Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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And what did you find in Brazil?
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So here are trials done independent of the pharmaceutical industry where you could actually trust the results.
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And it cost
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And for the Australian audience we're talking about forty rupees to the dollar.
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So this is cheap stuff.
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Yeah.
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Where some of these drug trials can cost one hundred and ninety million dollars, so the drug companies say.
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What you're talking about here is you've got to observe some kind of behaviour, you've got to be able to measure it subjectively, to be able to say in your published paper you went from a hundred points on the scale to fifty points or what have you, as a measure of violent or disturbed behaviour.
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And this is a recurrent not just in psychiatry, but it's a recurrent question in trials.
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There's a huge debate about anti A Alzheimer's drugs and the rating scales that drugs can't be used and did it actually make any difference to patients or carers and nobody could observe a difference.
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CMC being the Christian Medical College here in Valour.
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That's right.
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And of course the east coast here of Tamil Nadu would have been affected by the tsunami.
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There's been Australian studies which have shown it as harm.
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Profit Tharian is Professor of Psychiatry at the Christian Medical College in Valore, Tamil Nadu, in southern India.
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He also runs the South Asian Cochrane Center, and before him you heard Professor Clive Adams of the University of Nottingham, and he runs the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group.
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I'm Norman Swan, and you've been listening to the Health Report.
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I'll see you next time.
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Hello and welcome to the Health Report with me, Norman Swan.
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Today, what does it take to be a super-aged, super-thinker, having a mind in your 90s that's as good or better than people decades younger?
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