Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast
24 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe Everyday Neuro podcast series with Dr Janine Cooper provides knowledge and inspiration to everyone and anyone interested in the fascinating fields of neuroscience, neuropsychology and the human brain. Developed to incorporate information and interviews with experts in the field, the episodes cover a diverse range of topics from memory and cognition to mental health, wellbeing, trauma, and brain injury. Janine will guide you through the current research and help you to develop greater understanding of the human brain and its functions. Whether you already have experience, or want to start on your journey into understanding the human brain and how it affects our thinking, emotions and behaviour, then the Everyday Neuro podcast series has something to offer you. Get bonus content on Patreon
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Everyday Neuro 021 How Actions Speak Louder than Words: It's Time to Boost Your Wellbeing
January 09, 2023 06:25 - 22 minutes - 21.9 MBIn this episode I talk about Behavioural Activation Therapy and how actions can boost your mental health. I also discuss social prescribing and the approach that promotes activities alongside traditional healthcare. I am joined by guest Nicole R. Smith who provides wonderful insight into the benefits of volunteering and how this can can boost your mental and physical health. For more information about Nicole, please go to nicolersmith.net or @nicolersmith.net on Twitter, Instagram and Linke...
Everyday Neuro 020: The Well Intentioned Myths of Sleep and How to Treat Insomnia
December 04, 2022 21:39 - 24 minutes - 23.4 MBIn this episode I talk about sleep and the beneficial effects it has on the brain. We are joined by an expert in the field, the amazing Dr Michelle Ni Raghallaigh from The Sleep Sphere (https://thesleepsphere.com), a NHS-trained insomnia specialist and cognitive neuroscientist who helps us to uncover some of the myths about sleep, understand more about the most common sleep disorder insomnia, and how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia or (CBTI) is the ‘gold standard’ treatment. A bonu...
Everyday Neuro 019: How to Recognise and Support Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
November 07, 2022 06:44 - 16 minutes - 20 MBIn this episode, I discuss what PTSD is and what some of the symptoms are. I talk about ways to minimise stress when facing a traumatic incident including a lived experience. I also provide information about self-care from the viewpoint of someone who might be supporting a person living with PTSD. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyday Neuro 018 Part 1: Nature and the brain - How our living environment can enhance mental and physical health
October 11, 2022 06:47 - 12 minutes - 15 MBIn Part 1 of this episode, I discuss the topic of nature and how it can enhance our wellbeing, feelings of safety and security and ultimately our health and productivity. In Part 1, I am joined by interior designer Tara Cantwell of Cantwell Interiors (https://www.cantwellinteriors.com), who provides rich insight into how we can bring nature into our homes and workspaces. Part 2 is a bonus exclusive episode that further explores how taking a walk in nature can relax our fight and flight system...
Everyday Neuro 017: The Art of Relaxation - Learn Effective Ways to Reduce Tension and Anxiety
January 31, 2020 05:21 - 16 minutes - 19.7 MBIn Episode 17, I discuss the topic of relaxation and how we can engage in breath work to help reduce tension and anxiety. I talk with Tessa Hughes, an experienced mindfulness practitioner about the benefits that mindfulness and meditation can bring to our thinking and wellbeing. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyday Neuro 016: Tackling Concussion in High Impact Sport Head On - How Technology is Guiding Players, Parents and the Future of Safe Play
October 31, 2019 23:49 - 23 minutes - 27.7 MBIn Episode 16, I discuss advances in research and technology that are attempting to provide new information to improve the safety of playing high impact adult and youth sports. I talk with Damien Hawes about an innovative mouthguard developed by HITIQ that aims to provide an incredible surveillance system that has the potential to further our understanding of the effects of high level impacts during sport on our brain health and cognition. I also talk about the role neuropsychologists play in...
Everyday Neuro 015 Part 2: The Truth About Stroke – A Family’s Journey of Resilience, Humour and Recovery
September 30, 2019 21:20 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MBIn Episode 15 Part 2, I discuss some of the symptoms of stroke including coordination and communication issues, and explain how this is organised in the brain. I complete my interview with Cassie Watson, who explains how stroke has affected her Dad’s abilities and how humour and resilience has helped shape a new future for Paul and his family. I also provide some information and links to apps and therapy tools for people living with stroke to aid recovery and enhance quality of life. Get bonu...
Everyday Neuro 015 Part 1: The Truth About Stroke – A Family’s Journey of Resilience, Humour and Recovery
September 16, 2019 06:52 - 18 minutes - 22 MBIn Episode 15 Part 1, I discuss what is stroke, how to identify the potential signs of stroke and that ‘time is brain’. I share with you the latest strategies to treat stroke including the use of mobile stroke units. Due to the impact that stroke has on the individual and their loved ones; we look at stroke from the viewpoint of those who have been affected by it. In part 1 of a 2-part interview, I talk with Cassie Watson, who courageously shares her Dad’s experience of stroke and what it was...
Everyday Neuro 014: Hitting the Reset Button - The Benefits of Recreational Travel on Our Thinking and Wellbeing, Now and in the Future
August 14, 2019 02:09 - 16 minutes - 19.5 MBIn this episode, I discuss the huge benefits that recreational travel or taking a holiday can have on your thinking and wellbeing. I will introduce research that shows that the benefits to our mood occur both at the time of taking a holiday and in the time thereafter. I will share with you how even the thought of your next holiday can raise your perceived happiness levels, can build your knowledge and enhance your social skills. This podcast will also look at reasons why people do not take va...
Everyday Neuro 013: Is it Ethical? When the Harm Outweighs the Benefit in Psychology Research
April 30, 2019 22:58 - 31 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this episode, I introduce the topic of ethical considerations in psychological research and describe past research experiments that are now deemed as potentially harmful. I will be telling you about three famous studies that may make you question not only the impact that taking part in research has on participants, but also on the investigators and how the results are portrayed, with some now the focus of docudramas such as the 2018 movie, Three Identical Strangers. Get bonus content on Pa...
Everyday Neuro 012: Theories of How We Learn and Develop, and How This Shapes Our Relationships
March 31, 2019 00:27 - 31 minutes - 36.3 MBIn this episode, I discuss theories of human development including a look at the psychologists who proposed them and how these contribute to our current understanding of learning. I talk about neuroimaging research of the developing brain and how this lends support to the psychological theories. I also look at how we use internal concepts called schemas to help understand and modify our knowledge of the environment and how these can shape the way we form relationships in adult life, including...
Everyday Neuro 011: How to Achieve your Goals - Future Thought and Success
January 31, 2019 00:24 - 16 minutes - 19.4 MBIn this episode, I discuss goal setting and implementation including a review of intrinsic and extrinsic goals. I talk about ways to maximise your success as an individual, small business or as an entrepreneur using goal attainment strategies such as mental contrasting and fantasy realisation theory. I also look at the cognitive and anatomical bases of creating goals using future thought and episodic foresight. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...
Everyday Neuro 010: Distortions of Memory - Truth, Lies and Eyewitness Testimony
November 30, 2018 00:05 - 31 minutes - 36 MBIn this episode, I invite you to take part in tasks to help illustrate the use of schemas, or packages of information, that help to guide our memory and how such energy saving ‘short-cuts’ by our brain can lead to distortions in recollection. I talk about the misbeliefs we have about our own memory abilities and reasons these occur using evidence from research. In the final part of the episode, I discuss the rise in interest in true crime and eyewitness testimony, how errors occur and why thi...
Everyday Neuro 009: Using Rehabilitation Apps to Enhance Lives in Developmental Amnesia, Stroke and Brain Injury
October 30, 2018 05:49 - 19 minutes - 23 MBIn this episode, I discuss the topic of apps and how they are becoming increasingly used to support symptoms relating to brain damage. I provide a summary of a novel virtual peer delivered memory support app that was also able to enhance wellbeing. I talk about the efficacy of brain training apps and games and provide links to useful support apps for those living and working with brain injury. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyday Neuro 008: Autobiographical Memory - How Good is Your Memory about You?
September 18, 2018 08:15 - 26 minutes - 30.6 MBIn this episode, I discuss the topic of autobiographical memory (ABM) and the brain areas associated with it. I will test your own memory for personal events, and will look at cases of people with highly superior and highly deficient ABM. I introduce the less familiar topic of children and adolescents living with chronic personal memory impairment, including the rare syndrome of Developmental Amnesia. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyday Neuro 007: How to Recognise, Understand and Reduce Workplace Anxiety and Enhance Morale and Productivity
June 25, 2018 03:42 - 17 minutes - 21 MBIn this episode, I discuss the topic of anxiety with a particular focus on the workplace. I will look at the symptoms of anxiety and provide helpful ways in which anxiety can be reduced to improve your wellbeing and productivity at work. I will use a real life scenario to illustrate how these strategies can be beneficial when used by all members of the workforce. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.c...
Everyday Neuro 007: How to Recognise, Understand and Reduce Workplace Anxiety and Boost Productivity
June 25, 2018 03:42 - 17 minutes - 21 MBIn this episode, I discuss the topic of anxiety with a particular focus on the workplace. I will look at the symptoms of anxiety and provide helpful ways in which anxiety can be reduced to enhance wellbeing and productivity at work. I will use a real life scenario to illustrate how these strategies can be beneficial when used by all members of the workforce. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyday Neuro 006: How Diet Affects Cognition - Exploring the Consumption of Caffeine, Alcohol and the So-called Western Diet
May 30, 2018 06:27 - 20 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode, I discuss the topic of diet on cognition. I look specifically at the affects of the so-called ‘western diet’, alcohol and caffeine on cognitive skills such as memory and attention, and discuss the contribution of genes and the brain on our ability to choose healthy options. I also talk with Clinical Neuropsychologist, Dr Matthew Hughes, to discuss the affect and management of Type II diabetes on cognition. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Everyday Neuro 005: How to Become an Expert - A Collaboration Between Attention, Working Memory and Executive Function
May 14, 2018 06:18 - 21 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this episode, I discuss the topic of expertise and introduce the cognitive domains that contribute to it, namely working memory, attention and executive functioning. I will talk with Joel Goulter who has explored the expertise of Air Traffic Controllers, to try and understand the complex skills that help maintain our safety in the air. I conclude by providing you with some ways in which you can potentially enhance your knowledge and skills at a chosen task. Get bonus content on Patreon H...
Everyday Neuro 004: Brain Injury, Cognitive Functioning and Concussion in Sport
April 28, 2018 07:19 - 20 minutes - 23.9 MBIn this episode, I discuss brain injury and how it affects the brain, physical abilities, cognition and behaviour. There is a particular focus on traumatic brain injury and how concussion in sport is an area receiving interest from researchers. I interview Brodie Ingham who has investigated concussion in Australian gridiron, and she reveals that the results show the need for greater reporting within the sport. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
Everyday Neuro 003: How Staying Active and Sociable Supports Memory and Reduces Anxiety in Older Age and in Alzheimer's Disease
April 11, 2018 04:25 - 21 minutes - 24.8 MBIn this episode, I interview Hannah Miller, a researcher in psychology who has found that sociability and having hobbies is an important factor in the relationship between perceived memory issues and anxiety in older adults. I discuss the clinical profile and hallmark biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, and the research that suggests that lifestyle factors such as exercise can be beneficial in reducing the impact of the disease on behaviour and wellbeing. Get bonus content on Patreon See aca...
Everyday Neuro 003: How Staying Active and Sociable Supports Memory and Reduces Anxiety in Older Age
April 11, 2018 04:25 - 15 minutes - 18 MBIn this episode, I interview Hannah Miller, a researcher in psychology who has found that sociability and having hobbies is an important factor in the relationship between perceived memory issues and anxiety in older adults. In a bonus episode available through Patreon or Acast+, I discuss the clinical profile and hallmark biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, and the research that suggests that lifestyle factors such as exercise can be beneficial in reducing the impact of the disease on behavio...
Everyday Neuro 002: The Benefit of Exercise on Cognition in the Older Adult Brain
March 20, 2018 00:53 - 19 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode, I discuss the current psychology/neuroscience research that suggests that lifestyle factors such as physical exercise, are helping to enhance aspects of cognition, brain functioning and wellbeing in older adults. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyday Neuro 001: An Introduction to the Human Brain
March 19, 2018 23:46 - 17 minutes - 20.8 MBIn this episode, I introduce you to the human brain and discuss the global structure of the central nervous system, cognitive functions such as memory and attention, and the neuron at the microscopic level. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.