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  1. Labelled (2011)

    Director
    Daryl Ball
    Subject
    Education; Psychology; Social welfare

    A university student talking about how being labelled as having learning difficulties - ADHD, dyspraxia and autism - affected him when he was growing up and how he copes with it nowadays in his everyday life...

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  2. Rsa Animate: The Divided Brain (2011)

    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology

    Short animation summarising a lecture given by psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist as part of the RSA’s public events programme in which he explains how our ‘divided brain’ has profoundly altered...

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  3. When Will we Understand Autistic Spectrum Disorders? (2011)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychology

    Video recording of Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture given by Professor Francesca Happé at the Royal Society, London on 26 October 2011. In it she presents a cognitive neuroscience perspective on what might...

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  4. Decoding Dyslexia (2011)

    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £12.99

    After examining the roots of dyslexia, its physical and emotional effects, this film tries to find a way which dyslexia can be better understood.

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  5. Rsa Animate: Language As a Window into Human Nature (2011)

    Subject
    Psychiatry; Psychology

    In this RSA Animate, Steven Pinker explains how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Th transcript of this talk can be downloaded as a pdf file. [11 minutes]

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  6. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2011)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Psychology; Sociology

    Writer and theorist Mark Fisher speaks about his book ‘Capitalist Realism Is There no Alternative? (Zero Books 2009) in which he addresses the condition of ideological malaise produced by neo-liberal...

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  7. Asperger’s - Oops, Wrong Planet! (2010)

    Subject
    Psychology; Social welfare

    This documentary explores how the Asperger world, once a solitary, cut-off place, has entered the mainstream of modern life, thanks to the increasing importance of digital technology. It also shows how this...

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  8. Secret Life of the Brain (2010)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC), £59.98

    This five part series looks at the intricacies of the brain, from childhood to adulthood. A A baby’s brain weighs less then a pound, but within it lies the power to control movement, as well as the ability...

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  9. Secret Powers of Time, The (2010)

    Subject
    Psychology

    Audio and video recordings of a lecture given on 25 March 2010 at RSA (the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) by Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at...

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  10. Tom’s Story (2010)

    Subject
    Education; Psychology

    Until the age of 14, Tom’s teachers had labelled him a ‘slow learner’ due to his inability to read, despite eye tests revealing his vision was normal. Four years ago he was diagnosed as having...

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