The day Thelon Oeming moved into an apartment in a working class area of Toronto, he saw a hunched-back man shouting to himself in the middle of the street. (more)

A man walks into his own neuroses. (more)

This hour: inside the the lives and works of two great American artists, painter Edward Hopper and poet Anne Sexton. (more)

When mothers suffer from mental or physical illnesses, their eldest children often take on responsibilities far beyond their years. (more)

What happens when you work with sound everyday -- listening to it, recording it, manipulating it -- and then one day, one of those sounds sticks around for good? (more)

This hour: the mysteries and complexities of the brain. (more)

Andrew Skillings is eleven now, but he was first diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, when he was just two. (more)

An old man fights his demons for 30 years. (more)

This audio captures the essence of Matthew Wilmott's internal neighbours - silence and recollections/dreams (per say those that that drift dark and heavy in the mind just before sunrise). (more)

Dr. Geoffrey Rheaume conducts a tour of the 1860s patient-built wall outside Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. (more)

This hour: brothers and sisters contend with family illness. (more)

This hour: producer Dmae Roberts grapples with the history and memories of her Taiwanese mother, a history of PTSD, and more. (more)

We all should do some work on our brains, but that "work" can be a load of fun, oh yeah. (more)

This hour: one boy leaves home and never returns, another leaves and returns forever changed. (more)

Tens of thousands of inmates in American prisons live in total isolation. They don't see anyone. They don't talk to anyone. They are completely alone, sometimes for years, in a cell the size of a small bathroom. (more)

This hour: Running on two legs, running on four, but most importantly, running with all your might. (more)

Mary Amoroso, who just had her ninety-fifth birthday, leaves a confused message on her boyfriend’s answering machine. (more)

While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie. (more)

When his mother decided to sell his childhood home, Austin Bunn returned to help clean out the basement and rediscovered traces of a childhood game that never really ended. (more)

Art museum security guards spend their days in uniform, speaking quietly or not at all, surrounded by works of irreplaceable art. (more)