hunitington's Disease...


This month, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen explores human empathy and explains what empathy is, how it differs amongst the population and the neurological and environmental causes of these differences...


This month, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen explores human empathy and explains what empathy is, how it differs amongst the population and the neurological and environmental causes of these differences...


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17th Feb 2011 - Alzheimers on the Mind

Alzheimers Senile Plaques

For this month's Cafe, Graham Fraser, from the Medical Research Council, discusses the prevalence and causes of Alzheimers disease as well is his research on the disease and the possible methods of treatment or prevention in the future.


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Graham Fraser from the Medical Research Council explains the potential causes of alzheimers disease and how his team are trying to find out more in order to handle the disease better in the future...



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