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Subject: BRAIN FUN AND GAMES

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NIH News National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
<http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/> For Immediate Release: Monday, March 12, 2012
CONTACT: NIAAA Press Office,
301-443-3860,<e-mail:[log in to unmask]>

BRAIN FUN AND GAMES
NIH takes part in Brain Awareness Week 

Flying footballs, couch potato mice, and what can happen with
explosive-propelled iron spikes are just a few of the interactive tools that
scientists from the National Institutes of Health will use to teach young
people about the amazing human brain at the National Museum of Health and
Medicine in Silver Spring, Md., on March 14 and 15.

The NIH activities are part of the museum's celebration of Brain Awareness
Week, an annual worldwide effort coordinated by the Dana Alliance for Brain
Initiatives to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of
brain research. The week (March 12-16) brings together universities,
hospitals, patient advocacy groups, professional associations, government
agencies, service organizations, and schools to celebrate the brain.

"This is a great event that offers students the opportunity to gain a better
understanding of how the human brain develops and how it functions," said
Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D., acting director of the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). "It's also a wonderful way for
students to appreciate neuroscience as a potential career goal."

Scientists from seven NIH Institutes will be on hand to conduct interactive
activities with middle school students: 

---  NIAAA
At NIAAA's Cool Spot Carnival students will learn how alcohol interferes
with sensory perception, movement and balance, and try their hand scoring in
a football-toss game while wearing fatal vision goggles that simulate being
under the influence of alcohol. Young people tend to feel alcohol's effects
on their fine motor skills more than on their gross motor skills, and it is
these fine motor skills they will need to successfully complete the football
toss. This helps drive home the message that, even though adolescents may
not feel alcohol's effects as immediately as do older individuals, alcohol
is still affecting their functioning and putting them at risk. Other
carnival activities will include flip-board games that give students a
chance to pick your no's, demonstrating the best way to say no to alcohol,
and dispel the myth that everybody is drinking.

--- National Eye Institute (NEI)
NEI's More than Meets the Eye presentation uses optical illusions as a way
to learn about visual processing in the brain. Presenters will explain,
based on scientific research of the visual system, why we think we see
things that are not really there. Students will learn that vision takes more
than the eyes -- it involves complicated circuitry in the brain.

---  National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Scientists from NIA's Laboratory of Neuroscience will present Mysteries of
the Brain to allow students to explore how we learn about human brains. They
will discover how former couch potato mice benefit from healthy diets,
exercise, and mental stimulation.

--- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD) Students who visit NICHD's Alcohol and the Developing
Brain session will step inside NICHD's multisensory exhibit and see the
amazing Drunken Brain, pulsating with electricity and basking in a world of
colored lights and eerie sounds. NICHD scientists will explain some of the
unique effects of alcohol on the brain and how alcohol exposure during
pregnancy and adolescence can lead to possible brain damage and alcohol
addiction later in life.

--- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Students will play an
interactive computer-based game called Brain Derby. They will be divided
into two teams, each of which will have the opportunity to answer questions
related to how abused drugs act in the brain and body, with the winners
receiving a Brain Scientist certificate.

--- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) At NIMH's Seat of Personality
station, students will learn about the role of the frontal cortex in
emotion, judgment, empathy, humor and other facets of personality. Students
will be told the story of Phineas Gage and his famous 1848 railroad accident
that blew an iron spike through his frontal cortex. NIMH scientists will
depict his famous head injury and the changes seen in his personality after
the accident.  Students will also learn about the role the brain plays in
visual processing, by viewing optical illusions which will demonstrate that
they cannot see something unless their brain allows them to think.

--- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Children
will have the opportunity to explore the NINDS's Brain Lobe-oratorium, an
eye-catching, full-color, educational and interactive exhibit that is
designed to teach them about the lobes of the human brain.  NINDS scientists
will help students learn about what each of the brain's lobes does for
perception, thinking, personality, and behavior, and will answer questions
about such common activities as watching 3-D movies and texting their
friends.  

The National Museum of Health and Medicine's Brain Awareness Week activities
will take place at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, on the Forest
Glen Annex in Silver Spring, Md. Media wishing to attend should contact
Melissa Brachfeld at (301) 319-3313 or visit
<http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum> for more information.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National
Institutes of Health, is the primary U.S. agency for conducting and
supporting research on the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment
of alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and alcohol problems. NIAAA also disseminates
research findings to general, professional, and academic audiences.
Additional alcohol research information and publications are available at
<http://www.niaaa.nih.gov>.

The NEI conducts and supports research, training, health information
dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases,
visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and
the special health problems of individuals who are visually impaired or
blind. Additional information can be found at <http://www.nei.nih.gov>.

NIA leads the federal effort supporting and conducting research on aging and
the medical, social and behavioral issues of older people. For more
information on research and aging, go to <http://www.nia.nih.gov>.

The mission of NICHD is to ensure that every person is born healthy and
wanted, that women suffer no harmful effects from reproductive processes,
and that all children have the chance to achieve their full potential for
healthy and productive lives. In pursuit of these goals, NICHD supports a
broad spectrum of research on normal and abnormal human development,
including contraception, fertilization, pregnancy, childbirth, prenatal and
postnatal development, and childhood development through adolescence. The
mission areas also include research on intellectual and developmental
disabilities and rehabilitation medicine. More detailed information can be
found at: <http://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/org/supported_by.cfm>.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a component of the National
Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA
supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse
and addiction. The Institute carries out a variety of programs to inform
policy and improve practice. Fact sheets on the health effects of drugs of
abuse and information on NIDA research and other activities can be found on
the NIDA home page at <www.drugabuse.gov>. To order publications in English
or Spanish, call NIDA's DrugPubs research dissemination center at
1-877-NIDA-NIH or 240-645-0228 (TDD) or fax or email requests to
240-645-0227 or <http://drugpubs.drugabuse.gov/>. Online ordering is
available at <http://drugpubs.drugabuse.gov/>. 

The mission of the NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of
mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for
prevention, recovery and cure. For more information, visit
<http://www.nimh.nih.gov>.

NINDS is the nation's primary supporter of biomedical research on the brain
and nervous system. The Institute supports and conducts basic translational
and clinical research on the healthy and diseased nervous system, fosters
the training of investigators and seeks better understanding, diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of neurological disorders. For more information,
visit <http://www.ninds.nih.gov/>.

About the National Institutes of Health (NIH): NIH, the nation's medical
research agency, includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIH is the primary federal
agency conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical
research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs,
visit <www.nih.gov>.

 NIH...Turning Discovery into Health
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<http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2012/niaaa-12.htm>.

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