Brain Awareness Week promotes public awareness of brain research. The Friedman Brain Institute along with CEYE (Center for Excellence in Youth Education) and MiNDS (Mentoring in Neuroscience Discovery at Sinai) will host its 8th Annual Brain Awareness Fair for elementary, middle, and high school students and their parents on Tuesday, March 17th, 2020. Attendees will learn about the taste/smell connection, hold real animal brains, make their own brain hats, and much more. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty will be on hand to answer questions and dispel myths about autism, Alzheimer’s disease, drug abuse and addiction, and memory and cognition.