Links for ‘Big Picture: Inside the Brain’

Do you want to explore what else the internet has to offer on looking inside the brain? We've compiled a list of links to relevant teaching resources and other organisations to help. There are also selected references for our print magazine.

Don't forget that the videos made to accompany 'Big Picture' are available on the Wellcome Trust YouTube channel, which also includes interviews with Wellcome Trust-funded scientists about their work. In addition, the Wellcome Film YouTube channel contains hours of archived medical film from the 20th century. You can download scientific and medical images at Wellcome Images.

Resources

• Imaging neurotransmitters with SPECT and PET
• Make your own thinking cap! From Elsevier [PDF]
• Brain In A Vat blog post on calcium imaging
• Harvard Medical School’s Whole Brain Atlas
• Brain Facts from brainfacts.org
• Brain facts and figures from Eric H Chudler from the University of Washington
• Wellcome Collection neuroscience resources
• Wellcome Collection resources from the ‘Brains’ exhibition
• PBS's Secret Life of the Brain (including a timeline, anatomy and brain scanning)
• MRI: A guided tour, from the Magnet Lab, Florida State University
• Other educational resources from the Magnet Lab, Florida State University
• Information on radiography careers
• An interview with James Batty, radiographer, from 'Big Picture: Careers from Biology'
• Mouse Party, an interactive look inside the brains of mice on drugs
• Student Topic Guide from Debating Matters on the subject of smart drugs and whether we should embrace their use
• Guide to how mathematics is used in brain imaging from the Institute of Mathematics
• Medical Research Council booklet on the brain
• Explore Your Amazing Brain
• Meet your brain, the Royal Institution’s Christmas lectures with Professor Bruce Hood

Other relevant organisations

• Alzheimer’s Society
• Brain Awareness Week
• British Neuroscience Association
• Headway, the brain injury association
• MIND, the mental health charity
• OCD Action
• OCD-UK
• Parkinson’s UK
• Stroke Association
• Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

Selected references for the printed magazine

• Page 6, 'Finding your way around': Cognition, emotion and the cerebellum
• Page 8, 'Magnetic resonance imaging': MRI detects brain reorganization after human umbilical tissue-derived cells (hUTC) treatment of stroke in rat
• Page 8, 'Well connected': The geometric structure of the brain fiber pathways
• Page 9, 'Functional MRI': Reconstructing visual experiences from brain activity evoked by natural movies
• Page 9, 'BOLD thinking': Anticipatory haemodynamic signals in sensory cortex not predicted by local neuronal activity
• Page 11, '…Brain Gym makes you smarter?': Sense About Science’s science about Brain Gym [PDF]
• Page 11, '…Brain Gym makes you smarter?': Brain Gym's FAQs
• Page 11, '…Learning can physically alter the brain?': Training induces changes in white-matter architecture
• Page 11, '…Abuse and love can change the brain?': Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior
• Page 11, '…Abuse and love can change the brain?': Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research
• Page 11, '…Abuse and love can change the brain?': Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory
• Page 11, '…Abuse and love can change the brain?': Childhood maltreatment is associated with reduced volume in the hippocampal subfields CA3, dentate gyrus, and subiculum
• Page 11, '…We're born with all the brain cells we'll ever have?': Corridors of migrating neurons in the human brain and their decline during infancy
• Page 11, '…We're born with all the brain cells we'll ever have?': The number of neurons in the brain: how we report what we do not know
• Page 11, '…We're born with all the brain cells we'll ever have?': Brain facts and figures from the University of Washington
• Page 11, '…A bigger brain is a cleverer brain?': New information about Albert Einstein’s brain
• Page 13, 'Unlocking consciousness': Owen, A et al. Detecting awareness in the vegetative state
• Page 13, 'Unlocking consciousness': Monti MM et al. Willful modulation of brain activity in disorders of consciousness
• Page 14, 'Brains to blame': The double-edged sword: does biomechanism increase or decrease judges’ sentencing of psychopaths?

This is part of the online content for ‘Big Picture: Inside the Brain’.