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• 10 Things Every Man Should Know About a Woman's Brain -- LiveScience
  
  
• 10 Things Every Woman Should Know About a Man's Brain -- LiveScience
  
  
• 10 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain -- LiveScience
  
  
• All in the Mind -- Natasha Mitchell, ABC Radio National
  
  
• Atlas of the Body The Brain - Effects of Stroke -- AMA Health Insight
  
  
• Braindance -- John C. Redmond
  
  
• The Brain Matters -- American Academy of Neurology Foundation
  
  
• The Brain: Our Universe Within-Evolution -- Discovery Channel
  
  
• Brain Size -- Washington State University
  
  
• Brain Study Shows That the Opinions of Others Matters -- EurekAlert (17 June 2010)
  
  
• Brains Hard-Wired to Connect with Friends -- LiveScience (12 October 2010)
  
  
• Brains Quite Similar: Chimps Like Us/We're Like Chimps -- Reuters
  
  
• Caltech neuroscientists map intelligence in the brain -- Kathy Svitil, EurekaAlert!, AAAS (11 March 2009)
  
  
• Carnegie Mellon Scientists Crack Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings -- EurekAlert (12 January 2010)
  
  
• Colin Blakemore: How the Human Brain Got Bigger by Accident and Not Through Evolution -- Guardian (28 March 2010)
  
  
• Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections -- National Museum of Health and Medicine (UWisc/MSU)
  • Brain Evolution
  • Insectivores
  • Primates
    • Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, Humans
  • Related Web Sites
  • Brain Atlas Collections
• Culture Wires the Brain: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective -- EurekAlert (03 August 2010)

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• Did an Ice Age Boost Human Brain Size? -- New Scientist (29 July 2009)
  
  
• Digital Anatomist Project
  • Interactive Brain Atlas
  • Neuroanatomy Interactive Syllabus
    
    
• Dobbs, David. Beautiful Brains: The New Science of the Teenage Brain. National Geographic, October 2011.
  
  
• From Grunting To Gabbing: Why Humans Can Talk -- NPR (11 August 2010)
  
  
• From Primitive Parts, A Highly Evolved Human Brain -- NPR (09 August 2010)
  
  
• Genes to Cognition Online -- Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor
  
  
• Gorman, Rachael Moeller. New Science Links Food and Happiness-- Eating Well, June 2010, 44-51.
  
  
• Gross Structure of the Cerebral Cortex -- The University of Queensland
  
  
• History of Brain Surgery -- John R. Mangiardi, M.D. and Howard Kane, Wm.
  
  
• How Does the Brain Work -- NOVA (60 min., 2011, DVD)
  
  
• How Do We Understand Written Language? -- EurekAlert (16 December 2009)
  
  
• The Human Brain -- Franklin Institute
  
  
• Human Brains "Evolve," Become Less Monkey-Like With Age -- National Geographic News (12 July 2010)
  
  
• Humans' Big Brains Tied To Chimps' Immunity? -- NPR (04 October 2010)
  
  
• In Vatican Fresco, Visions of the Brain -- New York Times (21 June 2010)
  
  
• Journals
  • Brain: A Journal of Neurology
  • Brain & Mind: Electronic Magazine on Neuroscience
  • Cerebrum -- Dana Foundation
  • Evolutionary Psychology Online
  • The Human Nature Daily Review
  • The Human Nature Review
  • nibbs-newsletter · News in Brain and Behavioural Sciences
  • Psychiatry Research Online
  
  
  
• Key to Humans' Big Brains Discovered -- Live Science (27 May 2010)
  
  
• Languages Use Different Parts of Brain -- Science News (05 April 2010)
  
  
• Larger Brains - More Intelligence? What Makes Us So Smart? Or Are We? -- Dr. Richard Effland
  
  
• Medieval Child's Brain Found Preserved -- Discover (15 March 2010)
  
  
• Men's Brains Are 'Better Connected' Telegraph (9/9/08)
• Brains Wired Differently in Men vs. Women LiveScience (9/8/08)
  
  
• The Mind: Teaching Modules -- Colorado State University
  
  
  • The Placebo Effect: Mind/Body Relationship
  • Endorphins: The Brain's Natural Morphine
  • Language Processing in the Brain
  • Capabilities of the Newborn
  • Phantom Limb Pain
  • The Bilingual Brain
  • Language and Culture
  • The Mind of the Psychopath
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• Mind Lab -- JST Virtual Science Center
  
  
• Mind: The Science, Art, and Experience of our Inner Lives -- The Exploratorium
  
  
• Monkey Image Data Base -- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging
  
  
• Morality Altered by Brain Stimulation -- Live Science (29 March 2010)
  
  
• Multitasking Brain Divides And Conquers, To A Point -- NPR (15 April 2010)
  
  
• Neurons: Animated Cellular and Molecular Concepts -- University of Toronto
  
  
• NiBBS - News in Brain and Behavioural Sciences -- Ian Pitchford
  
  
• Personality Predicted by Size of Different Brain Regions -- Live Science (23 June 2010)
  
  
• Political bias affects brain activity,
  study finds Democrats and Republicans both adept at ignoring facts, brain scans show (24 January 2006) -- MSNBC
  
  
  • The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC
    
    
  • How the Human Brain Works -- Hellen Phillips and Cathy Tollet
    
    
  • Inside the Brain: An Interactive Tour -- Alzheimer's Association
    
    
  • Brain Has "Face Place" for Recognition, Monkey Study Confirms -- National Geographic
    
    
• Researchers capture wave of brain activity linked to anticipation -- Karen Mallet, EurekaAlert!, AAAS (25 February 2009)

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• Scientists Watch As Listener's Brain Predicts Speaker's Words ScienceDaily (9/15/08)
  
  
• Singing 'Rewires' Damaged Brain -- BBC News (21 February 2010)
  
  
• Social Competition May Be Reason For Bigger Brain -- ScienceDaily (23 June 2009)
  
  
• video: Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
  
  
• Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited -- Mark Wheeler, EurekaAlert!, AAAS (17 March 2009)
  
  
• Study Sheds Light on Parental Instinct -- Reuters (2/26/08)
  
  
  • Adult Brains Wired to Go Ga-Ga Over Babies -- Discovery News (2/27/08)

  

• Babies Faces 'Make Us Want to Care for Them' -- Telegraph (2/27/08)
  
  
• A Specific and Rapid Neural Signature for Parental Instinct -- PLoS ONE (2/27/08)

• Study: Tilted Heads Are Hot -- LiveScience (23 November 2010)
  
  
• Teen Brain Wired to Take Risks -- Discovery News (17 May 2010)
  
  
• This is your brain ... This is your brain on the Internet -- Martin Schmutterer, StarTribune (26 June 2010)
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #82: Humans Took Care of the Disabled Over 500,000 Years Ago -- Discover (21 December 2009)
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #93: Re-Analyzing One of the Greatest Brains in History -- Discover (17 December 2009)
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #99: Science Finds God (In the Brain, at Least) -- Discover (16 December 2009)
  
  
• Why Are Boys' Brains Bigger? -- BBC News (16 November 2010)
  
  
• The Whole Brain Atlas -- Keith A. Johnson, M.D., and J. Alex Becker
  
  
• Why Are Human Brains So Big? -- LiveScience (13 July 2009)
  
  
• Why Music Is Good for You -- Nature (20 July 2010)
  
  
• Why We Have Difficulty Recognizing Faces In Photo Negatives -- ScienceDaily (18 March 2009)
  
  
• Women's brains grow after giving birth -- Telegraph (20 Octobe 2010)
  
  
• Your Brain on Google -- Digital Nation, Frontline, PBS
  
  

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