Our recent field trip to Dr. Sasha Kauffman’s lab was amazing! The staff was super welcoming and invited us to actively participate in order to further our understanding of what is it they do on an everyday basis and how lab work really looks like. A big learning experience for me personally was during the brain slicing. I was actually given the opportunity to glue the tiny mouse brain onto the tiny pans that they use to place and cut the brain. Of course I was really nervous and had shaky hands so when it came time to glue the brain I accidentally flung it elsewhere. I felt embarrassed but quickly recovered with help from our lab specialist and managed to successfully place the brain on the small pan. Through this I was able to realize that growth comes from simple mistakes and improving from there. Learning about the teen brain has personally really given me so much information that I never would have know about otherwise. Particularly learning about neuroscience and an adolescent brain has cleared many stereotypes regarding teenagers and how we are, “hormone crazed”. Through this I’ve been able to how I can better take care of both my physical health as well as understanding how important my mental health is and how to make sure I am treating that with care as well. Everything a human is, is really in the brain. This is where all our thoughts, emotions, memories, actions, the list goes on and on comes from. Because of this, neuroscience can help us pinpoint all these different behaviors and learn why and how it’s happening. As young advocates I would say a lot of the stigma surrounding teen brain health is due to a lack of understanding. The more we are able to educated ourselves and others the deeper understanding we can receive on various mental health topics.
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