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Dr Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind, revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
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"All in the Mind聽provides a unique chance to meet the people at the cutting edge of research and developments on all aspects of the mind and brain from around the world. Please join me as we attempt to illuminate the most complex and least understood mechanism we have so far found in the Universe - the mind."
Dr Raj Persaud
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Parenting
Parents' Week aims to make Britain a more family-friendly place by celebrating the importance of bringing up children. But nobody is saying parenting is an easy job. The independent charity the , who have designated this Parents' Week, have launched a booklet to help parents who may be worried about their children's behaviour entitled 'Over the top Behaviour in the Under 10s.' It is aimed at helping parents with tips and advice on how to spot the difference between normal childhood misbehaviour and when there are more serious problems.
Interviews with Mary McLeod, Chief Executive, National Family and Parenting Institute and
Dr Miranda Wolpert, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Lead Clinician for Child Psychology in Bedfordshire and Luton Community NHS Trust.
'Over the top Behaviour in the Under 10s' is available by ringing the National Family and Parenting Institute on 020 7424 3460 or it can be downloaded from
For further information on Parents' Week, 21st-27th October, or parenting issues visit
Helpful organisations:
- offers therapy to families in crisis.
- works with families to help break the cycle of destructive family behaviour. It has several local centres.
- a Department of Health site providing information about the Children's National Service Framework.
- their website provides, amongst other things, lists of clinicians and their areas of expertise.
Parentline - a telephone helpline open 24 hours a day for parents to talk about any worries or problems 0808 800 222
Young Minds Parent Information Service - 0800 018 2138
Children's Fears
Fear is a natural and evolutionarily essential part of childhood - without it, few of us would make it into adulthood. But how much fear is healthy - when does it become a problem? Claudia Hammond reports on a study aimed at understanding how children develop fears.
Contributor: , University of Sussex
Kelly's Grid Response
Dr Raj Persaud and the Producer of All in the Mind, Marya Burgess, go through some of the e-mails from listeners who filled in Kelly's Repertory Grid, the personality test where you decide what's going to be tested.
For details - and to try the grid yourself - see the
9 October page, where you can also listen again to the programme.
Book details:
George Kelly by Fay Fransella, published by Sage 1995.
Professor Til Wykes
, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Psychiatry, has been helping people with schizophrenia improve their cognitive skills - their memory, attention, organisational abilities - with something called Cognitive Remediation Therapy or CRT. She's recently published a further paper on that study, revealing that functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - fMRI scans - of the brains of the schizophrenic subjects showed marked changes in brain activity following CRT.
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