Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Slovakia Today is an English language current affairs magazine bringing you the best from Slovakia. Our daily broadcast covers the latest from politics, society, arts and culture, business, science, healthcare and sports. Coming to you from Bratislava, from the studios of Radio Slovakia International – the foreign language channel of the public broadcaster STVR. Making Slovakia heard to the world!
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The very name ‘psychiatric epidemiology’ suggests the spread of mental illness among populations. But can a mental illness really spread, like a virus? Are some mental illnesses more prevelant within certain societies? Is it possible to predict whether a certain mental disorder is likely to develop in a particular individual or population? These are some of the questions Jonathan put to Tomáš Formánek, who is currently at Cambridge University in the UK doing his PhD research in exactly this field. And, as the theme of last year’s RSI competition was Slovakia’s castles, we repeat a story from 2019 in which three Japanese university students studying in Bratislava on an exchange programme talk about their impressions of Slovakia – including its beautiful castles.