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:

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

Cochlear Implants

Dopamine and Drugs of Abuse

Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia

REM and Dreaming

Estrogen Therapy and Cognitive Function

Huntington's Disease

Lesch-Nyhan Disease

Long-term Potentiation

Monoamine Oxidase

Myesthenia Gravis

The Neuroscience of Nightmares

Neuroscience of Orgasm

Parkinson's Disease

Phantom Limb Pain

Placebo Effects and Anxiety Disorders

Psychophysiology of Serial Killers

Serotonin Function and LSD

Sleep Deprivation

Split Brain Consciousness

Auditory Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

Treatments for Schizophrenia

Neural Stem Cells

Synesthesia

Tourette's Syndrome

Vision

New for 2005:

The Neuroscience of Intelligence

Pharmacological treatments for Unipolar Depression

The Role of the Vagus Nerve in Bulimia

Spinal Cord Injury: Physiological Effects, Potential Treatments

New for 2006:

Therapeutic Applications for Cannabinoids

New for 2007:

Diabetic and Drug/Cancer-Induced Neuropathy

Grapheme-Color Synesthesia

Pain and Congenital Insensitivity to Pain

New for 2008:

Brain/Machine Interfaces

Methamphetamine and the nervous system

Neuroscience of learning to move and dance

More to come online soon!

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Back to Behavioral Neuroscience at Macalester!

Back to the Neuroscience Program at Macalester!

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

Last modified 6/13/2008