Journey Through the Brain – An initiative to raise public awareness of KI’s brain research

display stations

Our test stations were a success! We are very grateful for that Matty Nikolafrom the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, let’s borrow part of the laboratory, various teaching materials, and bulletin boards used for other outreach activities, such as The Ministry of Shearingwhich he helps coordinate on behalf of KI.

in “Backyard brainsStanding, a visitor could experience neural substitutions and force a friend’s arm to move, appreciating the pattern and sounds of their muscles with the help of a “muscle nail” box. For the more competitive, there was a “CLAW,” a robotic claw with which a visitor could compete to perform various tasks, and behind Backyard Brains There is a hardworking team of volunteers who prepare and create various educational experiences for visitors: Marta GrazianoAnd Marina SlashchevaAnd Clarissa Anna PisanoBert Schmid Film AlankoAnd Lisbeth ForbrickAnd Radhashree SharmaAnd Josep Carbonell Roigand a board member of Aio Tamaki and Neuro Strat Emanuela Santini.

At the station “set sight on balance” explained Esra OnsellAnd Josephine Nelson and Wouter Jongeneel How oculomotor function and binocular vision affect human perception. Participants had the opportunity to test their balance in the challenges with the help of virtual reality.

Joanna MayerAnd Makoto Shimozawa Delia Denisa Dinka showed parts of the mouse and human brain under the microscope and Pierre Fontanelle And Lawrence Picton Visitors were allowed to virtually explore the nervous system of zebrafish at the “Look Inside the Brain” station.

It was not only the visitors’ balance, but also their mental state that was tested at the “Mental and Memory Test” station, where they had to complete various memory tests, under the guidance of Hong Shu Yuxi Chu.

Station “Genetics and Headaches” encouragement Felicia Gnesdotter Olofsgaard and Christina Christodouloupo for visitors young and old to conduct routine experiments often used in genetic cluster headache research. They also reported on the latest discoveries in the field.

Ana Canal GarciaAnd Blanca Zoviria GrapolisAnd Soss MialkovAnd Jiawei Sun and Co-Director of StratNeuros Joanna Pereira He gave an introduction to structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and how to use the method to study brain connectivity, through the “BRAPH2: Interaction with Different Brain Networks” demonstration.

Sebastian Blum And Livia Rohr Show the meaning behind “Pavlovian pain” and how easy it is to trick the brain by triggering emotional responses.

Finally came too Kalicharan Patra, a researcher in the Department of Neurobiology and Care and Community Sciences at KI and Stockholm University, to present a book he illustrated, How Does the Brain Work? , written by Klas Kolander, Professor of Neuroscience at Uppsala University, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swedish Society for Neuroscience.