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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 February including:
A. February Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter was archived
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/news2802.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 Neurocalendars
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurocal.html
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The Neuroscience for Kids "Site of the Month" for March is "Atlas of the Brain" at:
http://anatomy.host.dartmouth.edu/Neuro/homepage/index.html
Understanding the brain and its structures in three dimensions can be a challenging task. Dissecting a real brain is a great way to learn about neuroanatomy, but not everyone has access to actual brain specimen. That's where the Atlas of the Brain comes in handy. This online resource from the Department of Medical Education at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth helps people learn about the brain using photographs, magnetic resonance images, computed tomography and angiography.
Start your journey into the brain by clicking on "Gross Brain Topography" and then selecting one of the pictures to explore the brain in more detail. When you scroll over an image, you will see the name of the area; if you click on a structure, a text box will open with a description of the area. Return to the main page and select a different option such as "Coronal sections or the brain" to see the internal structures of the brain or see images of the brain using other imaging methods.
Atlas of the Brain is not just a collection of fascinating images. Instead, the resource is an excellent learning tool that can help you understand those wonderful three pounds of tissue between your ears.
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Judging of the 2024 Neuroscience for Kids Poetry Contest is now complete and winners have been sent their prizes. The contest received 204 entries this year from 15 different states in the US and from several countries including Thailand, India, England, Switzerland and the Philippines. A few of the winning entries are now posted on the contest site:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/contest24.html
Coming in the fall: the Neuroscience for Kids Drawing Contest!
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B. "Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" and "How Sleep Engineering Could Help Heal the Brain" (SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, March, 2024).
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A. 25,808 neuroscientists from 76 countries attended the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting (Source: Society for Neuroscience, https://www.sfn.org/publications/neuroscience-quarterly/winter-2024/).
B. Researchers have 3D-printed brain tissue that works in a way similar to that of real brain tissue (Source: Yan, Y. et al., 3D bioprinting of human neural tissues with functional connectivity, Cell Stem Cell, 31: 260-274, 2024).
C. Scientists have developed a blood test that could help diagnose brain cancer (Source: O'Neill K, et al., Profiling of circulating glial cells for accurate blood-based diagnosis of glial malignancies. Int. J. Cancer, 154(7):1298-1308, 2024.
D. Think you have a good memory? Try out for the USA Memory Championship on July 27, 2024. See details at: https://www.usamemorychampionship.com/.
E. Artist-scientist Leonardo da Vinci (born: 1452; died: 1519) may have had a form of strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes. This misalignment may have benefited his artistic abilities (Source: Tyler, C.W., Evidence that Leonardo da Vinci had strabismus, JAMA Ophthalmol., 137:82-86, 2019.
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Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.