This week is Brain Awareness Week, which includes a series of events undertaken by personnel at the Douglas and elsewhere to educate the public about the brain, and in honor of the occasion I thought I'd try to bring some brain awareness to these articles by dispelling some of the more common or insidious myths about the brain.

I have a joke with one of the guys I work with about us being zombies being pulled irresistibly to the Douglas each morning, never understanding why. It’s not a good joke, or particularly funny, but we take what we can get and it serves as an excellent lead into what I wanted to write [...]

Let me take you back to Monday, April 21st, game 7 Boston vs. Montreal. I want to try and describe your cerebral activity through the day. Two caveats before proceeding: My doctoral supervisor always told me that I should speak about the things that I know, and not the things I am ignorant of. As [...]

Are these human brains?

Doesn't the video reduce mental illness to a mere organ, the brain, ignoring the social and environmental aspects?

Doesn’t the video make light of mental illness?The goal of the video is to catch people’s interest so they visit the Douglas Web site, a respected source of accurate information about mental illness, verified by experts. If the message stimulates debate about mental illness, so much the better![...]

The bloody brains are shocking and disgusting. Don't they make it difficult to understand the message?

Is brain donation limited to people suffering from mental illness?

Can the brain tissue be used commercially?

How will results obtained with tissue be communicated?