{"id":661744,"date":"2013-07-29T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/portal\/ucla\/teens-test-parents-brains-during-247668.aspx"},"modified":"2013-07-29T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T23:00:28","slug":"teens-test-parents-brains-during-ucla-course-for-budding-neuroscientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/661744","title":{"rendered":"Teens test parents&#8217; brains during UCLA course for budding neuroscientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>WHAT:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Outfitted in lab coats, stethoscopes and UCLA badges, local teens between the ages of&nbsp;12 to 17 will learn how to perform a neurological exam by practicing on willing guinea pigs: their parents. Parents will also don &#8220;concussion goggles,&#8221; which simulate the double vision and poor balance of a sports-related brain injury and will attempt to play catch and walk in a straight line while wearing the distorted lenses.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The neurological exam will include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Testing knee-jerk reflexes with a rubber hammer.<\/li>\n<li>Shining a penlight into each eye to measure pupil response.<\/li>\n<li>Sounding a tuning fork near each ear to test hearing.<\/li>\n<li>Measuring blood pressure with an arm cuff and stethoscope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/neurosurgery.ucla.edu\/\" >UCLA Department of Neurosurgery<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/neurosurgery.ucla.edu\/body.cfm?id=621\" >UCLA Brain Injury Research Center<\/a>, the practice exam is part of a two-day course designed to teach students from local middle and high schools about the brain and to pique their interest in careers in neurology, neurosurgery and neuroscience research.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>WHO:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Participants will include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mayumi Prins<\/strong>, Ph.D., director of the neuroscience education program and associate professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Students and their parents from Culver City High School, Grover Cleveland High School magnet program, Harvard&ndash;Westlake School, New West Charter and Venice High School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><strong>WHEN:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 30<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>UCLA Center for Health Sciences (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.ucla.edu\/campus\/?zlvl=9&amp;locid=364\" >map<\/a>)<\/div>\n<div>10833 Le Conte Ave. (Room 12-407), Los Angeles, Calif. 90095&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>PARKING:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Please contact the media contact by July 30 at 9 a.m. to reserve complimentary parking passes and obtain directions.&nbsp;Spaces for oversized trucks must be arranged by July 29 at 4 p.m.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><strong>MEDIA CONTACT:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Elaine Schmidt |&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu\">eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu<\/a> | 310-794-2272&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucla.edu\/rss.ashx?id=708161\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: Outfitted in lab coats, stethoscopes and UCLA badges, local teens between the ages of&nbsp;12 to 17 will learn how to perform a neurological exam by practicing on willing guinea pigs: their parents. Parents will also don &#8220;concussion goggles,&#8221; which simulate the double vision and poor balance of a sports-related brain injury and will attempt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}