{"id":9776,"date":"2025-07-22T15:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?page_id=9776"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:59:43","slug":"july-cognitive-kit-world-brain-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/july-cognitive-kit-world-brain-day\/","title":{"rendered":"July Cognitive Kit: World Brain Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our July Cognitive Kit! July 22nd is World Brain Day and this month,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>we are sharing a book recommendation, coloring page, activity tracker, word search, and some additional resources and further reading on brain health and brain donation. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the files below to download and print any of the exercises and if you\u2019d like to, please tag us on<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>social media<\/span><\/a>\u00a0when you\u2019re finished. We\u2019d love to see your completed activities!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Book Recommendation:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Social\u00a0<\/span><\/i>by Matthew D. Lieberman (2014)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIn\u00a0Social<\/i>, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world\u2014other people and our relation to them. It is believed that we must commit 10,000 hours to master a skill. According to Lieberman, each of us has spent 10,000 hours learning to make sense of people and groups\u00a0by the time we are ten<\/i>.<\/span>\u201d (Summary from Barnes & Noble<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can find\u00a0<\/span>Social<\/span><\/i>\u00a0at your local library, or on\u00a0<\/span>Amazon<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Barnes & Noble<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>more<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Coloring Page:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s coloring page here: July 2025 Cognitive Kit Coloring Page<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Activity Tracker:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Regular exercise and activity is important to support brain health. This month, we encourage everyone to go outside once a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s activity tracker here: July 2025 Cognitive Kit Activity Tracker<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Word Search:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

You can learn more about brain donation in this month’s word search.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s word search puzzle here: July 2025 Cognitive Kit Word Search Puzzle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Featured Research Study:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Second NINDS\/NIBIB Consensus Meeting to Define Neuropathological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First Author: Kevin Bieniek, PhD
\nSenior Author: Ann McKee, MD<\/p>\n

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Resources:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

BU CTE Center Brain Donation Page<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BU CTE Center Resources<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

NIH resources on brain health<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

8 brain health tips for a healthier you – Mayo Clinic<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thank you for completing July\u2019s Cognitive Kit activities. If you\u2019d like to see kits from other months, please click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our July Cognitive Kit! July 22nd is World Brain Day and this month,\u00a0we are sharing a book recommendation, coloring page, activity tracker, word search, and some additional resources and further reading on brain health and brain donation. \u00a0 Click on the files below to download and print any of the exercises and if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20977,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9786,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9776\/revisions\/9786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}