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• Schizophrenia (4)
  • How can illness affect the brain?
  • What is mental illness?
  • What is schizophrenia?
  • Why is there prejudice against mental illness?
• SCID (1)
  • What is severe combined immunodeficiency?
• Sedatives (1)
  • What are sedatives?
• See (1)
  • What happens in weeks 30 to 34?
• Seeing (4)
  • How do you see?
  • How do your eyes work?
  • How does your brain create a picture?
  • What happens in weeks 30 to 34?
• Senses (7)
  • How do you put information together?
  • How do you select information?
  • What are your senses?
  • What causes synaesthesia?
  • What does the central nervous system do?
  • What does the peripheral nervous system do?
  • What is synaesthesia?
• Sex (7)
  • Are you happy?
  • Boy or girl?
  • How can HIV transmission be prevented?
  • Male and female brains?
  • What happens in weeks 17 to 20?
  • What sex?
  • X or Y sperm?
• Sex determination (6)
  • Boy or girl?
  • Male and female brains?
  • What happens in weeks 4 to 8?
  • What sex?
  • Which genes influence your sex?
  • X or Y sperm?
• Sexuality (1)
  • Do genes influence sexuality?
• Sickle-cell disease (2)
  • What causes genetic conditions?
  • What is sickle-cell disease?
• Side effects (2)
  • Designer medicines?
  • Would you like tailored treatment?
• Skin (10)
  • Sensitive skin?
  • What are the dangers of radiation?
  • What does the central nervous system do?
  • What happens as you age?
  • 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 9 to 12?
  • What makes you age?
• Skin cancer (1)
  • What are the dangers of radiation?
• Sleep (7)
  • How do you know when to sleep?
  • How much sleep do you need?
  • What happens in weeks 21 to 25?
  • What happens when you’re asleep?
  • What is EEG?
  • What is your sleep cycle?
  • Why do we dream?
• Smallpox (1)
  • Why is vaccination important?
• Smelling (1)
  • How do you smell?
• Smoking (5)
  • Can cancer be prevented?
  • Can your environment change your genes?
  • What is asthma?
  • What is nicotine?
  • What's the problem with smoking?
• SNPs (1)
  • What is a genome-wide association study?
• Sperm (11)
  • A person inside every sperm?
  • How are new alleles created?
  • How does a cell know how old it is?
  • What are chromosomal conditions?
  • What happens in week 1?
  • What is fertilisation?
  • What is IVF?
  • What is special about sperm?
  • What is the cost of passing on genes?
  • Where did you come from?
  • X or Y sperm?
• Spinal cord (10)
  • How did your neurons form?
  • How does the brain develop?
  • How is the body shaped?
  • What does the central nervous system do?
  • What happens if your spine is damaged?
  • What happens in week 3?
  • What is motor neuron disease?
  • What is multiple sclerosis?
  • When did your neurons form?
  • Why is folic acid important?
• Stem cells (5)
  • Could stem cells treat disease?
  • Future treatments?
  • What are stem cells?
  • What can stem cells tell us?
  • What is tissue engineering?
• STR analysis (5)
  • How can DNA profiling solve crimes?
  • How does paternity testing work?
  • What do DNA profiles show?
  • What is DNA profiling?
  • What is the DNA database?
• Stress (3)
  • Are you aggressive?
  • What are endorphins?
  • What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
• Stroke (2)
  • What is a stroke?
  • What’s the point of a biobank?
• Synaesthesia (2)
  • What causes synaesthesia?
  • What is synaesthesia?
• Synapses (7)
  • Altering your mind?
  • How do nerves connect with each other?
  • How does your memory work?
  • What are nerve impulses?
  • What is a drug?
  • What is a synapse?
  • Which nerve cells do what?