Brain Awareness Week: This Week’s Tweak!

Step Right up, boys and girls, gentlemen, ladies, geeks and geekettes! That’s right, it’s Brain Awareness Week! Come and get your fill of neural thrills and glia cell thrills!!

Ok. Seriously.

Brain Awareness Week is the brain child (and registered trademark) of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives** “ a nonprofit organization of more than 265 leading neuroscientists, is committed to advancing public awareness about the progress and promise of brain research.” And the folks at Dana have made this week (March 10-16th, 2008) all about educational outreach, raising public awareness of the importance and benefits of neurological research. You know, all that fun stuff I’m supposed to write about here when I’m not busy with enlightenment and donkeys.

What’s this got to do with the Weekly Tweak, you ask?

Everything!

Your tweak for the week is raise brain-awareness: talk to at least one person about the brain.

If you have a blog, write a post on the topic.

You don’t need to try and report on the latest research - just talk about your personal experience, a neurology related insight, share a related article, a tidbit of information, a joke, a video. Send out links to the brain-training tests at Cognifit, Lumosity, or Posit Science. Discuss the life changing, mindblowing experience that is MindTweaks

Be creative.

If you have a cooking blog, pick up a brain Jello mold. If your subject is photography, do a shoot with a cauliflower. If you’re a poet or musician, write a haiku or lyric. If you’re a sex blogger, write about the mind blowing aspects of <censored> Nearly every blog topic can be made to fit with brain-awareness, in some way shape or form, and the more inventive you are, the better for *your* brain this will be.

And if you link back here to MindTweaks (a mention of the Dana Alliance would be great too!) and I’ll link back to you from here (be sure to let me know in the comments)

Wouldn’t it be great to have a collection of brain-powered posts, on blogs of all shapes subjects and sizes?

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**The parent organization, The Dana Foundation, appears to be A Very Good Thing. They fund research, publications, and educational efforts, including a lot of neurological brain stuff. The website has loads of mind/brain information to browse through (their the main nav widget is broken, so you’ll need to use this link for now)