The Brain and Nervous System
- Shuffle Brain. An excellent resource on a variety of subjects.
- A high
point of evolution: Evolution of the human brain.
- An overview of the brain. See also the Whole Brain Atlas. In particular,
pay attention to the images located here.
Press this button to
see how to navigate the brain scan images.
- Conversations with Neil's Brain. Read chapter
1. This shows how researchers make use of brain dysfunction to describe how normal brains
operate. See also, "I am Johns Brain"
- A review of sensory systems can be found here. Read the following sections: Vision, Hearing, and Smell: The Best-known
Senses, The Quivering Bundles that Let
Us Hear, Finding the Odorant Receptors,
Pheromones and Mammals, Triggers of Innate Behavior, and Sniffing Out Social and Sexual Signals.
- A comparison of the Vomeronasal organ in humans and other
animals is found here. Read this too.
- What are Pheromones? How Exactly do They Work? etc. Read more here.
- The Machinery of Thought. Read the Scientific American
Article.
- Read about Phineas Gage and his
accidental frontal lobotomy. See THIS
too!
- Solving the Brain's Energy
Crisis.
Hear The Brain on the brain. . .
- Psychology Lab On-line.
- Brain
News.
- Neuronal development in children. Read it here.
- Nature vs.
Nurture.
- Genes and Human
Behavior.