Naked Neuroscience

Do environmental pollutants play a role? Is it simply extreme male behaviours? And can we diagnose babies before they...

How are memories formed and lost? Is Alzheimer's just an extreme version of normal ageing? And to what extent does...

Why are psychiatric illnesses, like anxiety and depression, on the increase? Could disorders like ADHD provide...

Reporting from New Zealand on a bank of frozen human brains, a Hindu resolves religious and scientific beliefs and...

New Zealand adventures with sheep, finding the Huntington's gene, developing new therapies for the brain and...

Touring the brain by visiting the laughter clinic, sauna and psychadelic goats, plus news nuggets from Prof Nutt!

Neurochemical warfare, how serving in Afghanistan can leave mental scars plus brainwashing to tweak belief systems.

A special edition Question and Answer show: how do prosthetic limbs work? Can you train your brain? And is a brain...

Toddlers addicted to smart phones, speaking with a cyborg and electrically inducing human creativity.

Rats being tickled, a visit to the laughter clinic, and a toddler's favourite joke. We uncover the brain basis of...

Recovering from alcoholism via community creativity, goats high on psychedelics, cheeky monkeys on mojitos, and can...

Reporting from Lake Baikal, how nicotine switches off attention in the teenage brain, and a visit to a Siberian sauna!

Infected by earworms, does Mozart make you smarter, plus are creativity and delusions linked?

Is ADHD overdiagnosed? How can parents, teachers and society, help those affected? What happens when ADHD children...

Combining virtual reality and treadmills to map navigation and inducing creativity by electrically tweaking human...

What happens when you fall into, and out of, love? Can you enhance monogamy with oxytocin? And what does a fruit fly...

Turning skin into brain cells, unravelling Parkinson's, do you only use 10% of your brain? Can you lose weight by...

Will your genes pave the way for schizophrenia, optimism, a high IQ or even Alzheimer's? And is it ethical to...

We explore the teenage brain, and ask should we all be taking drugs to boost our memories?

Giving birth to new nerve cells. Could stem cells cause cancer? And what keeps a Nobel Laureate up all night.

How nerve cells make decisions, how genes control behaviour, using light to interrogate neuronal circuits, anxiety...

Find out about the exciting new technologies that are revolutionising neuroscience, providing scientists with the tools...

Reporting from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Spain we find out what happens when your...

Reporting from the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference in Barcelona, we find out how your brain...