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Happy New Year from Neuroscience for Kids!
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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/news2512.html
B. New Neuroscience in the News
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/inthenews.html
C. Visit or follow my Instagram site with neuroscience facts and trivia:
https://www.instagram.com/ericchudler/
D. New Neuroscience Treasure Hunt Game
https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/hunt12.html
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The Neuroscience for Kids "Site of the Month" for January is "Center for Law, Brain & Behavior" at:
The Center for Law, Brain & Behavior (CLBB) was created by staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School to help judges, lawyers, policymakers, journalists and the general public understand how neuroscience influences the legal system. The CLBB works with neuroscientists and legal experts to improve the justice system.
Explore the intersection of neuroscience and the law on the CLBB website (click on "Projects") by reading about work that focuses on juvenile justice, criminal responsibility, elders, deception, memory and pain. For example, the Juvenile Justice project explores the issue of the behavior and responsibility of children and adolescents and how research of the developing brain may inform courtroom policy. Many links and videos are scattered throughout the CLBB website for more additional detail information about each topic.
Bonus "Neurolaw" web site: âesearch Network on Law and Neuroscience at https://www.lawneuro.org/
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You have one more month to enter the 2022 Neuroscience for Kids Poetry Contest. Use your imagination to create a poem about the brain. For complete rules and an entry form, go to:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/contest22.html
Entries must be received by February 1, 2022.
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A. "These shellfish can kill you" in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazine, January, 2022
B. The December 2021 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine has an interactive feature that allows you to hear the sounds that different animals make.
C. "Tiny Lights in the Brain's Black Box" in AMERICAN SCIENTIST magazine, January-February, 2022.
D. "Animal Magic" and "Why We Laugh" in NEW SCIENTIST magazine (December 18-31, 2021).
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A. Inventor Thomas Edison (1847 -1931) would take short naps to stimulate his creativity. Now there is scientific evidence that his method works (Source: Lacaux, C., et al., Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot, Science Advances, Dec. 8, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 50, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj5866).
B. January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month.
C. New experiments suggest that just a 10 minute run can benefit brain function. (Source: Damrongthai, C., et al., Benefit of human moderate running boosting mood and executive function coinciding with bilateral prefrontal activation. Sci Rep 11, 22657 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01654-z).
D. The Australia Reptile Park (New South Wales, Australia) recently received a donation of the largest (8 centimeters; 3.1 inches) funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus) they have ever seen. Funnel-web venom is a neurotoxin that blocks sodium channels on neurons and can be fatal.
E. Zero2 Trench helmets made by VICIS are constructed for football players who play specific positions on the field. These position-specific helmets were developed to reduce the risk of a concussion.
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Eric
Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.