Super Brain
By Sabina Brennan
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Super Brain explores what really happens inside your head when you do the things you do - and how to use that knowledge to get the best out of your brain and yourself.
From Season Six, neuroscientist and author Dr. Sabina Brennan dives into one everyday human experience per episode - from procrastination to crying, curiosity to trust - to reveal the science behind it and the practical tools that help you navigate life with greater clarity and intention.
Curious, warm and wonderfully human, this is neuroscience you can use: one behaviour, one big insight, three tools for your Super Brain kit to help you think, feel and live better.
Because understanding your brain is the first step to unlocking its power.
New format, same mission — grounded in science, powered by compassion, designed to help you thrive.
Seasons 1 to 5 - Dr Sabina Brennan talks to an eclectic mix of inspiring guests about thriving and surviving in life and shares practical tips to transform your everyday brain into a healthy, happy, Super Brain.
Unleash Your Super Power
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S6:E7 Imposter Phenomenon
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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S6:E6 Brain Rot
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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S6:E5 Puppy Love
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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S6:E4 Sunshine and SAD
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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S6:E3 Self-criticism is self-harm
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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S6:E2 Magic Mushrooms and the Human Brain
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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S6:E1 Tomorrow Brain
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Season 6 Promo: 'Super Brain is Back!'
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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S5:E7 Mood, Food and the Gut Brain Connection with Prof John Cryan
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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S5:E6 Help Me with Marianne Power
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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S5:E5 Bird girl with Mya-Rose Craig
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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S5:E4 Secrets
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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S5:E3 Control
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May 30, 2022 |
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S5:E2 Headspace for healthy eating with Dr Rupi Aujla
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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S5:E1 Imaginers
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Super Brain is back
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Booster 48 - Stranger Danger
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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S4:E12 Strength with Mark O'Halloran
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Booster 47 - Tasty train stations - Synaesthesia
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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S4:E11 It's only a penis with artist and sex worker Kate McGrew
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Booster 46 - Supercharge your creativity
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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S4:E10 That Knocking Sound with Barnaby Walter
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Booster 45 Golden Guide to Great Sex
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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S4:E9 Sexual pleasure with sexologist Emily Power Smith
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Booster 44 - Savant Syndrome
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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S4:E8 Making new dreams with Lauren White Murphy
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Booster 43 - Where am I?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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S4:E7 Life is not a sentence with Amanda Smyth
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Booster 42 - I have two sons I love them both equally but....
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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S4: E6 Heal your Hole with Norma Sheahan
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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S4:E5 Football: A Concussion Delivery System With Michael Kaplen
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Booster 40 - Liar, Liar
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Booster 41 - London Calling
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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S4:E4 Selfie-taking and Self-Esteem
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Booster 39 - Poor Sleep and Pandemic Weight Gain
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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S4: E3 The Visibility Trap with Dr Mary McGill
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Booster 38 - Juggling multiple identities builds resilience
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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S4:E2 Happy Mum, Happy Baby with Melissa Hogenboom
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Booster 37 - It's all in your head
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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S4: E1 The Brain Detective with Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Sneak Peak - Super Brain - Season 4
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Booster 36 - Rescue Dogs
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May 19, 2021 |
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S3:E12 The stabilisers are off with PJ Gallagher
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May 16, 2021 |
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Booster 35 Nature and Mental Health
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May 12, 2021 |
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S3:E11 Your body is an instrument not an ornament with Anna Geary
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May 09, 2021 |
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Booster 34 Gambling and the Brain
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May 05, 2021 |
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S3:E10 The act of a fucking idiot - Mark Cagney Part Two
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May 02, 2021 |
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Booster 33 - Return to work Anxiety Post-Lockdown
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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S3E9 Difficult Decisions with Mark Cagney
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Booster 32 Concussion
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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S3:E8 How Blue Spaces Can Make You Feel Better with Dr Catherine Kelly
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Booster 31 Practical Tips to Support Teens
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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S3:E7 Heart Surgery, Hallucinations and PTSD with Tom Dunne (Part 2)
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Booster 30 Nourish your Brain
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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S3:E6 Parachute with Tom Dunne
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Booster 29 - Are you getting enough?
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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S3: E5 Foraging for Joy with Una-Minh Kavanagh
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Booster 28 - What is stress?
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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S3:E4 Acts of Desperation with Megan Nolan
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Booster 27 - How light can help and hinder sleep
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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S3:E3 Menopause, masturbation and memory loss with Meg Mathews
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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Booster 26 - Finding your 'self' again after brain fog
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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S3: E1 Revisiting Trauma from a Safe Place with Emilie Pine
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Booster 24 - Beating Brain Fog
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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S3:E1 Anger in search of Love with Lemn Sissay
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Season 3 Sneak Peek
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Happiness
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Music
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Random Acts of Kindness
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Sixty-Second Science - Chocolate
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Monday Motivation - Fly a Kite
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Group Exercise
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Liberate Yourself
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Speak Out or Keep Schtum
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Just A Minute Motivation - Anxiety
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Fake News
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - The Stars
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Conspiracy Theories
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Puddles
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Rumination
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Learn to Live
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Sixty Second Science - Resolutions
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Inner Peace
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Sixty-Second Science - Christmas Spirit
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - The Bright Side
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Sixty Second Science - Body Image
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Just a Minute Motivation - Doors
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Sixty-Second Science: Happy Endings
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Just a minute motivation - Challenge
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Sixty-Second Science - Make-up may make you feel human but science begs to differ.
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Just a minute motivation - Awareness
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Booster 24: Is being kind good for your brain?
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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S2:E12 Laughing out loud with Patrick Freyne
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Booster 23 Sharing Food with Colm O'Gorman
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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S2:E11 Wonderfully, Beautifully, Shameless: Surviving Child Abuse with Colm O'Gorman
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Booster 22 - How much screen time is too much?
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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S2:E10 Technology and the Brain - Choosing your Future
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Booster 21 - The Queen's Gambit Can board games boost your brain?
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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S2:E9 Surviving and thriving with dyslexia with Darren Brennan
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Booster 20 - Satisfy your Curiosity
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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S2:E8 You are your brain with Dr Adrian Owen OBE
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Booster 20 - Weathering Winter Lockdown
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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S2:E7 Just do it and don't count the calories with Sheila O'Flanagan
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Booster 18 - Trans Terms
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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S2:E6 Expect the Unexpected with Philippa and Helen Ryder
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Booster 17 - Is Age Just a Number?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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S2:E5 Earwigging with Anne Griffin
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Booster 16: How is physical exercise good for my brain?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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S2:E4 #BeKind with John Boyne
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Booster 15 - What goes on inside the teenage brain?
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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S2:E3 It doesn't get any better than this with Richard Roper
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Booster 14 - Invisible Women, gender bias in research
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Special Investigation: What is COVID19 doing to our brains?
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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S2:E2 Horns and Halos, exploring unconscious bias with Dr Pragya Agarwal
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Booster 13 - Can laughing build resilience?
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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S2:E1 Everything was fine until some boy stole my miracle with Anna McPartlin
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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S2:E1 Trailer
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Super Brain Series One - Trailer
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Booster 12 - What's the difference between brain health and mental health?
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May 28, 2020 |
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S1:E12 Lubricant of Life with Alison Spittle
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May 25, 2020 |
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Booster 11 - What is mindfulness? Does it work?
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May 21, 2020 |
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S1:E11 Mind Full? with Dermot Whelan (Part Two)
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May 18, 2020 |
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Booster 10 - Making and Breaking Habits
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May 14, 2020 |
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S1:E10 Autopilot with Dermot Whelan (Part One)
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May 11, 2020 |
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Booster 9 - What is Empathy?
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May 07, 2020 |
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S1:E9 The Stories we Tell with Ruth Gilligan (Part Two)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Booster 8 - What is Brain Fog?
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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S1E8 Fairy God Mother with Ruth Gilligan (Part One)
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Booster 7 - Sleep & Dreams #COVID19
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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S1:E7 Elegy for Elodie with Hilary Freeman (Part Two)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Booster 6 - Obesity ages the brain
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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S1:E6 Shunned and Shamed with Hilary Freeman (Part One)
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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Booster 5 - Loneliness is a Killer
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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S1:E5 Canoeing down the Amazon with Sinead Moriarty
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Booster 4 - Smiling's My Favourite
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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S1:E4 Spat out of a Spaceship with Joanne McNally (Part Two)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Booster Special - How to manage stress in the face of COVID-19
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Booster 3 - Love, Sex and the Brain
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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S1:E3 Clit Bait with Joanne McNally (Part One)
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Booster Bonus - Memory Tips
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Booster 2 - Memory 101
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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S1:E2 Memory is a Drunk in a Bar with Hilary Fanin (Part 2)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Booster 1 - Brain Sculpture
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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S1:E1 Fully Cooked with Hilary Fanin (Part 1)
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Coming Soon...
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Feb 20, 2020 |