Noggins in Astoria! (1)
2021-05-11 14:45 - 16:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Astoria High School, Astoria, OR

WHERE: Both virtual (link coming to volunteers) and LIVE visits!
WHEN:
1. Tuesday, May 11, 2:45 – 4:15pm Pacific (Virtual)
We did it!
LEARN MORE:
Clatsop Community Cortex

2. Thursday, May 20, 2:45 – 4:15pm Pacific (Virtual)
3. Friday, May 21, 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific (LIVE; outdoor location TBD)

We are thrilled to return to school in this remarkable river city, and hear what high school juniors and seniors are learning about brains! We’ll gather virtually on Tuesday (5/11) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project. We’ll be back online Thursday (5/20) – and LIVE Friday (5/21) – to see all the neurons and glial cells, consider more questions and hold a few extra brains!

(This time we’ll be outdoors, physically distanced and masked!)
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
3. Jasmin Mabry, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
4. Yuri Sugano, University of Chicago
5. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Magda Armendariz Sullivan, PSU
7. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU
8. Melissa Sek, PSU
9. Alex Heinrich, PSU
10. Annika Hokanson, PSU

LEARN MORE: Found Neuron Project
Student Questions!

Could you modify the brain to forget how to die, therefore living forever?

What are alters actually in DID?
“There is not a clear understanding of DID etiopathology, there is no standardized method of diagnosis, and as such, the disorder has been plagued by a history of fabrication case studies (North, 2015). For these reasons, the disorder is opposed by many psychiatrists. To address this controversy, researchers have begun to examine the neurological basis of DID in an effort to provide stronger physical evidence for the disorder.”
LEARN MORE: A systematic review of the neuroanatomy of dissociative identity disorder

What was one interesting thing learned from Henry M.’s brain? (Patient H.M.)

How do we know if most humans really perceive colors the same?

Could you use electrodes in the brain to simulate certain emotions or trigger certain memories or reactions?

How efficient is your brain at running, like how much energy does it make

While making up only a small fraction of our total body mass, the brain represents the largest source of energy consumption—accounting for over 20% of total oxygen metabolism. Of this, it is estimated that neurons consume 75%–80% of energy produced in the brain. This energy is primarily utilized at the synapse with a large proportion spent in restoration of neuronal membrane potentials following depolarization. Other neuronal functions such as vesicle recycling, neurotransmitter synthesis and axoplasmic transport also contribute to synaptic energy depletion and the requirement for an elevated metabolic rate in neurons. Energy requirements are therefore not uniform throughout the brain but instead increased in localized regions dependent on neuronal activity.
LEARN MORE: Brain Energy and Oxygen Metabolism: Emerging Role in Normal Function and Disease
In a group of healthy volunteers, the researchers showed that different brain regions that serve distinct functions have notably different power and different cost. They then investigated the effects of alcohol on these new measures by assessing a group of people that included light drinkers and heavy drinkers and found that both acute and chronic exposure to alcohol affected power and cost of brain regions. Brain imaging used by NIH scientists to improve our understanding of how alcohol affects the brain.
“In heavy drinkers, we saw less regional power for example in the thalamus, the sensory gateway, and frontal cortex of the brain, which is important for decision making,” said Dr. Shokri-Kojori. “These decreases in power were interpreted to reflect toxic effects of long-term exposure to alcohol on the brain cells.”
LEARN MORE: NIH study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects

How fast can the brain process information?

What happens to the brain when you are dehydrated?

How does caffeine affect the brain?

Caffeine, a chemical, acts to block (or “antagonize”) receptors for adenosine, a chemical that binds to the adenosine receptors. This reduces the release of some important neurotransmitters, among them dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin and acetylcholine that are essential for staying alert and awake. Adenosine is a nucleotide (found in DNA, mRNA), and is also part of an important energy substrate known as ATP, or adenosine tri-phosphate.
As your day progresses, and you express your genes and use up ATP, your bloodstream levels of adenosine rise, and bind to adenosine receptors in several cerebral regions, including an area beneath the frontal cortex called the basal forebrain. This decreases brain activity and you feel sleepy, and cognitively a little slow – appropriately ready, of course, for a restorative nap.
But then Kat, Olivia or Micha serve you a glorious and rewarding cup of Stumptown at Street 14, and the caffeine finds your brain’s adenosine receptors, displacing that downer adenosine and transiently attaching itself to the receptors instead. Caffeine blocks the normal response of these receptors, so again, it is considered an adenosine receptor antagonist.
There remain copious swarms of adenosine molecules circulating in your blood, and your body still needs that rest, but your brain is no longer listening to this chemical signal with caffeine antagonizing the receptors in the basal forebrain and elsewhere where adenosine would normally act. You’re up!
LEARN MORE: Astoria Noggins: Tipsy Buzzed Mice @ Street 14
LEARN MORE: Drunk mice on espresso – what could go wrong?
If someone experiences a certain emotion a lot does that make it more likely for them to experience that emotion more often?

Would it be possible to keep a brain alive/working without it being attached to a real body?

Could you make a brain process more information faster and basically improve everybody’s brainpower. Maybe in the future curing brain illnesses.

Does long-term alcohol use affect the brain and how it functions?
Alcohol is a fascinating molecule, easily capable of crossing membranes and gaining access to the brain, with a water soluble hydroxyl (-OH) “head,” and a fat soluble, two carbon “body” – making it appear, suggests Dr. Grant, a bit like a friendly dog.
LEARN MORE: What’s a “drink..?” At the Newmark for beer & brains

How is the brain able to store and find memories

Can all drugs modify the chemical makeup of the brain?

What is happening in the brain when someone gets a headache

A headache may feel like a pain inside your brain, but it’s not. Most headaches begin in the many nerves of the muscles and blood vessels that surround your head, neck, and face. These pain-sensing nerves can be set off by stress, muscle tension, enlarged blood vessels, and other triggers. Once activated, the nerves send messages to the brain, and it can feel like the pain is coming from deep within your head.
LEARN MORE: What To Do When Your Head Hurts
LEARN MORE: NIH Headache Information Page

Would sending electrical signals to certain parts of the brain move certain parts of the body?

How much do we truly know about the human brain?

When you take a hallucinogenic drug what’s going on in your brain? Some say they see things when they take HD. Is the brain causing that?

A defining quality of any psychedelic is its ability to bind to and “activate” (i.e., act as an “agonist” at) the 5HT-2A receptor (one of fifteen different receptors for the neurotransmitter serotonin).
LEARN MORE: Psychedelic Portland

Could we change the way our bodies combat sickness? To aim towards drugs being the main defender, and to lower the number of symptoms you will have with a sickness, like not having a runny nose if you catch a cold.

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE IN CLATSOP COUNTY BEFORE
North Coast Noggins: Art, Alevins & Brains!

Accumbens in Astoria

Noggins in Astoria! (2)
2021-05-20 14:45 - 16:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Astoria High School, Astoria, OR
We did it!
LEARN MORE:
Clatsop Community Cortex

WHERE: Both virtual (link coming to volunteers) and LIVE visits!
WHEN:
1. Tuesday, May 11, 2:45 – 4:15pm Pacific (Virtual)
2. Thursday, May 20, 2:45 – 4:15pm Pacific (Virtual)
3. Friday, May 21, 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific (LIVE; outdoor location TBD)

We are thrilled to return to school in this remarkable river city, and hear what high school juniors and seniors are learning about brains!

We gathered virtually on Tuesday (5/11) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project. We returned Thursday (5/20) – to see all the neurons and glial cells and consider more questions about brains!

We have one visit left this spring – a LIVE brain wrangling experience for high school students and Clatsop Community College students in Astoria!

(This time we’ll be outdoors, physically distanced and masked!)
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
3. Jasmin Mabry, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
4. Yuri Sugano, University of Chicago
5. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Magda Armendariz Sullivan, PSU
7. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU
8. Alex Heinrich, PSU
9. Annika Hokanson, PSU
10. Cassidy Wilson, University of Chicago Neuroscience Club
11. Alisha Steigerwald, PSU Neuroscience Club
12. Roman Cimkovich, PSU

LEARN MORE: Found Neuron Project
Student Questions!

Could you modify the brain to forget how to die, therefore living forever?

What are alters actually in DID?
“There is not a clear understanding of DID etiopathology, there is no standardized method of diagnosis, and as such, the disorder has been plagued by a history of fabrication case studies (North, 2015). For these reasons, the disorder is opposed by many psychiatrists. To address this controversy, researchers have begun to examine the neurological basis of DID in an effort to provide stronger physical evidence for the disorder.”
LEARN MORE: A systematic review of the neuroanatomy of dissociative identity disorder

What was one interesting thing learned from Henry M.’s brain? (Patient H.M.)

How do we know if most humans really perceive colors the same?

Could you use electrodes in the brain to simulate certain emotions or trigger certain memories or reactions?

How efficient is your brain at running, like how much energy does it make

While making up only a small fraction of our total body mass, the brain represents the largest source of energy consumption—accounting for over 20% of total oxygen metabolism. Of this, it is estimated that neurons consume 75%–80% of energy produced in the brain. This energy is primarily utilized at the synapse with a large proportion spent in restoration of neuronal membrane potentials following depolarization. Other neuronal functions such as vesicle recycling, neurotransmitter synthesis and axoplasmic transport also contribute to synaptic energy depletion and the requirement for an elevated metabolic rate in neurons. Energy requirements are therefore not uniform throughout the brain but instead increased in localized regions dependent on neuronal activity.
LEARN MORE: Brain Energy and Oxygen Metabolism: Emerging Role in Normal Function and Disease
In a group of healthy volunteers, the researchers showed that different brain regions that serve distinct functions have notably different power and different cost. They then investigated the effects of alcohol on these new measures by assessing a group of people that included light drinkers and heavy drinkers and found that both acute and chronic exposure to alcohol affected power and cost of brain regions. Brain imaging used by NIH scientists to improve our understanding of how alcohol affects the brain.
“In heavy drinkers, we saw less regional power for example in the thalamus, the sensory gateway, and frontal cortex of the brain, which is important for decision making,” said Dr. Shokri-Kojori. “These decreases in power were interpreted to reflect toxic effects of long-term exposure to alcohol on the brain cells.”
LEARN MORE: NIH study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects

How fast can the brain process information?

What happens to the brain when you are dehydrated?

How does caffeine affect the brain?

Caffeine, a chemical, acts to block (or “antagonize”) receptors for adenosine, a chemical that binds to the adenosine receptors. This reduces the release of some important neurotransmitters, among them dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin and acetylcholine that are essential for staying alert and awake. Adenosine is a nucleotide (found in DNA, mRNA), and is also part of an important energy substrate known as ATP, or adenosine tri-phosphate.
As your day progresses, and you express your genes and use up ATP, your bloodstream levels of adenosine rise, and bind to adenosine receptors in several cerebral regions, including an area beneath the frontal cortex called the basal forebrain. This decreases brain activity and you feel sleepy, and cognitively a little slow – appropriately ready, of course, for a restorative nap.
But then Kat, Olivia or Micha serve you a glorious and rewarding cup of Stumptown at Street 14, and the caffeine finds your brain’s adenosine receptors, displacing that downer adenosine and transiently attaching itself to the receptors instead. Caffeine blocks the normal response of these receptors, so again, it is considered an adenosine receptor antagonist.
There remain copious swarms of adenosine molecules circulating in your blood, and your body still needs that rest, but your brain is no longer listening to this chemical signal with caffeine antagonizing the receptors in the basal forebrain and elsewhere where adenosine would normally act. You’re up!
LEARN MORE: Astoria Noggins: Tipsy Buzzed Mice @ Street 14
LEARN MORE: Drunk mice on espresso – what could go wrong?
If someone experiences a certain emotion a lot does that make it more likely for them to experience that emotion more often?

Would it be possible to keep a brain alive/working without it being attached to a real body?

Could you make a brain process more information faster and basically improve everybody’s brainpower. Maybe in the future curing brain illnesses.

Does long-term alcohol use affect the brain and how it functions?
Alcohol is a fascinating molecule, easily capable of crossing membranes and gaining access to the brain, with a water soluble hydroxyl (-OH) “head,” and a fat soluble, two carbon “body” – making it appear, suggests Dr. Grant, a bit like a friendly dog.
LEARN MORE: What’s a “drink..?” At the Newmark for beer & brains

How is the brain able to store and find memories

Can all drugs modify the chemical makeup of the brain?

What is happening in the brain when someone gets a headache

A headache may feel like a pain inside your brain, but it’s not. Most headaches begin in the many nerves of the muscles and blood vessels that surround your head, neck, and face. These pain-sensing nerves can be set off by stress, muscle tension, enlarged blood vessels, and other triggers. Once activated, the nerves send messages to the brain, and it can feel like the pain is coming from deep within your head.
LEARN MORE: What To Do When Your Head Hurts
LEARN MORE: NIH Headache Information Page

Would sending electrical signals to certain parts of the brain move certain parts of the body?

How much do we truly know about the human brain?

When you take a hallucinogenic drug what’s going on in your brain? Some say they see things when they take HD. Is the brain causing that?

A defining quality of any psychedelic is its ability to bind to and “activate” (i.e., act as an “agonist” at) the 5HT-2A receptor (one of fifteen different receptors for the neurotransmitter serotonin).
LEARN MORE: Psychedelic Portland

Could we change the way our bodies combat sickness? To aim towards drugs being the main defender, and to lower the number of symptoms you will have with a sickness, like not having a runny nose if you catch a cold.

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE IN CLATSOP COUNTY BEFORE
North Coast Noggins: Art, Alevins & Brains!

Accumbens in Astoria

Noggins in Astoria LIVE! (3)
2021-05-21 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Astoria High School, Astoria, OR

We did it!
And omg we LOVE live community outreach!!
LEARN MORE:
Clatsop Community Cortex

WHERE: Both virtual (link coming to volunteers) and LIVE visits!
WHEN:
1. Tuesday, May 11, 2:45 – 4:15pm Pacific (Virtual)
2. Thursday, May 20, 2:45 – 4:15pm Pacific (Virtual)
3. Friday, May 21, 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific (LIVE; outdoor at Clatsop Community College, courtyard outside Columbia Hall; 1651 Lexington Ave, Astoria, OR 97103)

We are thrilled to return to school in this remarkable river city, and hear what high school juniors and seniors are learning about brains! We gathered virtually on Tuesday (5/11) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project.
Noggins in Astoria! (1)

We’re returning online Thursday (5/20)…
Noggins in Astoria! (2)

…and then LIVE Friday (5/21) – to see all the neurons and glial cells, consider more questions and hold a few extra brains!

(We’ll be outdoors, physically distanced and masked!)

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
3. Jasmin Mabry, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
4. Jessie L. Sheeran, PSU
5. Melissa DeMoura, PSU
6. Annika Hokanson, PSU
7. Roman Cimkovich, PSU

LEARN MORE: Found Neuron Project
SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE IN CLATSOP COUNTY BEFORE
North Coast Noggins: Art, Alevins & Brains!

Accumbens in Astoria

Student Questions!

Could you modify the brain to forget how to die, therefore living forever?

What are alters actually in DID?
“There is not a clear understanding of DID etiopathology, there is no standardized method of diagnosis, and as such, the disorder has been plagued by a history of fabrication case studies (North, 2015). For these reasons, the disorder is opposed by many psychiatrists. To address this controversy, researchers have begun to examine the neurological basis of DID in an effort to provide stronger physical evidence for the disorder.”
LEARN MORE: A systematic review of the neuroanatomy of dissociative identity disorder

What was one interesting thing learned from Henry M.’s brain? (Patient H.M.)

How do we know if most humans really perceive colors the same?

Could you use electrodes in the brain to simulate certain emotions or trigger certain memories or reactions?

How efficient is your brain at running, like how much energy does it make

While making up only a small fraction of our total body mass, the brain represents the largest source of energy consumption—accounting for over 20% of total oxygen metabolism. Of this, it is estimated that neurons consume 75%–80% of energy produced in the brain. This energy is primarily utilized at the synapse with a large proportion spent in restoration of neuronal membrane potentials following depolarization. Other neuronal functions such as vesicle recycling, neurotransmitter synthesis and axoplasmic transport also contribute to synaptic energy depletion and the requirement for an elevated metabolic rate in neurons. Energy requirements are therefore not uniform throughout the brain but instead increased in localized regions dependent on neuronal activity.
LEARN MORE: Brain Energy and Oxygen Metabolism: Emerging Role in Normal Function and Disease
In a group of healthy volunteers, the researchers showed that different brain regions that serve distinct functions have notably different power and different cost. They then investigated the effects of alcohol on these new measures by assessing a group of people that included light drinkers and heavy drinkers and found that both acute and chronic exposure to alcohol affected power and cost of brain regions. Brain imaging used by NIH scientists to improve our understanding of how alcohol affects the brain.
“In heavy drinkers, we saw less regional power for example in the thalamus, the sensory gateway, and frontal cortex of the brain, which is important for decision making,” said Dr. Shokri-Kojori. “These decreases in power were interpreted to reflect toxic effects of long-term exposure to alcohol on the brain cells.”
LEARN MORE: NIH study of brain energy patterns provides new insights into alcohol effects

How fast can the brain process information?

What happens to the brain when you are dehydrated?

How does caffeine affect the brain?

Caffeine, a chemical, acts to block (or “antagonize”) receptors for adenosine, a chemical that binds to the adenosine receptors. This reduces the release of some important neurotransmitters, among them dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin and acetylcholine that are essential for staying alert and awake. Adenosine is a nucleotide (found in DNA, mRNA), and is also part of an important energy substrate known as ATP, or adenosine tri-phosphate.
As your day progresses, and you express your genes and use up ATP, your bloodstream levels of adenosine rise, and bind to adenosine receptors in several cerebral regions, including an area beneath the frontal cortex called the basal forebrain. This decreases brain activity and you feel sleepy, and cognitively a little slow – appropriately ready, of course, for a restorative nap.
But then Kat, Olivia or Micha serve you a glorious and rewarding cup of Stumptown at Street 14, and the caffeine finds your brain’s adenosine receptors, displacing that downer adenosine and transiently attaching itself to the receptors instead. Caffeine blocks the normal response of these receptors, so again, it is considered an adenosine receptor antagonist.
There remain copious swarms of adenosine molecules circulating in your blood, and your body still needs that rest, but your brain is no longer listening to this chemical signal with caffeine antagonizing the receptors in the basal forebrain and elsewhere where adenosine would normally act. You’re up!
LEARN MORE: Astoria Noggins: Tipsy Buzzed Mice @ Street 14
LEARN MORE: Drunk mice on espresso – what could go wrong?
If someone experiences a certain emotion a lot does that make it more likely for them to experience that emotion more often?

Would it be possible to keep a brain alive/working without it being attached to a real body?

Could you make a brain process more information faster and basically improve everybody’s brainpower. Maybe in the future curing brain illnesses.

Does long-term alcohol use affect the brain and how it functions?
Alcohol is a fascinating molecule, easily capable of crossing membranes and gaining access to the brain, with a water soluble hydroxyl (-OH) “head,” and a fat soluble, two carbon “body” – making it appear, suggests Dr. Grant, a bit like a friendly dog.
LEARN MORE: What’s a “drink..?” At the Newmark for beer & brains

How is the brain able to store and find memories

Can all drugs modify the chemical makeup of the brain?

What is happening in the brain when someone gets a headache

A headache may feel like a pain inside your brain, but it’s not. Most headaches begin in the many nerves of the muscles and blood vessels that surround your head, neck, and face. These pain-sensing nerves can be set off by stress, muscle tension, enlarged blood vessels, and other triggers. Once activated, the nerves send messages to the brain, and it can feel like the pain is coming from deep within your head.
LEARN MORE: What To Do When Your Head Hurts
LEARN MORE: NIH Headache Information Page

Would sending electrical signals to certain parts of the brain move certain parts of the body?

How much do we truly know about the human brain?

When you take a hallucinogenic drug what’s going on in your brain? Some say they see things when they take HD. Is the brain causing that?

A defining quality of any psychedelic is its ability to bind to and “activate” (i.e., act as an “agonist” at) the 5HT-2A receptor (one of fifteen different receptors for the neurotransmitter serotonin).
LEARN MORE: Psychedelic Portland

Could we change the way our bodies combat sickness? To aim towards drugs being the main defender, and to lower the number of symptoms you will have with a sickness, like not having a runny nose if you catch a cold.

Noggins @ Hosford PPS! (1)
2021-05-27 09:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Hosford Middle School
WHERE: Online (link to be shared with volunteers) & LIVE @ Hosford Middle School, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN:
1. Thursday, May 27, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
We did it!
Hosford, Hippocampi & Hope

2. Friday, May 28, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
3. Thursday, June 3, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)
4. Friday, June 4, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)

We are thrilled to return to Hosford, and hear what middle school biology students are learning about energy (ATP!) and brains!

We’ll gather virtually on Thursday (5/27) and Friday (5/28) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project. We’ll be back LIVE on both Thursday (6/3) and Friday (6/4) to see all the neurons and glial cells, consider more questions and hold a few extra brains!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Magda Armendariz Sullivan, PSU
4. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU
5. Alex Heinrich, PSU

Student Questions!
In what part of the brain do you get thoughts?
How does COVID-19 affect your brain?

“While primarily a respiratory disease, COVID-19 can also lead to neurological problems. The first of these symptoms might be the loss of smell and taste, while some people also may later battle headaches, debilitating fatigue, and trouble thinking clearly, sometimes referred to as “brain fog.” All of these symptoms have researchers wondering how exactly the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, affects the human brain. In search of clues, researchers at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have now conducted the first in-depth examinations of human brain tissue samples from people who died after contracting COVID-19. Their findings…suggest that COVID-19’s many neurological symptoms are likely explained by the body’s widespread inflammatory response to infection and associated blood vessel injury—not by infection of the brain tissue itself.”
LEARN MORE: Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19’s Effects on the Brain
How do you become unconscious when you sleep?
How did they get the brains

LEARN MORE: A BioGift of Brains
How long does it take (or repetition) for your brain to remember something?
How is the human brain different from a dog brain?

“…we can see from an MRI of a dog brain that even though it is smaller than a human brain, all of the same basic structures are present. This is true for large regions like the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum, as well as for smaller, subcortical structures like the brainstem, hippocampus, amygdala, and basal ganglia, which have important roles in movement, memory, and emotion.

“Dogs also have large olfactory systems, comprising about two percent of the total brain weight (compared to 0.03 percent in humans). Where dogs fall short is in the cortex. Apart from being smaller, there are fewer folds, which means less surface area and fewer neurons. The frontal lobe, which in humans occupies the front third of the brain, is relegated to a paltry ten percent in dogs…”
LEARN MORE: Decoding the Canine Mind
“While ferret, mongoose and cat have increasingly larger cortices (3.1 g, 9.3 g, and 24.2 g) with increasingly more neurons (39 million, 116 million, and 250 million neurons, respectively), we find that the lion has approximately as many neurons in the cerebral cortex as the average found in dogs, ca. 500 million neurons, despite a twice larger cortex in the lion than in the dogs…Remarkably, of all the individuals we analyzed, the one with the most neurons in the cerebral cortex was a golden retriever dog (627 million neurons), followed by the lion (545 million neurons), one of the raccoons (512 million neurons), the striped hyena (495 million neurons), a smaller dog of unspecified breed (429 million neurons) and a second raccoon individual (395 million neurons).“
LEARN MORE: Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain
What happens in your brain when you learn something new?
what’s the worst thing that could happen to the brain
Are you your brain or are you you
When did we start wondering how the brain worked?

LEARN MORE: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?
What happens in your brain when you associate color with flavor? Like a yellow jelly bean tastes or is associated with lemon.
What are the wrinkles?
How much of our brain do we actually consciously know how to use?
why can some people daydream in almost like full movies but some people cant?
Do we really only use 10% of our brains?
hOW does it WOORKK?
why do i get migraines and what causes them to be clusters or every month?
How does your brain process words so fast? How can you be saying something at the same time that your brain is trying to figure out what to say?
why do some people like me believe in fixed mindsets while others don’t
How come my autism makes it hard to process my words?
does our brain actually get bigger when we get smarter?
How do brains grow bigger?
How do the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind relate when you remember your dream?
what makes you forget things
What is the biggest mystery about the brain at the moment? What would you say is the biggest discovery about the brain?How does the brain use energy?When is the brain fully developed?
how can your emotions effect different parts of your brain, like creativity or decision making.
How effective is sleep on your brain?
can your brain actually grow in size?
Does the Brain change when your mental health is different???
How big can a brain get? and what is the heaviest brain ever recored?
I wonder how different peoples brains are different?
what do brainzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz taste like
can the size of your brain affect how smart you are?
What does your brain look like as you get older and how much does it evolve over 10 years of your life?
DOES YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY FART WHEN YOU CANT REMEMBER SOMETHING?????
Why does the brain have all of those wrinkles?

How does the brain change over time? How do other people’s reactions to things we do/say affect our brain? How are different people with different mindsets, backgrounds, and life choices brains are different? Are people with bigger brains necessarily smarter? How much of something harmful is needed to impact your brain? Are some people’s creative and logical brain halves switched, and how would that affect them?
If you don’t have the creative part of your brain will it just completely stop working?
How much memory can a brain hold?
How does the brain work when you are in a coma?
How does the brain change as we grow up?
does/how does our brain stay awake while we sleep?
Why do you control the right side of your body with the left side of your brain and the other way around.
How do external factors reach the processing center of the brain, and can you simulate external things?
is there a limit to how much knowledge we can hold
why do we dream? i also would just like to learn more about the brain in general
How do different parts of our brain know where to control things and how to do it, because different parts of the brain are used for different things, so how does the brain itself know the difference?
Also, maybe, what is the physical brain like.
Why and how do we dream?
is the brain one part or is it two parts that are connected?
how much of your energy does the brain use up
How much oxygen does the brain need to stay conscious?
Why and how do we dream? How/why do we have different types of dreams?

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE BEFORE @ HOSFORD!
Honest selves @ Hosford

Brains, Art & Inquiry @ Hosford

High energy Hosford: Tumors, music & drugs!

Noggins @ Hosford PPS! (2)
2021-05-28 09:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Hosford Middle School
WHERE: Online (link to be shared with volunteers) & LIVE @ Hosford Middle School, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN:
1. Thursday, May 27, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
2. Friday, May 28, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
We did it!
Hosford, Hippocampi & Hope

3. Thursday, June 3, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)
4. Friday, June 4, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)

We are thrilled to return to Hosford, and hear what middle school biology students are learning about energy (ATP!) and brains!

We’re gathering virtually on Thursday (5/27) and Friday (5/28) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project. On Thursday we met with over 150 6th graders to consider their compelling questions!

This Friday we’ll be joined by celebrated neuroscientist and author Dr. Theanne Griffith from 9:45am until 10:30am! Dr. Griffith will share stories from some of her awesome books on the brain, and perhaps run an experiment to explore the nature of sound and hearing 🙂

We’ll be back LIVE on both Thursday (6/3) and Friday (6/4) to see all the neurons and glial cells, consider more questions and hold a few extra brains!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Jessie L. Sheeran, PSU
4. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
5. Magda Armendariz Sullivan, PSU
6. Kass Fitzgerald, PSU
7. Dr. Theanne Griffith, UC Davis
8. Kindra Crick, NW Noggin

Student Questions!
In what part of the brain do you get thoughts?
How does COVID-19 affect your brain?

“While primarily a respiratory disease, COVID-19 can also lead to neurological problems. The first of these symptoms might be the loss of smell and taste, while some people also may later battle headaches, debilitating fatigue, and trouble thinking clearly, sometimes referred to as “brain fog.” All of these symptoms have researchers wondering how exactly the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, affects the human brain. In search of clues, researchers at NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) have now conducted the first in-depth examinations of human brain tissue samples from people who died after contracting COVID-19. Their findings…suggest that COVID-19’s many neurological symptoms are likely explained by the body’s widespread inflammatory response to infection and associated blood vessel injury—not by infection of the brain tissue itself.”
LEARN MORE: Taking a Closer Look at COVID-19’s Effects on the Brain
How do you become unconscious when you sleep?
How did they get the brains

LEARN MORE: A BioGift of Brains
How long does it take (or repetition) for your brain to remember something?
How is the human brain different from a dog brain?

“…we can see from an MRI of a dog brain that even though it is smaller than a human brain, all of the same basic structures are present. This is true for large regions like the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum, as well as for smaller, subcortical structures like the brainstem, hippocampus, amygdala, and basal ganglia, which have important roles in movement, memory, and emotion.

“Dogs also have large olfactory systems, comprising about two percent of the total brain weight (compared to 0.03 percent in humans). Where dogs fall short is in the cortex. Apart from being smaller, there are fewer folds, which means less surface area and fewer neurons. The frontal lobe, which in humans occupies the front third of the brain, is relegated to a paltry ten percent in dogs…”
LEARN MORE: Decoding the Canine Mind
“While ferret, mongoose and cat have increasingly larger cortices (3.1 g, 9.3 g, and 24.2 g) with increasingly more neurons (39 million, 116 million, and 250 million neurons, respectively), we find that the lion has approximately as many neurons in the cerebral cortex as the average found in dogs, ca. 500 million neurons, despite a twice larger cortex in the lion than in the dogs…Remarkably, of all the individuals we analyzed, the one with the most neurons in the cerebral cortex was a golden retriever dog (627 million neurons), followed by the lion (545 million neurons), one of the raccoons (512 million neurons), the striped hyena (495 million neurons), a smaller dog of unspecified breed (429 million neurons) and a second raccoon individual (395 million neurons).“
LEARN MORE: Dogs Have the Most Neurons, Though Not the Largest Brain
What happens in your brain when you learn something new?
what’s the worst thing that could happen to the brain
Are you your brain or are you you
When did we start wondering how the brain worked?

LEARN MORE: Why Study the History of Neuroscience?
What happens in your brain when you associate color with flavor? Like a yellow jelly bean tastes or is associated with lemon.
What are the wrinkles?
How much of our brain do we actually consciously know how to use?
why can some people daydream in almost like full movies but some people cant?
Do we really only use 10% of our brains?
hOW does it WOORKK?
why do i get migraines and what causes them to be clusters or every month?
How does your brain process words so fast? How can you be saying something at the same time that your brain is trying to figure out what to say?
why do some people like me believe in fixed mindsets while others don’t
How come my autism makes it hard to process my words?
does our brain actually get bigger when we get smarter?
How do brains grow bigger?
How do the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind relate when you remember your dream?
what makes you forget things
What is the biggest mystery about the brain at the moment? What would you say is the biggest discovery about the brain?How does the brain use energy?When is the brain fully developed?
how can your emotions effect different parts of your brain, like creativity or decision making.
How effective is sleep on your brain?
can your brain actually grow in size?
Does the Brain change when your mental health is different???
How big can a brain get? and what is the heaviest brain ever recored?
I wonder how different peoples brains are different?
what do brainzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz taste like
can the size of your brain affect how smart you are?
What does your brain look like as you get older and how much does it evolve over 10 years of your life?
DOES YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY FART WHEN YOU CANT REMEMBER SOMETHING?????
Why does the brain have all of those wrinkles?

How does the brain change over time? How do other people’s reactions to things we do/say affect our brain? How are different people with different mindsets, backgrounds, and life choices brains are different? Are people with bigger brains necessarily smarter? How much of something harmful is needed to impact your brain? Are some people’s creative and logical brain halves switched, and how would that affect them?
If you don’t have the creative part of your brain will it just completely stop working?
How much memory can a brain hold?
How does the brain work when you are in a coma?
How does the brain change as we grow up?
does/how does our brain stay awake while we sleep?
Why do you control the right side of your body with the left side of your brain and the other way around.
How do external factors reach the processing center of the brain, and can you simulate external things?
is there a limit to how much knowledge we can hold
why do we dream? i also would just like to learn more about the brain in general
How do different parts of our brain know where to control things and how to do it, because different parts of the brain are used for different things, so how does the brain itself know the difference?
Also, maybe, what is the physical brain like.
Why and how do we dream?
is the brain one part or is it two parts that are connected?
how much of your energy does the brain use up
How much oxygen does the brain need to stay conscious?
Why and how do we dream? How/why do we have different types of dreams?

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE BEFORE @ HOSFORD!
Honest selves @ Hosford

Brains, Art & Inquiry @ Hosford

High energy Hosford: Tumors, music & drugs!

Noggins @ Hosford PPS LIVE! (3)
2021-06-03 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Hosford Middle School
WHERE: Online (link to be shared with volunteers) & LIVE @ Hosford Middle School, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN:
1. Thursday, May 27, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
2. Friday, May 28, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
3. Thursday, June 3, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)
We did it!
Hosford, Hippocampi & Hope

4. Friday, June 4, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)

We are thrilled to return to Hosford, and hear what middle school biology students are learning about energy (ATP!) and brains!

We’ll gather virtually on Thursday (5/27) and Friday (5/28) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project.

We’ll be back LIVE on both Thursday (6/3) and Friday (6/4) to see all the neurons and glial cells, consider more questions and hold a few extra brains!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Jessie L. Sheeran, PSU
4. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
5. Wilson Lubeck, PSU
6. Alex Heinrich, PSU
7. Roman Cimkovich, PSU
8. Magda Armendariz Sullivan, PSU
9. Allister Williams, PSU
10, Ellie Phelps, PSU
Student Questions!
In what part of the brain do you get thoughts?
How does COVID-19 affect your brain?
How do you become unconscious when you sleep?
How did they get the brains
How long does it take (or repetition) for your brain to remember something?
How is the human brain different from a dog brain?
What happens in your brain when you learn something new?
what’s the worst thing that could happen to the brain
Are you your brain or are you you
When did we start wondering how the brain worked?
What happens in your brain when you associate color with flavor? Like a yellow jelly bean tastes or is associated with lemon.
What are the wrinkles?
How much of our brain do we actually consciously know how to use?
why can some people daydream in almost like full movies but some people cant?
Do we really only use 10% of our brains?
hOW does it WOORKK?
why do i get migraines and what causes them to be clusters or every month?
How does your brain process words so fast? How can you be saying something at the same time that your brain is trying to figure out what to say?
why do some people like me believe in fixed mindsets while others don’t
How come my autism makes it hard to process my words?
does our brain actually get bigger when we get smarter?
How do brains grow bigger?
How do the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind relate when you remember your dream?
what makes you forget things
What is the biggest mystery about the brain at the moment? What would you say is the biggest discovery about the brain?How does the brain use energy?When is the brain fully developed?
how can your emotions effect different parts of your brain, like creativity or decision making.
How effective is sleep on your brain?
can your brain actually grow in size?
Does the Brain change when your mental health is different???
How big can a brain get? and what is the heaviest brain ever recored?
I wonder how different peoples brains are different?
what do brainzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz taste like
can the size of your brain affect how smart you are?
What does your brain look like as you get older and how much does it evolve over 10 years of your life?
DOES YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY FART WHEN YOU CANT REMEMBER SOMETHING?????
Why does the brain have all of those wrinkles?
How does the brain change over time? How do other people’s reactions to things we do/say affect our brain? How are different people with different mindsets, backgrounds, and life choices brains are different? Are people with bigger brains necessarily smarter? How much of something harmful is needed to impact your brain? Are some people’s creative and logical brain halves switched, and how would that affect them?
If you don’t have the creative part of your brain will it just completely stop working?
How much memory can a brain hold?

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE BEFORE @ HOSFORD!
Honest selves @ Hosford

Brains, Art & Inquiry @ Hosford

High energy Hosford: Tumors, music & drugs!

Noggins @ Hosford PPS LIVE! (4)
2021-06-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin @ Hosford Middle School
WHERE: Online (link to be shared with volunteers) & LIVE @ Hosford Middle School, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN:
1. Thursday, May 27, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
2. Friday, May 28, 9:30am – 12:30pm Pacific (Virtual)
3. Thursday, June 3, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)
4. Friday, June 4, 2:00 – 4:00pm Pacific (LIVE @ Hosford, 2303 SE 28th Pl, Portland, OR 97214)
We did it!
Hosford, Hippocampi & Hope

We are thrilled to return to Hosford, and hear what middle school biology students are learning about energy (ATP!) and brains!

We’ll gather virtually on Tuesday (5/25), Thursday (5/27) and Friday (5/28) to meet, discuss neuroscience research and introduce a found object brain cell project.

We’ll be back LIVE on both Thursday (6/3) and Friday (6/4) to see all the neurons and glial cells, consider more questions and hold a few extra brains!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Jessie L. Sheeran, PSU
4. Melissa DeMoura, PSU
5. Roman Cimkovich, PSU
6. Magda Armendariz Sullivan, PSU
7. Wilson Lubeck, PSU
Student Questions!
In what part of the brain do you get thoughts?
How does COVID-19 affect your brain?
How do you become unconscious when you sleep?
How did they get the brains
How long does it take (or repetition) for your brain to remember something?
How is the human brain different from a dog brain?
What happens in your brain when you learn something new?
what’s the worst thing that could happen to the brain
Are you your brain or are you you
When did we start wondering how the brain worked?
What happens in your brain when you associate color with flavor? Like a yellow jelly bean tastes or is associated with lemon.
What are the wrinkles?
How much of our brain do we actually consciously know how to use?
why can some people daydream in almost like full movies but some people cant?
Do we really only use 10% of our brains?
hOW does it WOORKK?
why do i get migraines and what causes them to be clusters or every month?
How does your brain process words so fast? How can you be saying something at the same time that your brain is trying to figure out what to say?
why do some people like me believe in fixed mindsets while others don’t
How come my autism makes it hard to process my words?
does our brain actually get bigger when we get smarter?
How do brains grow bigger?
How do the conscious mind, and the unconscious mind relate when you remember your dream?
what makes you forget things
What is the biggest mystery about the brain at the moment? What would you say is the biggest discovery about the brain?How does the brain use energy?When is the brain fully developed?
how can your emotions effect different parts of your brain, like creativity or decision making.
How effective is sleep on your brain?
can your brain actually grow in size?
Does the Brain change when your mental health is different???
How big can a brain get? and what is the heaviest brain ever recored?
I wonder how different peoples brains are different?
what do brainzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz taste like
can the size of your brain affect how smart you are?
What does your brain look like as you get older and how much does it evolve over 10 years of your life?
DOES YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY FART WHEN YOU CANT REMEMBER SOMETHING?????
Why does the brain have all of those wrinkles?
How does the brain change over time? How do other people’s reactions to things we do/say affect our brain? How are different people with different mindsets, backgrounds, and life choices brains are different? Are people with bigger brains necessarily smarter? How much of something harmful is needed to impact your brain? Are some people’s creative and logical brain halves switched, and how would that affect them?
If you don’t have the creative part of your brain will it just completely stop working?
How much memory can a brain hold?

SEE WHAT WE’VE DONE BEFORE @ HOSFORD!
Honest selves @ Hosford

Brains, Art & Inquiry @ Hosford

High energy Hosford: Tumors, music & drugs!

Noggins LIVE in Hillsboro!
2021-08-11 10:15 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Minter Bridge Elementary, 1750 SE Jacquelin Dr, Hillsboro, OR, 97123, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Minter Bridge Elementary with 1st-5th graders
We did it!!
LEARN MORE: Hillsboro Heat

WHERE: Minter Bridge Elementary, 1750 SE Jacquelin Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97123
**OUTDOORS, and all participants must be MASKED, VACCINATED
WHEN: Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 10:15am – 1:00pm

From teacher Jessica-Patching Bunch (former Communications Director for NW Noggin!):
“We will be at Minter Bridge Elementary in Hillsboro on August 11th from 10:15am – 1:00pm with 3 groups of kiddos from 1st to 5th grade. The group size should be no more than 40 at a time.
In the days leading up to the Noggin Grand Finale visit I will be taking the kids through learning about brain, body, and breath and how they all relate to self-regulation and stress management using the tools we have available in our nervous system. Because the time slots are short I think that a brain facts Q&A and time with the brains will fill the time for each group.”
Come join us!
We’ll have some exciting new human brain specimens to share in Hillsboro too!

LEARN MORE: Cross-Country Noggins!
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Kiara Hunt, PSU
4. Kari Baher, PSU
5. Yangmiao Zhang, OHSU
6. Sarah Holden, OHSU
7. Mikah Brandes, OSHU/BUILD EXITO
8. Kanani Miyamoto, NW Noggin/PCC
9. Michael Deveney, PSU
10. Alex Heinrich, PSU
11. Kevanna Doolittle, PSU
12. Roman Cimkovich, PSU
13. Jessie Sheeran, PSU
14. Dave Beaty & son :), PSU
See what we’ve done before in Hillsboro!
Meninges over Minter Bridge!

Noggins @ JumpStart in Gresham/Barlow Schools!
2021-08-18 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Center for Advanced Learning, 1484 NW Civic Dr, Gresham, OR, 97030, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin @ JumpStart U program in Gresham Barlow Public Schools!
We did it!
LEARN MORE: Gresham Cool

“That was wonderful! Kids were saying ‘it’s so cool, it’s so creepy!’ and ‘I want a job where I get to research brains!’
Really inspiring – please come back!”
WHERE: Center for Advanced Learning, 1484 NW Civic Dr, Gresham, OR 97030
WHEN: Wednesday, August 18, 10:00am – 12:30pm LIVE
**OUTDOORS, and all participants must be MASKED, VACCINATED

From Liz Maki, Director of Career Pathways
“JumpStart U 9th grade camp is a part of the 9th Grade Counts work across the county. The goal of this camp is the give students a jump start into high school by awarding the students .5 credits for completion of the camp. Camp recruitment targets students who are at risk of not completing high school for a variety of reasons. Students who participate in this camp not only benefit from the credit but also the connections to high school staff and other students that they will see next year. Career exploration is the tool the camp uses to create engagement and to apply skills the students will need in high school.”
What I hope students get from NW Noggin:
“I believe students will be highly engaged and motivated to learn about their most valuable asset, their brains. To me, this is one of the greatest pieces of this partnership. My other hope is that the volunteers can speak with the students about their own particular career path; why they chose it, what it looks like, how to get into that career, etc.”
Come join us!
We’ll have some exciting new human brain specimens to share in Gresham too!

LEARN MORE: Cross-Country Noggins!
Please RSVP to bgriesar@nwnoggin.org and jleake@nwnoggin.org
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin/PSU/OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin/PSU
3. Mack Carlisle, PNCA/Pacific/UMass-Amherst graduate
4. Roman Cimkovich, PSU
5. Sarah Holden, OHSU
6. Michael Deveney, PSU
7. Andrea Rano, NIH BUILD EXITO/PSU
8. Jessie Sheeran, PSU
9. Alex Heinrich, PSU
10. Robert Cummings, Colby College
Should be a LOT cooler than our outreach visit to Hillsboro last week!
LEARN MORE at the link below 🙂
Hillsboro Heat

Noggin + p:ear!
2021-09-28 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin @ p:ear!
We did it!
Faces at p:ear!

WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 9:30am – 11:30am

NOTE: All volunteers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 & wear a mask.
Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland nonprofit aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives.

We’ll be there BOTH Tuesday (9/28) and Thursday (9/30)!

We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate and undergraduate Noggin participants from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other collaborators.!

Learning about brains and behavior, and genuine, evidence-based structural and functional aspects of who we are is powerful and actionable information for everyone, including those who are experiencing anxiety, depression, drug use disorders, bias, chronic stress, insomnia – as well as poverty, isolation, racism, homophobia and our region’s extreme lack of affordable housing.
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ p:ear
Come join us!
We’ll have some exciting new human brain specimens to share!

LEARN MORE: Cross-Country Noggins!

We’ll also consider faces, and facial expressions, and how we recognize and respond to each other in art and IRL.

Please RSVP to bgriesar@nwnoggin.org and jleake@nwnoggin.org

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Greyson Moore, PSU
4. Quinn Westlynd, PSU
5. Ronan Peck, PSU
6. Tiara Freeman, PSU
7. Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
8. Krystal Khanh Nguyen, PSU

Seeing us all through research & art

“Not only are people on the streets affected, but those of us who sleep in our own beds each night also have our brains impacted by homelessness, perhaps through less activation of cerebral networks required to fully humanize those in our community in need of our acknowledgement and support…”

Noggin + p:ear!
2021-09-30 09:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | P:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR, 97209, United States
WHAT: Noggin @ p:ear!
We did it!
Faces at p:ear!

WHERE: p:ear, 338 NW 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97209
WHEN: Thursday, September 30, 2021, 9:30am – 11:30am

NOTE: All volunteers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 & wear a mask.
Noggin is returning to P:ear, a remarkable Portland nonprofit aimed at building positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education, art and recreation to affirm their personal worth and help them create more meaningful and healthier lives.

We are excited to communicate science through the extraordinary volunteer efforts of our talented graduate and undergraduate Noggin participants from Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, the Pacific Northwest College of Art, and other collaborators.!

Learning about brains and behavior, and genuine, evidence-based structural and functional aspects of who we are is powerful and actionable information for everyone, including those who are experiencing anxiety, depression, drug use disorders, bias, chronic stress, insomnia – as well as poverty, isolation, racism, homophobia and our region’s extreme lack of affordable housing.
LEARN MORE: Noggin @ p:ear
Come join us!
We’ll have some exciting new human brain specimens to share!

LEARN MORE: Cross-Country Noggins!

We’ll also consider faces, and facial expressions, and how we recognize and respond to each other in art and IRL.

Please RSVP to bgriesar@nwnoggin.org and jleake@nwnoggin.org

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, PSU, OHSU
2. Jeff Leake, NW Noggin, PSU
3. Quinn Westlynd, PSU
4. Tiara Freeman, PSU
5. Becky Martinez, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Krystal Khanh Nguyen, PSU
7. Sara Moreno, PSU
8. James Reynolds, PSU
9. Maria Coyner, PSU
Seeing us all through research & art

“Not only are people on the streets affected, but those of us who sleep in our own beds each night also have our brains impacted by homelessness, perhaps through less activation of cerebral networks required to fully humanize those in our community in need of our acknowledgement and support…”

Noggins on the Coast!
2021-10-04 - 2021-10-07
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Astoria & Seaside Public Schools!
We did it!
Viking, Shark, Fishermen & Bandit Brains!

WHERE: Astoria and Seaside, Oregon; housing provided for 5 outreach volunteers!
WHEN: Monday – Thursday, October 4 – 7, 2021
We are thrilled to return to the Oregon coast, to make art and learn what middle and high school students already know – and are discovering about their brains!

This is a community-sponsored outreach event in both Seaside and Astoria, Oregon, organized by NW Noggin and Meredith Payton, the College and Career Advisor for the TRIO Pre-College Program at Clatsop Community College!

Thanks to all our generous community collaborators!!

We are indebted and thankful to so many in the North Coast community for making this outreach possible! Meals provided by Peter Pan Market, The Stand, Astoria Coop and Fort George Brewery! Individual housing for six volunteers from the stunning Rosebriar Mansion!

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

MONDAY, Oct 4th
Astoria Middle School, 9:20am – 2:24pm, 1st – 7th period
We did it!

TUESDAY, Oct 5th
Seaside Middle School, 8:30am – 3:00pm, 1st – 4th & 6th period
We did it!

“Thank you so much for coming and teaching us today! The brain is so incredible, I learned so much!” – 8th grade student at Seaside Middle School 🙂
WEDNESDAY, Oct 6th
West Exchange outdoor preschool, 9:30am – 11:30am
Astoria High School, 11:40am – 3:15pm
We did it!

THURSDAY, Oct 7th
Astoria High School, 10:40am – 2:15pm
We did it!

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS
All volunteers fully vaccinated (***BRING VACCINATION CARD) and masked.

Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
Jasmin Mabry, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
Michael Deveney, PSU
Greyson Moore, PSU
William Leverette, PSU
Ellie Phelps, PSU
Lidia Echeverria-Garcia, University of Oregon

See what else we’ve done in Clatsop County!
Clatsop Community Cortex

North Coast Noggins: Art, Alevins & Brains!

Accumbens in Astoria

Noggin @ NAEOP Conference
2021-10-18 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hillton Bellevue WA, 300 112th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
WHAT: Noggin presents: Forward thinking about STEAM – with (actual) BRAINS @ Northwest Association of Educational Opportunity Programs (NAEOP) conference!
We did it!

Threshold through TRIO

WHERE: Hilton Bellevue Hotel, 300 112th Ave SE, Bellevue, WA 98004; Kirkland
WHEN: Monday, October 18, 10:15 – 11:30am

NW Noggin is honored to present LIVE at the NAEOP conference this year on our extensive volunteer STEM + Arts collaborations with TRIO and other community programs!

Forward Thinking about STEAM
How do we inspire students? Brains let us perceive, think and behave, and discoveries in neuroscience offer actionable, compelling information about who we are and how we function. Going where you are surprised and challenged by new circumstances and perspectives drives motivating engagement, as does making art. During these moments our brains are changeable and open to new ideas. Nonprofit Northwest Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes undergraduates and graduates to collaborate, build community networks and inspire people about neuroscience and art. We bring volunteers excited by research into urban and rural K-12 public schools, correctional facilities, Congress, houseless youth centers, coffee shops, and pubs to hear what people already know and what they’d like to know, and see where our stories and discoveries from labs and classrooms intersect. We’ve met 50,000 people since 2012! Discover what we’ve learned, craft your own cells, and examine real brain specimens up close.

Check out our most recent collaboration with TRIO on the North Oregon coast!
Viking, Shark, Fishermen & Bandit Brains!

Over four days in October, we took questions, discussed neuroscience research, poked brains and made original neurons and glia at public schools in Astoria and Seaside!

SLIDES: NAEOP Slides FINAL (pdf)
SLIDES: NAEOP Slides FINAL (ppt)

Noggins @ Sunnyside LIVE!
2021-10-26 09:45 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School
We did it!
How to visit public schools

WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN: Tuesday, October 26, 9:45am – noon (arrival and set up @ 9:45am; first class 10 – 10:50am; second class 11 – 11:50am) and again on Thursday (10/28)
Everyone outdoors, fully vaccinated and properly masked.
Contacts: Asa Gervich and Jeremy Thomas, 4th grade teachers

We are thrilled to return LIVE to Jeremy and Asa’s lively classrooms this fall! We’ll make two visits, on Tuesday (10/26) and Thursday (10/28) to consider faces and the brain. We’ll examine faces, make faces, draw faces, consider faces in art and explore how we share our own unique brains through expression.

But we’ll also make brain cells and consider AMAZING questions from 4th graders!
From 4th Grade Teacher Asa Gervich:
Over the past weeks, students have learned about the interplay between their prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala – and how mindfulness practices can help us self-regulate. Last week, we learned about the Reticular Activating System – and how it can help us sift through myriad sensory inputs to focus on something important – like, how does an NBA player tune out all the zany free-throw distractions happening in the stands? Or, what role did the RAS play in about half of our class not spotting the gorilla in this video? What’s going on with our RAS when we listen to music and can isolate one particular instrument? Can everyone do that? We were thinking that visit #2 would be an awesome time to bring out the brain specimens (give them something to look forward to after visit #1). And, Jeremy put in a vote for that super cool electrical-impulse station if you guys are still doing that…

Some current kid wonderings:
If parts of the brain are damaged or lose function, how does that impact how the body works?
Is the brain actually pink? Why?
Which is more important, the brain or the heart?
How was Albert Einstein’s brain different from other people’s?
If two people were born at the exact time, and they liked the exact same stuff, and thought the same things at the same time – how would their brains be different? Would their brains be different?
How many neural pathways are there in your brain?

Can neural pathways be rebuilt or repaired?
Is your brain like your immune system?
You know how your fingerprints are unique to you – I wonder if your brain is the same way – is everyone’s completely unique
When someone experiences a failure of either brain or heart (or both) and they survive it – how does that happen?
Perhaps the number of pathways is infinite – because you can always learn new things…
If you have learned how to do a thing through mistake-making, and then you had some brain damage, would you be starting from step one to be learning that thing? Would you need to make all those mistakes all over again?
What’s going on with people who have amnesia? Do people ever get amnesia so bad that they don’t know who they are anymore?
Look forward to seeing you all soon!

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS

Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
Elana Kananykhina, PSU
Britta Harbury, PSU
Arielle Isakharov, OHSU
Theresa Vu, PSU
Aaron Eisen, OHSU
Levi Banks, PSU

SEE WHAT WE DID AT SUNNYSIDE BEFORE AND DURING COVID 🦠
Thank You Northwest Noggin!

Neurons in Minecraft & More!

A crayon in Homer’s brain

What about the glia?

Noggins @ Sunnyside LIVE!
2021-10-28 09:45 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR, 97214, United States
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School
We did it!
How to visit public schools

WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214
WHEN: Thursday, October 28, 9:45am – noon (arrival and set up @ 9:45am; first class 10 – 10:50am; second class 11 – 11:50am)
How to visit Portland Public Schools:
Everyone outdoors, fully vaccinated and properly masked.
Contacts: Asa Gervich and Jeremy Thomas, 4th grade teachers

We are thrilled to return LIVE to Jeremy and Asa’s lively classrooms this fall! We’ll make two visits, on Tuesday (10/26) and Thursday (10/28) to consider faces and the brain. We’ll examine faces, make faces, draw faces, consider faces in art and explore how we share our own unique brains through expression.

But we’ll also make brain cells and consider AMAZING questions from 4th graders!

From 4th Grade Teacher Asa Gervich:
Over the past weeks, students have learned about the interplay between their prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala – and how mindfulness practices can help us self-regulate. Last week, we learned about the Reticular Activating System – and how it can help us sift through myriad sensory inputs to focus on something important – like, how does an NBA player tune out all the zany free-throw distractions happening in the stands? Or, what role did the RAS play in about half of our class not spotting the gorilla in this video? What’s going on with our RAS when we listen to music and can isolate one particular instrument? Can everyone do that? We were thinking that visit #2 would be an awesome time to bring out the brain specimens (give them something to look forward to after visit #1). And, Jeremy put in a vote for that super cool electrical-impulse station if you guys are still doing that…

Some current kid wonderings:
If parts of the brain are damaged or lose function, how does that impact how the body works?
Is the brain actually pink? Why?
Which is more important, the brain or the heart?
How was Albert Einstein’s brain different from other people’s?
If two people were born at the exact time, and they liked the exact same stuff, and thought the same things at the same time – how would their brains be different? Would their brains be different?
How many neural pathways are there in your brain?
Can neural pathways be rebuilt or repaired?
Is your brain like your immune system?
You know how your fingerprints are unique to you – I wonder if your brain is the same way – is everyone’s completely unique
When someone experiences a failure of either brain or heart (or both) and they survive it – how does that happen?
Perhaps the number of pathways is infinite – because you can always learn new things…
If you have learned how to do a thing through mistake-making, and then you had some brain damage, would you be starting from step one to be learning that thing? Would you need to make all those mistakes all over again?
What’s going on with people who have amnesia? Do people ever get amnesia so bad that they don’t know who they are anymore?

Look forward to seeing you all soon!
To join us, please contact griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu.
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS

Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
Becky Martinez, NIH BUILD EXITO/PSU
Rose Jardin, PSU/Neuro Club President
Theresa Vu, PSU
Aurora Hernandez Martinez, PSU
Elana Kananykhina, PSU
Cris Keirsey, PSU
Ben Bolen, PSU Neuroscience Club
Krystal Khanh Nguyen, PSU
James Reynolds, PSU

SEE WHAT WE DID AT SUNNYSIDE BEFORE AND DURING COVID 🦠
Thank You Northwest Noggin!

Neurons in Minecraft & More!

A crayon in Homer’s brain

What about the glia?

VIRTUAL Society for Neuroscience conference!
2021-11-08 - 2021-11-11 | McCormick Place Chicago, 2301 S King Drive, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
WHAT: Society for Neuroscience conference
Live conference canceled
Virtual options only this year
LEARN MORE: Neuroscience 2021 to be Fully Virtual
WHERE: McCormick Place Convention Center, 2301 S King Dr, Chicago, IL 6061
WHEN: November 8 – 11, 2021 (NOW VIRTUAL ONLY; LIVE EVENTS CANCELED)
READ OUR ABSTRACT BELOW!
PREVIOUS PLANS: The following members of the Portland State University Neuroscience Club will be presenting posters at the virtual Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago, Illinois. Neuro Club is still presenting this year, virtually.
1. Rose Jardine; SfN member C-006789
2. Melissa DeMoura; SfN member C-009736
3. Nancy MacKenzie; SfN member C-009994
4. Liv McGrah; SfN member C-011836

LIVE CONFERENCE CANCELED

Arrival: Friday, November 12
Conference attendance/Poster presentation: TBD (Saturday, 11/13 or Sunday, 11/14)
Community Outreach w/University of Chicago Neuro Club: Monday, November 15
Conference attendance/Departure: Tuesday, November 16

LEARN MORE: SfN Statement on Neuroscience 2021 Planning
This extensive and extraordinary international conference celebrated its 49th year in 2019, and our NW Noggin outreach volunteers not only presented original posters, but visited with over 500 K-12 students in Chicago Public Schools, collaborated with the Society for Social Neuroscience, introduced neuroscience research and art to the public at the International Museum of Surgical Science – and brought the first real extra human brain specimens into the SfN conference itself!

LEARN MORE: Noggins in CHICAGO!
LEARN MORE: Student Reflections on Chicago
LEARN MORE: Noggins @ Society for Neuroscience
NOTE: We did this as unpaid, enthusiastic outreach volunteers, and secured our own funds for travel and attendance through the generosity of SfN (which provided complimentary conference registration), as well as our free public celebrations of neuroscience research, music, art and BRAINS!

LEARN MORE: NOGGINFEST
LEARN MORE: Nonprofit Noggins!
Opportunities to engage undergraduates, graduates, K-12 students and the public, who fund the National Institutes of Health, in discussions and art making around advances in neuroscience research is our passion, and we don’t just “#scitalk” about it – we genuinely do it!

The pandemic canceled SfN in 2020, but we’re thrilled to return, vaccinated and in awe of the power of scientific research to benefit, enrich and illuminate our lives to a new conference in Chicago in November, 2021.

We welcome support to bring our collaborating young neuroscientist and artist volunteers both to SfN, where they present their own work and encounter cutting edge discoveries – and into public schools and community spaces, where they listen, share, discuss and learn where research and stories intersect.

DONATE HERE!

Abstract Submitted!
Control/Tracking Number: 2021-J-6319-SfN
Activity: Theme J Abstract
Current Date/Time: August 26, 2021 11:24:48 AM EDT
NOTE: We decided to withdraw from formal attendance this year, and direct scarce resources towards direct community engagement – but we definitely plan to return live and ready for public outreach to an exciting in person SfN conference in 2022!

SfN 2021 Abstract
Reconnecting our brains one cell at a time in a pandemic

VIEW ABSTRACT: SfN 2021 Abstract Submission
DOWNLOAD: SfN-2021-Abstract-Submission
AUTHOR BLOCK *W. S. GRIESAR 1,2,4, J. J. LEAKE 1,3;
1Northwest Noggin, Portland, OR; 2Psychology/Neuroscience, 3Univ. Studies, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; 4Behavioral Neurosci., OHSU, Portland, OR
Abstract:
Our brains are home to billions of cells that reach out and connect. These networks of linked neurons and glia make us who we are, and let us perceive, think and behave. When separated by trauma or injury they are remarkably plastic, capable of establishing new synapses, developing creative approaches to navigating a complex world. Nonprofit NW Noggin (nwnoggin.org) organizes undergraduates and graduates to collaborate, build community networks and inspire people about neuroscience and art. We bring diverse students excited by research and their own arts-integrated study of brains and behavior into K-12 public schools, youth correctional facilities, Congress, houseless youth centers, coffee shops and pubs to hear to what people already know and what they’d like to know, and to see where our stories and discoveries from labs and classrooms intersect. We’ve talked with almost 50,000 people since 2012! In 2020, with COVID-19 suspending in-person outreach, we developed a new found object brain cell project we could engage in online. We asked people to look around their own environment and find objects that reminded them of neurons or glia. We asked: “Can you construct a brain cell out of things that you find? What objects for you represent the function of a glial cell, or neuron, or the function of specific parts of a neuron? Do these objects have personal meaning, or say something about you?” We brought this project to K-12 classrooms in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii, and presented it through two global webinars in collaboration with BrainFacts.org, a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Society for Neuroscience.

The brain cells created and posted online with the hashtag #showusyourbraincell are extraordinary – beautiful, compelling, informative – and offer windows into people’s individual lives and circumstances. Many took the opportunity to explain the materials used and their significance, connecting essential aspects of other fields and cultures to basic structural components of our brains. A pandemic is traumatic, separates networks, and makes it hard to connect. Yet like our brain cells, we can adapt and find new approaches to our ever-changing world. Building excitement and awareness of discoveries, educational options and careers through arts-integrated neuroscience outreach also trains new scientists to collaborate, engages more people, and increases awareness and support for community investment in both brain research and the arts.

LEARN MORE: Pandemic connections
LEARN MORE: Reconnecting Our Brains, One Cell at a Time
LEARN MORE: Action & Potential!
LEARN MORE: Returning to find a voice
LEARN MORE: Uploading your brain from Vancouver
LEARN MORE: Ho brah, he lolo maoli kēlā!
LEARN MORE: NogginFest 2021: Threshold Potential!
LEARN MORE: A crayon in Homer’s brain
LEARN MORE: Neurons in Minecraft & More!
LEARN MORE: Thank You Northwest Noggin!

Noggin @ Helen Gordon!
2021-11-18 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helen Gordon Childhood Development Center, 1609 SW 12th Ave, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to pre-K classrooms at Helen Gordon Center
We did it!

NEW POST BY PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO SCHOLAR ANDREA RANO COMING SOON 🙂
WHERE: Helen Gordon Child Development, 1609 SW 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97201
WHEN: Thursday, November 18, 2021, 10:00am – noon

“I like having conversations with kids. Grownups never ask me what my third favorite reptile is.” – Simon Holland
We’re so excited to return to Helen Gordon!

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
2. Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
3. Andrea Rano, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
4. Britta Harbury, PSU
5. Alex Heinrich, PSU
6. Bharani Nallamala, PSU
7. Kira Rosen, PSU
8. Levi Banks, PSU
9. Bina Anvari, PSU

See what we did last time:
Meet your brain cells!

LEARN MORE about Noggin pre-K/Kindergarten outreach: I am thankful…for my brain!

Noggin @ Bridge to Pathways!
2021-11-19 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bridges to Pathways Detox Center, 58646 McNulty Way, Saint Helens, OR, 97051, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Bridge to Pathways residential drug/alcohol treatment program
We did it!

NEW POST BY PSU UNDERGRADUATE ELLIE PHELPS!
Pathways Under Change

WHERE: Columbia Community Mental Health, 58646 McNulty Way, St Helens, OR 97051
WHEN: Friday, November 19, 2021; 11:00am – 1:00pm
Contact: Rain Marie Carroll, ​MS, QMHP, CADC-R

We’re excited to meet residents and providers in St. Helens!
From Rain Marie Carroll, the Residential Clinical Administrator

Pathways Residential Treatment Facility: Pathways is a 16-bed substance use disorder treatment center. The facility is not gender specific. Clients complete about 8 hours of SUDs treatment programming and individual counseling sessions with our Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselors each day.
Alternatives Residential Treatment Facility: Alternatives is a 9-bed treatment facility for individuals that are under the jurisdiction of Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB). This occurs when an individual commits a felony and successfully pleads guilty with the exception of insanity. The facility is not gender specific. Clients are required to complete a set number of group and individual counseling hours each week. Clients are assigned to a level system, and they are afforded greater freedom as they achieve lower levels.
Cornerstone Residential Treatment Facility: Cornerstone is a 16-bed treatment facility for individuals that are suffering with severe, persistent mental illness. The facility is not gender specific. This is the least restrictive facility as clients are not required to complete any group or individual counseling sessions.
Bridge to Pathways Medical Detoxification Center: Detox is unfortunately closed at this time due to short staffing. We provide detoxification services for all substances except benzodiazepines. This is a 9-bed detox center that is not gender specific.

COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS

Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
Ellie Phelps, PSU
Brooke Searle, PSU
Will Nasi, PSU
Joanna “hisei hii3e” DeMeyer, Oregon State University
Sienna Morris, PCC/NIH BUILD EXITO
Tiara Freeman, PSU
Britta Harbury, PSU

Noggin @ Alliance High
2021-12-07 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Alliance High School @ Kenton, 7528 N. Fenwick Avenue, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit to Alliance High School @ Kenton
We did it!

An Axonal Alliance

From Geof Garner (TRIO/PPS): “That was wonderful!!! Thanks a million. We loved it. It was definitely the best experience this school year for everyone. You’re amazing!”

WHERE: Alliance High School at Kenton, 7528 N. Fenwick Ave., Portland, OR 97217
WHEN: Tuesday, December 7, 10:00am – noon; arrive ~9:45am for setup

All volunteers must be fully vaxxed and masked 🙂
Alliance @ Kenton is a small, supportive high school with day and evening hours for students ages 16 to 21 who are within twelve credits of graduation. Noggin volunteers are excited to learn what 10th through 12th graders already know about brains – and want to discuss further!

From a school counselor @ Alliance: “I have had a chance to talk to some of our students about your visit. Some topics they are interested in include the way in which the following affect neurodevelopment: Music/Art, Gaming, Anxiety/Depression/Stress, Prescribed medication (especially around mental health), Recreational drug use…”

To join us, please contact griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu.
COMMITTED VOLUNTEERS

Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
Jackie Zavala, PSU
Kira Rosen, PSU
Alex Phanphackdy, PSU
Dylan Smith, PSU
Bharani Nallamala, PSU
Britta Harbury, PSU
Taylor Degeneres, PSU
Skye Skalbeck, PSU

Gray Matters @ This Moment @ PSU!
2022-01-13 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Gray Matters @ This Moment!
We did it!

WATCH HERE: @ This Moment: Gray Matters
WHERE: Portland State University Online Webinar (REGISTER HERE)
WHEN: Thursday, January 13, 4 – 5pm (Pacific)

Please join us for a conversation about how PSU is working alongside community partners to bring neuroscience research and philosophy into K-12 schools.

We’ll be joined by:
-Neuroscientist Bill Griesar and artist Jeff Leake, psychology faculty and co-founders of NW Noggin, a volunteer-run nonprofit that brings science and art into schools
-Undergraduate NW Noggin volunteers Britta Harbury and Sienna Morris
-Alex Sager, professor and chair of philosophy who founded the Oregon High School Ethics Bowl and developed a senior capstone that brings philosophy to children in grades 1-8
-Travis Eddy, a middle school teacher at the Ivy School, a public charter Montessori in Portland that has been working with the Philosophy Department since 2014
-Jolie Gentzkow-Foster ’21, a philosophy graduate who was a student in the capstone and served as a TA for the Philosophy Summer Camp

PRESENTATION SLIDES (PPT): At This Moment PSU 2022
PRESENTATION SLIDES (PDF): At This Moment PSU 2022

PSU Neuro Club: Dr. Anna Lembke!
2022-02-03 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: The Portland State University Neuroscience Club presents Dr. Anna Lembke, bestselling author of Dopamine Nation!
They did it!

Over 60+ participants!

WATCH HERE: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
WHERE: ONLINE (ZOOM ID: 844 8208 3419; Password: [REDACTED]
WHEN: Thursday, February 3, 2022, 6:30pm Pacific

Join us from anywhere – FREE!
Dr. Lembke is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. She will be presenting topics from her latest book, and New York Times bestseller, “Dopamine Nation.”

PSU Neuro Club: Sensation Station!
2022-02-10 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Smith Center, Portland State University, 1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR, 97201, United States
WHAT: The Portland State University Neuroscience Club explores the neuroscience of taste (with miracle berries!) and other senses!
WHERE: LIVE in person, Smith Memorial Student Union Room 327
WHEN: Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6:30pm Pacific

Come explore the senses!
We’ll have all sorts of treats and activities to stimulate your minds and bodies!
LEARN MORE: Miraculin research, best current explanation

PSU Neuro Club: Miracle Berries & Taste!
2022-02-10 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: The Portland State University Neuroscience Club presents on the neuroscience of taste!
WHERE: LIVE in person, Smith Memorial Student Union Room 327
WHEN: Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6:30pm Pacific

Come explore the senses!
There will be all sorts of treats and activities to stimulate your minds and bodies.

NW Noggin @ HERSENOLYMPIADE!
2022-02-12 05:15 - 06:15 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: NW Noggin presents @ the Brain Olympics in the Netherlands!
We did it!
Gathertown, Gathertown and hear the tale of the Netherlandic Noggin

WHERE: ONLINE! REGISTER HERE: Registration Brain Olympiad 2022
(you can also email for a link: expo@hersenolympiade.nl)
WHEN: Saturday, February 12, 5:15am Pacific (2:15pm CET)

The Dutch Brain Olympiad 2022 is almost here!

“The Dutch Brain Olympiad is organized by several volunteers. Most are doing a study related to neuroscience or work on researching the brain. The Brain Olympiad of 2022 is the largest event so far! The contestants are coming from all over the Netherlands!”

LEARN MORE: Behind the scenes of the Dutch Brain Olympiad 2022
Northwest Noggin will discuss (and exhibit!) real brains, art and the intersection between the two. Join us to make your own found object brain cells and discover how the arts and neuroscience offer compelling insights into who we are.

MAKE YOUR OWN BRAIN CELL: Found Neuron/Glia Project

THREE GROUPS OF STUDENTS (after 15 minute set-up)
1. GROUP ONE: 2:30pm CET/5:30am Pacific – 2:45pm CET/5:45am Pacific
2. GROUP TWO: 2:45pm CET/5:45am Pacific – 3:00pm CET/6:00am Pacific
3. GROUP THREE: 3:00pm CET/6:00am Pacific – 3:15pm CET/6:15am Pacific

PARTICIPANTS
1. Austin Howard, Radboud University
2. Bill Griesar, Portland State University/OHSU/NW Noggin
3. Jeff Leake, Artist, Portland State University/NW Noggin
SLIDES (PPT): Dutch Brain Olympics 2022
*SLIDES (PDF): Dutch Brain Olympics 2022

PSU Neuro Club: Interdisciplinary Neuroscience!
2022-02-17 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: The Portland State University Neuroscience Club hosts a panel discussion on Interdisciplinary Neuroscience!
WHERE: ONLINE ZOOM ID 874 4057 4772
WHEN: Thursday, February 10, 2022, 6:30pm Pacific

What is Interdisciplinary Neuroscience?

Interdisciplinary neuroscience explores the relationship between our brains and behavior from multiple perspectives, including psychology, biology, speech and hearing sciences, social science, systems science, direct community engagement and the arts.
Memory, attention, perception, language, feeling, and decision making in social contexts all depend on brain structure and function. People in this field examine how the underlying physiology of the nervous system relates to individuals’ psychological and behavioral processes.
Those with training in interdisciplinary neuroscience can pursue a variety of careers. Many individuals, particularly with graduate training, may conduct research in both laboratory and clinical settings, and work in academic, business, healthcare, art and policy making environments.
EXPLORE: Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Minor @ Portland State University
Courses and requirements from the PSU Bulletin

How did we get a minor?
STEAM Ahead: A new interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Portland State!

PSU students have a long-standing passion for brains and have sought many opportunities to enrich their neuroscience education as undergraduates. They’ve studied the intricacies of both brain and behavior in psychology and biology courses, worked in labs at OHSU, participated in the NIH BUILD EXITO and McNair scholars programs, presented research at the Society for Neuroscience, brought learning outside college classrooms via the active PSU Neuroscience Club and let knowledge serve our Northwest community through interdisciplinary neuroscience outreach as volunteers with the non-profit NW Noggin.

Noggin @ Washington Elementary!
2022-02-22 08:30 - 14:50 (America/Los_Angeles) | Washington Elementary School, 2908 S St #2932, Vancouver, WA, 98663, United States
WHAT: Noggin visit with K-5 students at Washington Elementary!
We did it!
Hands on Brains!

WHERE: Washington Elementary School, 2908 S St #2932, Vancouver, WA 98663
WHEN: Tuesday, February 22, 2022; 8:30am – 2:50pm
Contact: Carla Feltz, Coordinator Community Outreach and Family Engagement, Vancouver Public Schools
Returning to Clark County!
Our Noggin volunteers will talk brains and make art with kindergarten through 5th graders in Vancouver Public Schools! All volunteers will be vaccinated, boosted and wear n95/kn95 masks (we’ll provide masks if needed) – and we’ll be in an outdoor, covered location.
FROM CARLA FELTZ (Coordinator Community Outreach and Family Engagement for
Vancouver Public Schools): “We have a room at the school we are making available for you and your team to have a break in that is a large space and you can all socially distance in the space. We will be providing some snacks and beverages (definitely coffee!!) for your team to keep you fueled throughout the day. We will also have tents in case of rain.”
SCHEDULE
8:35-9:20 1st Grade
9:30-10:15 Kindergarten
10:25-11:10 5th Grade
11:15-12:15 LUNCH
12:15-1:00 2nd Grade
1:05-1:50 4th Grade
1:50-2:05 BREAK FOR RECESS
2:05-2:50 3rd Grade

COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS
1. Bill Griesar, PSU/OHSU/NW Noggin
2. Jeff Leake, PSU/NW Noggin
3. Arielle Isakharov, OHSU
4. Ben Bolen, PSU Neuroscience Club
5. Bradley Marxmiller, PSU/NIH BUILD EXITO
6. Alex Heinrich, PSU
7. Melissa DeMoura, PSU
8. Rose Jardine, PSU Neuroscience Club
9. Britta Harbury, PSU

Noggin @ Fort Vancouver!
2022-03-03 07:15 - 14:05 (America/Los_Angeles) | Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA, 98661, United States
WHAT: Noggin outreach at Fort Vancouver!
We did it!
Tired Trappers at Fort

WHERE: Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th St, Vancouver, WA 98661
(We will be OUTDOORS for this event, in a covered area with coffee and snacks!)

WHEN: Thursday, March 3, 2022, 7:15am – 2:05pm
Yes, they STILL start that early 😝 And NO, they shouldn’t… 🙄

We LOVE Fort Vancouver!

We’ve visited Coreyanne Russell and James Cederstrom’s 9th through 12th grade classrooms on multiple occasions, and are excited to return live (omicron-permitting) in 2022!
CHECK OUT THE QUESTIONS!

COME JOIN US!
Please email griesar@pdx.edu and jleake@pdx.edu to get involved 🙂
ALL VOLUNTEERS VAXXED, BOOSTED AND DOUBLE MASKED
(we’ll have n95/kn95 masks available too, and will be outdoors)
COMMITTED PARTICIPANTS

Bill Griesar, NW Noggin, Portland State University, OHSU
Kass Fitzgerald, PSU
Theresa Vu, PSU
Alex Phanphackdy, PSU (7:15 – 10)
Darrin Lane, Oregon State University
Denesa Lockwood, OHSU
Ben Bolen, PSU Neuroscience Club
Alex Heinrich, PSU
Tira Gaston, PSU

See what we’ve done previously at the sleep-deprived Home of the Trappers!
Uploading your brain from Vancouver

Why do you study the brain?

Trap Squad!

Brains, biofeedback & SLEEP

Ventricles in Vancouver!

Noggin in LONDON @ Kings!
2022-03-08 11:30 - 12:30 (Europe/London) | King’s College London Guys Campus, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, New Hunt's House, London, SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
WHAT: Noggin presents on Interdisciplinary Neuroscience!
We did it!

No pics (yes, that just about killed me :)) – but we have never had the opportunity to discuss interdisciplinary neuroscience teaching or outreach in a more unique or inspiring location!

The Percy Theatre at the historic Gordon Museum of Pathology is utterly extraordinary, with an unparalleled collection of brains, bones and bodies, in a stunning, spiraling library, which includes some of the original medical work of absolute luminaries in their fields, from Thomas Addison’s disease specimen (for the eponymous Addison’s disease) to Thomas Hodgkin’s first stethoscope.

We enjoyed a private tour from Bill Edwards, the museum curator, who has offered us the chance to return anytime (we’re going back tomorrow after our next talk!).

WHERE: Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Percy Lecture Theatre, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom

WHEN: Tuesday, March 8, 11:30am – 12:30pm GMT; luncheon to follow

We are gobsmacked and excited to join our colleagues at King’s to speak about the journey of Northwest Noggin, the work we do, our challenges and successes, the communities we work with and the role of art and creativity in outreach and teaching!

We’ll be at King’s the next day too!
DETAILS: Noggin + SciComm @ Kings!

LEARN MORE: Noggins & Kings

SLIDES (PPT): Noggin at Kings 2022
SLIDES (PDF): Noggin at Kings 2022

Noggin + SciComm @ Kings!
2022-03-09 10:45 - 11:30 (Europe/London) | King’s College London Guys Campus, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, New Hunt's House, London, SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
WHAT: Noggin + Comms Sci undergraduates @ Kings!
We did it!

Wonderful questions from students!!
How do you handle the more controversial topics in science?
Can you offer an example of how you’d specifically integrate music into your outreach?
I’m so intrigued by where you go. How do you make these connections with different communities?
I love that you go places for outreach, and don’t rely on bringing people to campus (what you called “in-reach”). How do you avoid upsetting some of the more senior faculty who aren’t always comfortable with change?
What sort of institutional support do you receive for this wonderful work?

From Leigh Wilson, Public Engagement Manager, MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London: “We just wanted to extend our huge thanks for coming along and sharing amazing work, experiences, and philosophies with the students today. It was brilliant to hear your journey and the students (and us) were totally inspired hearing about your programmes and ideas. All best and thank you so much again for taking the time to come to King’s.”
WHERE: Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, King’s College London, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom

The discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 was enabled by Dr Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction work at King’s. This metal model stands in the entrance of The Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 9, 10:45am – 11:30pm GMT

We’re excited to meet with Comms sci undergraduates at Kings College London to share interests and experiences in innovative, evidence-based community outreach!

We’ll be at King’s the day before too!
DETAILS: Noggin in LONDON @ Kings!

LEARN MORE: Noggins & Kings

Society for Neuroscience TRIVIA!
2022-03-16 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
WHAT: Noggin hosts a VIRTUAL TRIVIA EVENT for the Society for Neuroscience!
That was great fun!

WHERE: REGISTER ONLINE HERE – Brain Trivia LIVE
WHEN: Wednesday, March 16, 3:00pm Pacific/6:00pm EST
