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
More to come online soon!
Comments? Questions? Interested in participating in the project? Send some mail to Eric P. Wiertelak at Macalester today!
Last modified 9/13/2010 |