Changing Your Mind: Drugs and the Brain
Product Developed: a museum exhibit and play for the Boston Museum of Science
Target Audience: the general public
Goal: To enhance the public's understanding of the neurobiology of drug abuse the museum exhibit, "Changing Your Mind: Drugs and the Brain" was developed in the early 1990's. It opened at the Boston Museum of Science November 29, 1994. Since then, it has traveled on a national tour before returning to the museum where it was on display for many years. The exhibit was visited by thousands of people across the nation and has had an immeasurable impact on the public's understanding of drug abuse and the brain.
Contact: Bertha Madras, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School