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ALL IN THE MIND
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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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CHILD SOLDIERS and RE-SOCIALISATION
It is estimated that 300, 000 child soldiers are being used in over thirty conflicts worldwide in countries such as Africa, Latin America, Cambodia and Asia's Tibet, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The majority of these boys and girls come from extreme poverty or an already existing war torn situation where their families have been lost due to disease or violence. For those who are rescued or who manage to escape, the psychological effect on their lives is profound with a high level of post traumatic stress disorder.
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Raj Persaud talks to Mr Olara Otunnu, the United Nations special representative for children and armed conflict and hears the experience of Napoleon Adok. At the age of eleven, Napoleon fled Sudan and headed to a refugee camp in Ethiopia only to find out that the camp was run by rebels who trained young children into hardened soldiers. Now thirty two years old, Napoleon is devoting his life to helping ex-child soldiers readjust to being civilians.
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Neil Boothby, Professor of child psychology at Columbia University discusses the impact of war on the political development of children.
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APHASIA
Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person's ability to process language, both in the ability to speak and understand others.
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Stroke is the most common cause of aphasia but it can also result from head injury, brain tumour or other neurological causes. Alan Hewitt explains how he has been fully rehabilitated back into the work place and he is now the Head of Development at Connect a charity which looks after people with communication disability.
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Raj Persaud speaks to Dr Susan Edwards, Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the Communications Disorder Centre, Reading University and the author of a new book Fluent Aphasia.
Additional information:
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United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
United Nations.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the The Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
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Head of Development at
The Communication Disability NetworkÌý
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The Stroke and Aphasia Handbook
Publisher: Connect Press
ISBN: 0953604217
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Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the , in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Reading University
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Fluent Aphasia
Susan Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521791073
(to be published in the new year 2005)
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