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Dr Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind, revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
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DANGEROUS AND SEVERE PERSONALITY DISORDER

In the light of new recommendations that those with DSPD (also known as psychopaths) should be locked up even if they haven’t committed a crime, Dr Raj Persaud asks Dr Bob Johnson, consultant psychiatrist and co-founder of the and Anthony Maden, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at and Clinical Director of Dangerously Severe Personality Disorder services at Broadmoor Hospital, whether psychopaths are untreatable, as previously believed, or whether there is hope that they can change.

GOLDEN RATIO

Have you ever wondered why some paintings appeal to you more than others when you visit an art gallery?Ìý Of course it could simply be that it’s a nice picture, but psychologists believe there’s something called the Golden Rectangle.Ìý If paintings contain shapes with the ratio of the Golden Rectangle, we automatically like them better.Ìý ClaudiaÌýHammond tests this theory at London’s National Gallery with the help of John Sharp, teacher in Geometry and art and Chris McManus, Professor of Psychology at .

Click here to see the paintings and to test the theory of the Golden Ratio

CREATING A ‘FLAT MAP’ OF THE HUMAN BRAIN

Would we be able to see more of what’s going on in the brain if we smoothed out all the creases and flattened it out?

A team of mathematicians and neurologists including , Professor of Mathematics at Ìýhas been working on producing a ‘flat map’of the brain using information from functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) scans.

Dr Raj Persaud talks to about the map which would allow researchers to observe the entire surface of the brain, particularly regions buried within cortical folds.Ìý Dr Persaud also asks Mick Brammer, Professor of Image Analysis at the Institute of Psychiatry in London about the advantages of a ‘flat map’ of the human brain in the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses.

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Conference: ‘Towards emotional health – views from the front line’
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