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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...Mental Health and Neurosciences who has studied the disease for three decades. “It will never go away.” Four-year-old Bhuvan sits quietly in his mother’s lap at the clinic. Nearly all of the right side of his neck is an open wound, where a street dog grabbed hold of him and dragged him for four feet before his great-aunt Veena came out of the house screaming....
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Article 10 mins
Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination

...mental affects of cannabis. Experimenting with simulators Watching a cannabis smoker drive a car. What is imagination? A discussion of the concept of imagination Understanding imagination The psychological processes behind your imagination. Creative thinking How artists and scientists think. Linking processes in the brain How does the imagination use linking processes?...
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Audio 59 mins
Legal conversations
Society, Politics & Law

Legal conversations

...health professionals make clinical decisions? How much involvement should the patient have? Is it against the law to do research on individuals without their consent? Throughout these audio discussions, Phil Bates and Marc Cornock of The Open University’s Law School, discuss these, and similar issues surrounding ethics in law... Clinical decision making: A legal...
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Audio 26 mins
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...mental maps to public transport and street maps: how do they affect your life?...Cars have sat nav systems, mobile phones use GPS: maps are important in everyday life whether captured by aerial photography, satellite imagery or simply drawn. This free course, Why maps are made, looks at how we read and evaluate the information in maps and assesses the values embedded...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing the GRACE project – your community and genetics research

...health conditions and disabilities. For instance, there are five million people of South Asian heritage living in the UK today. That’s 8% of the total UK population. Yet, the proportion of South Asians included in genetics research is far below this. In UK Biobank, for example, only 2% of data comes from South Asians. Their representation, therefore, needs to increase...
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Video 3 mins
Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?
History & The Arts

Baker Street half-baked: Is Sherlock part of a new anti-intellectualism?

...health is to be found in being an all-rounder, rather like Doyle himself (a medical general practitioner who wrote in a range of genres, and was skilled at seemingly every sport played in the early 20th century). Holmes is expert in often obscure subjects but his ignorance that the earth revolves around the sun satirises intellectual specialism. Holmes’s success came in...
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Article 5 mins
Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...mental health problems and have witnessed or experienced physical or sexual violence. 45% of children in prison in 2018 were assessed as having a substance misuse problem. 89% of young people in YOIs [Young Offender Institutions] have been excluded from school. In the documentary ‘Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people’ Dr David Scott talks...
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Video 10 mins
On the loss of a baby
Health, Sports & Psychology

On the loss of a baby

...mental health problems that can be long lasting. The emotional distress of the loss of a baby can continue into subsequent pregnancies where anxieties are particularly heightened and into the subsequent birth of a healthy child. As well as feelings of sadness and distress, some women can experience disenfranchised grief, where their loss is not acknowledged by others as...
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