The Brain and Beyond Podcast

Explorations in neuroscience and why it matters in everyday life. This podcast will make understanding the brain easy and even... actionable. Yes, you can train your brain, even change it, developing it as a more aligned partner bringing you more of what you want in life. Dive into extended show notes, information about guests, and neuroscience insights you won't find anywhere else on each episode's resource page. Find them by visiting: https://www.thebrainandbeyond.com Be sure to subscribe, and come back soon. best, Ellen

The Brain and Beyond Podcast is a health podcast hosted by Ellen Petry Leanse, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ellen Petry Leanse hosts The Brain and Beyond Podcast, a health show with 25 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  The Gift of Generosity

  Dec 24, 202546 minS2

  <p>What can we learn from "the giving of gifts" that might help us understand the REAL meaning – and perhaps the biological importance – of generosity? This episode explores how gift-sharing seems to have its roots in stress-reducing, even survival-serving emotions (ones that may date back millions of years!) rather than the fraught and often unsatisfying transactions we enact today. </p><p>You'll learn about healthy neurochemicals and brain patterns associated with altruistic generosity and those that may rise from how we often see "gifting" today – and peek at why neuroscience research may miss the mark when it seeks to measure what RE...

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  Episode #2

  Getting Unstuck

  Nov 29, 202517 minS2

  <p>Here's the truth. I've been stuck. Trying to understand why by looking to the brain? Nothing worked. </p><p>And then I stumbled across another organ that offered a clue – and a perspective – about why we get stuck and how to get out of it. </p><p>This one's short and simple. Yet it's set me on my way to what comes next: things that give me (and hopefully you) hope, understood through the lens of the brain...and beyond.</p><p>Thank you for being here. Your faith and patience means the world. More from me soon. <br/><br/>He...

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  More Than Skin Deep with Grace Gold

  Mar 29, 202550 minS0

  <p>Beauty, it turns out, is in the brain of the beholder. Research looking to pin down the correlates and functions associated with "experiencing beauty" so far leave scientists wondering where and how the the whole beauty thing happens. <br/><br/>Yet the chase to "be" beautiful is a major cultural phenomenon, not to mention a $650B + global industry. Today's guest, Grace Gold, is an expert in that industry and the players and products that shape it. Which makes it even more refreshing when she explores beauty as something far beyond the reach of even the best products – an expression of...

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  The BITCH is Back with Zoologist and Bestselling Author Lucy Cooke

  Feb 25, 202551 minS0

  <p>Stories shape our world – and our lives. Even when they're simply... stories, not actual truths. <br/><br/>That's where Lucy Cooke comes in. With a deep understanding of the natural world and the courage to be a shotcaller, she goes to where the truth is revealed: the wild places our animal kin inhabit, getting first-hand accounts of what the world's species are really about.<br/><br/>Looking beyond outdated perspectives and challenging the biases that have skewed our stories, she reveals the incredible complexity of animal cultures – and deeper truths about humans (and how our stories often get US wrong...

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  Welcome to Season Two of The Brain and Beyond Podcast!

  Feb 24, 20253 minS0

  <p>We're back in action – and look forward to sharing a lively interview as our first official episode of Season Two. <br/><br/>Thanks for your patience as I've prioritized other work and taken a deep dive into evolutionary biology – as in "how did our brains evolve?" – human history – as in "what events and changes have made us who we are today?" – and a whole lot about the mutuality of females and males and how we seem to have lost our ways. <br/><br/>Season Two's first episode shares a lively interview with bestselling author, zoologist, and amazing being Lucy Cooke, aut...

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