This one day event at Pacific Science Center is a kick-off event for Brain Awareness Week. This nationwide effort is organized by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and the Society for Neuroscience and runs March 13-19. Its goal is to promote the public and personal benefits of brain research.

Highlights include:

• Brain Power exhibits: hold a real human brain, test your cranial nerves, challenge your brain with optical illusions and explore different intelligences with 30 hands-on, interactive exhibits (Room 301/302 near the Denny Way entrance). These exhibits are part of a collaboration between Group Health Cooperative and Pacific Science Center.

• Eric Chudler, creator of the Neuroscience for Kids home page and Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington, will be available with a comparative neuroanatomy display and interactive surprises from 10 am to 2 pm.

• Washington Association for Biomedical Research will have an information booth set up.

• Illusions Demonstration will take place at the Building 1 demonstration area at 12:15.

• Activities available periodically during the day will include the Cow Eye Dissection Cart and the Skull Cart.

• Brain Games Exhibit will be in Building 2, near the entrance to the Insect Village and Tropical Butterfly areas.

For information on admission fees or group reservations call Pacific Science Center at:

For the Washington Association for Biomedical Research, see: http://www.nwabr.org

For the Making Connections and Addiction in the Brain partnership:
http://www.son.washington.edu/centers/MakingConnections/

The Making Connections and Addiction in the Brain partnership includes the University of Washington, Washington Association for Biomedical Research, Group Health Cooperative and Pacific Science Center. The partnership is supported by grants from the National Center for Research Resources and the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.