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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Natural Sciences, Engineering, Science, Medicine, Life Sciences, Technology, Health & Fitness, Naked Scientists

4.6 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2010

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we delve deep into the secrets of the brain. We'll find out how MRIs could be used to read your mind, and how they could help unlock what is going on in the brain of a person suffering from delusions or hallucinations. In the news we'll hear that the process of nerve repair could offer clues to cancer spread, and how it was gorillas that originally gave us malaria. Plus in Naked Engineering, Dave and Meera explore the amazing world of superconductors... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science of the naked scientists.
0:14.0	It's me, Chris Smith. Sunday the 26th of September. Welcome to a brand new series of the naked scientists.
0:24.1	It's me, Chris Smith, and also Cat on,
0:26.1	you all I like.
0:27.1	Hello.
0:28.1	Well, this week we're reading your mind.
0:30.1	We'll take a look at how recent advances in brain scanning technology
0:33.5	can allow a computer to work out what someone is looking at and then rebuild a
0:37.4	picture of what they're seeing. Plus we'll also be hearing how
0:40.6	researchers are using brain scanning techniques to work out what's
0:43.4	happening when people experience things like hallucinations, for instance seeing things that aren't
0:48.1	really there. That's all coming up this week, Kat.
0:50.8	Thanks Chris. Also this week news of how injured nerve cells regrow and what it can
0:55.5	tell us about how cancer spreads. Plus a new breakthrough in understanding the damage done
1:00.3	by MS, multiple sclerosis. We'll also have the answer to this rather
1:04.5	fruity question of the week. My friend the other day told me not to eat my
1:08.6	apple core and made me throw it in the bin. Are they poisonous? So will an apple a day keep the doctor away or are they actually bad for you?
1:16.0	Stay with us to find out.
1:18.0	Kat, thank you very much.
1:19.0	So do send in your thoughts, comments or questions.
1:22.0	You can use email. it's Chris at the
1:23.4	naked scientists.com, you can tweet them to at naked scientists or scribble
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