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Do you want to learn how to build resilience, boost your cognitive performance, and achieve mental agility? Then it’s time to discover the exciting world of brain health and fitness with Thriving Minds. Hosted by renowned neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett, Thriving Minds is a podcast dedicated to exploring the latest advances in brain science education.

With decades of experience studying addiction, stress, and mental health, Professor Bartlett is a true expert in her field. And she’s on a mission to empower people to take control of their mental and physical well-being. So what makes Thriving Minds so unique?

It’s not just about theory – it’s about practical tips and simple tools that you can use to improve your brain health and fitness right now. From understanding how stress wires the brain, the power of cold exposure, nutrition and exercise and connection.

Thriving Minds is also a deep dive into cutting-edge brain science and digital technology. From neuroplasticity to brain imaging, Professor Bartlett and her team are at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field. They’re exploring the latest research and innovations and sharing their insights with listeners around the world.And the best part?

Let’s make brain health everyone’s business. They’re inspiring people to take action and create a culture of mental fitness, where people prioritise their brain health as much as their physical health.

Tune in to the podcast and discover the secrets of brain health and fitness. Whether you’re looking to boost your cognitive performance, reduce stress, or improve your overall well-being, Selena and her team are here to help you thrive.

The opinions expressed in the podcast are Selena Bartlett’s personal opinion and her guests. They are for general informational purposes only and do not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing, psychology or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The opinions in the podcast do not reflect the opinion of Queensland University of Technology.

Copyright: © 2022 THRIVING MINDS

Latest Episodes:

Episode #53. Tips to handle workplace stress. Think about a gap year. Shelley Templeman reveals her secret for a positive mindset. Nov 06, 2020

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Hello everyone,
Shelley Templeman describes how she overcomes workplace stress and bullying. In these times of workplace stress, she imagines herself taking a gap year. She starts to plan it out in her head and has come to realize how helpful this is to her mindset. It has been a stressful year and her simple technique may help.
We also discuss how she came upon the Smashing Mindset book in the TRI library and how this helped her and her family.
Brain health becomes everyone's business. Simple not easy steps to make a great daily life.
Love and hugs
Selena

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Episode #52. Thriving Leaders. Seeking opportunities not threats in times of crisis. Building back Australians together. Oct 21, 2020

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Leadership under crisis starts with the leaders Thriving Mind. In this episode with Professor Martin Betts who has decades of experience in Leadership joins me to discuss how effective leadership begins with ourselves, this allows others to mirror our behaviour. Covid-19 opens a window for each of us to help others to seek opportunities to thrive.
Learn more at the HEDx podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-6-deeds-not-words/id1531275586?i=1000495340087
To keep the Thriving Minds Podcast free of advertisements. Please support it the podcast on Patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/selenab
With gratitude
Professor Selena Bartlett

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Episode # 51 Food and Mood and Brain Health with Tracey Challenor from Life Education Queensland Oct 13, 2020

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Neuroscientist Professor Selena Bartlett is an international trailblazer who has been studying the human brain for 30 years.

She believes that by understanding how the brain works and how we respond to stress, we can help manage addictive behaviours like drinking, smoking and binge eating.

In this podcast for Life Education Queensland, coinciding with Queensland Mental Health Week, Professor Bartlett explores the link between food and mood, explaining why sugar is an addictive substance and how it changes the physical and chemical structure of the brain.

She also reveals how it’s possible to retrain our mindset through a few simple actions and habits. In other words, just like we tone our bodies at the gym, we can help our brains to become more resilient by changing thoughts, actions and habits that literally form new circuits in the brain.

Professor Bartlett believes that better brain health and fitness is the key to better mental health, and that modern neuroscience has the potential to help millions lead happier healthier lives.

Find out more in this fascinating podcast chat for parents.

https://lifeeducationqld.org.au/podcasts/food-mood-and-brain-health-with-professor-selena-bartlett/

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Episode #50. Using Laughter to Survive Cancer at 19 years old. Aug 11, 2020

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Lea survived a cancer diagnosis at 19 years of age. She discovered the power of laughter and the brain in helping her survive. She is now writing a book about this topic. We met to discuss how laughter helps and its impact on the brain.

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Episode #49: Pivotal moment to drive a preventative mental health strategy. Thinking about how to make a "slip slop slap"like campaign to assist Australians with mental health. May 16, 2020

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We have an opportunity to change the way we view mental health. It would be great to have a focus on prevention rather than treatment. Covid-19 has affected everyone in some way. The importance of brain health and fitness has never been so acute. We need to incorporate a strategy that brings a simple messages that people can implement to be happier, healthier and stronger.

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Episode #48. Navigate the brain's future to support people in the workplace through change. A conversation with Professor Martin Betts. May 12, 2020

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The brain is such an important part of navigating fear, uncertainty, especially during a crisis. The brain has enormous capacity to change with training and effort. Many people discuss physical fitness with family and friends. But mental health is relegated to closed rooms and offices. Becoming brain fit is a wonderful way to build mental strength and resilience.

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Episode #47. How much are we able to change? Rewiring old habits, neuroplasticity in action. May 05, 2020

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I became a neuroscientist the day my sister sat comatose in a lock up ward of a mental health hospital at the age of 21. As I sat in the hot and steamy room, with my sister stiff as cardboard, staring into space and the doctors saying they were not exactly sure of what was going on. I stopped being a pharmacist and started asking questions -like why do we not understand how the brain works? Why do we think it is ok to treat a girl with incredibly mild symptoms-like hearing voices- with a straitjacket and an overdose of haloperidol? It seemed to me-back in 1989- we do not know how the brain worked and treated it like it did not matter. From that moment on, I set my mind on working out how the brain worked, so that we would find better ways to help my sister. For the next 20 years, I proceeded from PhD in neuropharmacology, a postdoc in neurobiology and neuroscience in Canberra and then at a top neuroscience of addiction research center in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. I really thought during this time, that if I could simply pull the brain apart, prod and probe it with the latest tools and technologies, I would find the “thing” that was not working and I could develop a medication to fix it. This was my dogged focus. With my mind honed in on this solution, that in my mind, was simply around the corner, I just had to keep pushing, applying better technology, reduce the problem down. It was not until some 20 years later, when one day I could not get out of bed, that I truly began to feel and see and learn how the brain works. I was writing a book chapter on the molecular mechanisms of brain resilience- that is the brain can learn to be resilient -just as it has learnt over centuries- to be stressed- we can change the brain, we can learn to become the boss of the brain. We can learn how to apply the principles and the power of neuroplasticity to change and train the brain.

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Episode #46. Leading through crisis, a conversation with Professor Martin Betts. May 01, 2020

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It is so important to maintain brain health and fitness as we navigate the new world. Professor Martin Betts has thirty years experience leading teams and change. We discuss brain health and fitness and its importance at this time in the covid-19 pandemic.

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Episode #45. Can't get motivated during Covid-19. Why and what to do about it. Plus a poem I wrote about simple moments. Apr 16, 2020

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Hello,
Brain frozen like the antartic. Wonder why. Notice that the past is coming flowing into the present- when you thought it had been dealt with. Recognizing how powerful the covid-19 stress is impacting the brain health and welfare of our country matters. Doubling down on mental strength and resilience right now matters a lot. I wrote a poem about how the simple moments matter to help us right now.
Enjoy love and hugs
Selena
xxoxx

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Episode #44. Just swear if you need to. Meet Alejandra Canizalez, we discuss El Salvador lockdown versus Australia. How to be kind and gentle in the crisis. Apr 07, 2020

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Alejandra Canizalez came to Australia seven years ago from El Salvador. She just did her PhD confirmation. We talk about how lucky Australia is and how the mental health crisis unfolding around the world is real and may lead to a much greater crisis than the pandemic itself. Thank you for joining us in the podcast. All we can do right now is to be kind and gentle, sometimes we might just have to swear. Love and hugs xxx

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