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Overcoming Math Anxiety with Confidence
Backgrounders
Learn about math anxiety, including what it is, why it happens, and how you can overcome it.
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Resources on Brains
STEM Explained
Resource page including articles, videos, and career profiles related to brains.
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Stress and the Brain
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Stress is more than a feeling. Understanding the importance of stress can help you to manage it. It can even lead to an improvement in your mood and how you think!
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Facial Recognition and the Brain
STEM Explained
Learn how your brain recognizes faces and why you sometimes see them in places they don’t exist!
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How do alkaloids cause addiction?
STEM Explained
Alkaloids are found in some of the most addictive substances that humans consume. What are alkaloids, and how do they cause addiction?
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Neurons: The Building Blocks of Your Brain
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How does your brain allow you to do and experience so much? It’s all because of the building blocks of your brain - neurons!
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Namrata Joshi
PhD Neuroscience
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Brain Architecture
Backgrounders
The human brain has many different parts. Each one plays a different function. But they all work together to manage complex thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
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How Sugar Affects the Brain
STEM Explained
Consuming sugary foods and drinks activates your brain’s reward system - the same system that can cause addiction.
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Clay-Adams Brain
Interactives
This brain model helped doctors better explain things to their patients. Learn about this Ingenium artifact and make your own version using 3D printing!
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Understanding the Teen Brain
STEM Explained
Teen brain development prepares teens for adulthood, but also affects their emotions.
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The Surprising Reason You Feel Awful When You're Sick
STEM Explained
Viruses can make you feel awful! This article explains how feeling bad might be your immune system’s way of helping you heal.
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Is feeling always believing?
Hands-on Activities
Get your hands cold for science and explore the topic of sensory adaptation.
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How fast can you react?
Hands-on Activities
What is a reflex? Test your reaction time and find out why reflexes are important in this challenge activity.
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How Snake Venom Kills… and Saves Lives
STEM Explained
Snake venom can be dangerous for your circulatory system, nervous system or muscular system. But it can also be very useful in medicine.