General links for Neurobiology Class
The links on this page have all been recently tested.  However, the web is a constantly changing universe.  If you find a link that is not working properly, please contact us and we will look into whether we can find the new address.  Also, if you find a site that you think is relevant and should be added to the site, please send the address to us at jmurray@mail.uca.edu.

General Science

  • naturalSCIENCE: Science Related Web Links  -  General science articles and current events in science.
  • Nerd World : SCIENCES  -  General science links.
  • The New York Times: Science  -  Timely science in the news.
  • Tree of Life Search - Search for any taxon or browse

    • Search engines, Encyclopedias, Reference sources

  • Neuroguide  -   A guide to the neurosciences on the internet, including 'Fly brain' and the Alzheimer's database.
  • Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences - MIT  -  Extended series of brief entries on the defining research topics of (1) computational intelligence (2) culture, cognition, and evolution (3) linguistics and language (4) neuroscience (5) philosophy, and (6) psychology.

    • General Neuroscience

  • Eric H. Chudler Home Page  -  Fantastic site with lots of general neurobiology and neuro-education.
  • Brain Briefings Home Page  - Society for Neuroscience links to articles ranging from nervous system disorders, the senses, sleep, drugs, and brain development.
  • Brain.com - Products and Info for more brain power [Ed. note- sells some apparent snake oil, but also some good info]
  • Serendip Home Page  -  Serendip is forum to explore and support intellectual and social change in education, in social organization... and in how one makes sense of life.
  • World Lecture Hall - Neuroscience  -  Links to other courses on neuroscience
  • Seaside Neuroscience  -  Intertidal neurobiology; have you ever seen a neuron surf?
  • ShuffleBrain  -  Articles on the brain-mind interaction, brains and eyes, and diseases.
  • "Brain & Mind" Magazine  -  Online magazine of neuroscience covering topics on mind and behavior, brain diseases, and  history of neuroscience.
  • Neuroscience for Kids -  Answers many questions regarding the nervous system, dispels many popular myths, and provides relevant links.  Geared to students in grade school and high school, but full of accurate and well presented information.
  • Brain Awareness Week Home Page  -  The Brain Awareness Week campaign unites the Society for Neuroscience with over 440 science, advocacy, and health organizations that share an interest in elevating public awareness of brain and nervous system research.
  • Center for Biological Timing  -  Information on pacemaker mechanisms, frequency modulation,  and biomathematical analysis.

    • Medicine

  • WebMB - General info about medical conditions and treatment.
  • Organizing Medical Networked Information (OMNI)  -  A search engine designed to find medical internet resources.
  • Neuromuscular Disease Center  -   This site includes links to other sites devoted to various disorders and syndromes, such as myopathy, polyneuropathy, spinal cord disorders, and molecular and cellular classifications of disease.  Actually lists the symptoms for the various disorders, how they are induced, how they progress, and whether they are treatable.
  • Neuropsychology Central  -  Many interesting human neuropsychology links, especially surrounding disease, development, and aging.

    • Neuroanatomy

    Neurophysiology

    General Neuroethology & Behavior

  • Animal Behavior  -  A site developed to familiarize students with the landmarks in the study of animal behavior, including major researcher, classic experiments, historic debates, and links to supplemental materials.
  • Internet Animal Behavior  -  This site provides links regarding animal behavior information, professional societies, and journals.
  • Animal behavior  -  Links to many animal behavior sites.
  • Topics in Neuroethology Home Page  -  Includes many relevant links.
  • Measuring Behavior '98: Proceedings  -  Measuring Behavior ’98 devoted  attention to the integration of behavioral research and physiological measurements. "Integration"  refers to the measurement of behavioral characteristics combined with in vivo recording of the dynamic changes of physiological parameters.
  • Great Ideas in Personality--Behavior Genetics  -  Behavior genetics is a field in which variation among individuals is separated into genetic versus environmental components.  The most common research methodologies are family studies, twin studies, and adoption studies.
  • Visual Psychophysics Lab Wolfelab  -   This very colorful site contains visual psychophysical tests, very useful links to other psychophysics labs and groups, as well as to vision/ophthalmology sites and institutions.
  • Illusion Works - The largest collection of illusions on-line.
  • Blind spots  -  Most people (even many who work on the brain) assume that what you see is pretty much what your eye sees and reports to your brain. In fact, your brain adds very substantially to the report it gets from your eye, so that a lot of what you see is actually "made up" by the brain.

    • Intelligence & Cognition

  • Scientific American: Quick Article Summaries: Exploring Intelligence: November 1998  -  An online summary of an entire Scientific American issue dedicated to intelligence, consciousness, and related topics in animals and humans.  Links to many articles and related sites.
  • Scientific American Frontiers presents Animal Einsteins  -  How intelligent are animals? The Scientific American Frontiers special Animal Einsteins explores this very question.  Site has links to each researcher featured on the show.

    • Articles

  • NSF Why Files- science in the news  -  Link to story: Bird Brains, Do they learn while sleeping?  and other general science news stories.
  • Human Neural Stem Cells Advance Distant Prospect Of Reseeding Damaged Brain  -  Article showing direct human application of research conducted in mice models.
  • Our genes, ourselves? by Ari Berkowitz   -  Article on the linkage of human traits, including behavior, to the genome.
  • brain: Size and shape matter- WhHow do primate brains evolve?

    • Model Systems In Neuroscience

    Leech (biomechanics, muscle control and innervation)

  • Neurobiology/Virtual Leech lab-- HHMI Lecture series  -  A virtual lab, exploring the sensory system of the leech.
  • Fish Muscle Research Group: Home Page  -  Includes research in biomechanics of swimming, muscle action and performance during locomotion in molluscs, fish and amphibians.
  • Leech Neurobiology Newsletter  -  Lists recent leech papers in the literature, contains a leech photo gallery, and links to laboratories conducting research on the leech.
  • 3d Views of the Leech Central Nervous System
  • Biopharm Leeches Home Page  -  Includes the history of the leech in medicine, current uses of leeches, and links to books on leeches.
  • Hirudinea- Tree of Life  -  Pictures and systematics of leeches.
  • Kristan Lab   -  Researcher studying the development and function of the nervous system of the medicinal leech. Using techniques from electrophysiology, computer simulation and experimental embryology, this lab addresses the question of how the leech nervous system comes to produce its many behaviors.
  • Leech Resources  -  List of books and articles on the leech.
  • Leech Week  -  background paper on leeches, frequently asked questions, and resources.
  • Medicinal leech swimming  -  Excellent synopsis of the mechanics neural basis of leech swimming, including diagrams.
  • Peter Brodfuehrer's Home Page  -  He studies how synaptic interactions between identified neurons initiate and control swimming activity in the medicinal leech.
  • Robert K. Jospheson - UCI  -  Studies the neural control of muscle contraction; muscle contraction kinetics and power output; relations between muscle ultrastructure and performance; neurotrophic control of muscle properties in insect

    • Electric fish (electroreception and communication)

  • Heiligenberg Lab  -  Dr. Walter Heiligenberg ran his lab from 1974 until his sudden and tragic death in September, 1994. Walter Heiligenberg and the members of his lab studied weakly electric fish. This site provides links to publications and other electric fish sites.
  • Nelson Lab Home Page  -  The long-term objective of research in this laboratory is to gain an understanding of the neural mechanisms and information processing principles involved in active sensory acquisition.  The adaptive signal processing in sensory systems is studied in the electric sense of weakly electric fish.  This site also contains many data pages and links to class web sites.
  • UNB on electric fish  -  The site provides a link to a short primer for the layperson: relatively jargon-free description of research.
  • NJ Berman on electric fish  -  This page includes pictures, video, and audio of electric fish displaying aggressive behavior and electrical "chirp" communications..
  • Zakon Lab  -  Harold Zakon's areas of interest are developmental neurobiology and the influence of hormones on the nervous system. He studies the electrosensory system of weakly electric fish which generate and sense electric fields for orienting in the dark and for communication.
  • Caltech on electric fish  -  Video and models of electric fields during electrosensory behavior.

    • Sea Slugs (orientation, locomotion, escape)

  • Marine Biology and ID Related Site  -  Links to marine organism sites, including sea slugs.
  • APLYSIA Hometank  -  Welcome to the APLYSIA Hometank an ongoing information resource for the molluscan neuroscience community.
  • Jim Beck  -  Researcher studying the neural basis of behavior in Tritonia diomedea, a sea slug.  Link to research page which gives a very good synopsis for why Tritonia is an ideal model, and the status of his research.
  • Mollusca Opisthobranchia  -  Reference source for information about marine slugs, sea slugs, opisthobranchs, pyramidellids, nudibranchs & related mollusks.
  • Slug Site  -  Includes the Nudibranch of the Week, a lot of information on slugs, and links to many related sites.
  • Tritonia diomedea  - Nudibranch of the Week
  • Veliger Larva Home Page  -  This research studies the neurotransmitters/modulators which may be found in the veliger sea slug larval nervous system.
  • Use of Magnetice Fields by Tritonia diomedea  -  Data indicates that this sea slug uses the Earth's magnetic field for navigation.
  • Paper on the neural basis of locomotion in Tritonia diomedea  -  Identified neurons contain neuropeptides which accelerate the beating of cilia.
  • Tritonia diomedea Links

    • Other Classes Web Pages

  • Ari Berkowitz's Reading List: Sensorimotor Integration  -  Papers addressing many topics relating to the integration of sensory and motor information.
  • Neuroethology Home Page- M.Nelson  -  Home page for PHYSL490B Fall '96, "Topics In Neuroethology." This was a graduate level seminar held in the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • SALMON: Study and Learning Materials On-line  -  Welcome to the award winning SALMON web site which contains links to support material for courses on the Biological Bases of Behavior taught by Dr Paul Kenyon in the Department of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Devon, UK
  • Neuroethology - Mechanisms of Marine Animal Behavior  -  Course page for class at the Marine Science Center of Northeastern University.  Includes links to discussions and videos of several behaviors.
  • Brain, Behavior & Evolution  -  Course page for class at the University of Pennsylvania.  Includes links and reading list.
  • The Crawdad Project  -   A program funded by the National Science Foundation to promote the use of invertebrates in undergraduate physiology and neuroscience courses.
  • Lab 1

    • Miscellany

  • Foundation for Biomedical Research Home Page  -  This site provides information on the treatment of animals in biomedical research.
  • Orthoptera Species File Online (OSF)  -   A taxonomic database of the world's orthopteroid insects. It contains full synonymic and taxonomic information for over 25,000 species.
  • Entomology on World-Wide Web (WWW)  -  An extensive list of links to entomology sites on the web.
  • BIOSIS  -  Internet Resource Guide for Zoology
  • British Columbia Creature Page  -  Explore the animals that live under British Columbia's ocean waters.
  • Jeff's Nudibranch Page  -  Images of many slugs
  • Sea Slug Forum  -  Information on south Pacific sea slugs
  • Biomimetic Underwater Robot Program  -  Robots based on the motion of real animals
  • Visual Illusions Program  -  Click on "DREAMWEAVER".  Download for Macintosh ONLY
  • Do humans use pheromones?

    • Journals- Neuroscience

  • NEUROSCION- multi-journal database
  • Annual Review of Neuroscience
  • Biological Journals and Abbreviations: Title Page
  • Biological Journals On-Line
  • "Brain & Mind" Magazine - WWW Home Page
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Resources on the Internet: Publishing (CNBC)
  • Current Opinions in Neurobiology
  • Evolution of Communication Home Page
  • Invertebrate Neuroscience
  • Journal of Comparative Physiology A
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Journal of Neuroscience Online
  • Mollusc Molecular News
  • Nature
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Network: Computation in Neural Systems
  • Neuroscience-Net
  • PNAS
  • Science News Online - The Weekly Newsmagazine of Science
  • SCIENCE On-Line
  • Springer Electronic Journals
  • THE SCIENTIST
  • Wiley Neuroscience Journals  -  Includes links to Developmental Psychobiology, Glia, Hippocampus, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Comparative Neurology, Journal of Neurobiology, Journal of Neuroscience Research, and Synapse.

    • Going to Graduate School????

    Undergraduate Training

  • Tropical Neuroethology Home Page  -  The 5-week Tropical Neuroethology Program is held each July and August at the Institute of Neurobiology (University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus).  Undergraduate students receive training in methods that are used to study animal behavior in the natural environment as well as lab techniques used to analyze the neural substrates for such behaviors.  The studies focus upon the nervous systems of certain invertebrates, such as the sea slugs Aplysia californica and Bursatella leachii, the crayfish Procambarus clarkii, and the spiny lobster Panulirus argus.  The  program is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University of Puerto Rico.

    • Guides to Schools

  • CollegeSource - College Catalogs Online
  • Peterson's Guide
  • Kaplan College Search
  • Get Into College: USNews
  • CampusTours: Virtual College Tours!

    • Places to do neuroscience

    Societies

  • AAAS Home Page
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • International Society for Neuroethology

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