Nervous Links

A&P 1 Learning Outline
Link to the related outline for Kevin's A & P 1 course at SCC

Brain Facts and Figures
This site has all kinds of nifty facts about the brain, spinal cord, neurons, etc.

2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
This is a great summary of groundbreaking work in understanding neurotransmitters and signal transduction at synapses

Neuroscience Connections
This site is a GREAT list of links related to neurosciences.

http://neuron.duke.edu/
This site has a downloadable neuron simulation program.

http://www.physiol.arizona.edu/CELL/Instruct/BodyElect.html
Site for U of Arizona's course "Body Electric" including information on excitable cells.

http://www.nucmed.buffalo.edu/nrlgy1.htm#fdg_normal_brainx31
This is a PET scan of a normal brain with links to pathological conditions.

Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR Center)
Here you will find information about Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

http://uta.marymt.edu/~psychol/brain.html
This site has a clickable cerebral cortex.

http://www.merck.com/!!s9OfD17kBs9O00Pa/disease/glaucoma/
Information related to glaucoma and intraocular pressure.

http://www.tinnitus-pjj.com/
This site has information and links related to tinnitus

http://www.adworks.com/dizzy/vestib.html
This site has information on equilibrium disorders

http://www.cs.sandia.gov/SEL/brain.html
CT scan of the head

PhysNet - Module 5
This is a review of the nervous system (uses British terms such as "neurones")

Neuroscience
This is the Neuroscience Link for the World Lecture Hall

Sheep Brain Tutorial
This site has labeled color photographs of the classic sheep brain dissection (Univ. of Scranton PA)

Brain Briefings Home Page
A whole page of links to the Society for Neuroscience's high-quality Brain Briefings series. This series of short articles summarizes important new neuroscience information for students and other non-experts.

Examples include
Nicotine and the Brain
Blood-Brain Barrier
The Mind-Body Link
Gender and the Brain
What is Neuroscience?

Interview with Andrew Huxley
A 16-minute video interview with the Nobel laureate and discoverer of the nerve impulse and the role "forgetfulness" in science.

Split brain experiment
An animated game that shows you the concept of Roger Sperry's breakthrough "split brain" experiments.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging- From Atomic Physics to Visualization, Understanding and Treatment of Brain Disorders
An article from FASEB's Breakthroughs in Science Series

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html
60 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena illustrate both simple and complex visual processing in the retina and in the brain--really fun!