Brain on fire
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello welcome to the naked scientists with me Chris Smith and also with cat Arnie. |
| 0:20.7 | This week how the immune system can turn against the nervous system causing depression, chronic fatigue syndrome and even full-blown psychosis. |
| 0:29.0 | I started to feel not like myself. I felt very lethargic I couldn't really concentrate at work I became kind of |
| 0:37.0 | obsessive about certain things I thought that I had bed bugs I became convinced that my boyfriend was cheating on me and kind of went through all of his |
| 0:46.9 | belongings. |
| 0:47.9 | Sounds nasty. |
| 0:48.9 | We'll find out what was going on. |
| 0:50.5 | Plus, these stories making the headlines this week, including why remembering one thing |
| 0:54.6 | can make you forget another, how Hollywood's Terminator films inspired a scientist to invent a |
| 0:59.3 | new super fast form of 3D printing, and scientific evidence that the Romans didn't fancy us Brits very much. |
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| 1:21.0 | Killing people is bad right and surely lying is wrong. We all like to think that we make good judgments based on our |
| 1:24.8 | inner moral beliefs and that these are strongly held and unshakable. But actually |
| 1:29.6 | it turns out that our morals may be more wobbly than we'd like to think. |
| 1:33.0 | According to new research from Daniel Richardson at UCL, |
| 1:36.0 | where he's been using eye tracking devices to manipulate people's choices. |
| 1:40.0 | We were interested in the process that people go through when they're making difficult |
| 1:45.3 | choices and in this case we looked at moral decisions because they're things that we think are permanent |
| 1:51.0 | about ourselves. |
| 1:52.0 | They're a permanent thing about our values and our principles |
| 1:55.2 | and our ethics and even our religious beliefs. |
| 1:57.9 | And we wanted to see if you make those decisions in the same way that you make a simple choice, |
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