Is the brain more plastic than we thought? Recent developments in brain scanning have shown how environmental factors affect brain development and have called into question the usefulness of the age-old nature vs. nurture debate.

This short film uses evidence from recent research into deprivation, verbal abuse in childhood and mother’s diet to explore the contemporary view that the interaction between environment and genetics – nature and nurture – is the key to understanding how our brains develop. Features neuroscientist, Dr. Guy Sutton, Director of Medical Biology Interactive.