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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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CANNABIS and PSYCHOSIS
New research is underway at the south London and MaudsleyÌýhospital to map the human brain while volunteers are being given marijuana to see what affect the drug has on the mind.Ìý Dr Zerrin Atakan a psychiatrist at Lambeth hospital explains what will happen.
Dr Raj Persaud asks Leslie Iversen, Professor of pharmacology at Oxford University and Professor Robin Murray from Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley hospital about the possible links between cannabis and psychosis.
TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION and DEPRESSION
Dr Raj Persaud meets Dr Declan McLoughlin and Dr Paul Shotbolt at Institute of Psychiatry to find out about new research into Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.Ìý It is hoped the treatment could replace ECT in the future.Ìý Dr Persaud volunteers to test this new less invasive technique to find out how it works and how it feels.
HYPOCHONDRIA
Should we start treating hypochondria as a distinct psychological condition?Ìý One in ten people are periodally over-concerned about their health.Ìý Denmark has deemed the problem so important that a clinic has been set up to deal with patients who suffer from hypochondria or health anxiety.
Dr Raj Persaud talks to two experts Morten Birket-Smith Director of the Psychiatric Clinic at Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen in Denmark and Professor Paul Salkovskis, the Clinical Director at the Centre for Anxiety Disorder and Trauma at the Maudsley hospital to find out why we should stop laughing at hypochondriacs and start taking the problem seriously.
Additional information:
Cannabis and Psychosis
Professor
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The Science Of Marijuana
Leslie Iversen
Oxford University Press Inc, USA
ISBN 0195151100
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Treatments are given at an out patient clinic at the Maudsley hospital on Denmark Hill, London. The trials are being coordinated by the following people: Dr Declan McLoughlin, Dr Andrew Mogg, Dr Savitha Eranti, Dr Graham Pluck and Mrs Lee Wilding all of whom work at the Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London.Ìý More information 020 7848 0508
Mental health information from the Institute of Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and Rethink.
Dr Paul Shotbolt
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Hypochondria
Paul Salkovskis, Professor of Pychology
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Health Anxiety Research Group
Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley hospital
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