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Tackling Mental Health Myths

A new tour of the National Gallery challenges mental health stereotypes, latest research in LGBTQ mental health, plus what happens to language as we age and healthy brains.

The National Gallery is launching a new tour with the help of young people from the McPinn Foundation challenging stereotypes in mental health. The tour focuses on works of art which confront commonly held myths. Claudia meets Lucy who was diagnosed with anorexia at 13 and Helen Fisher from the Institute of Psychiatry , Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, Kings College, to see their favourite exhibits including 鈥淎n Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump鈥 by Joseph Wright 'of Derby' and 鈥淭he Vision of the Blessed Gabriele鈥 by Carlo Crivelli. A magnificent domed room which hosted daily piano concerts during the Second World War and survived the bombing demonstrates the resilience often felt by people recovering from mental ill health. The tour is available for free until 10th April 2020 via smartphones. (tiny.cc/ngmentalhealth)

Studio guest Mathijs Lucassen of the Open University discusses his latest research on LGBT teenagers and mental health.

Plus, most people are used to the idea that as we get older there is a diminishing of our abilities, but Professor Roger Kreutz of Memphis University in his book 鈥淐hanging Minds鈥 demonstrates that language is one skill that can just get better. And with the aim of improving brain health Dr Alastair Noyce and colleagues recently launched a European report which says 鈥淭ime Matters鈥.

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28 minutes

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  • Tue 19 Nov 2019 21:00
  • Wed 20 Nov 2019 15:30

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