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BRAINLAND — 89 episodes
BIOETHICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
POSTHUMANIST VULNERABILITY
FREUD AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALING
PROTO: Uncovering the shared origin of the world's most spoken languages.
GEORGE SAND: The life, times and shifting reputation of an early feminist writer and thinker.
TRANSHUMANISM: Humanity's great hope or the devil's work?
THE MATCHBOX GIRL: Recreating Hans Asperger's world in fiction
HANS ASPERGER AND THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM: Reflections on the past, present and future
SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland
FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.
DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.
DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 1 - Life and films.
AN ARTIFICIAL HISTORY OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: Time travelling the mind.
WILLIAM SARGANT AND HIS 'SLEEP ROOM': Shrinks, spooks and medical hubris.
MANHANDLING THE BRAIN: How did damaging the brains of the mentally ill ever seem a good idea?
THE HORROR! The anatomy of fear in film.
HORROR ON THE BRAIN: The neuroscience behind sci fi and horror.
DREAM WARRIORS: Exploring the world of the surrealists...
DREAMWORKS: Fellini's dream obsession, from graphic diaries to movies.
'...PERCHANCE TO DREAM: On the neuroscience of sleep and dreaming...
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES: Exploring the strange power of plainchant.
NEUROPSYCHIATRY AFTER DARK: Service development as 'social sculpture'?
DANTE, DOPAMINE AND ME: Neuro-poetic and other explorations into language.
'THE BURDEN': The life and times of the Burden Neurological Institute and Hospital.
GREY WALTER: Maverick genius of cybernetics and the EEG
CIRCLING AROUND EXPLICITNESS: Adventures in the 'thatosphere'.
MONTALE'S CRUCIBLE: The life, loves and poetry of an Italian Nobel Laureate.
CHANGING HOW WE CHOOSE: The new science of morality.
OH FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE: From choirboy to Operatic Maestro.
RE-ANIMATING FREUD: Sigmund at the movies
NEUROCINEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Cinema creators in the act of creation.
WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS: Life, loss and musicology.
RE-ANIMATING FREUD: The Neuropsychoanalyst can see you now...
NEUROPSYCHIATRY REVISITED: The lost tribes.
YOUR BRAIN ON VISUAL ART: Exploring the world of visual neuroaesthetics.
TODAY IS ALWAYS YESTERDAY: Contemporary art through the lens of Brazil
EXPANDING MINDSCAPES: A psychedelic world tour.
IMPROV! When the process is the product.
PSYCHEDELIC OUTLAWS
NEUROPSYCHIATRY: Second Coming or Unholy Alliance?
POETRY AND THE NEUROAESTHETICS OF SURVIVAL
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE AN ADDICT? A philosopher tells it like it is.
UPSIDE DOWN IN A HOOP: Processing change through writing, dance and circus skills
YOUR BRAIN ON DANCE: Navigating the complex world of dance neuroscience.
TRANSFORMING MENTAL STATES INTO DANCE: Evolving German Tanztheatre in London.
DECONSTRUCTING CONSCIOUSNESS: A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness
EVOLUTIONARY BIOCHEMISTRY: New perspectives on the chemistry of you.
I FEEL I AM NOT IN MY PERFECT MIND: Alzheimer's and cognitive decline in movies.
SOLARIS: Probing the Lem/Tarkovsky masterwork.
SEASON 1 FINALE: Brainland at the Messina Cinema and Opera Festival 2024.
LITERARY THEORY FOR ROBOTS: The weird and wonderful origins of machine language.
CURIOUS MINDS: What good is curiosity?
SCREEN TIME 2: Sci-fi cinema's art of memory.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?: Memory, the brain and our sense of self.
OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppetry in healthcare.
SCREEN TIME: Cinema's art of memory
MOOD MUSIC: Could Shostakovich change your mind?
THE VITAL SPARK: The Evolution of Imagination.
THE VITAL SPARK: The Creative Brain.
OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppets in opera.
YOUR BRAIN ON RELIGION: Exploring the neuroscience of religious experience.
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: The story of a movie.
THE VITAL SPARK: A pianist's tale.
YOUR MUSICAL HEALTH: The efficacy of music as therapy.
THE VITAL SPARK: A director's tale.
THE VITAL SPARK: A novelist's tale.
BRAINWAVES: Hans Berger and the discovery of the EEG.
OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppetry.
POEMS, CHATBOTS AND EPILEPSY: Understanding and ameliorating life with seizures.
FEELING GROOVY: Exploring the brain's response to music.
OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppetry.
NO HAMMER NEEDED: The wonderful world of neurointeractive art.
BRAVE NEW WORLDS : Your neural interface awaits...
YOUR BRAIN ON BEAUTY: Welcome to the world of neuroaesthetics...
MUSIC AND THE DEEPEST PART OF YOU...
THE VITAL SPARK: Tourette syndrome and creativity.
COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY IS IN THE BUILDING: Brain information processing and the future of psychiatry.
BRAINHACKING: Ethical and legal challenges posed by new neurotechnologies.
MIND WARS: Military and intelligence funding of brain science - a curious history.
ROBOTS: Taking over or just overtaking?
ILLUMINATING THE SELF
EUGENICS: The pseudoscience that's never really gone away.
JOYFUL ASTONISHMENT AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM.
TWO HEADS: Where two neuroscientists explore how our brains work with other brains (Part 2)
TWO HEADS: Where two neuroscientists explore how our brains work with other brains (Part 1)
MESSAGES FROM ANOTHER WORLD
MANHANDLING THE BRAIN
TOPSY GOES TO NORWAY
BRAINLAND THE OPERA - An introduction