(photo by Daniel Dubois)
Alba Alfaro-Blancas reaches out to touch a cockroach held out by volunteer Ken Yamazaki at the Brain Blast March 3 at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. The insects are used in circadian rhythm experiments. Brain Blast is part of the annual Brain Awareness Month, sponsored by the Vanderbilt Brain Institute. For a calendar of events, go to http://braininstitute.vanderbilt.edu and click on “Events.”