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American Museum of Natural History Presents Brain: The Inside Story

The American Museum of Natural History presents Brain: The Inside Story, open November 20, 2010–August 14, 2011.

Step into your brain. In this exhibition, explore how the brain—a product of millions of years of evolution—produces thoughts, senses, and feelings; experience how the brain is continually changing at different stages of life; and discover how new understanding of the workings of the brain may help scientists repair and reverse declines in brain function.

An installation at the beginning of Brain: The Inside Story will immerse visitors in the nonstop communication that occurs among the brain’s tangled forest of 100 billion interconnected neurons, or brain cells. Throughout the rest of the show, visitors will explore how the nervous system processes information from the senses and how the brain creates perception, how brain imaging and advances in biochemistry are deepening the understanding of the emotional brain, and how the highly developed neocortex allows humans to make plans and predictions as well as engage in symbolic thought. Visitors will also learn how the brain’s plasticity allows changes at different stages of life and how 21st century science can repair and improve the brain.

Throughout the exhibition, challenge your brain with interactive puzzles and games that probe neural connections and pathways. Gallery 3, third floor

Brain: The Inside Story is organized by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (www.amnh.org), in collaboration with the Guangdong Science Center, Guangzhou, China; and Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain.

Generous support for Brain: The Inside Story has been provided by the Eileen P. Bernard Exhibition Fund, Virginia Hearst Randt and Dana Randt, and Mary and David Solomon.

www.amnh.org

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