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Brain Awareness Week, March 14-20, 2011

Brain Awareness Week is a big deal at my work, the Dana Foundation, since we helped start it 16 years ago. We send out thousands of brain-facts booklets and erasers shaped like brains to schoolchildren across the globe, and support partners and groups that offer lectures, lab tours, brain “bees,” exhibits, and other fun for [...]

Posted 13 March 2011 † nickyp § Brain science § Just fun ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Learning about learning

This week I attended back-to-back conferences on learning and the brain. The first was held at my favorite art-place, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. I got a few tips on how to space my study hours and what not to say about “learning styles.” You can see my giant story on it on [...]

Posted 09 May 2010 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Eric Kandel on the Year in Neuroscience

Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel sees promise in a new strain of genetics and psychotherapy, if not new drugs, for psychiatric illnesses, in a transcript we posted on the Dana site this week of a conversation during the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting this year.  If we get markers for most psychiatric illnesses, and we [...]

Posted 29 December 2008 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,