1. Australian Broadcasting Company - show transcripts
   1. Brain Plasticity
   2. Left-handedness in the elderly
   3. Parkinson's Disease
   4. Sleep
   5. Super Tasters- Taste, the Mind and Nutrition
   6. Synesthesia
   7. Narcolepsy, sleep-walking, sleep-talking, and even murder while you sleep
   8. Dr. Oliver Sacks
   9. Hypnosis and Posthypnotic Suggestions
   10. What is so unique about us humans?

   

2. Brain Briefings
   Short explanations of various topics from the Society for Neuroscience.

3. Dana Foundation Publication Archive
   
   1. Brainwork
   2. Brain Connections
   3. Progress Report
   4. Radio and Television Transcripts
   5. "The Brain in the News"

4. Discover Magazine
   1. The Skinny On...
      1. Falling Asleep Twitches
      2. Strange Sneezing Situations
      3. The Evil Eye
      4. Deaf People's Inner Voice

5. Fires of Pain
   Burn Pain and Its Treatment

6. Manhattan Project of the Mind (J. Barrett)
   An article focusing on brain imaging research.

7. NIH Radio News Service - Audio Files

8. National Public Radio "RealAudio" - Talk of the Nation/Science Friday
   1. Alzheimer's Research - August 1, 2008
   2. Treating Depression - July 25, 2008
   3. Genetics and ADHD - July 11, 2008
   4. The Sweet Smell of Science - June 27, 2008
   5. New Research into Stroke and the Brain - June 27, 2008
   6. Stroke of Insight - June 27, 2008
   7. Coffee Smell Wakes Up Genes - June 20, 2008
   8. Tune Deafness and the Brain - June 13, 2008
   9. The Circadian Advantage - June 13, 2008
   10. Monkey's Thoughts Move Robot Arm - May 30, 2008
   11. Circadian Clock Sets at Lunchtime - May 23, 2008
   12. Looking Inside the Human Brain - May 2, 2008
   13. Gene Therapy for Blindness - May 2, 2008
   14. The Importance of Sleep - April 11, 2008
   15. What Parents Should Know about Autism - March 11, 2008
   16. This is Your Brain on Lies - March 6, 2008
   17. What Makes Stem Cells Stem Cells? - February 22, 2008
   18. Predicting Psychotic Illness in Teens - January 11, 2008
   19. The Body Has a Mind of Its Own - December 21, 2007
   20. Re-Wiring the Sense of Touch - November 30, 2007
   21. Politics and the Brain - November 16, 2007
   22. Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - November 9, 2007
   23. Building a Brainbow - November 2, 2007
   24. Towards a Blood Test for Alzheimer's - October 19, 2007
   25. Steven Pinker - September 14, 2007
   26. Spinal Cord Injuries - September 14, 2007
   27. Placebo Effect - August 3, 2007
   28. Depression Medication - July 27, 2007
   29. H.M.'s Brain and the History of Memory - February 24, 2007
   30. Autism Research Update - February 23, 2007
   31. Train Your Brain - February 2, 2007
   32. Creativity - December 15, 2006
   33. The Family that Couldn't Sleep - November 17, 2006
   34. Marijuana and Alzheimer's - October 20, 2006
   35. Brain-controlled Devices - July 14, 2006
   36. Parkinson's Reversal - June 23, 2006
   37. Addiction - June 16, 2006
   38. Psychiatric Drugs - June 9, 2006
   39. Mad Cow Disease Update - June 16, 2006
   40. Freud's Drawings from Brain to Mind / Neurobiology of Dread - May 5, 2006
   41. Mercury and Fish - April 14, 2006
   42. Sleep and Teens - March 31, 2006
   43. Mad Cow Disease - March 17, 2006
   44. Exercise and Dementia - January 27, 2006
   45. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: Stress - December 2, 2005
   46. Gender Differences in Learning and Cognition - December 2, 2005
   47. Sleep On It - November 4, 2005
   48. Taste Buds - July 22, 2005
   49. Stem Cell Spinal Cord Treatment - May 13, 2005
   50. Persistent Vegetative State - March 25, 2005
   51. Treating Depression - February 11, 2005
   52. Making False Memories - February 4, 2005
   53. Stem Cells and Parkinson's - January 7, 2005
   54. Sensing Fear - December 17, 2004
   55. Mind Wide Open - November 26, 2004
   56. Making Memories - September 24, 2004
   57. Robert Sapolsky and Stress - September 10, 2004
   58. Monkey Brains and Prostethics - July 9, 2004
   59. Mad Cow Disease Update / Eric Kandel - July 2, 2004
   60. Alzheimer's Update - July 2, 2004
   61. Mental Illness in Children - June 25, 2004
   62. Leptin and the Brain - April 2, 2004
   63. Mind Wide Open - March 12, 2004
   64. New Mad Cow Prion - February 20, 2004
   65. Animal Communication - January 16, 2004
   66. Mad Cow Disease Update - January 9, 2004
   67. Depression - December 19, 2003
   68. Stem Cells - November 7, 2003
   69. Music and the Brain - May 9, 2003
   70. Genetics and Behavior - May 2, 2003
   71. Gulf War Illnesses - March 14, 2003
   72. Autism - January 24, 2003
   73. Spinal Cord Recovery - December 13, 2002
   74. Bipolar Disorder in Children - October 11, 2002
   75. Alzheimer's Disease - August 16, 2002
   76. Stem Cells - June 21, 2002
   77. Synaptic Self - March 29, 2002
   78. Chronobiology - December 2001
   79. Sport Psychology - August 2000
   80. Alzheimer's Disease - July 2000
   81. Alzheimer's Disease Update - July 2001
   82. Mad Cow Disease - May 2000
   83. Mad Cow Disease - January 2001
   84. Smell - March 2000
   85. Medicating Preschoolers/ADHD - March 2000
   86. Monkey Math? - January 2000

9. Online Newshour
   1. Research on Alzheimer's disease
   2. Unscrambling Dyslexia
   3. Child's Play
   4. A New Breakthrough in Huntington's Disease
   5. Hearing Clearly
   6. Stroke Relief

10. The Harvard Brain - from Harvard Undergraduate Society for Neuroscience

11. Dr. William H. Calvin - a professor at the Univ. of Washington has many chapters from his books and magazine articles about the nervous system here on his site..or go directly to them at:
    1. The Cerebral Code
    2. Conversations with Neil's Brain
    3. The Emergence of Intelligence - from Scientific American, 271(4):100-107, October 1994.
       
    4. How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
       
    5. The Ascent of Mind
    6. The Cerebral Symphony
    7. The Throwing Madonna

    

12. PBS Specials
    1. Close to Home - Moyers on Addiction
    2. Inside the Animal Mind
    3. Animal Einsteins - transcripts

13. Why Files
    1. Can Birds Learn in their Sleep?
    2. Brains in Your Gut?
    3. Brain Cancer
    4. Chemical Reaction - Chemical Catastrophes
    5. Emotions and Health
    6. Fatigue and Human Error
    7. Mad Cow Disease
    8. Minding the Body - Can emotions affect health?
    9. Repairing the Spinal Cord
    10. Science of Love
    11. Sounds of Language
    12. Spinal Cord Injury and Recovery
    13. Mad Cow Disease
    14. Minding the Body
    15. Your Brain on Nicotine

Overviews of the Nervous System

1. Isaac Asimov, How Did We Find Out About The Brain?, Walker and Co., New York, 1987, 61 pages.

2. Susan L. Barrett, It's All in Your Head, Free Spirit Publishing, Minneapolis, 1992, 151 pages.

3. Melvin Berger, Exploring the Mind and Brain, Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1983, 117 pages.

4. Faith Hickman Brynie, 101 Questions Your Brain Has Asked Itself But Couldn't Answer Until Now, Millbrook Press, Brookfield, 1998, 176 pages.

5. Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998, 224 pages.

6. Roberta Conlan (editor), States of Mind: New Discoveries About How Our Brains Make Us Who We Are, New York, Dana Press, 1999, 214 pages.

7. Joel Davis, Mapping the Mind. The Secrets of the Human Brain and How It Works, Birch Lane Press, Secaucus, 1997, 289 pages.

8. Stanislas Dehaene, The Number Sense. How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Oxford University Press, 1997, 274 pages.

9. Marian C. Diamond, Arnold B. Scheibel, Lawrence M. Elson, The Human Brain Coloring Book, Barnes and Noble Books, New York, 1985, 301 pages.

10. Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Social Brain, BasicBooks, Inc., New York, 1985, 219 pages.

11. Susan A. Greenfield, The Human Brain, BasicBooks, New York, 1997, 160 pages.

12. Susan A. Greenfield, The Human Mind Explained, Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1996, 192 pages. An EXCELLENT guide to the brain with plenty of pictures.

13. Robert D. Griffin, The Biology Coloring Book, Harper Collins, New York, 1986, 256 pages.

14. Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson, The Anatomy Coloring Book, Harper Collins, New York, 1993, 352 pages.

15. Harold L. Klawans, Why Michael Couldn't Hit, and Other Tales of the Neurology of Sports, W.H. Freeman, New York, 1996, 308 pages.

16. Kenneth A. Klivington, The Science of the Mind, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1989, 239 pages.

17. Ronald Kotulak, Inside the Brain, Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City, 1996.

18. Elaine N. Marieb, The A&P Coloring Workbook, A Complete Study Guide, 3rd edition, Benjamin/Cummings.

19. John McCrone, The Ape That Spoke. Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1991, 288 pages.

20. D. Michael McKeough, Coloring Review of Neuroscience, 2nd edition, Little, Brain and Co., 1995.

21. Paul Nordstrom August, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs, Series 2, Brain Function, Chelsea House Publ., New York, 1988, 123 pages.

22. Anne D. Novitt-Moreno, How Your Brain Works, Ziff-Davis Press, Emeryville, 1995, 170 pages.

23. Tabitha M. Powledge, Your Brain: How You Got It and How it Works, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1994, 210 pages.

24. Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson, The Amazing Brain, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1984, 182 pages.

25. J. Lawrence Pool, Nature's Masterpiece. The Brain and How it Works, Walker and Co., New York, 1987, 144 pages.

26. Society for Neuroscience
    1. Brain Briefings - A great resource with short discussion of topics including Epilepsy and GABA, The Roots of ALS, Alzheimer's Abnormalities, The Retinoblastoma Gene, Birth Defects, Multiple Sclerosis, The Prefrontal Cortex and Schizophrenia, Huntington's Disease Genetics, Parkinson's and Dopamine, The Senses, Sleep, Brain Imaging, Development, Brain Mechanisms (Serotonin and Judgment, The Brain's Stash, Cell Suicide, Oxidative Stress and Brain Disorders, The Opiate Receptor, Neurotrophic Factors, NMDA Receptor Blockers, Biological Clocks)
    2. Brain Facts. A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., 1993, 52 pages.
    3. Brain Concepts - short pamphlets on Brain Development, Drugs, Genes and the Brain, How the Brain Ages, Vision, Sleep, Stress and the Brain, Pain. ($0.50/each)

27. V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee, Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, William Morrow and Company, New York, 1998, 320 pages.

28. Jean Stine and Camden Benares, It's All in Your Head, Prentice Hall, New York, 1994, 248 pages.

29. Time/Life Books, How Things Work - The Brain, Time/Life Books, Alexandria, 1990.

30. Carol Turkington, The Brain Encyclopedia, Facts on File, Inc., New York, 1995, 316 pages.

Specific Areas of the Nervous System

1. John Downer, Supersense. Perception in the Animal World, Holt and Co., New York, 1988, 160 pages.

2. Larry Kettelkamp, Tricks of Eye and Mind, William Morrow and Co., New York, 1974, 127 pages.

3. Jillyn Smith, Senses & Sensibilities, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1989, 230 pages.

4. William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann, Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York, 1995, 352 pages

5. William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann, Inside the Brain, New American Library, New York, 1980, 226 pages.

6. Richard K. Cooley and C.H. Vanderwolf, The Sheep Brain; A basic guide, A.J. Kirby, Co., London, Ontario, Canada, 1979, 34 pages.

7. Stephen J. DeArmond, Madeline M. Fusco and Maynard M. Dewey, Structure of the Human Brain. A Photographic Atlas, Oxford University Press, New York, 1976, 186 pages.

8. Eric R. Kandel, James H. Schwartz and Thomas M. Jessel, Principles of Neural Science, Elsevier, New York, 1991, 1135 pages. (This textbook is a comprehensive overview of the whole field of neuroscience and is used in many university graduate and undergraduate courses)

9. M.B. Macmillan, A wonderful journey through skull and brains: the travels of Mr. Gage's tamping iron, Brain and Cognition, vol. 5, pp. 67-107, 1986. (History and analysis of the brain injury sustained by Mr. Phineas Gage)

10. Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden, Ballantine Books, New York, 1977, 271 pages.

Neuroscience Videos for Students and Teachers

1. Decade of the Brain Tapes
2. Films for the Humanities & Sciences has several videos about the senses and brain, but they tend to be expensive.