Past Programs
Health - 2008
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Cafe Scientific: can our thoughts change the structure and function of our brains?
28/12/2008
US/Canadian guest speaker Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet. When he set out to investigate neuroplasticity he met the brilliant scientists championing it and the people whose lives they've transformed, resulting in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself.
ABC TV's Dr Paul Willis hosts this public forum on brain plasticity featuring Norman Doidge and two local scientists who specialise in the study of the brain.
This Cafe Scientific event was recorded at the Brisbane Writers' Festival earlier in 2008
Cancer: the yeast solution
27/01/2008
Striking similarities have been found between humans and simple baker's yeast. While yeasts don't get cancer, they do have one of the major hallmarks of malignancy -- genetic instability. Nobel prize winner Sir Paul Nurse joins Dr Alex Franzusoff and Sir Gustav Nossel to explain what cancer is, and to discuss why a better understanding of yeast can help with cancer and many common diseases.
Recorded at the Big Ideas, Brilliant Minds: 2007 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures held in Melbourne from 25 June to 20 July 2007
