Biopsychology Links

Websites

The Mind's Machine - companion website for the course textbook. Select a chapter and resource to access numerous study aids and review quizzes.

Medline - database of primary-source biomedical articles.

Society for Neuroscience - professional organization covering numerous fields dedicated to studying neuroscience.

Neuroscience for Kids - basic information to introduce kids (and grownups!) to neuroscience.

The Whole Brain Atlas - images of the human brain.

Brain facts & figures - facts, figures and stats about the brain.

Biopsychology Newslink - daily news on the latest developments in the field of biopsychology.

Science Daily - daily updates on science news.

Erowid - information on psychoactive drugs and their effects on the brain and behavior.

National Sleep Foundation - information on sleep and sleep disorders.

National Eating Disorders Association - information and resources for those dealing with eating disorders.

Guttmacher Institute - information about sexual health and reproductive rights.

SEICUS - Sexuality education and information center of the U.S.

Foundation for Biomedical Research - organization that promotes understanding about the humane and responsible use of animals in medical and scientific research.

Cord blood donation program - Information about Puget Sound Blood Center's umbilical cord donation program. Donate your unused stem cells!

Genes to cognition - Interactive learning site dedicated to neuroscience.

Articles

Music, emotion and memory - an interview with Joseph LeDoux

How America Lost the War on Drugs - Rolling Stone article on the history of the war on drugs in the U.S.

Marijuana Research - Scientific American article about the politics of research on cannabinoinds.

Carl Hart: The Drug Data Pusher - Wired article on a scientist studying the effects of drugs of abuse - in humans!

Online Neuroscience Lectures - amazing collection of lectures by prominent neuroscientists.

H.M.'s Brain - NPR piece on anterograde amnesia patient H.M.

Project H.M. - A blog dedicated to the ongoing study of H.M.'s brain, since his death in 2008.

Offensive Play - New Yorker piece about the brain damage suffered by pro football players.

Videos

Stroke of Insight - Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor describes her own stroke in this astounding TED talk. Of particular note - her experience of complete loss of the left hemisphere - a great illustration of lateralization of function.

Broca's aphasia - a patient describes a visual scene in which a mother is distracted by water overflowing in the sink, while the children in the background have climbed onto the counter to reach a cookie jar on a high shelf. The stool they are using is about to tip over as they reach for the cookie jar.

Wernicke's aphasia - a patient describes a visual scene in which a mother is distracted by water overflowing in the sink, while the children in the background have climbed onto the counter to reach a cookie jar on a high shelf. The stool they are using is about to tip over as they reach for the cookie jar.

Split-brain patients - Scientific American Frontiers video on Michael Gazzaniga's work with patients who've undergone corpus callosum transection.

Sleep - NOVA segment on sleep

Obesity - NOVA segment on the role of leptin in obesity

Laughing Rats - Jaak Panksepp narrates as rats demonstrate rodent giggling

Neurophysiology videos

Tutorials

Neuroanatomy tutorial I - anatomy

Neuroanatomy tutorial II - physiology

Tutorial on resting membrane potential.

Tutorial on synaptic transmission.

Animation and explanations about action potentials.

Mouse party - animated tutorial using mice on different drugs to show the effects of each drug.

Learn Genetics - website with many activities and tutorials on basic genetics.