Brain Awareness

Brain Awareness 2010:
The Brain and the Mind

What’s on your mind?
For all of us the answer is the same: a culmination of thoughts, memories and emotions.

During this year’s OHSU Brain Awareness Season, discover how your mind  uses these tools to formulate decisions, language, rational thought ,empathy and self-awareness. 

Join our quest to understand the single-most complex machine in the universe by learning firsthand from world-renowned neuroscientists whose research gives us insight into who we are as individuals. Hear for yourself how their discoveries also allow us to understand, diagnose and treat  diseases of the mind which affect millions of American lives.

Brought to you by the OHSU Brain Institute, one of the largest groups of neuroscientists and clinicians in the country… who provide the latest in breakthroughs, understanding and care for each and every Oregonian.

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Did you know?

Discover how to keep your brain healthy at every stage of life!

• The Baby Brain
• The Child Brain
• The Adolescent Brain
• The Adult Brain
• The Aging Brain

Upcoming  Brain-Related Events

December

12/16/2009 Emerging therapies for epilepsy

January

01/08/2010 Multiple Sclerosis Brown Bag Lunch Urinary Challenges in MS

February

02/01/2010  How We Decide: From Brains to Behavior, Jonah Lehrer

02/12/2010 Multiple Sclerosis Brown Bag Lunch MRI; What do those white spots mean?

02/22/2010 The Mercurial Mind: Bipolar Disorder and Creativity, Kay Redfield Jamison

March

03/01/2010 The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, Joseph LeDoux

03/08/2010 The Executive Brain: The Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind, Jordan Grafman

03/12/2010 Multiple Sclerosis Brown Bag Lunch: Give it your best shot: Managing your injections

03/15/2010 Free Marquam Hill Lecture ADHD: What Goes Wrong, And Why? The Latest Thinking on the Intersection of Brain and Development in ADHD, Joel Nigg

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Recent News

• One-third of people aged 65 or older have a fall at least once each year. Dr. Jeff Kaye, Professor of Neurology in the School of Medicine and Director of the Oregon Center on Aging and Technology (ORCATECH), is working with Intel and others to reduce the number and the severity of falls.
  Read the recent New York Times article

• Fay Horak, PhD, Receives Grant
• NINDS grant funding awarded to Mary Heinricher, Ph.D.
• OHSU Brain Institute is facilitating planning for autism research and program development across the institution
• Final Call for Nominations - 2009 Festival of Lights Award
• Results of Multi-Institutional Clinical Study Reported

• OHSU to Study Whether Complementary Medicine Reduces Extreme Stress in Alzheimer's Caregivers

• Take a deep breath: OHSU offers combat veterans meditation therapy to help ease effects of combat-related PTSD

• OHSU Researchers to Test Gammaglobulin Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease

• OHSU to Study Whether Low-Fat Dieting Benefits Multiple Sclerosis Patients

• Changes in White Matter May Predict Dementia Risk

• OHSU Study to Determine Which Seizure Medication, Delivery Method is Best