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BBC: Human Body & Mind

The BBC has created this fine site to provide the curious visitor with a plethora of insights into the relationship between the human body and mind. In the Body section, visitors can take on a number of fun challenges in order to learn more about the muscles, skeleton, and the nervous system. Moving on, The Mind area contains a range of self-guided surveys that explore human emotion, memory...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/
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Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections

The University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, and the National Museum of Health and Medicine have come together to assemble one of the world's largest collections of well-preserved mammalian brains. Now readers can access photographs of the brains of over 100 different species and view stained sections of a variety of brains, including those of humans, sea lions, and otters. Readers can...

http://neurosciencelibrary.org/index.html
Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education

This sharp looking website is for the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education (JUNE) which "publishes peer-reviewed reports of innovations in undergraduate neuroscience education...[and] serves as a mechanism for faculty to exchange information...such as laboratory exercises, new media, curricular considerations, and teaching methods." Visitors will find the "Supplementary Materials" tab...

https://www.funjournal.org/
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Neuro-Opthalmology Virtual Education Library

Crafted by a team of scholars from the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, the University of Utah, and the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society, the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL) is an open access repository of digital materials to be used for educational and research purposes. Visitors can browse through twenty different collections that are searchable by...

https://novel.utah.edu/
Surgical Planning Laboratory Anatomy Browser

The Surgical Planning Laboratory (SPL) of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has made a virtual treasure chest of visual anatomical information available at its web site. Highlights of the site include the Brain Atlas datasets: complex java applets that allow users to see parts of a schematic brain and heart. Users can rotate the images, and...

https://spl.harvard.edu/
Surgical Planning Laboratory Image Gallery

The Surgical Planning Laboratory of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School has a virtual treasure chest of visual anatomical information available at its web site. The SPL offers of series of over 60 MPEG movies on topics such as neurosurgery, multiple sclerosis, the brain, abdominal surgery, flow analysis, and thoracic surgery, among others.

https://spl.harvard.edu/
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The Learning Brain: Neuroscience

The very well-maintained BioEd Online website from the Baylor College of Medicine was recently overhauled and now it's better than ever. This particular resource collection brings together videos, teacher guides, digital slides, video presentations, and related content. The topics covered include brain structure, neurons and the nervous system, human senses and movement, learning and memory,...

https://www.bioedonline.org/lessons-and-more/resource-collec...
The Whole Brain Atlas (Last reviewed in the Scout Report on April 19, 2002)

Created by Keith A. Johnson and J. Alex Becker of Harvard University, the Whole Brain Atlas is a wonderful resource for physicians and others in the allied health sciences. First-time visitors may wish to start with the "Neuroimaging Primer," a nice introduction to process courtesy of Dr. Johnson. After this introduction, visitors can compare the "Normal Brain" images to those that display the...

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html