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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 September including:
A. September Neuroscience for Kids Newsletter was archived
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/news2709.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. Metals in the Brain http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/metalb.html
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The Neuroscience for Kids "Site of the Month" for October is "Olfactory Art Keller" at:
https://www.olfactoryartkeller.com/
In most museums, your senses of vision and hearing are most important. But at the museum "Olfactory Art Kelly," it is your sense of smell that will be used the most. Olfactory Art Keller was created by Andreas Kelly, an expert in olfactory perception. The museum is located in New York City, but if you cannot get to the museum, you can get an idea of the exhibits through its web site. Visit the "Scent Performance Series" and "Exhibitions" links to explore current and past exhibits with short descriptions of the art and artists. You can also find more information about the contributing artists by clicking on the "Artists" tab. One of the newer exhibits is titled "a garden with no flowers" that attempts to recreate gardens and outside spaces with smells.
For more about olfactory art, read "Exploring the Ephemeral Appeal of Scent as Art" by Christa Terry:
https://observer.com/2023/04/ephemeral-appeal-of-olfactory-art/
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A. "Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals," SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (October, 2023).
B. "7 Global Sleep Tips," READERS DIGEST CANADA (October, 2023).
C. "Medical Imaging in Increasing Dimensions," AMERICAN SCIENTIST (September-October 2023).
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A. Poneratoxin is the name of the pain-inducing neurotoxin found in bullet ants; this chemical prevents inactivation of voltage gated sodium channels (Source: http://www.phdish.com/blog/painful-lessons-from-the-bullet-ant).
B. The 2023 Lasker Award was given last month to a group of scientists for "the invention of optical coherence tomography, a technology that revolutionized ophthalmology -- allowing rapid detection of diseases of the retina that impair vision" (Source: https://laskerfoundation.org/winners/optical-coherence-tomography/).
C. The box jellyfish (Tripedalia cystophora) is able to learn even though it does not have a brain (Source: Bielecki, J., et al., Associative learning in the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora, Current Biology. Vol. 33, October 9, 2023. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.056).
D. "It is within my brain, then, in the wonderful neurons which make up the gray cortex of the cerebrum, that I not only think but feel." -- Frances Gulick Jewett (from Control of Body and Mind, 1908).
E. Mental health disorders cost the global economy an estimated $5 trillion per year (Source: Arias, D., et al., Quantifying the global burden of mental disorders and their economic value, EClinicalMedicine. 2022 Sep 28;54:101675. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101675).
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Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.