Saturday, September 25, 2010

All in the Mind - On the Couch: Perminder Sachdev and Norman Doidge

All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell speaks with Perminder Sachdev and Norman Doidge in this week's podcast. I am not familiar with Sachdev, but I have read Doidge's book, The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from Frontiers of Brain Science. Good book.

Great discussion.

On the Couch: Perminder Sachdev and Norman Doidge

Two world renowned psychiatrists, Perminder Sachdev and Norman Doidge, join Natasha Mitchell on the All in the Mind couch, prepared to be asked anything. Are you normal? What is alien hand syndrome? The ticks of Tourette syndrome -- what causes them? Do stories of broken brains generate little more than a cabinet of neurological curiosities?

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Transcripts are available on Wednesdays. Audio directly after broadcast on Saturdays.

Guests

Dr Norman Doidge
Psychiatrist and author
Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Columbia University, New York
& Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto, Canada
http://www.normandoidge.com/

Professor Perminder Sachdev
Director of Neuropsychiatric Institute
Prince of Wales Hospital
& Scientia Professor
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/resinterestsshowperson?OpenDocument&StaffID=8700122

Further Information

Slow TV video presentation of this forum

Melbourne Writers Festival, 2010 - details of this forum

Stem cells and brain tales
Interview with Professor Fred Gage, broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2010

Part 1 of 2: The Power of Plasticity
Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2008

Part 2 of 2: The Power of Plasticity
Broadcast on All in the Mind, ABC Radio National, 2008

Publications

Title: The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from Frontiers of Brain Science
Author: Norman Doidge, M.D
Publisher: Scribe, 2007 (ISBN: 978192125827)

Title: The Yipping Tiger and other tales from the neuropsychiatric clinic
Author: Perminder Sachdev, M.D
Publisher: UNSW Press, August 2009 (ISBN: 9781742230849)

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell


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