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Big Picture: Inside the Brain

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 25 March 2013

A video about the Language group’s research called ‘Big Picture: Inside the Brain’ will
be screened at the Barbican Neuroscience Festival Wonder Street Fair.

Details:

Sunday 7 April, 12.00-18.00; Monday 8 April, 12.00-19.30; Tuesday 9 April, 12.00-19.30
(Barbican Foyer) The Barbican Foyer springs to life with free drop-in activities,
performance, interaction and demonstrations. From cave painting to motion sensors and
from eye-trackers to body illusions, come along and knit a neuron, test your reactions and
pit your wits against brain scientists. With more than 20 different activities to stimulate,
inspire and amuse your little grey cells.

Scanning stroke

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

The Big Picture team meets Sarah Scott, a charming young woman who experienced a stroke at the age of 18 while still at school. Now 22, Sarah is slowly recovering but continues to experience problems with both written and spoken language.

Sarah kindly agreed to visit the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, submitting to a brain scan in their massive MRI machine. While there, Sarah also took advantage of the opportunity to quiz the people behind the scanner and the scientists who study the images it produces in the hope they might discover clues to help present and future stroke patients.

Talking Heads

By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 26 February 2013

Rebuilding language after stroke.