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SUMMARY:Noggin @ Jack and Jill!
DESCRIPTION:WHAT: Noggin visit with Jack and Jill \nWe did it!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n“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 \n \nThank you for inviting us! \nWHERE: North Portland Community Library\, 512 N. Killingsworth\, Portland OR 97211 \nWHEN: Saturday\, April 18th\, 3:00 – 5:00pm; 2:45pm for set up! \nCONTACT: Angela Patrick\, Jack and Jill of America\, Portland Willamette Valley Chapter \n \nThe 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. \n \nThis 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! \n \nSome questions!!!\nHow much does sleep really affect the brain?\nHow much of the brain can you live without?\nWhat parts of the brain do you need the most?\nWhat are the best fruits and vegetables to support brain health?\nHow much of the brain do we actually use?\nHow many minutes of cell phone use is safe for the brain? \nWhat is the strangest thing you have ever learned about the brain?\nWhat is the most important thing you should do to keep your brain healthy?\nWhat’s the best diet for a healthy brain?\nWhat part of your brain makes you a “lefty” or a “righty”? \n“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…” \nBUT: What is a lefty? What’s a righty? \nLEARN MORE: Brain handedness associations depend on how and when handedness is measured \nLEARN MORE: Polygenic scores for handedness and their association with asymmetries in brain structure \nLEARN MORE: Large-scale differences in functional organization of left- and right-handed individuals using whole-brain\, data-driven analysis of connectivity \nLEARN MORE: Why are some people left-handed? An evolutionary perspective \nJOIN US!\nPlease contact griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu for to get involved 🙂 \nCOMMITTED PARTICIPANTS\n1. Bill Griesar\, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin\n2. Jeff Leake\, PSU/NW Noggin\n3. Haile Wells\, PSU\n4. Rean Guardian\, PSU\n5. Jeanne Fu\, Multnomah Arts Center\n6. Maddy Monahan\, PSU\n7. Simra Ahsan\, PSU\n8. Ameru Mohammed Zaki\, PSU\n9. Mia Knepper\, PSU\n10. Gabe Guarin\, PSU\n11. Charlie Kelley\, PSU\n12. Victoria Boateng\, PSU \n 
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