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When you get nervous, can you feel it in your stomach?
The gut-brain connection is something many of us have experienced but probably not given much thought to.
Research into this connection has led to the rise of a seemingly unexpected treatment for IBS: hypnotherapy.
Producer Danni Stewart investigates how Irritable Bowel Syndrome can be treated.
Guests:
Annie
Media student
Dr Simone Peters
Gut-directed hypnotherapist
Creator, Nerva
Founder, Mind Gut Clinic
Researcher, Monash University
Dr Ilana Gory
Gastroenterologist
Gastroenterology Specialists Melbourne
The Alfred Hospital
Producers:
Danni Stewart
Rose Kerr
Sound engineer:
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If the only certainty is uncertainty, how do we manage our anxieties about the unknown?
Today we explore why the mind struggles with uncertainty and what we can do to manage it.
Guests:
Toni Lindsay
Clinical psychologist
Author of The Certainty Myth
Producer:
Rose Kerr
Sound engineer:
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Before she was Dr Alix Woolard, Alix was a teenager grappling with a traumatic event in her family.
It would affect her mental health dramatically, leaving her unsure of her path ahead.
Now, Dr Alix Woolard researches childhood trauma and it's lifelong impacts.
This episode deals with mental health and discusses suicide. Please listen with care.
Guests:
Dr Alix Woolard
Research Fellow in Child Mental Health
Telethon Kids Institute
Producer:
Rose Kerr
Sound engineer:
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Have you ever thought, I wonder what it's like being famous?
Maybe it's something you've always dreamed of, or maybe it's your worst nightmare.
Being famous is something many people aspire to, but the reality can be isolating.
This week, producer Jennifer Leake looks at what fame does to a person's psychology.
Guests:
Ben Lee
Singer, songwriter
Natalie Gauci
Singer, songwriter
2007 Australian Idol winner
Donna Rockwell
Clinical Psychologist
Michael Schulman
Staff writer, arts and culture
The New Yorker
Producer:
Jennifer Leake
Sound engineer:
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Learning chess with his young daughter kickstarted a life-long journey of learning for Tom Vanderbilt. Here's what he discovered about being an adult beginner, its benefits, and how kids and adults learn differently.
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With relatively benign intentions, Wendell Johnson devised an experiment that would go on to be dubbed the Monster Study, inflicting terrible harm on a group of vulnerable and unsuspecting children.
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Popular culture is endlessly fascinated with cults, and they have to capacity to make ordinary people do unthinkable things.
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What goes on in the multilingual mind? And what does it mean to 'lose' your language?
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You might not think of yourself as a negotiator but big or small we all negotiate daily and getting better at it could make your life easier.
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Addiction has long been a problem for humans, but smart phones and the internet have changed the game. So how can we find balance in a dopamine overloaded world?
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You've probably heard of unconscious bias but how are they formed and what can we do to stop the damage they can cause?
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What does neuroscience and psychology tell us about how these traits are developed?
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Are you outgoing or shy? there are pros and cons of each but is it possible to switch sides?
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Few sensations are as primal, as fundamental to our very survival, as pain.
But for a fifth of Australian adults, that useful protective mechanism lingers as chronic pain — persistent aching, searing, stabbing sensations, which can be incredibly stressful and debilitating.
What if you could dial down that pain — or even extinguish it altogether — by retraining your brain? -
Anastasia Woolmer explains the techniques memory athletes use, and how you can apply them to everyday life.
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How many times in a day are you doing just one thing?
Or is it more common that you’re multitasking – maybe texting and walking? Reading while listening to music?
We all multitask to some degree, but do any of us do it well? And is that even possible?
This week on All in the Mind, we look into the science of multitasking – why we struggle to do it, why some of us are better at it than others – and how to do it effectively if you must.
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Would you be able to tell the difference between a bargain bin red and a top drop? Or how about what separates a duck paté … from one made of dog food?
Perception is everything when it comes to marketing, and decades of neuroscience and psychology research have given businesses ever greater insights into how we can make decisions and how they can subtly shape our expectations so that yes – even dog food paté can become appealing.
But the ramifications of this power may be pushing companies into unethical territory.
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Over the past two decades, our cultural understanding of autism and what it means to be autistic has grown - though we have a long way to go. But there are entire generations of people who grew up when the popular conception of autism was a far cry from how it’s now understood.
It meant a whole host of people who grew up feeling like they didn’t fit in, but never quite knowing why.
They were autistic, but undiagnosed. And when a diagnosis did come as an adult – it was often revelatory and life-changing.
On All in the Mind this week, 'hidden histories’ of late-diagnosed autistic adults.
First broadcast 8 August 2021. - Visa fler
