Super Brain

Is ageing really is just about the number of years since birth? Does your brain really start to shrink at 30? Can you stop your brain shrinking?

Dr Sabina Brennan answers these questions and more in this weeks Super Brain Booster Shot.

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Sabina Brennan talks to Anne Griffin through the lens of her brilliant debut novel When All is Said about kindness, self-love, loneliness, ageing, dyslexia, pursuing happiness, eschewing perfection and our own special brand of guilt. 

To earwig (verb): to secretly listen to a conversation.

The Booster Shot Sabina mentioned in this episode is Booster 5 Loneliness is a Killer

Sabina also promised to share the link to The Little Book of Kindness by Bernadette Russell

Anne Griffin is the author of When All Is Said, the number 1 Irish bestseller, and winner of the Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. When All Is Said has been published in the US and Canada and translated into nineteen foreign languages. Anne's short story works have featured in, amongst others, The Irish Times and The Stinging Fly and read on Radio 4. Anne has worked in Waterstones Booksellers in both Dublin and London and for various charities. Born in Dublin, Anne now lives in Westmeath, Ireland.

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Dr Sabina Brennan reads an except from her No 1 best-seller 100 Days to a Younger Brain which explains the many ways in which exercise benefits your brain.

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Dr Sabina Brennan chats to John Boyne about love, desire, ambition, creativity, social media and their mutual love of excel sheets and order.

Bio

John Boyne is a muliti-award-winning novelist. He has published 12 books for adults and 6 novels for younger readers including the New York Times No 1 Best-seller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

You can read more about John and his books on his website 

His latest novel Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom is the story of all of us. It is a tale of human nature and how we are all linked regardless of time or space.

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Dr Sabina Brennan explains that the radical remodelling of the human brain that occurs during the teenage years underlies much of the typical and often troublesome behaviour observed in teenagers from emotional outbursts to risky behaviours.

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In this fun episode Sabina Brennan chats to Richard Roper, author of Something to Live a compelling and surprisingly uplifting novel about loneliness. shares experiences of loneliness, the importance of friends and his lovely dad’s diary. He also gives some sage advice about happiness and contentment. 

Booster #5 Loneliness is a Killer

Bio

Richard Roper grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and now lives in London, where he works as a non-fiction editor. Something To Live For, is his first novel. It has been translated into 19 languages. He is currently working on his new novel, out in Summer 2021. This is Barter Books that Richard says everyone must visit.

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Dr Sabina Brennan explores gender bias in psychologica research

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Dr Sabina Brennan, host of Super Brain, investigates the impact of COVID19 on the human brain

Special thanks to Helen Brennan, Maddie Culling, Carolyn Gunther, Barbara Melville and Caroline O'Brien, for sharing their personal stories and to Dr Lucy Cheke, Dr Ron Daniels, Dr Patricia Mc Namara and Dr Adrian Owen their expert insights on the neurological and cognitive complications of COVID-19

A HUGE thank you to my very special and talented editor Emily Burke for going above and beyond to help me to get this special and important episode to you.

If you would like to learn more about brain fog and how to minimise it check out Super Brain Booster #8 'What is Brain Fog?

Brain Health Advice

As mentioned in the podcast leading a brain healthy life is the best thing that you can do to counteract brain fog symptoms and also to build brain resilience You will find links lots of free scientifically-grounded brain health resources developed by Dr Sabina Brennan on www.superbrain.ie

You can purchase the UK edition of Sabina's book on Brain Health: 100 Days to a Younger Brain on Amazon, W.H. Smith or wherever you buy books

You can purchase the US edition of Sabina's book on Brain Health: 100 Days to a Younger Brain on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or wherever you buy books

Her new book Beating Brain fog is available for pre-order

Support

If you are living with lingering symptoms post-COVID you may find the Patient Support Programme created by the UK Sepsis Trust which was founded by Dr Ron Daniels

https://sepsistrust.org/covid-19-recovery-response/

How to Take Part in Research

Dr Adrian Owen's COVID-19 Brain Study is open to anyone experiencing brain fog symptoms

https://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/studies/covid-brain-study

Dr Lucy Cheke's study on COVID and memory is currently in "sign-up" stage. Click the link for information and the signup form.

https://www.camblab.psychol.cam.ac.uk/participate-in-research  

Neurological Complications

Download this pdf of the paper co-authored by Dr PatriciaMcNamara - The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings

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Dr Sabina Brennan and fellow neuroscientist Dr Pragya Agarwal place a multitude of human biases under the microscope and unpick unconscious bias using insights from brain science.

This is Tim Urban's Ted Talk on procrastination that Pragya mentioned during the show

This is the height graph with the biased scale that we spoke about in the episode

Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, and a freelance journalist and author of Sway, Unravelling Unconscious Bias

Her New Book Wish We Knew What To Say: Talking With Children about Race is out 15th October 2020

She is a winner of Diverse Wisdom award from Hay House, was named as one of the 100 influential women in social enterprise in the UK, and one of 50 people creating change in the UK-India corridor on the High and Mighty list. 

Twitter @DrPragyaAgarwal 

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Super Brain host Dr Sabina Brennan explores whether laughter can really boost resilience?

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