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The Podcast for Everyone with a Brain Dr Sabina Brennan talks to an eclectic mix of inspiring guests about thriving and surviving in life. In addition, Sabina injects a weekly booster shot p...

Modern life can estrange us from what truly matters. We chase goals that look like success but feel hollow – and before we know it, we’re ov...

Episode Summary: Why do some people seem to attract good fortune? In this episode, I explore the neuroscience of serendipity – those chance...

In this episode, Dr Sabina Brennan explores how generative AI changes learning. She looks at why effortful thinking is the engine of mastery...

If New Year’s resolutions leave you inspired one day and flattened the next, it’s not a willpower problem – it’s a nervous system problem. I...

Episode summary What happens when you close your eyes and try to “see” something in your mind? For some people it’s a full-colour mental mov...

Have you ever walked into a room and thought, “Any minute now they’re going to realise I’ve no idea what I’m doing”? In this episode of Supe...

Episode summary: “Brain rot” was named the Oxford Word of the Year 2024 – a tongue-in-cheek term for that fried feeling after too much scrol...

pisodic-like memory • How dog ageing helps us understand human dementia • Why your dog is a genuine co-regulator of your nervous system Tool...

Summary (short version): Why does winter feel heavier for some of us? In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of Seasonal Affective Dis...

Why are we so much harsher on ourselves than we are on others? In this episode of Super Brain , I explore the neuroscience of self-compassio...

Psilocybin — the psychedelic compound in so-called “magic mushrooms” — has exploded into headlines and social media feeds. Some call it a mi...

Why do we put off the very things that matter most? In this episode of Super Brain , I explore procrastination — the irrational gap between...

If you’ve ever wondered why you do the things you do, you’re going to love Season Six of Super Brain . In each episode, psychologist and neu...

Dr Sabina Brennan has a fascinating conversation with Prof John Cryan stress neurobiologist and co-author of the Psychobiotic Revolution abo...

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to journalist Marianne Power about the year she spent following the advice of one self-help book per month. -The boo...

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to 20 year old Dr Mya-Rose Craig about her memoir Birdgirl. Already a woman if substance this young woman who has ac...

Dr Sabina Brennan takes a look into secret research. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/superbrain . Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

Dr Sabina Brennan explores the psychology and neuroscience of control, impulsivity, self-control, taking control and relinquishing control....

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to NHS doctor, Sunday Times best-selling author and host of the The Doctor's Kitchen podcast about how he overcame a...

The Super Brain podcast returns with this audio documentary produced and presented by Super Brain host Dr Sabina Brennan Dr Edward O'Sulliva...

Super Brain is back. Season 5 kicks off March 21st 2022 with the audio documentary produced and presented by Dr Sabina Brennan. Super Brain...

In this, the final episode of Season 4 Dr Sabina Brennan talks about the benefits of talking to strangers Support this show http://supporter...

Dr Sabina Brennan and multi-award-winning script writer and actor Mark O'Halloran discuss strength and weakness through the lens of his amaz...

Dr Sabina Brennan takes a look at synaesthesia a fascinating neurological phenomenon where certain sensory inputs such as words, letters, nu...

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to performing artist, activist and sex worker Kate McGrew about her passion for performing, sex work, and the need t...

Eureka moments are a specific form of creativity. They don't just materialise from the ether – it’s simply the work of the human brain. In t...

BP Walter's Sunday Times best seller, The Dinner Guest is one of the best books I've read in quite some time. As soon as I finished it I fel...

Dr Sabina Brennan hands the mic for this booster to sex therapist and self-confessed sez geek Emily Power Smith who shares her top 4 tips fo...

I've had a clitoris all of my life and never knew that what we refer to as the clitoris is actually only the sensitive tip of an extensive i...

Dr Sabina Brennan explores savant syndrome and the circumstances in which humans can demonstrate extraordinary capabilities, usually in art,...

Lauren White-Murphy, aka @lolopopworld was a successful ghost writer signed with Warner Bros whose music had featured on hit shows like Amer...

In this booster shot Sabina Brennan explains how specialised brain cells that only fire in certain places help us to navigate the world arou...

Dr Sabina Brennan speaks to Irish Trinidadian author Amanda Smyth about her new book Fortune, about being rootless and untethered, about cha...

Dr Sabina Brennan makes a surprising discovery about Monday's guest Norma Sheahan Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/superbrain ....

Sabina Brennan shoots the breeze with multi-talented actor, writer, voiceover artist, Norma Sheahan Her weekly podcast is Heal Your Hole wit...

Dr Sabina Brennan speaks with Michael Kaplen, a personal injury lawyer, who specialises in representing individuals who have sustained a tra...

Dr Sabina Brennan shares some recent research that shines a light on how the brain detects untruths and why we shouldn't always trust our gu...

A brief update from my hotel room in London plus some tips on how to protect your most precious organ - your brain Support this show http://...

Dr Sabina Brennan and Dr Mary McGill continue their conversation about social media with a particular focus on distortion, dehumananisation,...

Sleep loss can lead to weight gain. Did you gain weight during the pandemic? Have you been struggling to lose it? Have you tried and failed...

Super Brain host Dr Sabina Brennan chats to Dr Mary McGill author of The Visibility Trap about gender-based online abuse, the need to ethica...

Continuing on from the themes of identity and motherhood discussed in Monday's interview with Melissa Hogenboom, Dr Sabina Brennan looks for...

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to award-winning BBC science journalist Melissa Hogenboom about her new book The Motherhood Complex and the science...

Building on Monday's fascinating episode on psychosomatic illness with Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan, Dr Sabina Brennan shares her own experiences a...

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan in this fascinating episode about psychosomatic illness, psychogenic disorders...

Season 4 of Super Brain kicks off Monday September 6th, I chat to an impressive group of inspiring and fascinating guests this season This t...

National Rescue Dog Day which aims to encourage people to adopt dogs from shelters and rescues, as well as educating children about animals...

Dr Sabina Brennan talks to comedian, actor and broadcaster PJ Gallagher about loving motorbiking racing and his weekly courtship with death,...

This week is Mental Health Week and the theme for 2021 is nature, Dr Sabina Brennan explores the neuroscience underlying the mental health b...

Dr Sabina Brennan chats to Anna Geary about her career choices, her goals, her hopes for the future and body image, particularly the importa...