Healthy Gyri @ Jeff!

Our Noggin team returned to the annual Health Fair at Jefferson High School in North Portland today, to speak with students about brains during lunch..!

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Students left their plates of food on nearby tables to don gloves and ask many interesting questions about how our brains work.  One student was fascinated by the idea of transplanting brains, and how it is one organ that, if ever replaced, would literally change who you are…

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Another student expressed wonder at how “we’re actually matter and energy organized in an amazing way  –  one able to explore the nature of itself!”  (some deep thoughts!)

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Our Noggin volunteers were an enthusiastic multi-state, multi-institutional crew, including Jessica Patching-Bunch and Ellie Forest from Psychology at Portland State University, Rosie Salice, Joey Seuferling, Sterling Gray and Ben Yefimov from Neuroscience at WSU Vancouver, and Binyam Nardos from Damien Fair’s lab at OHSU

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High school student Jack Griesar and his friends from Jeff helped out as well… 🙂

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It was a busy day!

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Many thanks, as always, to Lynn Zimmerman-Lind from the Multnomah Education Service District, for arranging the fair!

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