Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists

Why are some psychiatric illnesses, like anxiety and depression, on the increase? Could conditions, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, confer an evolutionary advantage? And is it ethical to screen babies for future brain disorders? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Should you raise your baby to be bilingual? Are video games rotting or rejuvenating children's brains? We find out! Plus in the news, personalised breast milk, modelling the brain with computers, how crude oil spills affect tuna and the next step towards nuclear fusion. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Reporting from New Zealand on how a bank of frozen human brains is acting as a reference library, how a Hindu resolves religious and scientific beliefs and scientists creating human brain circuits in a dish in order to piece together the jigsaw of Huntington's Disease. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

New Zealand adventures with sheep, finding the Huntington's gene, developing new therapies for the brain and unravelling its complexities. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Touring the brain by visiting a laughter clinic, the sauna and psychadelic goats, plus neuroscience nuggets from Prof Nutt! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Chemical warfare, how serving in Afghanistan left it's mental scars plus brainwashing to tweak belief systems. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

A special edition Question and Answer show: how do prosthetic limbs work? Can you train your brain? And is a brain transplant possible? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Toddlers addicted to smart phones, speaking to a cyborg, computers that predict emotion, electrically inducing human creativity and is technology widening the inequality gap? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Rats being tickled, a visit to the laughter clinic, and a toddler's favourite joke. We uncover the brain basis of funny! Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Recovering from alcoholism via community creativity, goats high on psychedelics, cheeky monkeys on mojitos and can expectant mothers drink? Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists