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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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Why Do You Participate in Brain Awareness Week? With Roland Pochet, Ph.D.

Belgian neuroscientist Roland Pochet is a Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives member who was awarded the Dana/EDAB Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Outreach on Behalf of Brain Research at the 2018 FENS Forum. He has participated in #BrainWeek for more than 20 years, organizing events around the country, including the European Parliament.

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Why Do You Participate in Brain Awareness Week? With Eric Chudler, Ph.D.

A #Brainweek partner for 25 years, Eric Chudler, Ph.D., discusses the camaraderie he feels with his colleagues and the rewarding experience of seeing young kids’ fascination with the brain grow.
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Mu-ming Poo Gives EDAB Special Lecture on Neuroethics at FENS 2020

“Non-human primate models for neurobiology and biomedicine" - Mu-ming Poo, Ph.D. (Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology), gives the EDAB Lecture on Neuroethics during the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Virtual Forum 2020.

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Carla Shatz Gives Max Cowan Special Lecture at FENS 2020

“Synapses lost and found: Developmental critical periods and Alzheimer’s disease” - Carla Shatz, Ph.D. (BioX, Stanford University), gives the Max Cowan Special Lecture during the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Virtual Forum 2020.

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What is ‘Well’?

Report from FENS Forum of Neuroscience

Are we using the right standards when judging whether a psychiatric intervention, such as deep brain stimulation, is working, asked neurologist Helen Mayberg during the EDAB Special Lecture

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In the Lab with Ewelina Knapska

One of a series in which a Dana Alliance member is asked about daily life in the laboratory and outside interests. The lab of Ewelina Knapska examines socially transferred emotions, the neural mechanisms of impaired social behaviors, and the neural mechanisms of extinction and renewal of learned fears.

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Dana Alliance Members’ Views: Nancy Ip

Nancy Y. Ip, Ph.D., is the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, the Morningside Professor of Life Science, and the Director of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She is also Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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