Learn all about the brain and how it works in this interactive teaching aid that highlights the anatomy and function of the brain using colorful animated illustrations.

An image of an MRI scan illustrating the anatomy of the brain. Click on the regions to identify them on the image. To find out what each region is, click on the "i."

How the brain works and how it ties to coping skills in the pre-teen are the focus of this website. Informative links for both students and adults.

Do you know all the activities your brain controls? This website explores brain images, brain anatomy, and PET procedure to allow students to get a better understanding of the brain. The website contains interactive activities and videos...

Can you name the bones of the human skull? Test your knowledge by matching the correct label with the correct bone.

Look through this online pamphlet to find brain exercises as well as explanations of how the brain works. Very complete and fun to read.

This website by Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. provides a video [2:49] "Brain Anatomy Begins with the Skull", descriptions of the parts of the brain, diagrams, and links to a variety of resources about brain functions and brain injury.

A newsletter all about the brain including current research, anatomy and function of the brain, games, quizzes, and more. Animations and pictures make the site appealing to kids, and depth of content make it useful to parents and...

Detailed color images of the human brain, both normal and with various brain diseases, including Alzheimer's, Huntington's, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and AIDS dementia.

Students learn about the anatomy of the ear and how the ears work as a sound sensor. Ear anatomy parts and structures are explained in detail, as well as how sound is transmitted mechanically and then electrically through them to the...

Explore the anatomy of the human body. Click on an organ or other body part to read more about its structure and function, and then try out an interactive activity for that organ.

This resource provides a guide to dissecting sheep brains. The guide goes through the process step by step. An image of the brain being dissected is shown with dissection instrutions or details on the particular structure on each page.

This site from Bartleby.com contains an intense, in-depth article from Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body on the fore-brain or prosencephalon. The article discusses the thalamus throughout and touches on its functions as a whole.

This site from the encyclopedia, Wikipedia, provides a brief open-source encyclopedic explanation of what the hypothalamus is and what its functions are. Links are provided throughout this paragraph along with a picture showing where the...

This page has complete course material for a beginning human anatomy course and everything can be downloaded. There are readings and presentations on all the major systems and organs of the human body, with lots of detailed, labeled...

Thomas Willis was a founding member of the Royal Society, who played an important part in the history of anatomy, neurology, and psychiatry.

A very good comparative study of the sheep brain to our brain. Looking for "Memory", or more precisely the location of memory in the brain.

This interactive site provides all kinds of information regarding the human skull.

College-level online biology course focusing on the anatomy of the human brain. Course highlights include an intensive introduction to neuroanatomy. Course features include lecture notes outline, quizzes, study notes, and an extensive...

Rotatable view of the nervous system lets you examine the anatomy of the brain in 360 degrees.

Wikipedia offers an overall description of neurons. This site describes their physical appearance, the different parts of neurons, and what their functions are.

Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...

Students are introduced to the circulatory system with an emphasis on the blood clotting process, including coagulation and the formation and degradation of polymers through their underlying atomic properties. They learn about the...

This site contains numerous slides about the Nervous System. It includes information about the Spinal Cord, Central Canal, White Matter, Gray Matter, Dorsal Root Ganglion, Cerebellum, Astrocytes, Nerves, Node of Ranvier, and Pacinian...