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Brain Awareness Week

Outside image of the Children's Museum of Houston it's a lovely evening image with subdued lighting, it's relevance to the page is; events are held here for children that tell about how the brain works

The Brain Awareness Week campaign, launched in 1996, has united the Society for Neuroscience with The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives and a coalition of over 1,200 science, advocacy, and other health organizations that share an interest in elevating public awareness of brain and nervous system research.

The Houston Chapter does not organize Brain Awareness Week activities, but many of its members sponsor activities. The Neuroscience Research Center (Dr. John H. Byrne, director) at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston sponsors an open house for young people at the local Museum of Health and Medical Science, and an annual public forum for discussions related to neuroscience and mental health.

Topics of the Public Forum

Human brain bisected in the sagittal plane, showing the white matter of the corpus callosum, it is labelled. This image was drawn in 1909 by Dr. Johannes Sobotta for the Atlas and Text-book of Human Anatomy Volume III Vascular System, Lymphatic system, Nervous system and Sense Organs

2012 Rehabilitation: Recovery, Restoration, and Re-integration
2011 Bipolar Disorder and Depression
2010 Childhood Brain Diseases
2009 Stroke and Vascular Disease
2008 Stem Cells - Their Potential for Neurologic Disease
2007 CNS Trauma and Rehabilitation
2006 Memory
2005 The Aging Brain

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Chapter Representative: Jonathan R. Flynn, Ph.D.
Rice University

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