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BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head - Photo Press Kit

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Mike Kempf
Evergreen Exhibitions
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	1. Real Human Brain Families and others visiting the nation's capital this summer can see a real human brain and are encouraged to touch, explore and learn about the body's central processing unit in "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head." Made possible by Pfizer Inc, the exhibit premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Click here to download
	2. Synapse Pop  Visitors learn how a synapse makes the connection between neurons, the brain's electrical relay system, at "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head." Made possible by Pfizer Inc, the exhibit premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Release a signal ball down an axon tunnel setting off a light show that imitates the action of an electrical signal traveling between neurons. Click here to download
	3. Back and Forth Visitors to "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head" can try to balance on a specially designed platform to see how the brain controls reflexes, autonomic functions and balance. Back and Forth is just one of the many interactive displays at the exhibit, made possible by Pfizer Inc and designed to bring the mysteries of the brain to light. The exhibit premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Click here to download
	4. Wired The brain develops in stages as we age. Visitors can trace the development of this essential organ from the womb to adolescence and beyond in "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head," premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Click here to download
	5. Two Girls Exam the Inner Brain Visitors get a hands-on look at the physical aspects of the body's central command through the "Unhinge-A-Brain" interactive display in a new national traveling exhibit, "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head." It premiered at the Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries Building in Washington, D.C. Click here to download
	6. Phineas Gage  Man's knowledge of the brain is relatively new. See the history of amazing clues and myths about its function at "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head," premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Displays such as a re-creation of the skull of Phineas Gage, a man whose brain was pierced by a metal rod, trace the evolution of scientists' understanding of the brain's physiology. Click here to download
	7. EEG Interactive stations at "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head" teach visitors about brain mechanics and function, illusion, sleep, health and evolution. Children and grownups can lean on electrodes to see a simulation of real-time EEG measurements of corresponding brain activity. The exhibit, made possible by Pfizer Inc, premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Click here to download
	8. Boost Your Brain "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head," premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., encourages brain health. In Boost Your Brain, visitors may spin the wheel to score points for activities that promote brain health - nutrition, exercise, etc. Points are lost for destructive behaviors. Click here to download
	9. Brain Surgery Simulation with Gamma Knife "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head" teaches visitors how the brain controls the mind and body, and how it may be affected by diseases and disorders. A gamma knife simulator allows visitors to try their hand at excising a brain tumor. The exhibit, made possible by Pfizer Inc, premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Click here to download
	10. Mystery of the Mind The mind involves perception, learning and memory, consciousness and self-awareness. It also involves dreams. "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head," premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., shares what has been learned about the mysterious inner workings of the mind. Click here to download
	11. Distortion Computer Interactive  Learn how the mind plays tricks on people at "BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head," premiered at the Arts and Industries Building at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Follow the instructions on several computer illusions to help scientists understand how the brain's biases affect our view of the world. Click here to downloadAll releases and terrific photos available electronically at Evergreen Exhibitions.

「腦與認知」展覽

简介:
Introduction:
脑是人体神经系统的主要器官，由以千亿计的神经细胞组成，结构十分复杂，具有广泛的调节和整合功能，也是身体各项机能的总指挥，掌管和协调人类在生理和心理方面的发展和运作。我们以往对它的运作机制所知甚少，但随着脑扫描和造影术等科技的进步，科学家已逐步了解人脑各区域在认知过程中所扮演的角色。展览展出一个巨型的脑部模型，并透过展板及多项互动游戏，介绍有关脑的结构与运作的有趣资讯，以及脑部神经传递信息机制在出现问题时所造成的病症如认知障碍症、失语症、读写障碍、专注力不足及过度活跃症等，让我们能多点理解这些病症及患者的需要。

The human brain is a highly complex organ comprising hundred billions of neurons. It is the core of our nervous system that regulates and integrates a wide range of functions, and serves as the centre of all our physiological and psychological developments and their coordination. For a very long time in history, we had only little knowledge about how our brain worked. Thanks to the advancement of science and technology, in particular, brain scanning and imaging technologies, scientists have begun to understand the functions and mechanisms of various brain regions in respect of human cognition. Through a giant brain model, graphic panels and some interactive games, the exhibition introduces interesting aspects about the structure and functions of human brain, and depicts disorders caused by impairment of neural transmission such as cognitive impairment, aphasia, dyslexia, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. This may enable us to have a better understanding of such disorders and the needs of the patients.

  

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探索大腦

探索大腦之旅 大腦的基本常識 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. 三磅重、三個主要部份 雖然成人的腦部重量大約只有三磅 ，但它卻是我們體內功能最重要的器官，而它的質地則與果凍差不多。 腦部主要由三部份組成: 大脳大腦佔了整個頭顱最大的空間，它的功能包括記憶、解決問題、語言和空間思維、及情感，而大腦也負責控制身體的活動。 小腦小腦位於頭顱的後半部在大腦之下，負責控制身體活動協調及平衡。 腦幹腦幹位於大腦底部在小腦之前，連接腦部到脊髓。負責體內非自主性功能，如呼吸、消化、血壓和心跳。

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由各式科技所拍攝的阿滋海默症或相關疾病患者和一般大眾的腦部影像。

 

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Dream Anatomy 
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/index.html 
Dream Anatomy
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The exhibition runs until June 17th and it’s definitely one to see if you’re in town. In the meantime, enjoy the photos courtesy of the Wellcome Collection. You can get a further peek at the exhibition at the exhibition’s online image galleries and you can even explore the surface of the brain in 360 degrees. See many pictures from the exhibition (provided by the Welcome Collection, since photos weren’t allowed) on the next page!

Performing a trephination procedure. Engraving from “Le chirugie Frencoise recueilie des antiens medecins et chirugiens” by Jacques Guillemeau, 1594.

Cast of a microcephalic skull c. 1830.

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Medical Historical Museum Cellars photographed by Daniel Alexander.

Self portrait of Santaigo Ramon y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience and a CT scan.

Memory of a Brain Malformation by Katharine Dawson based on the cerebral angiogram of the artist’s cousin.

Bronze age skull showing holes made by the ancient surgical process of trephination (2200-2000 BCE).

Brain slices from the Department of Anatomy and Human Sciences at King’s College London.

Corrosion cast of blood vessels in the brain from the 1980s.

A trephine, a 19th century surgical device used in trephination.

Closeup of the corrosion cast of blood vessels in the brain from the 1980s.

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