TV and Radio on Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer: learning disability at the Paralympics, and a vaccine against depression?
In the latest episode of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 4's All in the Mind, the series which explores the limits and potential of the human mind, presenter Claudia Hammond reports on the return of athletes with learning disabilities to this year's Paralympics for the first time since the Sydney Games in 2000, when ten members of the Spanish basketball team were stripped of their gold medals for pretending to have a learning disability. Professor Jan Burns, the Head of Eligibility for the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability, discusses which sports and which athletes will be eligible.
Also on the programme, Graham Rook, a clinical microbiologist from University College London, is hopeful that one day there might be a vaccination against depression. This follows research which has revealed that some people with depression have higher levels of inflammation in their body, and the idea that this inflammation could be controlled via exposure to certain worms and bacteria. But is a vaccine really possible, and would it be a useful avenue to explore for preventing depression?
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