In Brain Awareness Week experience your brain like never before. We are teaming up with researchers from UNSW's School of Medical Sciences and the wider University to help you get to know your brain.

Brain Awareness Week is a global event which focuses on raising awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research.

Our headline act Dr Jay Bertran-Gonzalez is head of the NeuroModuLab* in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney. In their talk “Your brain lives in the future” Dr Bertran-Gonzalez outlines how the brain is constantly trying to anticipate the future in order to learn from and adapt to the environment.

Dr Jay Bertran-Gonzalez's NeuroModuLab is one of the founder groups of the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory at UNSW. Their work addresses critical questions concerning the function of basal ganglia systems particularly in relation to reward-based learning. Bertran-Gonzalaz's research is a direct consequence of international training, having worked in 5 different Neuroscience departments across Spain, France and Australia. Bertran-Gonzalez’s contributions have been cited thousands of times and include articles in top scientific journals such as Nature and Science.

Program:

5.00pm Doors Open
5.00-6.30pm Tours and activities in the Museum.
- Guided brain disease tours
- Balance chair
- Reflex testing
- Brain development
- Comparative anatomy
- 3D vision/VR
- Virtual microscopy

6.30-7pm Headline talk “Your Brain lives in the Future”
7-8.30pm Tours and activities continue in the Museum.
8.30pm Evening concludes.

All under the watchful eye of our UNSW expert neurobiologists, physiologists and researchers. Hear first hand about the work they do everyday to make better bionics, solve the puzzles of brain diseases and educate the biologists and health professionals of the future.

Places are limited so book early.

Your Beautiful Brain is an event held in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine, the Museum of Human Disease, the School of Medical Science Departments of Pharmacology and Neuroscience (CRICOS Provider 00098G) and the Sydney Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.

The Museum of Human Disease is a medical pathology collection of real diseased human tissue. Viewing these specimens can be confronting to some people. We ask that you pay consideration to this prior to purchase as no refunds are given after the event has started.

* Neuromodulatory Systems & Behaviour team