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TuesdayÌý23 AugustÌý2005
What impact does childhood adversity have on our growth and development?Ìý
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CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY
A large body of research connects childhood adversity directly with later psychological difficulty, and there is a well established link with mental illness. But, up until now, there has been little information about the effect of childhood adversity in the wider population.
Psychiatrist DrÌýÌýfrom the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University discusses his study which aims to increase our knowledge in this area.
PSYCHOLOGY OF DANCE
What is it about bodies moving in unison that is so captivating and how are we affected psychologically when we observe dance? Neurological research has now pinpointed the part of the brain that is activated when we see movement.
Raj attends a dance rehearsal atÌý in London and meets choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh and neuroscientist DrÌýÌýfrom University College London to find out more.
GEOGRAPHY OF THINKING
Psychologist ProfessorÌýÌýof Michigan University is challenging the traditional view in his field that thought processes are the same around the world. In his book The Geography of Thought, he argues that the way East Asians and Westerners think is very different.
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Dr Stephen RosenmanÌý
Psychiatrist at the Centre for Mental Health Research at the Australian National University.Ìý Currently working in theÌýÌý
Childhood adversity in an Australian population
Rosenman S., Rodgers B.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
2004 Sep; 39(9):695-702
Dr Daniel Glaser
Imaging neuroscientist and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College LondonÌý
Professor Richard Nisbett
Psychologist at the University of Michigan
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently - And Why
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
ISBN: 1857883535Ìý
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