Welcome to The Undergraduate Behavioral Neuroscience Resource Project at Macalester College

The Undergraduate Behavioral Neuroscience Resource Project was launched to provide college undergraduates, advanced high school students, and anyone else that may be interested with up-to-date, accurate, and yet understandable information about topics related to behavioral neuroscience. New topics will be added to the site periodically. The topics available from the project are:

• Acupuncture
• ADD/ADHD
• Visual Perception and Aesthetics
• Alcohol and the Brain
• Current Trends in Alzheimer's Disease Research
• Audition and Music
• Autism and Gene Therapy
• Autism and the Opioid Excess Theory
• Brain Imaging
• Brain/Machine Interfaces
• Therapeutic Applications for Cannabinoids
• Cochlear Implants
• Neuroscience of learning to move and dance
• Pharmacological treatments for Unipolar Depression
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Dopamine and Drugs of Abuse
• Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia
• REM and Dreaming
• Dyslexia
• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
• Estrogen Therapy and Cognitive Function
• Huntington's Disease
• The Neuroscience of Intelligence
• Lesch-Nyhan Disease
• Long-term Potentiation
• Monoamine Oxidase
• MDMA
• Methamphetamine and the nervous system
• Mirror Neurons
• How Music Reshapes the Brain
• Myesthenia Gravis
• Narcolepsy
• Neuroanthropology
• Diabetic and Drug/Cancer-Induced Neuropathy
• The Neuroscience of Nightmares
• Olfaction
• Neuroscience of Orgasm
  
  Pain and Congenital Insensitivity to Pain
• Parkinson's Disease
• Phantom Limb Pain
• Neuroscience of Pheromones
• Placebo Effects and Anxiety Disorders
• Proprioception
• Psychophysiology of Serial Killers
• Serotonin Function and LSD
• Sleep Deprivation
• Split Brain Consciousness
• Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia
• Treatments for Schizophrenia
• Spinal Cord Injury: Physiological Effects, Potential Treatments
• Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
• Neural Stem Cells 
  
  Synesthesia
• Grapheme-Color Synesthesia
• Tourette's Syndrome
  
  The Role of the Vagus Nerve in Bulimia
• Vision

Comments? Questions? Interested in participating in the project? Send some mail to Eric P. Wiertelak at Macalester today!