Memory

A team of researchers led by Professor Ted Dinan of University College Cork has found that people taking a specific kind of probiotic bacteria experienced reduced stress levels and also an improvement… Audio

How soon is too soon for commemorating traumatic events such as terrorist attacks, wars and natural disasters? Prof Kendall Philips, from Syracuse University in the US, is coming to New Zealand for… Audio

Professor Ted Abel, director of the Biological Basis of Behaviour Program, University of Pennsylvania. He is an expert on sleep and memory, and has studied how sleep deprivation hampers memory… Audio

Plant and Food Research have shown that blackcurrants can help in tasks involving memory and concentration Audio

In 2008, British woman Naomi Jacobs went to bed one night, she was a 32-year-old mother. When she woke the following morning, her world had changed. She didn't recognise her home, nor her 10-year-old… Audio

Rebecca Macfie, Lloyd Jones and Gaylene Preston discuss dealing creatively with tough stuff through non-fiction, family memoir, and television drama at the 2014 Christchurch Word Writers and Readers… Audio

Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith and an amazing new technique for 3D printing that's 100 times quicker than today's technology. Audio

How an extreme weather event is remembered depends if other similar events are remembered as well - with Professor of Environmental History Georgina Endfield and Social Sciences Research Fellow Lucy… Audio

English literature and music graduate whose debut novel, The Chimes, is set in a future Britain where people's memories are controlled by music. Audio

Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent talks about process and performance ahead of her 2015 Laneway performance with Emma Smith. Audio

A virtual reality environment is being trialled to help stroke survivors improve their prospective memory to do things in the future Audio

Owen Jones is researching metaplasticity in the brain and Shane Ohline is studying the creation of new neurons in the hippocampus Audio

By understanding how the brain stores and updates information, researchers hope to one day help people with Alzheimer's disease Audio

By understanding how the brain stores and updates information, researchers hope to one day help people with Alzheimer's disease Audio

Memory is malleable, dynamic and elusive. When we tap into our memories, where is the line between fact and fiction? How does our memory play tricks on us, and how can we train it to be more accurate… Audio