Last week I attended a Learning & the Brain conference and a Neuro-education summit, and I’m still processing all I heard. Two things stood out: We’re not so much multitaskers — Try this out loud: 1. As fast as you can, say out loud the numbers 1 through 10. 2. As fast as you can, [...]
Brain Awareness Week starts Monday! It’s the global campaign to increase public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research. Check out the international calendar of events at dan.org to find something near you. Or just follow the Facebook feed or Twitter, #brainweek. This year I’m experimenting with Pinterest, collecting photos from brainy events, [...]
Last month I made my first trip to Vancouver, Canada, and its chilly rain forest. It was a working trip, so I spent most of my time learning about brain science (see my posts for Dana Foundation, Rethinking Emotion in the Lab and Eyewitnesses are trouble). Vancouver’s Convention Center is downtown directly on the water, [...]
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 [...]
Whew, we’re done with a week of meeting smart folks and learning about the brain. More than 31,000 neuroscientists hit DC last week, and a lot of us wrote about it. Here are my entries for The Dana Foundation: How Do You Get Involved in Neuroethics? During a workshop at the annual meeting of the [...]
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!] Despite falling SAT scores and employers reporting that high-school grads can’t run the cash register, researchers, educators, and parents each have some pieces of the puzzle of how children learn best. But somehow, all these experts don’t always share what they know. Consider [...]
At one session at a forum put on by One Mind for Research in Boston last spring, researchers described progress in treating the invisible wounds sustained by the brain, including post-traumatic stress disorder, concussions, and chronic pain (see earlier post: “Targeting the Effects of War on the Brain“). I learned a lot at the forum, [...]
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Posted 08 September 2011
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Even though I live near Washington, DC, I’m not a politics maven. I remember when Sen. Max Cleland lost his seat in 2002, but I hadn’t heard anything about him since, so I figured he had happily retired from the often-dirty fray. I could not have been more wrong. I saw him again last month [...]
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Posted 13 July 2011
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As promised, for National PTSD Awareness Day, June 27, I wrote a post for the Dana Foundation blog about one survivor and how the illness may strike decades later than the original trauma. Sen. Cleland’s story, and the others I heard that day, brought home how important it is to learn more about our brains [...]
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Posted 27 June 2011
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