Human challenge trials, Chess & memory, Dementia misdiagnosed
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
I have become hooked on playing online chess during this lockdown and after watching the Queen’s Gambit. So we’ll find out if it is actually doing my brain any good and whether it and similar games can ward off dementia.
Margaret McCartney takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of deliberately infecting people with diseases, as the first “challenge trials” with coronavirus are about to start.
Listeners David and Barbara tell us about a treatable condition called normal pressure hydrocephalus that is often mistaken for dementia.
PRESENTER: James Gallagher PRODUCER: Beth Eastwood
Clip from the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit', directed by Scott Frank. Music copyright: ‘Training with Mr Schaibel’ by Carolos Rafael Rivera from the official soundtrack of The Queens Gambit
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast, |
| 0:05.4 | The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like Ellis and John's |
| 0:10.6 | Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Ryland, and comedy specials |
| 0:16.2 | from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.5 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:34.6 | Hello, and welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Galaher. Last time, I promised you we were |
| 0:40.3 | going to talk about my online chess addiction and whether it's actually doing my brain any good, |
| 0:45.5 | so we'll find out. We've also had a couple of listeners get in touch about a condition that's |
| 0:50.7 | really easily mistaken for dementia, so we want to stick around for that. But first, |
| 0:55.6 | I have a question for you. Would you volunteer to have coronavirus squirted up your nose? |
| 1:02.5 | I'll be honest, and I'm probably a bad person for this, and you can judge me as much as you want, |
| 1:06.6 | but I think the answer for me is, no, not really. But these experiments are about to start in the UK. |
| 1:13.8 | They're known as human challenged trials, |
| 1:15.9 | and giving these bugs to people has a long and very colourful history. |
| 1:22.8 | Why do people come here? |
| 1:24.4 | Well, they have all different motivations. |
| 1:27.0 | Some of them come for a rest, some for a holiday. |
| 1:29.6 | We have a large body of housewives who just come for a great rest. |
| 1:34.8 | We've had several honeymooners over the years. |
| 1:36.9 | In my time, we've only had one pair. |
| 1:38.9 | They met here, and they decided to complete the job by having their honeymoon here. |
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