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Noggin @ Jack and Jill!
WHAT: Noggin visit with Jack and Jill
We did it!
“Thank you all for volunteering your time with our kids on Saturday. Your enthusiasm and knowledge for neuroscience was infectious, and the session made a great impression on them. These pictures tell it all!” -Angela Patrick, Jack and Jill of America, Portland Willamette Valley Chapter
Thank you for inviting us!
WHERE: North Portland Community Library, 512 N. Killingsworth, Portland OR 97211
WHEN: Saturday, April 18th, 3:00 – 5:00pm; 2:45pm for set up!
CONTACT: Angela Patrick, Jack and Jill of America, Portland Willamette Valley Chapter
The nonprofit Jack and Jill of America aims to provide social, cultural and educational opportunities for youth between the ages of 2 and 19, through programs centered around leadership development, awareness of cultural heritage and community service.
This is our first visit with Jack and Jill. We’re excited to meet more Northwest families, make art and discuss any and all questions about brains and research!
Some questions!!!
How much does sleep really affect the brain?
How much of the brain can you live without?
What parts of the brain do you need the most?
What are the best fruits and vegetables to support brain health?
How much of the brain do we actually use?
How many minutes of cell phone use is safe for the brain?
What is the strangest thing you have ever learned about the brain?
What is the most important thing you should do to keep your brain healthy?
What’s the best diet for a healthy brain?
What part of your brain makes you a “lefty” or a “righty”?
“A preference for using one hand over another—or handedness—is a complex trait with well-studied neural correlates. Differences in the language, motor, and somatosensory networks have been consistently reported when comparing right- and left-handed individuals. For example, left-handed individuals exhibit more bilateral activation of brain regions during language tasks, suggesting a greater reliance on the right hemisphere for language processing. The corpus callosum, which connects the two hemispheres, may be larger in left-handed individuals, indicating increased inter-hemispheric communication. Recent work further suggests that differences related to handedness extend beyond localized regions to widespread functional connectivity differences, potentially affecting every canonical brain network…”
BUT: What is a lefty? What’s a righty?
LEARN MORE: Brain handedness associations depend on how and when handedness is measured
LEARN MORE: Polygenic scores for handedness and their association with asymmetries in brain structure
LEARN MORE: Why are some people left-handed? An evolutionary perspective
JOIN US!
Please contact griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu for to get involved 🙂
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
2. Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
3. Haile Wells, PSU
4. Rean Guardian, PSU
5. Jeanne Fu, Multnomah Arts Center
6. Maddy Monahan, PSU
7. Simra Ahsan, PSU
8. Ameru Mohammed Zaki, PSU
9. Mia Knepper, PSU
10. Gabe Guarin, PSU
11. Charlie Kelley, PSU
12. Victoria Boateng, PSU