Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast

Everyday Neuro: Psychology and Neuroscience Podcast

The 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

Everyday Neuro 026: Why Menopause Matters – Brain Science, Symptoms and Strategies to Create Equitable Workplaces

August 14, 2025 • 25 mins
In this episode, we discuss how menopause begins in the brain before many physical and cognitive symptoms appear. We are joined by Linda Engles, a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, who shares expert insights into common symptoms and offers practical, evidence-based strategies for how organisations can better support employees going through menopause. Together, we explore how greater awareness and inclusive practices can help cre...

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Everyday Neuro 025: The Neuroscience of Psychological Safety – When Admitting Mistakes can be the Best Solution

July 7, 2025 • 21 mins
In this episode, we review the work of Amy Edmondson and the concept of Psychological Safety taking into account the brain science behind the now world famous approach to developing team productivity and cohesion through admitting mistakes. Find out more about the effects of Psychological Safety on the brain and ways to adopt a 'psychologically safe' approach to work and communication with others.

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Everyday Neuro 024: Mental Time Travel – How the Hippocampus Enables Recalling the Past and Imagining the Future

March 25, 2025 • 21 mins
In this episode, dedicated to the pioneering researcher Professor Eleanor Maguire, I talk about how the hippocampus acts like a time machine, to help us remember events and special moments in our past, navigate the present and travel into the future. I talk about Maguire’s groundbreaking London Taxi Driver study and how it has changed our understanding of memory, spatial navigation and scene construction.

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Everyday Neuro 023 Part 2: Social Connection - The Impact of Digital Media on Our Thinking and Wellbeing

February 25, 2025 • 25 mins
In Part 2 of this episode, I talk about the effects of digital media on younger people and how bans on social media use may be more harmful than beneficial. This notion is explored further with expert Dr Milovan Savic who discusses the relationship between digital media and loneliness, social connection, and his evidence based research about empowering younger people to make informed choices about social media use.  This is Pa...

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Everyday Neuro 023 Part 1: Social Connection - The Impact of Digital Media on Our Thinking and Wellbeing

February 1, 2025 • 21 mins
In Part 1 of this episode I talk about social connection and the effects of digital media. I also investigate social isolation and loneliness and the effects they have on our cognitive, emotional and physical wellbeing. This is Part 1 of a 2 part episode.

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Everyday Neuro 022: Empowering Our Future Change Makers - The Benefits of Transcendent Thinking on Identity Development in Adolescence

May 12, 2024 • 17 mins
In this episode I talk about how engaging the thoughts and ideas of younger people in social decision making through “transcendent thinking”, the practice of looking beyond the immediate situation to understand deeper meanings and implications, can influence brain development and potentially enhance identity formation and self-liking in our future change makers.  

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Everyday Neuro 021: How Actions Speak Louder than Words - It's Time to Boost Your Wellbeing

January 9, 2023 • 22 mins

In 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.

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Everyday Neuro 020: The Well Intentioned Myths of Sleep and How to Treat Insomnia

December 4, 2022 • 24 mins
In 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 f...

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Everyday Neuro 019: How to Recognise and Support Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

November 7, 2022 • 16 mins
In 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.

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Everyday Neuro 018 Part 1: Nature and the brain - How our living environment can enhance mental and physical health

October 11, 2022 • 12 mins
In 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.

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Everyday Neuro 017: The Art of Relaxation - Learn Effective Ways to Reduce Tension and Anxiety

January 31, 2020 • 16 mins
In 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.

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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 mins
In 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 co...

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Everyday Neuro 015 Part 2: The Truth About Stroke – A Family’s Journey of Resilience, Humour and Recovery

September 30, 2019 • 24 mins
In 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 wit...

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Everyday Neuro 015 Part 1: The Truth About Stroke – A Family’s Journey of Resilience, Humour and Recovery

September 16, 2019 • 18 mins
In 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 cour...

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Everyday Neuro 014: Hitting the Reset Button - The Benefits of Recreational Travel on Our Thinking and Wellbeing, Now and in the Future

August 13, 2019 • 16 mins
In 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. Th...

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Everyday Neuro 013: Is it Ethical? When the Harm Outweighs the Benefit in Psychology Research

April 30, 2019 • 31 mins
In 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 ...

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Everyday Neuro 012: Theories of How We Learn and Develop, and How This Shapes Our Relationships

March 30, 2019 • 31 mins
In 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 ca...

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Everyday Neuro 011: How to Achieve your Goals - Future Thought and Success

January 30, 2019 • 16 mins
In 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.

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Everyday Neuro 010: Distortions of Memory - Truth, Lies and Eyewitness Testimony

November 29, 2018 • 31 mins
In 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 tru...

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Everyday Neuro 009: Using Rehabilitation Apps to Enhance Lives in Developmental Amnesia, Stroke and Brain Injury

October 30, 2018 • 19 mins
In 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.

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