Stony Brook University Students in the Neuroscience Axis Club stopped by their High School alma mater for Brain Awareness Week. The two former Smithtown students spoke to Michael Cone’s Advanced Placement psychology class at Smithtown High School West last Friday.
Alexander Walsh and Stephanie Twomey gave Smithtown High School West students a demonstration in a cutting edge technology, which holds great promise for amputee patients with prosthesis. The Neuroscience Axis Club representatives, exhibited a human-to-human interface, where the muscles of one student were used to conduct electrical current to move the muscles of a second student.
Brain Awareness Week is the global campaign dedicated to increasing public interest and knowledge of the progress and benefits of brain research. Every March, Brain Awareness Week unites the efforts of partner organizations worldwide in a celebration of the brain for people of all ages.