- Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain
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Scientific research may help explain why adolescents behave the way they do, and influence parenting, teaching, and understanding teenagers.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/teenbrain
- Left vs. Right: Which Side Are You On?
Offers a test to find out the dominant hemisphere of your brain. Explains basic right and left brain characteristics, and gives guidance on how to balance the sides for success in school.
brain.web-us.com/brain/LRBrain.html
- Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
Major national resources for the study of brain anatomy.
www.brainmuseum.org
- Brain Explorer
Includes an animated presentation of neurotransmission processes, information on brain disorders, overview of the brain, glossary of terms, and image gallery.
www.brainexplorer.org
- Your Amazing Brain
Explore your brain, take part in real-life experiments, and test yourself with games, illusions, and brain-benders.
www.youramazingbrain.org
- UCLA Brain Mapping Center
Includes free tools and information resources for the science of brain mapping.
www.brainmapping.org
- Brain Awareness Week
General and press information, searchable national calendar of events for general and specialized audiences, useful links, and the Brain Quiz.
www.dana.org/brainweek
- BrainMaps.org
An interactive high-resolution digital brain atlas and virtual microscope that is based on over 10 million megapixels of scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains.
www.brainmaps.org
- Brain From Top to Bottom, The
Learn about the brain, its evolution and development, as well as numerous aspects of its function: memory, emotions, body movement, the senses, conscious, dreams, and language.
www.thebrain.mcgill.ca
- BrainWeb: Simulated Brain Database
Images of the brain generated by an MRI simulator.
www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/brainweb
- DTI Atlas
Multimedia atlas of the brain's white matter tracts.
www.DTIatlas.org
- Brain of the Florida Manatee
A compendium of the brain structures and sensory and behavioral characteristics of manatees.
www.manateebrain.org
- International Consortium for Brain Mapping (ICBM)
Developers of the computerized brain "atlas," a probabilistic reference system for the human brain.
www.loni.ucla.edu/ICBM
- Prof. Koch's Brain Browser
View various sagittal or horizontal MR images of Dr. Koch's brain.
www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/brain-browser.html
- BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head
Traveling museum exhibit offers health information on brain diseases, brain games, teacher lesson plans and more. From Pfizer, Inc.
www.pfizer.com/brain
- Sheep Brain Dissection Guide
Interactive site which gives a glimpse into a sheep brain.
academic.uofs.edu/department/psych/sheep
- Secret Life of the Brain, The
Companion site to the PBS series revealing the fascinating processes involved in brain development across a lifetime.
www.pbs.org/brain
- Project on the Decade of the Brain: 1990-2000
Enhancing public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research.
lcweb.loc.gov/loc/brain
- Of Mind and Matter: The Mystery of the Human Brain
Provides an overview of the anatomy, function, disorders, and psychology of the human brain in an interactive environment.
library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312238
- Scientific American Frontiers: Make Up Your Mind
Follows scientists as they look into the brain's frontal lobe as the seat of personality and try to determine which parts of the brain play a role in the decision-making process.
www.pbs.org/saf/1302
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