Remember those photos from Aspen? Here’s a post for the Dana Foundation blog on what I was doing there, work-wise: How does school work, brain-wise? Do children teach themselves or is it something about the instruction that gets their brains firing and wiring faster? Last fall, a few hundred neuroscientists, teachers, and curriculum-makers met for [...]
Smack in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, I have to switch gears for a week to report on the news in brain science (that’s my day-job). Neuroscience 2011 is the big event of the year for these folks. Starting Saturday, more than 30,000 scientists from around the world are expected to converge on [...]
[by me for the Dana Foundation blog. See more great stuff there!] Traumatic brain injury (TBI), the signature injury of the current U.S. wars, calls for the nation’s best “emergency medicine,” Kevin Kit Parker told a group of top scientists, medicine makers, and policy makers, this spring at the One Mind for Research conference in [...]
We are in final edits on a cute little video showing some of the fun stuff people do to celebrate Brain Awareness Week, which this year will be March 15–21. It’s my first foray into video-making since the early 1980s, and I am quite a bit rusty, so this will be an “unauthorized” version, but [...]
Here’s another chance to read and review a Dana Press book before it’s released to the general public. July’s title is TREATING THE BRAIN: WHAT THE BEST DOCTORS KNOW, by top neuroscientist Walter Bradley. Even in this information age, people dealing with often-serious neurological problems face the daunting task of finding accurate, credible and understandable [...]
The first discussion at the inaugural annual meeting of the Neuroethics Society today, on the neuroethics of pediatric bipolar disorder, felt a little like déjà vu to me. Fifteen to 20 years ago, nearly no child was labeled bipolar, said panelist Benedetto Vitiello of the National Institute of Mental Health; since then the number of [...]
One of my favorite monthly podcasts is Nature NeuroPod, done by Kerri Smith for Nature.com. (dana.org sponsors the podcasts, wisely leaving the hard work to the experts.) The only drawback for me had been the length of the podcast: Finding 30 straight minutes to pay close attention to scientists talking can be a challenge. But [...]
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