Research Links

Anatomical Methods

http://brainmuseum.org/specimens/primates/human/sections/coronal-fiber/thumbnail.html
Views of coronal cuts of the human brain with stained fibers.

http://www.axonaltransport.com/
A technical review of axonal transport and its uses.

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~atkins/Neuroweb/synapse.html#transport
A basic summary of axonal transport.

http://hubin.org/about/projects/pm_brain_studies_en.html
Brain study of schizophrenics using post mortem autoradiography.

http://www.pharmagene.com/gtp_autoradiography_detail.htm
Slides of the human hippocampus after autoradiographic techniques.

http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/axon2.html
An essay on the importance of horseradish peroxidase to mark cells.

http://webvision.med.utah.edu/imageswv/Nissl-CO.jpg
Images of cortical tissue with Nissl stain and cytochrome oxidase on the right.

http://mindquest.net/radiology/images/fx-skull3.html
A fractured skull X-ray.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/image.html
Great summary on brain imaging. Includes good links.

http://www.pittsburgh.com/shared/health/adam/ency/article/003799.html
The Illustrated Health Encyclopedia's entry for cerebral angiography.

http://www.rch.unimelb.edu.au/CEP/Pages/ct.html
Description of CT scanning for patients. Includes scan examples.

http://www.teaching-biomed.man.ac.uk/student_projects/2000/mmmr7gjw/menu.htm
"Imaging for Idiots" offers information, case studies, and tutorials about CT and MRI for medical and bioscience students.

http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/MillHillEssays/1996/mri.htm
An essay on MRI, its history and meaning.

http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/
Web-published book, The Basics of MRI, by Joseph P. Hornak, PhD.

http://www.vh.org/Providers/TeachingFiles/NormalRadAnatomy/Images/HN/MRISagHN6.html
Sagittal MRI scan of the head and neck with some features labeled.

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/cases/caseM/mr1_t/024.html
Axial MRI scan of the brain with some labeled structures.

http://www.sciencephoto.com/techniques/magnet/magnet323.html
Multiple MRI scans of the brain through different sections.

http://medstat.med.utah.edu/kw/brain_atlas/
An atlas of MRI brain scans.

Measuring Function

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/vessel.html
A summary of cerebral blood flow.

http://www.gemedicalsystemseurope.com/euen/rad/ct/case_studies/ctperfusion_v_xenon_clinicalcase.html
A case study with rCBF image.

http://brainmapping.loni.ucla.edu/BMD_HTML/BMD_BIOS/SusanBookheimer/Naming/Naming.html
Abstract of a study in which blood flow is mapped in accordance with object naming and reading.

http://laxmi.nuc.ucla.edu:8000/lpp/pet_overview.html
A definition of PET.

http://pet.radiology.uiowa.edu/
University of Iowa's PET research with case studies of different neurological disorders.

http://imasun.lbl.gov/~budinger/medTechdocs/SPECT.html
Nice description of SPECT.

http://brighamrad.harvard.edu/education/online/BrainSPECT/BrSPECT.html
Harvard's Atlas of Brain Perfusion SPECT. Includes neurological disorders.

http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fmri_intro/
A brief introduction from Oxford University on fMRI.

http://www.neuroguide.com/gregg.html
An essay on how fMRI is used to study brain function.

Neurophysiological Methods

http://zeus.rutgers.edu/~ikovacs/SandP/prepI_3_1.html
Single cell technique.

http://tonto.stanford.edu/eotn/#Windows%20versions
Movies of a neuron's electrophysiology.

http://www.idiom.com/~drjohn/eeg.html
An introduction to the EEG, including the history.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/1020.html
A description of the 10-20 system for the EEG.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/epi.html
A brief overview of epilepsy.

http://www.sleephomepages.org/sleepsyllabus/a.html
Sleep behavior.

http://www.forenap.asso.fr/pages/eeg/eeg4.htm
Characteristics of the ERPs.

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~gpotts/EEGlab/ERP.html
ERP work from a lab at Rice University.

http://www.human-nature.com/mba/chap7.html
A chapter on Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig from the web version of Robert M. Young's "Mind, Brain and Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century".

http://www.thoemmes.com/psych/ferrier.htm
Web version of David Ferrier's essay "The Functions of the Brain", which regards Fritsch and Hitzig's work as proof for localization.

http://cognet.mit.edu/MITECS/Entry/tees
A brief biography of Wilder Penfield.

http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/neurol/struct/epilep/epilepsy_surgery.html
Baylor College of Medicine's epilepsy surgery page. Includes information on the use of electrocorticography during the operation process.

http://psyserver.pc.rhbnc.ac.uk/vision/magres.html
A brief look at magnetoencephalography.

http://mcns10.med.nyu.edu/research/meg_new/meg_new.html
NYU's site about the use of magnetoencephalography in their neurosurgery clinic.

Lesion Method

http://www.oliversacks.com/
The Official Oliver Sacks web page.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/lang.html#aphasia
A brief look at Broca and Wernicke's aphasias.

Split-Brain Surgery

http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1981/sperry-autobio.html
The Nobel e-Museum's biography of Roger Sperry (Nobel prize 1981).

http://unr.edu/homepage/otto/CH2/split.html
A summary about Sperry's split-brain research with links.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/split.html
A basic look at the two hemispheres.

http://www.bath.ac.uk/~pssbsj/psyc0002/week4/ps2lec4.htm
Very descriptive site on the hemispheric specialization and split-brain and normal subject research.

Sodium Amobarbital Tests

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gusb/wadadesc.html
A brief description of the sodium amobarbital (Wada) test.

http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/Epilepsy/wada.html
Johns Hopkins' Wada explanation page.

Other Lateralization Studies

http://www.educ.ucalgary.ca/swork/ipp/DYSLEXIA.HTML
A definitive page on dyslexia.

http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/index.html
Handedness and lateralization.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/rightl.html
Basic and fun lateralization tests.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1511/6_20/55926792/p1/article.jhtml
More fun lateralization tests.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1892/hemisphr.htm
Hemispheric dominance.

http://home.tampabay.rr.com/gifted/rblb2.html
A collection of links on right brain/left brain hemispheric dominance.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/olfact.html
Lateralization of smell.