ON-LINE VIDEOS

Temple Grandin: "The World Needs All Kinds of Minds" (19:43)

Kim Peek: "The Real Rain Man" documentary

Oliver Sacks: "What Hallucination Reveal About Our Minds" (18:48)

Helen Fisher: "The Brain in Love" (15:56)

Robert Sapolsky: "The Uniqueness of Humans" (37:42)

Jill Bolte Taylor: "Stroke of Insight" (18:44)

Michael Merzenich: "On Re-Wiring the Brain" (23:07)

Stuart Brown: "Play is More than Fun" (26:42)

Beau Lotto: Opitcal Illusions Show How We See" (16:30)

VS Ramachandran: "On Your Mind"

VS Ramachandran: " Neurons that Shaped Civilization: Mirror Neurons"

VS Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

Secrets of the Mind (V.S. Ramachandran) documentary

Robert Gupta: "Music is medicine, music is sanity"

Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion

Superior Autobiographical Memory (60 minutes segment)

BRAIN RESOURCES esources

Brain Atlas

Brain Basics (Brain Connection.com)

Brain Briefings ( Society for Neuroscience)

Brain Connection.com

Brain Explorer

Brain Facts (Brain Connection.com)

BrainTour 3-D (PBS.org)

Brain Image Gallery (Brainconnection.com)

BrainWEB and Brain Information (DANA.org)

Brain Reseach Sucess Stories (Society for Neuroscience)

Know Your Brain (Nat. Institute of Neurological Dis. & Stroke)

Science Museum: Your Brain

ALZHEIMERS I DEMENTIA I MEMORY

Alzheimer's Disease

HBO: Alzheimer's Project (documentary)

Amnesia

Dementia

Memory loss and the Brain

AUTISM SPECTRUM

Temple Grandin: "The World Needs All Kinds of Minds" (19:4

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorders: What should you know?

Autism - The DANA guide

Seeking the Earliest Signs of Autism (DANA.org)

What is autism?

Asperger's Syndrome

Autism Society

Autism Speaks

 

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT

Prenatal Brain Development

Brain Development in Childhood

Adolescent Brain

Brain in Adult Life and Normal Aging

The Teen Brain: Primed to Learn, Primed to Take Risks

 

BRAIN HEALTH

Basic Brain Care (DANA guide to brain health)

Brain Health (AARP. org)

Brain Health (Alzheimer's.org)

Brain Controlled Prosthetics (Society for Neuroscience:4/2009)

Do Our Bodies Hold the Promise of Regeneration? : (Brainconnection.com)

Health Aging

BRAIN INJURYI BRAIN TRAUMA

Brain Trauma, Concussion, and Coma

Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion

Brain Injury

Concussions

Head injury

Spinal Cord Injury

Stroke

Jill Bolte Taylor: "My Stroke of Insight""

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Traumatic Brain Injury Information Page

Brain Injury Association

)BRAIN TUMORS

Brain Tumors (DANA.org)

Brain Tumors (Mayo Clinic)

National Brain Tumor Association

CHILD ABUSE AND BRAIN

Wounds that Won't Heal

National Child Traumatic Stress Center

CHRONIC PAIN

Chronic Pain Information Page

Chronic Pain (DANA.org)

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

Autism

Asperger's Syndrome

Angelman Syndrome

Cerebral Palsy

Developmental Disabilities

Pervasive Developmental Disabilities Page

Prader-Willi Syndrome

Rett's Syndrome

Spina Bifida Information Page

Williams Syndrome Information Page

Growing Up Different (PBS: Scientific American Frontiers)

EPILEPSY I SEIZURES

Epilespy (Soceity for Neuroscience: Brain Briefings)

Epilepsy Information Page

Epilepsy 101: The Basics

Epilespy Foundation

EATING AND APPETITE

A Matter of Taste (Society for Neuroscience)

Appetite and Food Intake (Society for Neuroscience -Brain Briefings)

Feeding hormones affect more than appetite (DANA.org)

Wired for Hunger: Brain and Obesity (DANA.org)

Basic Drives: Eating, Sleeping, and Sex (DANA Guide to Brain Health)

Food for thought: Obesity and Addiction (Society for Neuroscience)

 

FETAL ALCHOL

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Surgeon General's Advisory on Alcohol Use in Pregnancy

HEADACHE

Headache Information Page

Headaches

Migraines

HYDROCEPHALUS

Hydrocephalus Information Page

Hydrocephalus

Hydrocephalaus Association

LEARNING DISABILITIES

Temple Grandin: "The World Needs All Kinds of Minds" (19:4

Learning Disabilities Information Page\

Dysgraphia

Dyslexia

Dyscalculia (math learning disability)

Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

National Center for Learning Disabilities

MEDITATION AND BRAIN

How Meditation May Change the Brain (NY Times)

Mediation: Re-witing Your Brain for Happiness (ABC News)

Is Meditation the push-up for the Brain? (Science Daily)

Meditation may help the brain tune out distractions (CBS News)

MENINGITIS I ENCEPHAPLITIS

Meningitis and Encephalitis Information Page

Meningitis

MENTAL HEALTH

A Brilliant Madness: John Nash (documentary)

ADHD

Anxiety Disorders

Bipolar Disorder

Depression

Eating Disorders

The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (documentary)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Schizophrenia

Social Phobia

MENTAL RETARDATION (INTELLECUTAL DISABILITY)

Down Syndrome

Intellectual Disability

Mental Retardation

MIRROR NEURONS

Mirror Neurons (Society for Neuroscience)

Mirror Neurons - NOVA Science NOW (PBS video)

Cells that Read Minds (NY Times)

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Multiple Sclerosis Information Page

Multiple Sclerosis

MUSIC/ Music Therapy

Musical Creativity and the Brain (DANA.org)

When Listening to Music Your Brain is Moving, Even if You're Not

Harnessing the Restorative Power of Music

How Music Helps to Heal the Injured Brain

Musical Creativity and the Brain

Music and the Brain

Music and the Brain (Scientific American)

How Music Affects the Body/Music therapy and health

How Music promotes health

Music and Brain Development in Young Children

How Music Can Reach the Silenced Brain

Music Training Chnages Brain Networks

Robert Gupta: "Music is medicine, music is sanity"

How music affects the brain

 

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Parkinson's Disease Information Page

Parkinson's Disease

National Parkinson Foundation

PHANTOM LIMB SYNDROME

Phantom Limb Syndrome

Phantom Limb Pain - Mirror Box

PLASTICITY

Brain Plasticity: Learning and Brain

How Learning Changes the Brain

Michael Merzenich on Rewiring the Brain (video)

POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (DANA guide to Brain)

National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

National Child Traumatic Stress Center

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (National Institute of Mental Health)

SAVANT SYNDROME

Savant Syndrome

Kim Peek: "The Real Rain Man"

Kim Peek documentary

Alonzo Clemens

Stephen Wiltshire - Prodigious Drawing Ability and Visual Memory

Beautiful Minds: The Psychology of Savants (video)

SEX, LOVE, SEX DIFFERENCES

Helen Fisher: "The Brain in Love" ((video)

Sex Differences in the Brain

Lust, Attraction, and Attachment (DANA.org)

Basic Drives: Eating, Sleeping, and Sex (DANA Guide to Brain Health)

The Brain in Lust and Love

The Science of Love (BBC)

Girl Brain, Boy Brain (Scientic American)

Sex Differences in the Brain (ABCnews)

SLEEP AND DREAMS

The Brain on Night Shift (DANA.org)

The Mind at NIght (DANA.org)

The Science of Sleep (CBS 60 Minutes)

SLEEP (PBS Nova Science)

Sleep Essentials/ Sleep Deprivation (End Your Sleep Deprivation.com)

Understanding Sleep

Teens and Sleep

Healthy Sleep (Harvard)

Healthy Sleep and Optimal Performance (Dr. William Dement - YouTube)

How the Brain turns Reality into Dreams

The Dreaming Brain

Dreaming Linked to Brain Development (Harvard)

Wishfulfillment? No, But Dreams Do Have Meaning (TIME)

How to Sleep Better (BBC video)

Dying to Sleep: Fatal Familial Insomnia (documentary video)

SLEEP DISORDERS

Sleep Apnea

Insomnia

Drowsy Driving

Jet Lag and Sleep

Sleep Disorders

Narcolepsy

Sleep Deficits (Society for Neuroscience)

National Sleep Foundation

Restless Legs Foundation

Sleep Apena Assocation

 

SPORTS AND THE BRAIN

This is Your Brain on Sports

Sports and Improve Brain Function

Sports Related Traumatic Brain Injuries

How Exercise Benefits the Brain (NY Times)

Exercise and the Brain ("Brain Rules", John Medina)

Brain Gains (exercise and the brain)

STRESS

Stress causes brain shrinkage (Yale Times)

Stress and the Brain: What Makes Some of Us More Vulnerable? (DANA.org)

How Stress Affects the Brain May Depend on Age (DANA.org)

How Stress Affects the Developing Brain (DANA.org)

Stress: From aroused brain to racing heart (DANA.org)

Worried Sick (PBS: Scientific American Frontiers)

SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCYAddiction

Addiction and Brain Circuits

Addiction

Alcohol

Alcoholism

Science of Addiction

Substance Abuse and Addiction

Substance Abuse and Chemical Dependency

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Genetics of Addiction

HBO: Understanding Addiction (documentary)

Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

SYNESTHESIA

Synesthesia

Synesthesia Project

Touching Tastes, Seeing Smells

TOURETTE'S SYNDROME

Tourette syndrome introduction

Tourette syndrome

VIOLENCE

Violence and Aggression