Find out about Brain Injury Awareness Month events in your area.

Narrator: March is national Brain Injury Awareness Month with activities taking place nationwide to shine a spotlight on brain research. The month is also an opportunity to raise awareness about traumatic brain injury. In the Washington, DC area, the National Museum of Health and Medicine at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center hosts Brain Awareness Week with hands-on activities for school children on topics like brain anatomy and neuroscience.

Students learn about life with a brain injury and how brain injury can affect hearing, speech, language, and motor skills. One of the most popular sessions teaches students about their own brains — by providing the chance for them to touch an actual human brain.

Male Student: To me it felt like, at the top it’s all hard but when you put your finger through, you can feel everything that’s inside. When you flip it over it’s mushy.

Narrator: Students learn about the importance of protecting their brains from injury by wearing helmets, wearing seatbelts, and what to look out for if they suspect they have had an injury.

Female Student: It definitely made me more interested in the brain, because I didn’t know how much stuff in our head that we don’t even know that’s there.

Narrator: You can find out more about Brain Injury Awareness Month and the events taking place in your area by visiting Brain Injury Awareness Month Calendar.