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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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