UNSW Embryology

Neural System Development Links

© Dr Mark Hill (2009)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

This page links to the many different neural related resources on the internet.

Including online textbooks, neurologically related sites, neurological disease sites (and societies), news sites, neurohistology sites and key neuroscience Journals.

Where possible I have also included a search link, that allows you to search a specific external site using your own word or term.

See also UNSW Embryology - Senses WWW Link Page

Page Links: Online Textbooks | PBS "The Secret Life of the Brain" | ABC (Australia) | Embryo Images Online | Society for Neuroscience (USA) | Neural Links | Australian Links | Australian Links | Journals | Other External Links | Histology Links

Online Textbooks

The NCBI Bookshelf has a full online version of the Neuroscience and Developmental Biology textbooks. From which I have selected some links to key developmental resources, the textbook can also be searched using your own term of interest.

Neuroscience 2nd ed. Purves, Dale; Augustine, George J.; Fitzpatrick, David; Katz, Lawrence C.; LaMantia, Anthony-Samuel; McNamara, James O.; Williams, S. Mark. Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates, Inc.; 2001.

• Image: Figure 22.4. Regional specification of the developing brain.
• Text: Formation of the Major Brain Subdivisions
• Box: Rhombomeres
• Image: Figure 22.11. Radial migration in the developing cortex.
• Text: The Generation of Neuronal Diversity
• Text: Genetic Abnormalities and Altered Human Brain Development

Neuroscience Contents and Search page

Developmental Biology 6th ed. Gilbert, Scott F. Sunderland (MA): Sinauer Associates, Inc.; c2000.

• Summary: Central Nervous System and Epidermis

Developmental Biology Contents and Search page

PBS "The Secret Life of the Brain" (USA)

• PBS "The Secret Life of the Brain"
• Episode 1- The Baby's Brain
• Episode 2- The Child's Brain
• Episode 3- The Teenage Brain
• Episode 4- The Adult Brain
• Episode 5- The Ageing Brain
• History of the Brain
• 3D Brain Anatomy

ABC (Australia)

• ABC Radio National Health Report Transcripts
• Autism on Monday 5/04/99 Autism "Summary: A French researcher and his team have studied the pattern of autism in the population of Languedoc in France."
• Autism is genetic Health Minutes 23/10/2002 "Summary: Autism is genetic. 23 October 2002. with Norman Swan. I ve mentioned this before in Health Minutes it s the huge controversy surrounding the suggestion that autism might be caused ..."
• Living with Autism Life Matters 14/07/2004: Street Stories "Summary: ... 2004 Street Stories Living with Autism. Summary: Autism is a complex developmental disability that affects up to 1 of the population and in the last decade there has been an ..."

Search ABC Online Site

Click on the term below to carry out a search of the ABC Online site.

• "autism"
• "fragile x"
• "brain development"

Embryo Images Online

• Embryo Images Online
  • developed by Drs. Kathleen K. Sulik and Peter R. Bream Jr.
  • Nervous System Development
    • Cell populations
    • Spinal cord
    • Brain(Week 5-9)
    • Pituitary Gland
    • Brain (Weeks 9-16)

Society for Neuroscience (USA)

• Society for Neuroscience
  • Brain Briefings
  • Brain Backgrounders
  • Definitions for common neuroscience terms
  • Journal of Neuroscience (see also Journals listed below)
    • current issue- table of Contents
    • search the Journal

Neural Links

• Comparative Brain Collection- Wisconsin/Michigan State Brain Collection
  • Adrianne Noe, Wally Welker, John Irwin Johnson
  • List of Species specimens
  • Human (Homo sapiens)
    • 8 Standard Views
• The Whole Brain Atlas
  • Keith A. Johnson, M.D. (keith@bwh.harvard.edu), J. Alex Becker (jabecker@mit.edu)

Australian Links

• Alzheimer's Association Australia
• EpiNet- Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria
• Mental Health Research Institute
• Multiple Sclerosis International Federation
• National Mental Health Strategy
• NSW Health Department
• Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council Inc

Journals

See also References Page and links to Journals.

• Neuron
  • current issue- table of Contents
  • search the Journal
• Journal of Neuroscience
  • current issue- table of Contents
  • search the Journal

Other External Links

• Science Magazine Collection of Articles on development
• Virtual Hospital- Australia, USA
• March of Dimes Home Page
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Resource and Materials Guide
• Down Syndrome- Down Syndrome WWW Page
• The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education
  • CNS Pathology Index

External Links Histology

Links to related WWW sites with Histological images for Endocrine system.
Note that all internet links change with time if link does not work use text shown to search WWW. See also Histology Page.

• Loyola University Medical Education Network (LUMEN- Histology)
  • Part 6: Neural Tissue
• University of WA- Department of Anatomy and Human Biology (Histology Notes)
  • MB140 - Histology - Nervous Tissue
• University of Kansas Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (JayDoc HistoWeb)
  • Nervous System
• Harvard Medical School (MedWeb)
• The College of Medicine at the University of Florida (Histology Tutorial)
  • Laboratory Eight: Peripheral Nervous System (Nervous System Quiz)

Quick Links

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