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• Medicine (10)
  • Could treatments boost the immune system?
  • Could tumours be 'starved'?
  • Designer medicines?
  • How can human disease genes be studied?
  • How is AIDS treated?
  • How is cancer treated?
  • Medicines from sheep?
  • What is genetic engineering?
  • Why is studying genetics important?
  • Would you like tailored treatment?
• MEG scans (1)
  • What is MEG?
• Memory (28)
  • Can you imagine losing your memory?
  • Can you improve your memory?
  • Could your fears ever be ‘unlearned’?
  • How are emotion and memory linked?
  • How do neurons create memories?
  • How do you create memories?
  • How does your brain control working memory?
  • How does your memory work?
  • How good is your memory?
  • Know any memory tricks?
  • Remember or forget?
  • What causes phantoms?
  • What happens as you age?
  • What happens if you lose your short-term memory?
  • What happens when you’re asleep?
  • What is a stroke?
  • What is Alzheimer’s disease?
  • What is amnesia?
  • What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
  • What is Huntington’s disease?
  • What is long-term memory?
  • What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
  • What is working memory?
  • What is your earliest memory?
  • Where are your memories?
  • Where do you store long-term memories?
  • Why do we dream?
  • Why is your memory so important?
• Mental illness (5)
  • How do genes influence your brain?
  • What is mental illness?
  • What is schizophrenia?
  • Why is there prejudice against mental illness?
  • Why was eugenics so controversial?
• Metastasis (2)
  • Could tumours be 'starved'?
  • How does cancer begin?
• Microscope (2)
  • How can cells be seen?
  • How do scientists look at chromosomes?
• Mirror neurons (2)
  • How do you feel empathy?
  • What do mirror neurons mirror?
• Mitochondria (1)
  • What is special about sperm?
• Motor neurone disease (1)
  • What is motor neuron disease?
• Movement (10)
  • Are you a smooth mover?
  • How do you co-ordinate movement?
  • How do you move?
  • What are your senses?
  • What does the central nervous system do?
  • What happens if your spine is damaged?
  • What is a stroke?
  • What is motor neuron disease?
  • What is Parkinson’s disease?
  • What is your ‘muscle map’?
• MRI scans (4)
  • Did X-rays help?
  • How can we image the brain?
  • What are MRI scans?
  • What are the implications?
• Multiple sclerosis (1)
  • What is multiple sclerosis?
• Muscles (11)
  • Are you a smooth mover?
  • How do you co-ordinate movement?
  • What are emotions?
  • What are opiates?
  • What do proteins do for you?
  • What does the central nervous system do?
  • What does the peripheral nervous system do?
  • What happens when you’re asleep?
  • What is Duchenne muscular dystrophy?
  • What is Parkinson’s disease?
  • What is the cell's instruction manual?
• Music (1)
  • What is your ‘muscle map’?
• Mutations (16)
  • Are chromosomes linked to cancer?
  • Do mistakes matter?
  • Does diet matter?
  • Does your DNA change?
  • How are new alleles created?
  • How are you different?
  • How do healthy cells become cancerous?
  • How does the DNA code mutate?
  • What are the dangers of radiation?
  • What causes cancer?
  • What causes disease?
  • What causes gene mutations?
  • What happens in cancer?
  • What is population genetics?
  • What's the problem with smoking?
  • Why do people vary?