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Top Scientist visits Yorktown H.S. to unlock mysteries of the brain and speed medical recovery



Do drugs literally fry your brains as the TV commercial suggests? Does
cocaine light up your brain?  



Top
Neuroscientist Helps Sort Such Scientific Fact from Fiction for Arlington Students
 

Visiting Arlington School as part of USA Science & Engineering Festival’s Efforts to
Ignite Youth Interest in STEM

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·       Tuesday, March 11, 10:00am




















Alan Leshner, is
a former Director of the National Institute on
Drug Abuse at the NIH, but who now serves as Chief Executive Officer of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive
Publisher of the renowned Science magazine.  He will
explain how neuroscience research is helping speed medical advances by
unlocking the mysteries of the human brain's functions. 

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