What is a psychopath? What drives a Ted Bundy, or a Diane Downs, to be so cold blooded – and to lie, manipulate, and commit horrific crimes without experiencing remorse? Do the brains of psychopaths differ? Can we identify changes in specific brain regions that might predict or diagnose this condition? How should efforts to understand the biological basis…
What better way to spend Brain Awareness Week than by hitting the open road! We loaded up our cars with Noggin volunteers, pipe cleaners, dissection trays and extra human brains for a dramatic, stormy 700 mile roundtrip Pacific Northwest journey between Portland/Vancouver and Davenport, Washington..! “Brains in the trunk!” Exploring unfamiliar…
We love growing our Noggin networks – they let us offer student volunteers from multiple institutions extraordinary opportunities they might never get if they always sat in separate university classrooms and didn’t directly engage with all the remarkable people and organizations in their own communities! During a rainy start to Brain Awareness Week we…
By Sulema Rodriguez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO scholar and NW Noggin Resource Council member This was my first year attending the OHSU OMSI Brain Fair and it was simply amazing! I loved seeing everyone’s presentations and being inspired by everyone’s work… Throughout my time at the Fair, I worked with two…
We were thrilled to return to one of the nation’s largest Brain Fairs on Saturday, to kick off Brain Awareness Week with piles of pipe cleaners, jars of block printing ink, numerous sketch pads, electrodes, Mindflex Duels, “spiker” boxes, real formalin-fixed cerebrums – and almost 30 enthusiastic Noggin volunteers! LEARN MORE: Brain…
NW Noggin visited Edward Byrom Elementary School out in Tualatin this week. We came with an enthusiastic group of volunteer educators, including Sulema Rodriguez, Jessica Patching-Bunch, Aliese Poole, and Andrea Anaya from Psychology at Portland State University, and Kim Engeln, Christina Williams and Dr. Dale Fortin from Neuroscience at OHSU!…
We spent our last “Noggin Tuesday” (for this month anyway – we plan to return!) enjoying substantive, absorbing and engaging conversations with the exceptional young people at P:ear, an innovative program that builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation… DO MORE: Donate to P:ear While…
NW Noggin is honored to be a Brain Awareness Week partner of the Dana Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that supports brain research through grants, publications, and educational programs. We share their enthusiasm for active outreach, and their commitment to educating the public about the potential of research… LEARN MORE: The Dana Foundation LEARN MORE: Brain Awareness Week…
We brought a crowd of eager volunteers – along with art supplies, including plants, grasses and vibrant mosses from local gardens – to the STEAM-focused Gardner School of Arts and Sciences, in a bucolic neighborhood of Salmon Creek, Washington… LEARN MORE: From STEM to STEAM: Science and Art Go Hand-in-Hand Sulema Rodriguez and…
“Electricity is really just organized lightning” – George Carlin Today at P:ear was all about orderly currents – the flow of salty action potentials along biological networks of synaptically linked neurons in the human brain! Brittany Alperin, a graduate student in Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU, brought along some educational (and also fashionable!) EEG…