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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.
 

- Study questions for week 1.

• FJ Gall , and phrenology. A historical perspective with a map of the 'mental faculties'.
• Solve the neuron puzzle !
• Action potential animation

- Study questions for week 2.

• 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.
• 16 year old girl who never grew (ABC news)

- Study questions for week 3.

• Brain areas interactive animation (PBS)
• The 111 routes of drugs administrations (FDA)
• The dorsal and ventral roots in action.

- Study questions for week 4.

• Brain research success stories (Society for Neuroscience)
• On the use of animals in Neuroscience research (Society for Neuroscience)

- Study questions for week 5.

• More i nformation 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!
• The Thatcher Illusion.

- Study questions for week 6.

• Some auditory illusions .
• Information on Tinnitus (perceiving sounds that are not produced by external sources) from the American Tinnitus association .
• Test your hearing range

- Study Questions for week 7.

• 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

- Study Questions for week 8.

• Developments of internal male and female sexual apparatus. Development of the external male and female sexual apparatus.
• A NPR segment on sex and cognition.

- Study questions for week 9.

• 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

- Study Questions for week 11.

• Are you overweight? Compute your Body Mass Index (NIH)
• More infos on Anorexia Nervosa

- Study Questions for week 12.

• Pavlov experiment, classical conditioning in a goldfish, instrumental conditioning in a rat . The painful memories of an Alien lady.
• Learning and Memory... Games and Tests .

- Study Questions for week 13.

- Study Questions for week 14

- Study Questions for week 15