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• Pain (9)
  • Did X-rays help?
  • How do painkillers work?
  • What are endorphins?
  • What are phantom limbs?
  • What are your senses?
  • What happens in weeks 21 to 25?
  • What is autoimmunity?
  • What is TMS?
  • Why do we feel pain?
• Painkillers (5)
  • How do painkillers work?
  • What are opiates?
  • What are the dangers of opiates?
  • What is aspirin?
  • Would you like tailored treatment?
• Panic disorder (1)
  • What is panic disorder?
• Parents (2)
  • What is fertilisation?
  • Where did you come from?
• Parkinson’s disease (6)
  • Are you a smooth mover?
  • How can illness affect the brain?
  • Is deep brain stimulation safe?
  • What happens when apoptosis goes wrong?
  • What is deep brain stimulation?
  • What is Parkinson’s disease?
• Paternity testing (2)
  • How does paternity testing work?
  • What is DNA profiling?
• PCR (1)
  • How is DNA gathered from tiny samples?
• Peripheral nervous system (1)
  • What does the peripheral nervous system do?
• Personality (5)
  • Are you aggressive?
  • What do your genes do?
  • What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
  • What is Huntington’s disease?
  • What is your personality type?
• PET scans (2)
  • How can we measure blood flow?
  • How can we measure brain activity?
• PGD (1)
  • The future: testing early embryos?
• Phantom limbs (2)
  • What are phantom limbs?
  • What causes phantoms?
• Phenylketoneuria (1)
  • What is phenylketoneuria?
• Pheromones (1)
  • How do you smell?
• Phobias (5)
  • Are phobias genetic?
  • Could your fears ever be ‘unlearned’?
  • What are you scared of?
  • What is panic disorder?
  • What’s the problem with extreme emotions?
• Poisons (1)
  • How do neurons communicate?
• Population (1)
  • How are we all related?
• Population genetics (1)
  • What is population genetics?
• Prefrontal cortex (1)
  • How does your brain control working memory?
• Pregnancy (17)
  • Are you a twin?
  • Child of the Nineties?
  • How do you grow in the womb?
  • What happens in week 1?
  • What happens in week 2?
  • What happens in week 3?
  • What happens in week 4?
  • What happens in weeks 13 to 16?
  • What happens in weeks 17 to 20?
  • What happens in weeks 21 to 25?
  • What happens in weeks 26 to 29?
  • What happens in weeks 30 to 34?
  • What happens in weeks 35 to 38?
  • What happens in weeks 4 to 8?
  • What happens in weeks 9 to 12?
  • What is prenatal diagnosis?
  • Why is folic acid important?
• Prenatal test (1)
  • What is prenatal diagnosis?
• Proteins (21)
  • Can hormones slow ageing?
  • How are genes regulated?
  • How are proteins made?
  • How do cells make proteins?
  • What are proteins made of?
  • What are the finishing touches?
  • What are the genetic origins of language?
  • What causes disease?
  • What damages your cells?
  • What do proteins do for you?
  • What do your genes do?
  • What happens inside the cell?
  • What happens when the brain's function declines?
  • What is a ‘brainbow’?
  • What is a cell made of?
  • What is gene therapy?
  • What is the cell's instruction manual?
  • Which immune reactions are 'natural'?
  • Why are enzymes important?
  • Why do cells differ?
  • Would you like tailored treatment?
• Psychology (3)
  • How do you make decisions?
  • What does the social brain look like?
  • Why do we dream?