Post written by New/Mixed media artist Kit S. Carlton & Ph.D. candidate Sydney Boutros from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU Noggin Talks are back! The crowd buzzed in anticipation of the night’s presentation, glasses clinked, murmurs echoed throughout the room, the enthusiasm fully palpable as NW Noggin’s Old Town Talks settled…
Page by Aaron Eisen, PSU Neuroscience Club (and Bill Griesar) How does our brain communicate with the 650+ muscles in our body, and allow us to move? What drives our ability to walk around, grasp items and direct our physical, muscular engagement with our environment? By understanding and harnessing these…
Our NW Noggin volunteers eagerly returned to meet with young people incarcerated at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility this week, to consider the state of all our changing, developing brains… “Because the brain is undergoing such rapid, fundamental changes at this stage of life, adolescents have a heightened capacity to learn…
“The mistakes pointed out the problems with the project, pushing the maker to improve upon them.” –Mark Frauenfelder Making things, experimenting, responding to what’s in front of you, thinking about your options, steps and consequences, learning from your own mistakes and converting your developing ideas and data into tangible objects,…
Post by Aaron Eisen, PSU Neuroscience Club (and Bill Griesar) How does our brain communicate with the 650+ muscles in our body, and allow us to move? What drives our ability to walk around, grasp items and direct our physical, muscular engagement with our environment? By understanding and harnessing these…
What do zombies have to do with neuroscience? What might vampires teach us about addiction? How does the repeated trauma of losing family members, friends – and werewolf lovers – impact our hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and our hippocampus? And why hasn’t the Hippocamp made an appearance on the show? (or am…
The American Medical Women’s Association is a century old organization serving “to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health…by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring, and strategic alliances…” LEARN MORE: American Medical Women’s Association “A woman’s health is her capital.” –Harriet Beecher Stowe We LOVE collaborating with…
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.” ― Louise Erdrich UPDATE (3/2021): We are so excited to return to Siletz next fall, for a potentially live, in person…
Post compiled by Jesse Benefiel, Vice President, PSU Neuroscience Club It’s easy to look at the mechanics of neuroscience and wonder how working scientists do it. Analyzing what those quadrillion synapses mean, studying exceedingly complex systems, using – dare I say it – math; it’s not exactly what everyone might…
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” –Bruce Lee We arrived at Velo Cult, by far our favorite bike shop pub, for our penultimate public presentation in this venerable community institution. More outreach is on the way, but sadly Velo has closed after the City…