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Super Brain

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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


Host: Sabina Brennan

Edited by Emily Burke (Seasons 1 - 4

Original Music by Gavin Brennan

Recorded at the Super Brain Studio

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S5:E7 Mood, Food and the Gut Brain Connection with Prof John Cryan

Published: Nov. 7, 2022, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 3 seconds

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S5:E6 Help Me with Marianne Power

Published: Sept. 4, 2022, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 33 seconds

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S5:E5 Bird girl with Mya-Rose Craig

Published: July 25, 2022, 7:50 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 48 seconds

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S5:E4 Secrets

Published: June 26, 2022, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 28 seconds

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S5:E3 Control

Published: May 30, 2022, 4:51 p.m.
Duration: N/A

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S5:E2 Headspace for healthy eating with Dr Rupi Aujla

Published: April 18, 2022, 8:09 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 59 seconds

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S5:E1 Imaginers

Published: March 21, 2022, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 56 seconds

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Super Brain is back

Published: March 20, 2022, 9:44 p.m.
Duration: N/A

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Booster 48 - Stranger Danger

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 8:54 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds

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S4:E12 Strength with Mark O'Halloran

Published: Nov. 22, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 50 seconds

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Tasty train stations - Synaesthesia

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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Booster 47 - Tasty train stations - Synaesthesia

Published: Nov. 18, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 39 seconds

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S4:E11 It's only a penis with artist and sex worker Kate McGrew

Published: Nov. 15, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 46 seconds

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Booster 46 - Supercharge your creativity

Published: Nov. 11, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 3 seconds

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S4:E10 That Knocking Sound with Barnaby Walter

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 59 seconds

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Booster 45 Golden Guide to Great Sex

Published: Nov. 4, 2021, 9:18 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 45 seconds

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S4:E9 Sexual pleasure with sexologist Emily Power Smith

Published: Nov. 1, 2021, 9:11 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 19 seconds

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Booster 44 - Savant Syndrome

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds

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S4:E8 Making new dreams with Lauren White Murphy

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 14 seconds

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Booster 43 - Where am I?

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 1 second

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S4:E7 Life is not a sentence with Amanda Smyth

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 4 seconds

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Booster 42 - I have two sons I love them both equally but....

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 9 seconds

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S4: E6 Heal your Hole with Norma Sheahan

Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 seconds

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S4:E5 Football: A Concussion Delivery System With Michael Kaplen

Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Booster 40 - Liar, Liar

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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Booster 41 - London Calling

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 37 seconds

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S4:E4 Selfie-taking and Self-Esteem

Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 53 seconds

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Booster 39 - Poor Sleep and Pandemic Weight Gain

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 4 seconds

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S4: E3 The Visibility Trap with Dr Mary McGill

Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 20 seconds

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Booster 38 - Juggling multiple identities builds resilience

Published: Sept. 15, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 11 seconds

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S4:E2 Happy Mum, Happy Baby with Melissa Hogenboom

Published: Sept. 13, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 27 seconds

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Booster 37 - It's all in your head

Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds

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S4: E1 The Brain Detective with Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan

Published: Sept. 6, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 26 seconds

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Sneak Peak - Super Brain - Season 4

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 18 seconds

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Booster 36 - Rescue Dogs

Published: May 19, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds

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The stabilisers are off with PJ Gallagher

Published: May 16, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 13 seconds

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S3:E12 The stabilisers are off with PJ Gallagher

Published: May 16, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 13 seconds

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Booster 35 Nature and Mental Health

Published: May 12, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 24 seconds

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S3:E11 Your body is an instrument not an ornament with Anna Geary

Published: May 9, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 58 seconds

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Booster 34 Gambling and the Brain

Published: May 5, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 8 seconds

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S3:E10 The act of a fucking idiot - Mark Cagney Part Two

Published: May 2, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 10 seconds

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Booster 33 - Return to work Anxiety Post-Lockdown

Published: April 28, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 2 seconds

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S3E9 Difficult Decisions with Mark Cagney

Published: April 25, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 30 seconds

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Booster 32 Concussion

Published: April 22, 2021, 12:13 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 20 seconds

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S3:E8 How Blue Spaces Can Make You Feel Better with Dr Catherine Kelly

Published: April 18, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 54 seconds

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Booster 31 Practical Tips to Support Teens

Published: April 14, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 42 seconds

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S3:E7 Heart Surgery, Hallucinations and PTSD with Tom Dunne (Part 2)

Published: April 11, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 7 seconds

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Published: April 8, 2021, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: N/A

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Published: April 8, 2021, 12:57 p.m.
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Booster 30 Nourish your Brain

Published: April 7, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds

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S3:E6 Parachute with Tom Dunne

Published: April 4, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 35 seconds

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Booster 29 - Are you getting enough?

Published: March 31, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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S3: E5 Foraging for Joy with Una-Minh Kavanagh

Published: March 28, 2021, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 17 seconds

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Booster 28 - What is stress?

Published: March 25, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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S3:E4 Acts of Desperation with Megan Nolan

Published: March 22, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 49 seconds

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Booster 27 - How light can help and hinder sleep

Published: March 18, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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S3:E3 Menopause, masturbation and memory loss with Meg Mathews

Published: March 15, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 16 seconds

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Booster 26 - Finding your 'self' again after brain fog

Published: March 11, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 38 seconds

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S3: E1 Revisiting Trauma from a Safe Place with Emilie Pine

Published: March 8, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 24 seconds

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Booster 24 - Beating Brain Fog

Published: March 4, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds

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S3:E1 Anger in search of Love with Lemn Sissay

Published: March 1, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 5 seconds

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Season 3 Sneak Peek

Published: Feb. 25, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - Happiness

Published: Feb. 22, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 1 second

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Sixty Second Science - Music

Published: Feb. 18, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute

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Just a Minute Motivation - Random Acts of Kindness

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds

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Sixty-Second Science - Chocolate

Published: Feb. 11, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds

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Monday Motivation - Fly a Kite

Published: Feb. 8, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Group Exercise

Published: Feb. 4, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - Liberate Yourself

Published: Feb. 1, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 18 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Speak Out or Keep Schtum

Published: Jan. 28, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 10 seconds

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Just A Minute Motivation - Anxiety

Published: Jan. 25, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Fake News

Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - The Stars

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 46 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Conspiracy Theories

Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 8 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - Puddles

Published: Jan. 11, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 39 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Rumination

Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - Learn to Live

Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 46 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Resolutions

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - Inner Peace

Published: Dec. 28, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds

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Sixty-Second Science - Christmas Spirit

Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 47 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - The Bright Side

Published: Dec. 21, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds

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Sixty Second Science - Body Image

Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds

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Just a Minute Motivation - Doors

Published: Dec. 14, 2020, 9:25 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds

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Sixty-Second Science: Happy Endings

Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 14 seconds

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Just a minute motivation - Challenge

Published: Dec. 7, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 1 second

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Sixty-Second Science - Make-up may make you feel human but science begs to differ.

Published: Dec. 3, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds

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Just a minute motivation - Awareness

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 59 seconds

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Booster 24: Is being kind good for your brain?

Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 35 seconds

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S2:E12 Laughing out loud with Patrick Freyne

Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 47 seconds

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Booster 23 Sharing Food with Colm O'Gorman

Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds

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S2:E11 Wonderfully, Beautifully, Shameless: Surviving Child Abuse with Colm O'Gorman

Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 8 seconds

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Booster 22 - How much screen time is too much?

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 39 seconds

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S2:E10 Technology and the Brain - Choosing your Future

Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 10:40 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 43 seconds

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Booster 21 - The Queen's Gambit Can board games boost your brain?

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 52 seconds

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S2:E9 Surviving and thriving with dyslexia with Darren Brennan

Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 26 seconds

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Booster 20 - Satisfy your Curiosity

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 59 seconds

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S2:E8 You are your brain with Dr Adrian Owen OBE

Published: Oct. 26, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Booster 20 - Weathering Winter Lockdown

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds

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S2:E7 Just do it and don't count the calories with Sheila O'Flanagan

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, midnight
Duration: 58 minutes 37 seconds

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Booster 18 - Trans Terms

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds

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S2:E6 Expect the Unexpected with Philippa and Helen Ryder

Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 35 seconds

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Booster 17 - Is Age Just a Number?

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds

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S2:E5 Earwigging with Anne Griffin

Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 33 seconds

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Booster 16: How is physical exercise good for my brain?

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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S2:E4 #BeKind with John Boyne

Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 17 seconds

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Booster 15 - What goes on inside the teenage brain?

Published: Sept. 24, 2020, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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S2:E3 It doesn't get any better than this with Richard Roper

Published: Sept. 21, 2020, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes

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Booster 14 - Invisible Women, gender bias in research

Published: Sept. 17, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Special Investigation: What is COVID19 doing to our brains?

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 11:05 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 11 seconds

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S2:E2 Horns and Halos, exploring unconscious bias with Dr Pragya Agarwal

Published: Sept. 14, 2020, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 4 seconds

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Booster 13 - Can laughing build resilience?

Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 9:07 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 52 seconds

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S2:E1 Everything was fine until some boy stole my miracle with Anna McPartlin

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 32 seconds

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S2:E1 Trailer

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, midnight
Duration: 34 seconds

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Super Brain Series One - Trailer

Published: Aug. 20, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds

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Booster 12 - What's the difference between brain health and mental health?

Published: May 28, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 30 seconds

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S1:E12 Lubricant of Life with Alison Spittle

Published: May 25, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 2 seconds

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Booster 11 - What is mindfulness? Does it work?

Published: May 21, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 12 seconds

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S1:E11 Mind Full? with Dermot Whelan (Part Two)

Published: May 18, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds

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Booster 10 - Making and Breaking Habits

Published: May 14, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds

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S1:E10 Autopilot with Dermot Whelan (Part One)

Published: May 11, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 20 seconds

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Booster 9 - What is Empathy?

Published: May 7, 2020, 1:52 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 47 seconds

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S1:E9 The Stories we Tell with Ruth Gilligan (Part Two)

Published: May 4, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 37 seconds

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Booster 8 - What is Brain Fog?

Published: April 30, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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S1E8 Fairy God Mother with Ruth Gilligan (Part One)

Published: April 27, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 30 seconds

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Booster 7 - Sleep & Dreams #COVID19

Published: April 23, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 49 seconds

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S1:E7 Elegy for Elodie with Hilary Freeman (Part Two)

Published: April 20, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 51 seconds

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Booster 6 - Obesity ages the brain

Published: April 16, 2020, 7:48 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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S1:E6 Shunned and Shamed with Hilary Freeman (Part One)

Published: April 13, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 42 seconds

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Booster 5 - Loneliness is a Killer

Published: April 9, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 46 seconds

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S1:E5 Canoeing down the Amazon with Sinead Moriarty

Published: April 6, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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Booster 4 - Smiling's My Favourite

Published: April 2, 2020, 1 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 30 seconds

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S1:E4 Spat out of a Spaceship with Joanne McNally (Part Two)

Published: March 30, 2020, 4 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 13 seconds

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Booster Special - How to manage stress in the face of COVID-19

Published: March 29, 2020, 3:05 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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Booster 3 - Love, Sex and the Brain

Published: March 26, 2020, 2 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 10 seconds

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S1:E3 Clit Bait with Joanne McNally (Part One)

Published: March 23, 2020, 2 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 26 seconds

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Booster Bonus - Memory Tips

Published: March 19, 2020, 6:06 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Booster 2 - Memory 101

Published: March 19, 2020, 2 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 27 seconds

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S1:E2 Memory is a Drunk in a Bar with Hilary Fanin (Part 2)

Published: March 16, 2020, 2 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 15 seconds

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Booster 1 - Brain Sculpture

Published: March 12, 2020, 2 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 51 seconds

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S1:E1 Fully Cooked with Hilary Fanin (Part 1)

Published: March 9, 2020, 2:02 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds

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Coming Soon...

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 11:32 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds

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