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.

Everything you wanted to know about keeping your brain healthy. How should you nourish your brain, how should your brain be protected, and even how to "renew" or stimulate your brain.

This PBS special explores the brain from birth to old age. Take a look at snapshots of brain development at birth, as a child, as a teenager, as an adult, and in old age.

This site from WebMD Health provides great information on adult brain tumors. Describes what they are, gives information on treatment, and then provides a link to many of the different kinds of adult brain tumors.

This site provides much information on brain tumors. Includes anatomy of central nervous system, types of brain cancer, and symptoms of brain cancer.

Explore the human brain, and the role it plays in the nervous system. Students learn about the three main parts of the brain and each of their functions.

A complete guide to the development of the teenage brain. Find out about typical teenage behaviors, and the science behind their brain development that makes them act in certain ways.

From the PBS series, this history traces our quest to understand the human brain with an extensive timeline.

Video explores diagnosing a zombie by relating its symptoms to various human brain and behavior disorders. [3:44] Includes a brief quiz and a list of additional resources to explore.

What weighs 3 pounds at maturity and is faster than any computer? If you don't know then use this site about the brain. Get great information and diagrams about the brain. Available in Spanish.

This site provides a list of links to information on different types of drugs. Content on the pages include information about the drug itself, effects the drug has on the brain, common street names for the drug, and legal status.

This exhibition documents how our brains sense, think, process emotions, and grow and change.

Article reports on new research that helps explain the functioning of the teenage brain, and how it differs from that of an adult.

This educators guide shows students how the body's brain, spinal cord and network of nerves control the activities of animals and humans.

In this brain break lesson, students act out different movements, using their psychomotor skills, found in sports.

In this interactive lesson, young scholars act out animal movements for a short brain break.

This is a publication on the human brain and how it works. Gives details on the neuron, how the senses interact with the brain and much more. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).

Investigate the effect of oxygen deprivation on brain function and test the changes in mental abilities climbers experience as they climb to ever-higher altitudes, in this virtual experiment.

Features great games to wake up the brain. Test your knowledge of words, numbers, vocabulary, and more while having fun.

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...

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

Complete reference tool for learning about brain tumors starting with symptoms, to how the brain works, to diagnosis, to treatment, to long term outlook.

The traditional thought has been that the adolescent brain was similar to the adult brain. However, new studies show that the teen brain is fundamentally different than older brains. Learn the details behind the new findings .. how the...

"What's going on in there?" Science may help to explain the mysteries of the teen years. Take a look at what the experts have to say, review recent research, and check out an interactive illustration of the brain.