Almost 100 people piled into Velo Cult on Thursday night (10/23) to learn about memories, including drug memories, and innovative efforts to disrupt such memories by removing chemical scaffolding around synapses known as “perineuronal nets…” Megan Slaker, a graduate student in Neuroscience at Washington State University Vancouver, led the crowd in a spirited…
Noggin planning for a late May/early June Velo Cult presentation on anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders. With Tara Chowdhury from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU and Kayla Townsley, an NIH BUILD EXITO scholar and figurative painter from Portland State University…
Noggin planning for a May 2 Velo Cult presentation on the role of error and “failure” in research and art! With Rebecca Hood from Behavioral Neuroscience at OHSU and Krystal Ngene of the Kúkátónón Children’s African Dance Troupe… Meeting at Velo Cult @ 5:00pm… Velo event tentatively set for Wednesday,…
“It’s about reimagining icons and perceptions of what is beautiful—and who is beautiful.” –Elia Alba Come with me, now I need you (2007), by Mickalene Thomas Brains thrive and develop in distributed networks, linking rich nodes of cortical gray matter through propagating axonal threads. This process requires risks and consequences,…
We’re lucky to live in the Pacific Northwest, with easy access to trails, forests and campgrounds. In Portland, it’s a short hike or MAX ride to the Hoyt Arboretum, where you’re quickly immersed in conifers and damp earth. You can bicycle west to Stub Stewart State Park along the lush…
NW Noggin was delighted to participate in the annual Oregon Art Education Association (OAEA) conference in Wilsonville, just down I-5 from Portland! It was a brilliantly colorful autumn day to run a workshop titled “STEAM Ahead! Using Art and Science to Engage Underserved Communities…” LEARN MORE: 2017 OAEA Conference Brochure We’d…
WHAT: “Forest Bathing: Your Brain on Nature @ Velo” with Brittany Alperin (OHSU) and Sienna Morris WHERE: Velo Cult, 1969 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97213 WHEN: THURSDAY, October 26, 2017; 6 – 8pm UPDATE: See what we did at Velo in October! Bathing your brain @ Velo NW Noggin Velo…
Music! Bands! Art! Brains! We’re planning the inaugural Noggin Fest 17 for October, to enthuse and inform our community about neuroscience research, and multi-institutional, arts-integrated education and outreach..! WHAT: Planning for Noggin Fest WHERE: Velo Cult (where else?), 1969 NE 42nd Ave, Portland, OR 97213 WHEN: …
A huge crowd of curious people streamed into Velo Cult eager to learn about local, federally funded research on how chemicals in marijuana might help in the treatment of chronic pain, and also hear from creative Portland musicians Bob Desaulniers and Tony Remple… This is becoming a season of public cannabis research presentations…
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” -Hans Selye “Inspired by the HPA axis,” by Kanani Miyamoto Final exams, politics, holidays, implicit and explicit bias – it’s no wonder people feel stressed these days. Yet stress can also be beneficial, and there are steps we can…