These questions and additional materials are meant to help you study. They do not address all the material covered in the textbook and in class, but they may be useful to get you started in your study. Feel free to talk to us about possible solutions to these questions during office hours (and get office hours extra credits points in the process!) .
Note: Several of the study questions have the same answer, but they are asked differently...
Note: Some links point to ShockWave animations. You can dowload a free player here.
- FJ Gall , and phrenology. A historical perspective with a map of the 'mental faculties'.
- Solve the neuron puzzle !
- Action potential animation
- Saltatory axonal conduction animation . The orange circles depicts Na/K flow of ions.
- Another saltatory conduction animation .
- The synapse: Quiz yourself !
- Synaptic transmission movie.
- CSF flow movie.
- Brain development animation.
- Brain areas interactive animation (PBS)
- The 111 routes of drugs administrations (FDA)
- The dorsal and ventral roots in action.
- Information on color blindness
- Label the eye !
- The visual cortex (animations by Tutis Vilis)
- Vision crosswords - and the answers. (from neuroscience for kids)
- Face recognition ... see how hard it actually is!
- Some auditory illusions .
- Information on Tinnitus (perceiving sounds that are not produced by external sources) from the American Tinnitus association .
- Test your hearing range
- For more infos on sleep: Check some general information on Sleep, and the pages of the National Sleep Foundation .
- Listen to a NPR segment on why we sleep (13 MB file)
- Listen to a NPR segment on snoring (13 MB file)
- Infos on Restless Leg Syndrome at NIH and from the RLS foundation
- Developments of internal male and female sexual apparatus. Development of the external male and female sexual apparatus.
- A NPR segment on sex and cognition.
- Sunday Times article on Lobotomies or here
- A NPR segment on stress.
- A NPR segment on someone who had a lobotomy. For more information, the webpage is here .
- Study questions for week 10.
- Find the words game