INVESTIGADORES
DE FRANCESCO Pablo Nicolas
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
BAW 2014, La Plata: ?Electric Brain?
Autor/es:
MARINEZ DAMONTE V; DE FRANCESCO P N; MUSTAFÁ E R; AGOSTI F; LOPEZ SOTO EJ; RODRIGUEZ S; CABRAL A; GARCÍA ROMERO G; FRASSA M V; PERELLÓ M; RAINGO J
Lugar:
Huerta Grande, Córdoba
Reunión:
Congreso; XXIX CONGRESO ANUAL DE LA SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE INVESTIGACION EN NEUROCIENCIAS; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias
Resumen:
Here we
shortly describe the activities performed at the first BAW that took place at
La Plata City, at the Natural Science Museum, organized by members of the
Neurophysiology and Electrophysiology Labs of the IMBICE. We structured the
activities as a circuit with four stations plus a central area where younger
children could draw, paint neurons and make brain hats. The first station
consisted in a dynamic introductive talk about the brain and neuroscience plus
the possibility of looking and touching real brains from different species. The
second station offered the possibility to look at small brains (from a frog and
a cockroach) and brain pieces under a magnifier, and watch neurons in brain
slices with a microscope. The third station was aimed at showing neurons in
action: we recorded the electrical activity from a cockroach leg?s sensitive
neurons and stimulated motor neurons with electrical signals from different
sources. The last station was aimed at demonstrating how fast neurons work by
giving interactive talks about how the electrical signals in the brain and
spinal cord give account for the reaction time our body has, and then by
performing different measurements of reaction times and reflexes. At times, in
the central area, we also carried out a representation of neurotransmission
using a giant neuron made of recycled material. We estimate that more than 600
people with a very wide range of ages and previous knowledge about biology and
neuroscience visited the BAW.