How we talk about getting older can affect how we age, both mentally and physically. Michael asks Dr...
This episode explores how changes in the first two years of life make us individuals, how tablet use affects our babies and w...
Learn about the long term effects of the early and extreme deprivation that Romanian orphans experienced.
The context behind the Romanian orphans and the process of adoption.
Meet Stephanie, her teen brain allows her to take more risks when car racing compared to competitors.
Michael Mosley explains how during brain development, synaptic pruning occurs and what this means for behaviour
Kirsty Wark brings together a group of people whose lives were changed by the discovery of long-neglected Romanian orphanages in 1990.
One couple travel to China to bring home a baby they know only via photographs, a woman wants to save a child from Romania, and a nurse goes t...
Ten years ago after thousands of babies were discovered living in appalling conditions in Romanian orphanages, many British couples rushed to adopt th...
The babies are between nine and ten months old and are beginning to explore their world, react to danger and new faces. Also consider...
Teenage behaviour has always been something of a mystery to parents. Edi Stark discovers what recent neuroscience has uncovered about the...
Michael Mosley examines the human brain from birth to adulthood and shows why it takes 20 years to mature.
How the differences between identical twins can help science understand what makes us all who we are, including the possible gene...
Investigating the world of identical twins, this programme looks at what science can learn from the uncanny similarities between ...
Prof Robert Winston, examining science of identical twins, with a look at differences that occur inspite of biological similariti...
Robert Winston uses the behavioural similarities exhibited by twins who were separated at birth and reunited in adulthood to exam...
Prof Robert Winston examines science of identical twins to reveal human genetics and behaviour. Looks at risky start to life expe...
Laverne Antrobus explores how growing children are affected by the common learning disability of dyslexia through the eyes of children and fam...
Laverne Antrobus explores how child development is affected by obsessive compulsive disorder and how research is unlocking a greater understanding ...
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