View popular advertisements and commercials that utilize images of the human brain.

Enjoy the Society for Neuroscience's description of the cerebellum and its functions. Includes a labelled illustration of the brain.

Research center presents an article and interactive brain map. Click an area to discover how trauma may affect its function.

Survey this research into the variability of human and macaque brain anatomy. Includes the maps the researchers have generated.

Study the parts of the brain and their functions in this interactive tutorial.

History starts with English anatomist Thomas Willis' identification in 1664 of distinct subcortical structures and continues to the present.

Illustration of the human brain identifies the specific areas controlling such things as the involuntary muscles, smell, eye movement, and taste.

Neuroanatomy student guide surveys the forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain. Learn about the telencephalon, diencephalon and reticular formation.

Enjoy a THOR Center for Neuroinformatics MPEG movie showing a coronal slice through the visual cortex. Uses data from a 4T scanner.

Explore a database of electrophysiological information describing cortical neurons and their characteristic responses to somatosensory stimuli.

Explore 2-D and 3-D images of the brain, collected from cadaver sections, MRI scans, and computer reconstructions.

View an illustration of the back of the human brain. Identify the arachnoid, the cerebral aqueduct, and the ventricles and choroid plexuses.

Study a "Brain Backgrounders" article on the important role of the nervous system in human defense against the cold.

University of Utah uses a syllabus, a glossary of terms and illustrations to teach neuroanatomy. Take a quiz or practical exam to track learning.

Examine the olfactory cortex, the amygdala and the hippocampus, the three critical structures on the medial surface of the temporal lobe.

Loyola University offers brain stem, diencephalon and basal ganglia sections, lab MRI scans, and neurovascular and cross-sectional tutorials.

Axial, coronal and sagittal slices of the brain supplement an Indiana University neuroscience course. Includes practice cases.

Features a colorful illustration of the brain with labels for the outer brain parts, including the occipital, parietal, and temporal lobes.

Find a gross anatomy image that displays the brain's sagittal divisions, the suture between the parietal bones of the skull.

Examine the four lobes of the brain in this gross anatomy photograph. Also clearly visible is the cerebellum.

Interactive syllabus from the Digital Anatomist Project features 3-D computer graphics, MRI scans, tissue sections, and gross brain specimens.

University of Wisconsin supplies this collection of resources on auditory processes, brain anatomy and general neurophysioloy.

Interactive site allows the user to stimulate areas of the brain using an electric probe. Needs Shockwave.

Guide to the 1990-1999 project, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Nat'l Inst. of Mental Health, which promoted brain research.

Introductory overview of the organization of the human nervous system. Click through the pages for the Q&A-formatted tutorial.

View an anatomical illustration of the spinal cord identifying the cervical, thoracic, and sacral nerves, and the body parts they control.

Click through interactive, labelled slides of the spinal cord, medulla, pons, midbrain, diencephalon and coronal sections.