Past Programs
Diseases and Disorders - 2002
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Meet Electroboy
13/10/2002
Meet Electroboy. Los Angeles based writer Andy Behrman has just published a memoir of mania, and hang on tight - it's a wild ride. After 15 years of sex, drugs, big spending and medicalised mayhem - he was to eventually discover that he was living on the knife edge of manic depression. It was almost too late. Today he goes by the name given to him by the nurse who delivered his first round of electro-shock therapy - "Electroboy".
Eyes Wide Open - Sleep Deprivation
25/08/2002
In his book Faster, James Gleick writes, "The mere presence of an alarm clock implies sleep deprivation and what bedroom doesn't have one?". Going without your full quota of shut-eye in this globalised 24/7 world of ours has become almost compulsory. As we head for shift work nirvana, are we facing a pandemic of fatigue? Could science do away with the need for sleep altogether? World renowned sleep expert David Dinges reckons too little sleep is getting in the way of healthy wakefulness...Prop your eyes open with matchsticks, and tune in.
