Dr. Aarthi Gobinath (left) and Rand Mahmoud (right).
“If I remember how it happened, Erin asked me if I wanted to make a blog, I said yes, and we did it,” says Natasha with a laugh. “It was a fantastic experience to connect with so many people with different backgrounds— researchers, health care providers, supporters, and people with lived experience—and be able to share knowledge.”
THE BEAUTIFUL BRAIN
HOSTING COMMUNITY EVENTS
In conjunction with UBC’s Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health presented The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The work coincided with celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Brain Research Centre (now the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health) at UBC. The event was a wonderful way to draw the larger community into the work of the centre.
With your tremendous support the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health has continued to connect with community members from throughout the Lower Mainland and beyond. The centre once again hosted an impressive number of events, including lectures, symposia, and public outreach events. Here is just a small sample of what took place in 2017.
The Beautiful Brain is the first North American museum exhibition to present the extraordinary drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), a Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist renowned for his discovery of neuron cells and their structure, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1906.