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QBI's Professor Justin Marshall talks to ABC's Richard Fidler about how we perceive colour, and how fish and other marine animals can help us figure out how vision works in the brain.
 

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  • Podcast: autism and genetics
  • Podcast: International Women's Day
  • Podcast: fish eyes the window to the brain
  • Podcast: mysteries of the corpus callosum
  • Podcast: the most aggressive cancer in the brain
  • Podcast: using brain imaging to diagnose mental illness
  • Podcast: curing schizophrenia, from lab to clinic
  • Podcast: using deep brain stimulation treat Parkinson’s disease
  • Podcast: coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef
  • Podcast: the curious link between vitamin D and schizophrenia
  • Podcast: the neuroscience of racism
  • Podcast: Alzheimer's disease, a family perspective
  • Podcast: will nerve regeneration treat spinal cord injury?
  • Podcast: how I survived a stroke at 31

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