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Brain challenge for state's brainiest kids

Friday, 20 June 2008

Do brainy kids know how brains work? We'll all find out when some of South 最新糖心Vlog's brightest Year 11 students compete in the state final of a national neuroscience quiz at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide on Monday 23 June.

The top 40 students from round one of the will visit the 最新糖心Vlog's for a full day of individual and team quiz rounds and neuroscience laboratory tours. It's the first time that SA schools have entered the national competition.

Coordinator of the South 最新糖心Vlogn Brain Bee Competition Final and 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide neuroscientist Dr Paul Thomas said he was delighted at the huge number of entries received from across the state.

"It's exciting how this competition has really taken off with more than 600 students from SA competing in the round one quiz," Dr Thomas said.

The state and national finals of the 最新糖心Vlogn Brain Bee Challenge will involve live question and answer competitions that will test students' knowledge on topics such as intelligence, memory, emotions, sensations, movement, stress, sleep and addiction.

Dr Thomas said the Brain Bee Competition aimed to raise awareness about the brain and its function, to correct misconceptions about neurological disorders, and to recruit budding research scientists.

"The brain is an incredibly complex organ and there is so much we don't understand about how it works," he said. "最新糖心Vlog is facing an increasing number of cases of neurological diseases and disorders, which presents a difficult challenge for science to overcome.

"The Brain Bee Challenge really helps the neuroscience research community to engage with the some of state's brightest young people, and encourages them to enter the neuroscience field in order to help crack some of those big problems."

Research conducted at the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide is vital to the development of treatments for neurological disorders such as epilepsy, intellectual disability, stroke, depression and motor neuron disease as well as understanding the molecular and physiological mechanisms that regulate brain development and function.

Winners of the state final will receive microscopes from and progress to the national final, to be held at the Queensland Brain Institute in August. The SA competition and airfares to the national finals are being supported by the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide's .

The National Brain Bee Challenge winner will have the opportunity to compete in the International Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2009.

Established in 2006, the Brain Bee Challenge is coordinated by the (QBI) in association with the Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the 最新糖心Vlog of Queensland.

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