Past Programs
Education - 2004
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Grey Power and Brain Matter.
06/11/2004
Can our brains age gracefully and in the 21st century? This week on All in the Mind, we hear from Pennsylvania State University's Professor K Warner Schaie, leader of the world famous Seattle Longitudinal Study, considered to be one of the most extensive psychological studies into ageing in world history. It's even been instrumental in the lifting of the retirement age in the United States. After half a century's work, Professor Shaie's discovered many secrets to maintaining mental strength in old age, and they may surprise you. Believe it or not, marrying someone smarter than yourself could shore up brain capacity in later life!
Worried Children - how anxious should we be?
14/08/2004
When should you be anxious about an anxious child? Child anxiety can mean not wanting to leave mum or dad's side, complaints of tummy aches, and fears about trying new challenges, going to school, and meeting other kids. The link between child anxiety and depression later in life is becoming much clearer. This week, All in the Mind looks at innovative efforts to target parents with anxious children in regional New South Wales, who are starved for support services. The idea is to get in early, before anxiety becomes a disabling life pattern into adulthood.
Brain Injury in Children: A Neglected Epidemic?
17/07/2004
This week, what happens when little heads hit hard surfaces? When Byron was four years old he walked into the path of a car and was left severely brain damaged. 21 years later he's just graduated with a maths degree&8212;against all odds. But new evidence is starting to challenge long-held beliefs about the incredible plasticity of young brains, and their needs years after childhood injury. Is brain injury a neglected epidemic among children and adolescents?
Music and Intelligence: The Debate Continues
12/06/2004
This week, does making music make you smarter? The Mozart Effect hit the world with a gusto just over a decade ago, and 'Bach for Baby' CDs sold like hotcakes. The original research has since been discredited, but the debate over whether music is the elixir of intelligence, mathematical and spatial ability is still raging. Stephen Burstow reports on two recent studies, and asks whether the connection between music and IQ is being kept alive to justify the value of teaching kids music.
Margaret and Pauline: Resilience in Mental Illness
15/05/2004
Margaret Cook and Pauline Miles are well known figures in West Australia's mental health advocacy community. Born as identical twins in Wales, they grew up in the UK with a mother with major mental illness and a shared history of abuse. Now themselves parents of adult children, they join Natasha Mitchell this week to reflect on their own experiences of hospitalisation in psychiatric wards, the search for identity in suffering, and inspiration in healing, activism and awareness.
