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The Naked Scientists Podcast

The Science of Schizophrenia

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

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

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What do sufferers of schizophrenia experience, and why? Might the immune system be to blame? And could an avatar be the answer to treatment? This week we delve deep into the brain circuitry behind this psychiatric condition to uncover the causes, hear what drugs like ketamine can reveal about hallucinations and how a cartoon representation of the voices plaguing patients can block the symptoms. Plus, chemically induced pluripotent stem cells, a gene that leads carriers into snacking temptation and why babies can tolerate extended periods upside down inside their mothers...? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Hello, hello and this week how our genes affect how well we fit into our

0:25.7

trouser genes and clever chimps that are forcing scientists to re-evaluate their

0:31.5

view on what it means to be humans and inflaming the brain

0:36.4

is schizophrenia simply down to the immune system attacking the brain.

0:41.3

Plus can you make out what is being said here?

0:46.0

Probably not.

0:50.0

But now listen to this.

0:52.0

The camel was kept in a cage at the zoo. And now listen to this. The camel has kept in a cage at the zoo. And now listen to this again.

0:56.0

Why does that happen? We'll find out later in the program.

1:01.0

Meanwhile if you'd like to get in touch with us you can

1:03.6

email Chris at the naked scientist.com you can tweet at naked scientist or you can

1:08.6

find us on Facebook. The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.

1:15.0

And first up let's take a look at this week's science headlines, Hannah.

1:25.0

So I've got a story all about genes that are involved in making people fat

1:31.0

or at least predisposing them to becoming fat.

1:33.9

So it's been known for quite a few years now that this gene called FTO

1:38.2

is involved in obesity but until now it's not really been understood exactly why.

1:44.0

So Rachel Batterham and colleagues at University College London,

1:48.0

published in the journal Clinical Investigation,

1:50.0

work involved in FTO genetically coding for obesity. So everybody has this FTO

1:55.9

gene but there's two different variations of it. There's an A type and a T type and

2:00.4

if you get the A type from both your mom and your dad, then you are 1.7 times more

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