Gray Matters is a radio series on brain topics that has been produced since 1994 by Public Radio International in association with the Dana Alliance.  More than 25 programs have been created on topics ranging from stress, neuroethics, learning throughout life and sports, fitness and the Brain.  Dana Alliance members serve as advisors to Gray Matters programming and are interviewed during the programs.

The Alliance also supports other popular radio segments, including the following:

• The public radio program Midday examines how neuroscience can explain the role gender plays in education. Martha Denckla, MD, Alliance member, research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is featured in the segment and takes listeners' questions on air.  You can listen to it here. 
• An episode from Radiolab examines the unique occupation of extra actors who were hired to laugh. Answering an unusual call from a casting director, these cacklers and chortlers found steady employment on The Nanny and other sitcoms...until the advent of reality television. You can listen to it here or read the transcript here.
• This installment from NPR’s “All Things Considered” focuses on a blind man who can still “see.” Science correspondent Robert Krulwich reports on this former executive who went blind, but thanks to a not-uncommon condition called Charles Bonnet syndrome, began to have hallucinatory visions that became something of a comfort for him.

• The public radio program “The Infinite Mind” explores the effect of Alzheimer’s on a family, recent research developments, and a 47-year-old’s firsthand account of living with the disease.

Gray Matters programs, shown below, are now available as podcasts and transcripts.