Piriform cortex is a pear-shaped brain region in the ventral anterior temporal lobes, critical for olfaction (smell) – and the smells at P:ear in downtown Portland were extraordinary and welcoming on our first Noggin Wednesday this year… Lunch was donated by Por Que No? Taqueria and Cupcake Jones, so we…
The Psychology Department at Portland State University is sending five undergraduates, and one graduate student to Washington this spring. One additional PSU undergraduate is joining us in DC, and Portland State is also a co-sponsor of the House “Brains + Art” reception! Undergraduates Allie Clark; alliewclark@gmail.com; OHSU ADHD and Attention Program, PI:…
The Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at Oregon Health & Science University is a basic science department engaged in cutting edge research and teaching focused on behavioral pharmacology, genetics, and cognitive neuroscience… Behavioral Neuroscience is sending four graduate students, with expertise in drug and brain development research, neuroimaging, and STEAM outreach to…
Neuroscientists at WSU Vancouver study how you hear music, form memories, feel pain, and become addicted to drugs like heroin, and cocaine. How do we preserve, and restore hearing? How can opiates, cannabinoids, and other chemicals be used effectively to treat chronic pain? Is it possible to erase powerful, drug-related memories, and…
Jeff has created some eye (and brain!)-catching work over the last few years, highlighting graduate student efforts in research and art… His posters for Noggin outreach events at Velo Cult, a famed bicycle shop pub, have attracted many to free, collaborative science/art presentations in Northeast Portland, and have helped inform and excite…
NW Noggin was invited, as the guest of both the Neuroscience and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics (STEAM) caucuses in the US House of Representatives, to present a “Brains + Art” briefing in April, 2016! READ MORE: NW Noggin House briefing invitation – 4-27-16 Image by Jeff Leake and Alex Voigt (2016) Three of…
This past Thursday March 10th, NW Noggin and Velo Cult Bike Shop presented Traumatic Brain Injury: Comedy, Communication, Community. The alliterative title might have had a few curious attendees scratching their noggins… Just what does comedy have to do with TBI?! And what does community have to do with an individual’s TBI?? Well,…
Our subcortical sensory nuclei were nearly overwhelmed by masses of eager children, parents, grandparents and members of the public curious about neurons at the annual OHSU Brain Fair! Held at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI), this exceptionally popular event brings together scientists, medical professionals and educators, and is the largest…
All images and 4K video by Alex Voigt… Our third and final day at Bonny Slope Elementary, this time with well over 200 2nd and 3rd graders! In the service of equity, our Spy, Scout, Scribe, Guard, Councilor and Wise Leader have introduced brains and art projects to every student in the school… Our…
Another day at Bonny Slope Elementary, this time with 200 4th and 5th grade students eager to learn about their Wise Leader (frontal lobe cortex), and their Spy (occipital lobe), Scout (temporal lobe), Councilor of Spatial Awareness (parietal lobe), Scribe (their hippocampus, in their medial temporal lobe), and Guard (that threat-sensitive,…