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Dana Alliances: Mission Accomplished

A look back at three decades of education, influence, and outreach

A look back at three decades of education, influence, and outreach.

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In Memoriam: Sir Colin Blakemore

Colin believed the responsibility of scientists extended beyond research inside their labs to public dissemination and discussion, helping provide people with the knowledge to make important life and health choices.
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Brain Awareness Week Goes Virtual in 2021

Brain Awareness Week (BAW), for the 26th year, was a success! The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic presented many challenges this year, but despite the obstacles, partners organized events in 45 countries and 32 states.
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Motivational Disorders in Brain Conditions

People with a variety of disorders, from neurological to psychiatric, share troubles with motivation, especially apathy and impulsivity. Scientists described how they are connecting the dots between symptoms and brain mechanisms during the BNA 2017 Festival of Neuroscience.
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Dana Alliance Members’ Views: Grega Repovš

Grega Repovš is the Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology in the Mind Brain Lab, Department of Psychology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a committee member and past president of SiNAPSA (Slovenian Neuroscience Association). Professor Repovš was named a FENS-KAVLI Scholar 2014-2018. Your research focuses on cognitive processes and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying working […]
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Members’ Views: John H. Byrne

John H. (Jack) Byrne, Ph.D., is the director of the Neuroscience Research Center (NRC) at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). He is also the June and Virgil Waggoner Chair and professor and chairman in the department of neurobiolo-gy and anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.

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From One Man’s Vision to a Global Campaign: Celebrating 20 years of Brain Awareness Week

Increasing enthusiasm from the science community and the public has led to the expansion of Brain Awareness Week to five continents. We look back on the campaign’s evolution.
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Members’ Views: Thomas R. Insel

Since 2002, Thomas R. Insel, M.D., has been the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the component of the National Institutes of Health charged with generating the knowledge needed to understand, treat, and prevent mental disorders. Before that, he was a psychiatry professor at Emory, where he was also the founding director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience.

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