Eleventh Annual Brain Awareness Week at the
National Museum of Health and Medicine
March 15-19, 2010
Photos from Friday, March 19, 2010
Sherry Chiasson, of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, and her son Avery, show students how to put on a sports helmet, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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Students from the Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, Va., work in teams to complete puzzles as part of a hands-on activity designed to demonstrate the effect of losing/changing communication abilities due to brain injury, at a station managed by the Army Speech Center clinics at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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Students from Washington Christian Academy in Olney use modeling clay to build a model of the brain during a hands-on demonstration designed to illustrate the different functions of each lobe, managed by staff from the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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Dr. Barry Komisaruk, a professor of psychology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, teaches students from Washington Christian Academy how information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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A representative from the Army Audiology Center shows students from Washington Christian Academy in Olney how they can protect their hearing, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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Representatives from the Army Audiology Center explained the vestibular system by testing students’ balance, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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Dr. Gerald Schuchman of the Army Audiology Center shows students from Nysmith School for the Gifted in Herndon, Va., the bones that make up the ear, during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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Students from the Washington Christian Academy in Olney try on the brain sports helmets they were given by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center during Brain Awareness Week at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. |
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