Brain Awareness Week

Rosalind Picard is internationally known as a leader in envisioning and creating innovative technology.

Audrey Penn: Just Do It is a medical doctor who has devoted herself to studying diseases that affect muscle control.

Ben Carson is the chief of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.

Neil Turok recruits talented students from all over Africa to be Africa's next generation of scientists and mathematicians.

"There are more cells in the brain than there are stars in the universe."

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard is a Nobel Prize winner and pioneer genetic researcher.

Dr. Sara W. Lazar Neuroscientist - Meditator researches the effects of meditation on the brain.

Erich Jarvis observes song birds and uses his training with molecular biology to learn about brain behavior.

Dr. J. Larry Brown directs the national Center on Hunger and Poverty.

Dr. Van Halbach is a hero to the Ghenender family for saving Ingrid's life.

Paul Greengard received a Nobel Prize for Medicine for his understanding of the nervous system.

Claudia Gerwin: Keeping the Neurons Firing researches how nerve cells relay messages to each other.

“When I was 10 years old, I saw the movie, Fantastic Voyage, and I loved it.”

Alicia O'Brien was the inspiration for Cherie Bennett's novel Zink.

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." By Henry Ward Beecher

Based on new brain research from Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child and University of Washington's I-LABS, the film explores the parallels between a child's brain development and the way the Internet is developing, offering insights into the best ways to shape both our children's brains and the global brain of the Internet.