All In The Mind

Losing grip on your memory is terrifying. The brutal memories that plague those with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can revive the visceral emotions of traumas past. In part 2 of this series on the science of memory, BBC presenter Pam Rutherford explores why memory goes haywire during both PTSD and depression, and the important role emotions play in the machinations of your mind's memory vault.

NOTE: No podcast or Real Audio versions of this series are available online, because of BBC copyright. Instead you have the chance to download or listen online to an MP3 of a popular program from our audio archives: Psychedelics on the Mind

Transcript

For copyright reasons no transcript or audio of this program is available. See relevant links and references below, and a link to the BBC's Memory series site, which includes online audio. And check the rest of our archive of transcripts while you're here as well.

Guests

Harry Steva
Ex-US Marine Captain

Martin Conway
Pprofessor of Psychology and memory researcher, Leeds Memory Group, Leeds
http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/cgi-bin/staff/index.pl?martinc

Chris Brewin
Professor of Clinical Psychology, University College London
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/chris.brewin/home.htm

Jennifer Wild
Psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London
http://internal.iop.kcl.ac.uk/ipublic/staff/profile/external.aspx?go=10648

Tim Dalgleish
Clinical psychologist, UK Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Common/Research/cognition-emotion/GroupMemebersfiles/TimDalgleish.shtml

Further Information

BBC World Service series on Memory
The four BBC programs on memory featured on All in the Mind, with audio.

When Trauma Tips you Over - PTSD Part 1
From All in the Mind's archives - about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The Scene of the Crime - One Too Many - PTSD part 2
From the All in the Mind Archives

Emotions and Memory
A Health Report feature with Dr Norman Swan

Mental Health Behind Bars
From the All in the Mind archive

The Memory Exhibition at the Exploratorium
The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, San Francisco.

Various links from the Memory exhibition at the Exploratorium, San Francisco
A comprehensive set of links from the Memory exhibition at the Exploratorium

Cognitive Psychology Research Group
Run by Professor Martin Conway, Leeds Memory Group

Publications

Title: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - Malady or Myth?
Author : Chris Brewin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN 0-300-09984-3