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• Decision-making (7)
  • How do you make decisions?
  • How do you use your emotions?
  • What does the social brain look like?
  • What goes on in a teenager’s brain?
  • What happens if you lose your emotions?
  • What is working memory?
  • Why do you have emotions?
• Deep brain stimulation (2)
  • Is deep brain stimulation safe?
  • What is deep brain stimulation?
• Déjà vu (2)
  • What causes déjà vu?
  • What is déjà vu?
• Dementia (9)
  • Can you imagine losing your memory?
  • Could stem cells treat disease?
  • Future treatments?
  • How can illness affect the brain?
  • How do genes influence your brain?
  • What happens when the brain's function declines?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
  • What’s the point of a biobank?
• Depression (9)
  • How can illness affect the brain?
  • Is deep brain stimulation safe?
  • What is cocaine?
  • What is depression?
  • What is mental illness?
  • What is schizophrenia?
  • What is your personality type?
  • What’s the problem with extreme emotions?
  • Why is there prejudice against mental illness?
• Diabetes (6)
  • Can your environment change your genes?
  • How do genes affect your health?
  • How do scientists find disease genes?
  • Medicines from sheep?
  • What is diabetes?
  • What’s the point of a biobank?
• Diet (9)
  • Can cancer be prevented?
  • Can your environment change your genes?
  • Does diet matter?
  • How do genes affect your health?
  • How do scientists find disease genes?
  • How do scientists find disease genes?
  • What causes cancer?
  • What is diabetes?
  • What is phenylketoneuria?
• DNA (41)
  • Can understanding genes help?
  • Do mistakes matter?
  • Does your DNA change?
  • Epigenetics – beyond the human genome?
  • How are new alleles created?
  • How are proteins made?
  • How are you different?
  • How can DNA profiling solve crimes?
  • How can DNA trace large numbers of people?
  • How can viruses cause cancer?
  • How can we trace our ancestors?
  • How did scientists read genes?
  • How do cells make proteins?
  • How do epigenetic processes affect our parents and us?
  • How do genes influence your brain?
  • How do scientists look at chromosomes?
  • How do scientists look at DNA?
  • How does FISH work?
  • How does paternity testing work?
  • How does the DNA code mutate?
  • How is DNA coded?
  • How is DNA gathered from tiny samples?
  • How was it done?
  • Hunting for a gene?
  • One birthplace?
  • The end of men?
  • What causes gene mutations?
  • What damages your cells?
  • What did the Human Genome Project find?
  • What do DNA profiles show?
  • What happens during apoptosis?
  • What is a genome-wide association study?
  • What is DNA profiling?
  • What is the cell's instruction manual?
  • What is the DNA database?
  • What will mapping the epigenome show us?
  • Where do DNA samples come from?
  • Where was it done?
  • Which genes have been associated with cancer?
  • Whose genome?
  • Why do people vary?
• DNA database (1)
  • What is the DNA database?
• DNA fingerprinting (6)
  • How can DNA profiling solve crimes?
  • How can DNA trace large numbers of people?
  • How does paternity testing work?
  • What do DNA profiles show?
  • What is DNA profiling?
  • What is the DNA database?
• DNA profiling (6)
  • How can DNA profiling solve crimes?
  • How can DNA trace large numbers of people?
  • How does paternity testing work?
  • What do DNA profiles show?
  • What is DNA profiling?
  • What is the DNA database?
• DNA sequencing (6)
  • Do we need to study lots of people’s genomes?
  • How is DNA coded?
  • How is DNA gathered from tiny samples?
  • What happened after the Human Genome Project?
  • What is DNA sequencing?
  • Where do DNA samples come from?
• Dominant inheritance (4)
  • What is achondroplasia?
  • What is dominant inheritance?
  • What is Huntington’s disease?
  • What is neurofibromatosis?
• Donor (3)
  • What is the future for organ transplants?
  • What is tricky about transplants and transfusions?
  • What is your blood group?
• Dopamine (5)
  • Altering your mind?
  • Are you happy?
  • What are amphetamines?
  • What is cocaine?
  • Why are some drugs addictive?
• Down's syndrome (1)
  • How many chromosomes?
• Dreaming (2)
  • What is your sleep cycle?
  • Why do we dream?
• Dreams (1)
  • What happens in weeks 21 to 25?
• Drugs (13)
  • Are you happy?
  • Can understanding genes help?
  • Could treatments boost the immune system?
  • Could tumours be 'starved'?
  • Future treatments?
  • How can HIV transmission be prevented?
  • How is AIDS treated?
  • What are benzodiazepines?
  • What happens in week 4?
  • What is Huntington’s disease?
  • What is the future for organ transplants?
  • What makes drugs addictive?
  • Why are some drugs addictive?
• Duchenne muscular dystrophy (1)
  • What is Duchenne muscular dystrophy?