The Brains in a Dish team have developed a wide range of creative, hands-on activities to inform and illuminate important features of the brain and showcase some of the ground-breaking technologies currently used in dementia research to try to understand these conditions on a cellular level.
Activities for families, schools, and community groups include creating your own pipe cleaner neurons, collaging brain cell cultures in petri dishes, programming laser light pathways, learning how to blow a glass ‘Selina Cells’ and building brain cell ‘Bristle Bots’ .
Murphy & Bussell’s Brainscan Headdress visualises brain activity through colours and patterns of light, while Robin Bussell’s innovative Brain-Body-Interface invites you to interactively explore some of the amazing scientific images used to study real people’s brains.
Using body movements , participants are invited to see inside real people’s brains to learn about the brain and gain deeper understandings of how dementia impacts brain health.
These targeted activities for schools, young people and adult community groups aim to raise the profile of dementia research and inform the aspirations of a wide range of local young people and communities interested in science, technology and the arts.
Our recent Barnsley’s Brains programme was financially supported by Barnsley Museums & Heritage trust, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Alzheimer Research UK’s Inspire Fund and the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Alzheimer’s Research UK
Find out more at www.alzheimersresearchuk.org [KB1] or by calling 0300 111 5555.
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