Voices in the dark: an audio story
What’s it like to hear voices? Are they hallucinations or a normal human experience? Chris Chapman explores what they are, why they happen and how they are being understood.
Stories
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Avatar therapy
Watch footage of an avatar used in a new therapy to treat schizophrenia.
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“We’re all on the verge of hallucinating”
Is voice hearing the result of how our brains model the world around us?
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Saved: How addicts gained the power to reverse overdoses
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Building healthier hospitals
Can the way hospitals are designed improve the experiences of staff and visitors, and even the recovery of patients? Lucy Maddox finds out.
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Happy workplaces
How do the buildings in which we work affect us emotionally and physically?
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Better spaces for mental health
How can we move away from mental health clinics that are dark, sad and scary?
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Designing for dementia
Exploring how design can improve the lives of people with dementia.
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In other words: inside the lives and minds of real-time translators
The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability.
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Speech jammer: can you ignore your own voice?
Watch our re-creation of a classic experiment.
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Will the Saatchi bill speed-up access to life-saving new drugs?
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The families paving the path to new drugs