In the news...
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Neuroscience
news - Yahoo culls the latest neuroscience from the BBC,
Reuters, the AP, and dozens of major newspapers.
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New
Scientist - "The World's No.1 Science & Technology News
Service."
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Nature
Magazine - Short reports archived from 1998 to the present
(no subscription required!).
Search Engines
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Pub
Med - Searches everything covered by Medline as well as additional
life science journals.
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Medline
- Searches bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more
than 4,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other
countries. Contains over 11 million citations dating back to the
mid-1960's.
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Scirus
- "For scientific information only" from journals and on the web.
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Pubcrawler
- A different sort of search engine. This one keeps you informed
of new publications according to keyword (i.e., your favorite topics) and/or
author, then sends you the results by email so you don't
even have to remember to run your searches!
Electronic
Journal Access
Select Journals
Other
sites of interest
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Society
for Neuroscience - Hosts past abstracts for the SFN Neuroscience
conferences and news about this year's conference.
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Brain
Connection - Features lay articles, interviews, tutorials,
and games relating to neuro- and cognitive sciences relating to issues
in education (e.g., brain research on learning and memory).
References
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Wikipedia
- If you have a particular term in mind, this is a good general reference
that can also point you to related topics.
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Neuroguide
- A meta site with links to all aspects of the neurosciences: biology,
psychology, and neurology.
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Molecular
and Cellular Classifications - A quick reference for neurotransmitters/toxins,
etc. from the Neuromuscular Disease Center at the Washington University
School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
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Biotech
- A good reference site for biotechnology from the U. of Texas.
Tutorials
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Neuroscience
for Kids - Don't laugh, this is a great site that covers
all the basics in colorful and easily accessible ways
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HHsim
- A graphical simulation of a section of excitable neuronal membrane
using the Hodgkin-Huxley equations what provides full access to the Hodgkin-Huxley
parameters, membrane parameters, stimulus parameters, and ion concentrations.
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Brain
Connection - A good resource relating neuroscience to teaching
practice (without getting carried away with grandiose promises).
Misc. Resources
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The
Protein Databank - A collection of 3D models of thousands
of molecules along with the free software required to view/manipulate them.
Also allows you to manipulate two or more molecules in order to test for
possible bindings sites, allosteric interactions, etc.
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The
De Lange Conference - Includes streaming video of all the
presentations from the 2001 conference held at Rice University as well
links to presenters' homepages.
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AddALL
- Looking for a used book? Compares prices on both new and
used books across many sites, then figures in the shipping besides!
Definitely a great source for getting your textooks every semester.
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Optical
illusions - A terrific collection with explanations for the
psychology and neuroscience of the underlying mechanisms behind these effects.
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Brain
& Mind - An electronic magazine on neuroscience.
Contains numerous articles for readers of various levels of sophistication
in this discipline. http://www.cerebromente.org.br/
Suppliers
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Tocris
- Chemicals for neurochemistry and pharmacology. Informative
site also.
 Just
for Fun
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Science
Friday Archives - Real Audio episodes of NPR's "Talk of the
Nation" show. Episodes are organized by topic (including some related
to Neuroscience) and are archived from mid-1996 to the present. Note: Eric
Kandel was a guest on the 10/13/2000 show.
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Funny
Gene Names - Real, published names you will not believe for
genes in
Drosophila, H. sapiens, C. elegans, etc.
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Neuroscience
Humor - Actually this is more general science, but it links
to web highlights such as the Darwin Awards and the Annals of Improbable
research among other things.
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Is
there an Artificial God? - Douglas Adams' speech at a Digital
Biota conference. This collects some really brilliant ideas and is
very witty besides. Probably the best thing you will read this year.
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Think
Geek - Toys and novelties for nerds. Do your xmas shopping
here!
Note: I just made the "happy neuron"
at right from a textbook illustration. If you find a use for him
on your page, let me know where he ends up! |
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