Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin(1)

We offered a one-week program for different target groups. The week started on Monday morning with a three hour program for more than one hundred high school pupils at the Humboldt Graduate School: a talk on perception and perceptional illusions followed by seven different workshops to choose from, e.g. on pain, emotion and stress or the senses. In the evening, a discussion on brain and diet with three experts was offered. Tuesday morning, five doctoral candidates visited the Berlin Metropolitan School to talk to the pupils about their research. In the evening we showed the movie “Small World” dealing with dementia at the Urania, followed by a discussion on Alzheimer’s. On Thursday morning we offered the four hour workshop “Computing Neurons” for high school pupils with a focused education in math at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. For younger children we organized a workshop “Autism – a special way of thinking” in the “gelbe Villa”, a day care activity center for kids. In this three hour workshop the kids learned about autism and could do brain puzzles in a playful environment. In the evening, Veronika Engert gave a talk on stress and stress reactivity in a social context. The symposium “Mind, Brain, Body”, a one day event on Friday, had international young neuroscientists as a target group.