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Happy New Year from Neuroscience for Kids!
Welcome to the Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter.
In this issue:
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Neuroscience for Kids had several new additions in December including:
A. December Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter was archived
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/news2212.html
B. Neuroscience in the News
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/inthenews.html
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The Neuroscience for Kids "Site of the Month" for January is "Brain Museum Tour of Europe" at:
http://brainmuseumtour.neuroscience.dal.ca/Home.html
Fantastic museums, diverse culture and incredible architecture -- Europe has it all. With so many great places to visit in Europe, it is difficult to pick a city to visit. There are many books and web sites to help you select a destination and find all of the best sites. But what if you wanted to visit a city and learn about the brain? Now there is a web site to help you decide: The Brain Museum Tour of Europe!
The Brain Museum Tour of Europe web site is sponsored by the Federation of European Neuroscience Society History of Neuroscience Committee and was started by Richard Brown as part of a History of Neuroscience class at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). Just click on a country name to see all of the museums offering neuroscience-related exhibits such as brain specimens and scientific artifacts. Here are the first three places that I would like to visit:
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charite in Berlin, Germany Museo
Camillo Golgi in Pavia, Italy Museum Vrolik in Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Brain Museum Tour for other parts of the world would be very helpful for people who cannot travel to Europe. Here is a start for such a tour in the United States:
Boston, MA - Museum of Science: Seeing is Deceiving
Buffalo, NY - University at Buffalo: Brain Museum
Chicago, IL - Museum of Science and Industry: YOU! The Experience
Houston, TX - The Health Museum: Amazing Body Gallery
Ithaca, NY - Cornell Brain Collection: Wilder Brain Collection
Los Angeles, CA - California Science Center: Control Center
Oklahoma City, OK - Science Museum Oklahoma: Mind Games
Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Institute: Your Brain
Philadelphia, PA - Mutter Museum: Albert Einstein's Brain
Pittsburg, PA - Carnegie Science Center: BodyWorks
San Francisco, CA - Exploratorium: Neuroscience Exhibits
Seattle, WA - Pacific Science Center: Body Works
St. Paul, MN - Science Museum of Minnesota: The Human Body
Washington, DC - National Museum of Health and Medicine: Neuroanatomical Collections
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Get out your pencils, pens and markers! The 2019 NEUROSCIENCE FOR KIDS DRAWING CONTEST is now open to students in kindergarten through high school, teachers and parents. Use your imagination to draw a picture about the nervous system and you might win a prize. The complete set of rules and the official entry form for the contest are available at:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/contest19.html
Good luck to everyone!
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Brain Awareness Week (BAW) is a yearly event to promote the public and personal benefits of brain research. The official dates for BAW are March 11-17, 2019.
Everyone can participate in BAW. You might want to organize your own BAW event with demonstrations, exhibits, artwork or experiments. The Society for Neuroscience has some great ideas to help you get involved (http://www.sfn.org/baw). If you can’t have your own BAW event, then perhaps you can attend a BAW activity near you. You can find BAW events in your city by searching the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives calendar here:
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A. The cover story of DISCOVER magazine (December, 2018) is titled "Alzheimer's Under Attack."
B. "Degrees of Freedom" by Raffi Khatchadourian (The NEW YORKER, November 26, 2018.)
C. The January 2019 issue of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND magazine is now available.
D. "Does Weight-Loss Surgery Rewire Gut-Brain Connections?" by Bret Stetka (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, January, 2019).
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This month's brain trivia include some real "brainy" locations around the world:
A. Stroll down Cortex Street in Lagos, Nigeria, and or on Cortex Circle in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
B. Sip coffee at The Amygdala Cafe in Milan, Italy.
C. Vacation at Hotel Hippocampus in Kotor, Montenegro.
D. Swim in Pineal Lake in Ontario, Canada.
E. Walk on Spinal Road in KwaDabeka, South Africa.
I discovered these places using Google Maps.
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Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.
(e-mail: chudler@u.washington.edu)
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