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| | | Dr Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind, revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
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"All in the MindÌýÌýprovides a unique chance to meet the people at the cutting edge of research and developments on all aspects of the mind and brain from around the world. Please join me as we attempt to illuminate the most complex and least understood mechanism we have so far found in the Universe - the mind."
Prof. Raj Persaud
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INTENSIVE CARE UNIT and POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Claudia Hammond visits Whiston Hospital in Prescot, Merseyside to meet research fellow Christina Jones who for the last ten years has been looking at the after effects of a stay in an intensive care unit.ÌýÌý Claudia also talks to Gillian Sexton, a former patient, about her experience and the importance of the intensive care diary filled in by staff and relatives.
Dr Raj Persaud discusses how patients should be dealt with in post-Intensive Care with the research leader, , Professor of Medicine at the University of Liverpool.
YOUNG CARERS
Caring for friends or relatives with mental health problems can be a difficult job at the best of times but even more so when the carers are children.Ìý At any one time up to 17,000 young people will be looking after a parent who has a mental illness.Ìý
When she was nine years old Kirsty started caring for her mother, who suffers from depression and panic attacks.Ìý Kirsty recalls her life as a main carer and the lack of support she received.
Dr Raj Persaud talks to senior researcher and co-author of a study, by the Loughborough Child Carers Centre, of forty families and their health care professionals.
JEALOUSY
Jealousy is a powerful emotion and it is often activated by one of our worst fears – that someone we love is showing too much interest in another person.Ìý
Dr Raj Persaud discovers how this emotion differs between the sexes when he talks to Dr , an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Sunderland.
Additional Information:Ìý
Children Caring For Parents With Mental Illness – perspectives of young carers, parents and professionals
by Jo Aldridge and Saul Becker
The Policy Press
ISBN 1 86134 399 X
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