Brain Disorder Awareness

By: Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert

One of HNP's main goals is to spread awareness for neurological and neuropsychological diseases and issues. In this contest, students are asked to communicate their knowledge regarding brain disorders by producing an educational video or creating a medical fact sheet.

The most creative pieces will be rewarded with one of the legendary books by Oliver Sack - "The man who mistook his wife for a hat".

The Brain Disorder Awareness Video/Fact-Sheet Contest is part of the second year psychology training in the context of English version of  “Introduction to Clinical Neuropsychology” course at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The contest by HNP is based on a similar competition of the Society of Neuroscience.

Winner of the Brain Disorder Awareness Contest 2020/2021

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Category videos:

1. First place: Daniel Jürgens & Oliver Konradt (contribution: Alien Limb Syndrome)
2. Second place: Daniel Ahlers & Marie Camara (contribution: Aphasia)
   
3. Third place: Nicolas Armbruster & Raquel Castillo Bihler (contribution: Prosopagnosia)
   

Honorable mentions:
Joëlle Grimmius & Theres Patzelt (for interviewing a patient with Parkinson's disease)
Janeke Schröder & Christian Ewald (for sharing own experience with prosopagnosia)
Johann Lux & Adrian Porsing (for the creative approach about early symptoms of MS)

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Category fact-sheets:

1. First place: Salmaa Varasheilla (contribution: Aphasia)
2. Second place: Carmen Labee (contribution: Amnesia)
3. Third places: Linnea Schmidt (contribution: Huntington's Disease) & Miriam Bergen (contribution: Phantom pain)

Honorable mentions:
 Dagmar Wolf (for the creative approach about concussion created for children)

Committee members:
Diede Smit, Marah Butzbach, Sarah Tol (Clinical Neuropsychology Department, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

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