[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4175]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CELEBRATING BRAIN SCIENCE AWARENESS WEEK

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commemorate Brain 
Science Awareness Week and to highlight amazing advances made by south 
Florida's neuroscience community to unravel the mysteries of the mind.
  At the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, research is 
yielding new insights for the treatment of devastating neurological 
disease, like Alzheimer's. My mother died from complications of 
Alzheimer's, so I know how terrible this disorder is.
  Investigators at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis are translating 
progress into hope for understanding traumatic brain and spinal cord 
injuries that are impacting thousands of our bravest warriors returning 
home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
  On Saturday, March 22, scientists will introduce students to the 
wonders of the human brain at the Miami Brain Science Fair in hopes of 
inspiring young people to pursue the educational and professional 
fields that will fuel the next significant scientific discoveries.

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