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Brain Awareness

What’s on your mind?
For all of us the answer is the same: a culmination of thoughts, memories and emotions. Discover how your mind uses these tools to formulate decisions, language, rational thought, empathy and self-awareness at OHSU Brain Awareness Season 2010: The Brain and the Mind.

Brain Awareness 2010Brain 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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Discover how to keep your brain healthy at every stage of life!

Upcoming  Brain-Related Events


January

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

01/17/2010 Daniel Pink "Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us"

February

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

02/11/2010  The Risks & Benefits of Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis (Eugene)

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

02/15/2010 Brain Awareness Event Battling Brain Disorders: The Critical Importance of Mental Health Advocacy—For the Individual and For Society, Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Rhode Island

02/20/2010 Teacher Workshop:What is going on with ADHD? A Science Update

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

March

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

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

03/12/2010 The Risks & Benefits of Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis (Corvallis)

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

03/13/2010 OHSU Brain Fair

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

03/17/2010 Stephen Hall "Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience"

April

04/08/2010 The Risks & Benefits of Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis (Bend)

04/23/2010 Terry McDermott "101 THEORY DRIVE: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory"

 

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