Brain and Mind Centre

Hello, welcome to Minding Your Mind, all about your mind and how it works and mental illness and mental health.

And I'm with Professor Ian Hickey, who is a psychiatrist and the co-director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.

Now, we have an audio question

from Sarah.

Hello, welcome to Minding Your Mind, all about your mind, how it works, mental illness, mental health.

I'm with Professor Ian Hickey, psychiatrist and co-director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.

The generation gap, we've all heard of it.

It's a catch-all explanation to explain every argument you ever have with your kids or your parents or anyone else's kids or parents.

Our podcast is all about your mind, how it works, mental illness, mental health.

I'm with Professor Ian Hickey, psychiatrist and co-director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.

So something a little bit different this weekend.

You've been out and about and have been recording some questions from listeners.

Regular meditation.

So Maureen Irish, who is... a professor of psychology and psychological science at the Brain and Mind Center in Sydney, was my go-to person for mental time travel.

And when you talk about mental time travel and mind wandering, you are inevitably drawn to the conclusion, this feels like mindfulness meditation.

She maintains there's a qualitative difference there, but there is an overlap.

It's a fundamental assumption in the brain that that is the wrong comparison to do.

One of the researchers I spoke to in researching the book, Professor Maureen Irish at the Brain and Mind Center at the University of Sydney, is quite angry about this con- constant comparison to 20-year-olds, and that somehow when you c- when you, you, you're not as good as a 20-year-old, when in fact the research that she has done has shown that not only does, do very, very important aspects of cognitive function maintain themselves, they sometimes actually improve as we get older, and that it's, this is about cognitive change, not cognitive decline.

Well, that's encouraging, that-

It's very encouraging

Hello and welcome to Minding Your Mind, all about your mind and how it works, mental illness and mental health.

I'm with Professor Ian Hinckley, as always, psychiatrist and co-director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.

And we're going to answer this listener question.

So my son, who's 17, him and his friends believe that taking melatonin will help burn fat faster.

Our podcast is about your mind, how it works, mental illness and mental health.

And I'm with Professor Anne Hickey, who's a psychiatrist and is also a co-director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney.

Here's a question from Tara.

Yeah.