Brain Awarenes Week Córdoba - Getting to know our brain.

PISANO, MA. VICTORIA; MIR, FRANCO; LAURINO, LISANDRO; MONTROULL, LAURA; ZAMPONI, EMILIANO; GARCÍA KELLER, CONSTANZA; REVILLO, DAMIAN; SIGWALD ERIC

Huerta Grande, Córdoba

Congreso; XXIX Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias; 2014

Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias

The activity consisted on talks, performances, film projections and a theater play. 1-What?s up Brain? Interactive talks for the general public: 1) Are we programmed for stress? We tried to answer questions such as what is the stress response? How does it have evolved? How is it studied in the lab? How does it impact our health? 2) The gender of neurons. Talk to discuss about sexual differentiation of the brain. People aged between 20-60 years old participated each day. 2-The dancing brain: Street performance in which dancers start to dance amongst people while several scientist in their lab coats study their behavior and then they explain to the audience how the audiovisual information is processed and how we coordinate the body. They also handed a brochure with more information about the brain and its functions related to music and dance. The performance was repeated 3 days in the City center and in the university cafeteria. 3-Movie festival. We selected two Argentinean movies related to neuroscience topics and after the projection we discussed the concepts with the people and the researchers and physicians that we invited. El hijo de la novia: Alzheimer?s disease. El día que me amen: Depression and anxiety. People between 25-60 years old participated each day.4-Theater play ?Power to the Ants!? Two ants helped by a cockroach investigate how humans learn and how memory works with the intention of taking over the world. The audiences were families with school-aged children.