Our President Tara Spires-Jones was delighted to be invited to Clarence House to discuss the beneficial effects of cognitively stimulating activities like reading on the brain. View article
We are so enjoying doing our webinars for children about the brain and neuroscience. They are free and available to anyone, regardless of whether you are a member of the BNA.
Webinars last approximately an hour and feature:
interactive challenges and questions
activities, e.g. making a 'brain hat', the materials for which can be found around the house.
questions answered live by BNA neuroscientists
Please email Lydia at lydia@bna.org.uk with any questions, concerns or feedback - we'd love to hear from you! Scroll down or click here to find photos sent by those that have participated in previous webinars.
You can also find recordings of previous webinars and further activities to help children consolidate what they've learned during a webinar here.
Please note that attendees participating in any webinars hosted by the BNA are expected to be polite and respectful to both the panellists and other attendees. Comments in the chat function, and questions posted in the Q&A, should be relevant to the presentation and topic of discussion. If any of the panellists consider that comments posted in the chat or Q&A function are inappropriate, likely to distract other participants and/or could be deemed offensive, the attendee posting such comments will be removed from the webinar and unable to rejoin.
Neuronal Communication Webinar (Secondary) - 5th June 2020
Barnaby's model of the four steps of synaptic transmission (left) and increased dopamine in a synapse during drug abuse and the brain's reduction in dopamine receptors in response, leading to drug addiction (right).
Neuronal Communication Webinar (Primary)- 14th May 2020
Thank you for making neuronal communication models with us!
Lily's neuronal communication display (above): the model of neuronal communication at the bottom left and two neurons ‘chatting’ over a drink (top middle), with a squishy orange brain behind the bar (bottom right).
We would like to thank everyone who joined our trial webinar - we loved sharing about the brain and neurons with you! Here are some of the neurons made by those who took part in our trial webinar.