freaky proprioception story

To hear the story I referenced in class, goto the Radiolab site (specifically the Where am I? episode). The butcher's assistant is the story about a person with no propioception. I guarantee this will be worth your time.

Feel free to post your reactions/questions about this story.

eye anatomy

The assignments for today are as follows:

Do page 296 in the orange book.  this will help to reinforce our understanding of eye anatomy for tomorrow's dissection.

Read section 46.1 and do pages 297-298 in orange book for Friday.   

I thought this site was particularly good as an eye review.  there are a lot of good sites out there, however.

Eye dissections tomorrow!

Quiz day????

Because many of you exercised your option to delay the quiz, I want to remind you that I'd like you to read section 46.4 on the eye for Wednesday. (I might forget after I set you late-takers up with your quizzes.)

On another note, ever wonder what you would look like as an Australopithecus? Nathan Malkin found a helpful link. Just upload your photo and enjoy!

neurobiologist with a stroke

Here's the link for the compelling neurobiology speaker.  Sorry to those classes that did not get to see all of this in class.

Several of you hev recommended other speakers on this site.  If you see something cool, feel free to leave a note.

Aaditya Shidham recommended Bill Gates' entry.

remember, the quiz will cover the following statements:

all the E.4 statements

E.5.1 to E.5.5

E.1.3

images, and the future

Images: one of the problems with brain studies is just understanding what's happening inside the skull. I'd like you to learn more about this. Specifically, PET scans and MRIs. (our assessment statements are about MRIs only). There are many useful sites for this goal. Here's one that I like.

We will have a quiz some time this week. (Thursday or Friday). I'll let you know.

Content:
Brain anatomy
neurotransmitters
drugs (cocaine and THC in particular)

Robin Moore found an excellent brain review site.  I think you'll find this helpful.

Brain anatomy

There are several nice links for brain anatomy. First of all, all the wikipedia pages have realy good diagrams (blasphemy!!!).

There is a nice PBS site that shows a 3-D brain. Pretty cool stuff :-)

I'll add more links as we find good stuff.

Remember to read section 45.4 for tomorrow. I'm going to have a quickwrite tomorrow.

Evolution in reverse???

Here's a cool article from Newsweek.  We've seen this effect in fish populations for some time now.  Interesting to apply this to animals