Neuroscientists at WSU Vancouver study how you hear music, form memories, feel pain, and become addicted to drugs like heroin, and cocaine. How do we preserve, and restore hearing? How can opiates, cannabinoids, and other chemicals be used effectively to treat chronic pain? Is it possible to erase powerful, drug-related memories, and…
Jeff has created some eye (and brain!)-catching work over the last few years, highlighting graduate student efforts in research and art… His posters for Noggin outreach events at Velo Cult, a famed bicycle shop pub, have attracted many to free, collaborative science/art presentations in Northeast Portland, and have helped inform and excite…
NW Noggin was invited, as the guest of both the Neuroscience and the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics (STEAM) caucuses in the US House of Representatives, to present a “Brains + Art” briefing in April, 2016! READ MORE: NW Noggin House briefing invitation – 4-27-16 Image by Jeff Leake and Alex Voigt (2016) Three of…
This past Thursday March 10th, NW Noggin and Velo Cult Bike Shop presented Traumatic Brain Injury: Comedy, Communication, Community. The alliterative title might have had a few curious attendees scratching their noggins… Just what does comedy have to do with TBI?! And what does community have to do with an individual’s TBI?? Well,…
Our subcortical sensory nuclei were nearly overwhelmed by masses of eager children, parents, grandparents and members of the public curious about neurons at the annual OHSU Brain Fair! Held at the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI), this exceptionally popular event brings together scientists, medical professionals and educators, and is the largest…
All images and 4K video by Alex Voigt… Our third and final day at Bonny Slope Elementary, this time with well over 200 2nd and 3rd graders! In the service of equity, our Spy, Scout, Scribe, Guard, Councilor and Wise Leader have introduced brains and art projects to every student in the school… Our…
Another day at Bonny Slope Elementary, this time with 200 4th and 5th grade students eager to learn about their Wise Leader (frontal lobe cortex), and their Spy (occipital lobe), Scout (temporal lobe), Councilor of Spatial Awareness (parietal lobe), Scribe (their hippocampus, in their medial temporal lobe), and Guard (that threat-sensitive,…
Tonight Noggin offered visitors to the Newmark Theater a generous spread of colorful neurons, real brains, cannabis strain guides, and even home-baked brownies (the regular kind, thanks to Brianna Jacobs and Tara Leake)..! This was the most popular, practically sold out lecture of Brain Awareness Season, and folks arrived early to admire Noggin neurons,…
All images and video by Alex Voigt… Five exceptionally creative Noggin participants debuted a play at Bonny Slope Elementary School, for kindergartners and first graders eager to learn about the various parts of their brains..! Erin McConnell, Jacob Schoen, Penny Allen and Brianna Jacobs from Portland State University, and Matty McCasland from…
Thanks to Kate Stout of the OHSU Brain Institute, NW Noggin had plenty of space on Monday night, for brains, games, and our eager volunteers from Portland State University, and WSUV… We were there to learn about how video games might improve cognitive performance, from Adam Gazzaley, a professor of Neurology, Physiology and…