Stepping Up for Alzheimer’s Research
Family history and professional experiences encouraged an Oregonian to volunteer for the AHEAD clinical trial Volunteering for the AHEAD clinical trial has given Jennifer Weiss more than one way to...
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Nourish your neurons during the 2018 Brain Awareness Season
What are the ingredients we need to maximize our brains' potential? This year, our 2018 Brain Awareness Season lecture series explores the critical influence nourishing the brain has on our daily...
Discovering the latest in TBI research, evaluation and treatment
For many graduate students, myself included, conferences and symposiums are little more than an opportunity to stuff your face with free food, nervously defend your most bewildering preliminary data,...
How to talk about a tough topic: Tips for Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Dr. Alan Teo shares the right way (and the wrong way) to talk about suicide. In less than a month since its debut on August 17, a music video...
A look back at SAIL, the Summer Academy to Inspire Learning
As students end their summer break and head back to school this month, we take a look back at July's Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL), a week-long summer camp for high school students...
Meet the minds behind NW Noggin, a K-12 neuroscience outreach program
At 8 a.m. in an eastern Washington elementary school gymnasium, Bill Griesar, Ph.D. ’01, is in a situation that would make anyone else sweat. Dr. Griesar has brought his group of neuroscience...
First annual Art of Neuroscience competition now accepting entries
The first annual 'Art of Neuroscience' competition is now accepting entries. All OHSU staff, faculty and students/trainees are invited to submit an original image that explores the aesthetics of...
“Brain team” collaboration helps kids learn about the influence of alcohol
ThinkFirst Oregon, the Portland Alcohol Research Center, and the Oregon Poison Center, (AKA the Brain Team) all located at OHSU, recently collaborated on a presentation for kids in grades 4-6,...
Year in review: The most popular “On the Brain” posts of 2015
As we welcome in the new year, here’s a look back at the brain-related news you may have missed; a round-up of our most read blog posts of 2015: 1. Acupuncture and diet changes to treat...
Miss Oregon an important voice for traumatic brain injury
When I was a freshman in high school, I suffered a traumatic brain injury due to a cheerleading accident. As someone who had no prior knowledge of brain injuries, it was difficult to understand what...
Neurology residents teach Milwaukie 5th graders about the brain
"What have you learned about the brain so far today?" Hands shot into the air all around the 5th grade classroom at Linwood Elementary. "I learned that you have to wear a helmet." "I...