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Tuesday 9 August 2005
Should the work of an infamous pioneer of lobotomy be re-assessed?
Programme details
LOBOTOMY Jack El-Haitalks about his new book "The Lobotomist", a biography of Walter Freeman, the surgeon who pioneered the lobotomy procedure in America.
CBT TREATMENT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy has recently been named by NICE - the National Institute for Clinical Excellence - as a recommended treatment for a range illnesses, including anorexia and bulimia and post traumatic stress disorder.
Professor David Clarke, Director of the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma at the Maudsley Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry in London and Chris Fairburn, Wellcome Principal Research Fellow, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Research on Eating Disorders and Obesity at Oxford University discuss what the treatment actually involves and provision within the NHS.
BABYLABS Tailor made laboratories around the country study the behaviour and brain activity of infants under the age of two. Known as Babylabs , they research areas such as how babies can recognise faces or learn language. Raj visits the Babylab at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development at Birkbeck College in London where Dr Victoria Southgate explains her looking study. Professor Kim Plunkett, Director of the Oxford Babylab, outlines the research projects underway at his Babylab.
All in the Mind, 2003 - Special edition about Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, including an interview with Professor Aaron Beck, the man who founded the treatment.
