Brain Awareness Week EUC
Gallery Brain Awareness Week 2024
From 11-16 March 2024 we organised Brain Awareness Week in Rotterdam 🧠
It was an exciting week, with days dedicated to different target audiences - kids, high school students, elderly, families, and adults - and activities ranging from interactive workshops to seminars, laboratory tours, brain dissections, and multiple lectures held by professionals in the field.
Our aim with Brain Awareness Week was to inform people about different topics in neuroscience and show how applicable neuro can be to many domains of life. To the broad public, neuroscience often seems overwhelmingly complex, unfortunately demotivating people to engage with it. But neuroscience encompasses topics such as neuro health, disease prevention, and mind control - that are eventually faced by everyone. Moreover, we hosted many research groups and professionals sharing inspiring insights into their cutting-edge clinical work.
We are proud to announce that we successfully implemented our wide range of activities, reaching many people from all paths of life. With months of work leading up to Brain Awareness Week, it has truly been an insanely rewarding experience to finally see the project take place. I want to especially thank Anderson Mora Cortes without whom this project would not have been possible as well as the amazing women in the team of Brain Awareness Week 2024!
Check here some of the nice pictures from the BAW-2024!
The first day of Brain Awareness Week 2024 was full of amazing and fun activities, including the VR interaction with Justin Beaver, for all the kids from different elementary schools in Rotterdam who came to EUC to learn about the brain! 🧠
On Wednesday 13th of March, at RASL facilities we welcomed an amazing group of students from different high schools in Rotterdam, to spend a very interactive and fun brain day! 🧠
On Friday 15th of March Brain Awareness Week activities at EUC, were dedicated to adults 🧠
On Thursday 14th of March BAW went to Aafje where we shared with a beautiful group of senior citizens the benefits of dancing on mental health!🧠 🎼.
We had an amazing closing of Brain Awareness Week at Natuurhistorisch Museum with several talks, a documentary, guided visits to the Neuro labs at EMC, and different stands!
Dr. K. Bauer and Dr. M. Wehrle from the Erasmus School of Philosophy had a very interesting and interactive workshop about...a normal brain...a normal mind? Join them in the conversation during the opening Panel Talk of Brain Awareness Week 2024!
Youth development is often examined as a period of risks and opportunities, given that brain development continues into the early twenties in interplay with social experiences. Evelin discussed how the same neural sensitivity contributing to risk-taking contributes to prosocial behavior towards others!
During the course of dementia, a brain disease, the personality of the person with dementia can change. How do you ensure you keep taking care of both the “former me” and the “new me”? What should be done if the preferences and values of a person with dementia alter? What is the status of AD?