# Public Understanding of Psychiatry

- Institution: Gresham College
- Taught by: Professor Chris Shaw, Professor Jack Price, Professor Terrie Moffitt
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Psychology and the brain
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/public-understanding-psychiatry)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The lecture will cover a description of how we diagnose and treat Motor Neuron Disease, why motor neurons degenerate and the genetic basis of disease. It will also cover new cellular and animal models of disease that are informing us about disease mechanisms and will advance drug discovery. This is part of a special series of lectures in collaboration with the Institute of Psychiatry.

## Lectures

1. [Whither to the Creeping Paralysis? Progress on the road to curing motor neuron disease](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-public-understanding-psychiatry/642998db653e) (YouTube)
2. [Brain Reconstruction: the next biomedical breakthrough, or a biological impossibility?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-public-understanding-psychiatry/a10a13ae1764) (YouTube)
3. [Children's Self-Control and the Health and Wealth of their Nation: Tracking 1000 children from birth to maturity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-public-understanding-psychiatry/51cabcc51f2d) (YouTube)