Brain Awareness Campaign

Brain Awareness Week Credit: Image taken by SfN at Neuroscience 2012

A boy participates in a demonstration about phantom limbs at a 2011 National Museum of Health and Medicine Brain Awareness event in Washington, DC.

Students learn about the nervous system with a model of the brain and spinal cord at a Brain Awareness event.

Students examines a human brain at a Brain Awareness event at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

The Brain Awareness Campaign is a worldwide celebration of the brain that brings together scientists, families, schools, and communities. Although Brain Awareness Week is officially March 10-16, 2014, there are many ways to get involved throughout the year.

The global celebration, launched by The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, presents an opportunity to bring attention to brain science advances and advocate for science funding. Brain Awareness Week serves as a launching point for year-round Brain Awareness activities.

Brain Awareness events are limited only by your imagination. Consider open houses at neuroscience labs, exhibitions about the brain, lectures on brain-related topics, displays at libraries and community centers, classroom workshops, and more. How will you educate the public and promote brain science?