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Brain and Behavior Evolving Web List

RESOURCE LISTS, SEARCHABLE INDICES, JOURNALS

• Neurosciences on the Internet, a searchable and browsable index of WWW resources

• The World Wide Web Virtual Library - Neuroscience

• Neuroscience Education, a resource list by Erik Chudler, University of Washington

• Neuroscience journals on the internet, by Erik Chudler

• Electronic Journals, neuroscience journals available on the web, from Neurosciences on the Internet

• NeuroRoulette, randomly generated accessible sites from Neuroscience on the Internet

• Professional Resources in Neurosciences and Neuropsychology, from Mental Health Net, "rates the other neuro websites according to content ... provides links to each of them"

• Cognitive Neuroscience Resources

• Books, articles, and recommendations ... "mostly on brains, evolution, and where we're heading", by William Calvin, University of Washington

• Psychological Resources on the World Wide Web, by Edward Kardas, Southern Arkansas University

GENERAL TREATMENTS OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

• The Brain Project, by Stephen Jones ... supported by the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission ... "chapters on various issues related to consciousness"

• Explore the brain and spinal cord, from Neuroscience for kids by Erik Chudler, University of Washington

• Seeing, hearing, and smelling the world, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

NEUROANATOMY

• Sheep Brain Dissection Guide, from University of Scranton Neuroscience Program

• Rat Atlas Image Database, from UCLA Laboratory of Neuroimaging

• Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections, from the University of Wisconsin

• The Whole Brain Atlas

• Digital Anatomist, from University of Washington, includes interactive brain atlas and neuroscience course syllabus

• Neuroscience Tutorial, clinical neuroscience, from Washington University

• Neuroanatomy and Neuropathology on the internet, from University Medical School, Debren, Hungary

NEUROLOGY

• Neurology Web Forums, from Masschusetts General Hospital, "to foster online discussions between patients, caregivers and physicians about various Neurology-related topics".

SENSORY PROCESSES

• Interactive illustrations of color perception", from Brown University

• Counter-rotating spirals illusion, by Mark Newbold, who provides also an animated Necker Cube and a stereoscopic animated hypercube

• The Waterfall Illusion

• Musical Illusions and Paradoxes, by Diana Deutsch, University of California, San Diego. Some downloadable material and ordering information for a CD.

• You must be hearing things, from CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks for Kids.

• Demonstrations in auditory perception, from McGill University

• Webvision, the neural organization of the vertebrate retina, by H. Kolb, E. Fernandez, R. Nelson.

SLEEP AND RELATED PHENOMENA

• Sleep and Memory: Evolutionary Perspectives, by J. Lee Kavanau, Dept. of Biology, UCLA

• Circadian Technologies, Inc., includes tutorials on circadian rhythms, sleep, alertness

• Memory Consolidation in REM sleep: Dream On, by Robert Vertes, Center for Complex Systems, Florida Atlantic University

• Sleep Research Society

• What is the minimal brain unit capable of sleep?", by Guili Tononi, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California

• World Federation of Sleep Research Societies Newsletter

• Parasomnias - Arousal Disorders Information, from The Sleep Well, at Stanford University

• Introduction to Sleep and its Disorders, from the Circadian Learning Center at Circadian Technologies, Inc.(RM)

CONSCIOUSNESS

• Towards a Science of Consciousness, New Scientist reports from a conference (Tucson II) in April, 1996 (see also abstracts for Tucson II and upcoming Tucson III).

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

LEGAL ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS

• Psychiatry and the Law, Forensic psychiatry resource page, from the University of Alabama

• Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine, by Harold Bursztajn, M.D.

• Sleepwalking: Insanity or Automatism, by Peter Ridgway, Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, Australia

MISCELLANY

• Understanding and Preventing Violence, Volume 2: Biobehavioral Influences, 1994, by the Panel on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behaviors of the National Research Council, from the National Academy Press, available on line.

• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, 1999, by the Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Research Council, from the National Academy Press, available on line.