The Brain and Beyond Podcast

About 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

Publisher

Ellen Petry Leanse

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Apr 2023

Latest episode

24 Dec 2025

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Dec 2025

   The Gift of Generosity

   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. You'll learn about healthy neurochemicals and brain patterns associated with altruistic generosity and thos...

2. 

   29 Nov 2025

   Getting Unstuck

   Here's the truth. I've been stuck. Trying to understand why by looking to the brain? Nothing worked. 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. 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. Thank you for being here. Your faith and patience means the world. More from...

3. 

   29 Mar 2025

   More Than Skin Deep with Grace Gold

   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. 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...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 16 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

11

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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