Welcome to the Academy's Human Behavior & Neurobiology Page. The first listing is the table of contents for the class reference notebook prepared by Bennie Bub. Below that you will be able to click on notebook articles.  Read them at your leisure and in any order.  Additional articles of interest follow the notebook and more will be posted periodically.

 

Categories

 

	Summary & Blogs	Genetics	The Law & Neuroscience
	Anatomy	Brain Imaging	Miscellaneous
	Physiology	Diseases	Additional Absorbing Articles
	Hormones & Brain	Aggression & Altruism

 

Neurobiology Notebook

• NOTEBOOK TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summary & Blogs

• Brain Basics
• Neuroscience Blogs (Hyperinks).
• History of Human Behavior (Hyperlinks).

Anatomy

• Autonomic Nervous System
• Basic parts of the human brain and what they do 
• Neuroanatomy – Techniques to study the Structure of the Nervous System 
• Nervous system – facts and figures 
• Basic Cells: Neuron
• Limbic system
• Long Term potentiation
• Synapse: How neurons talk 
• Synaptic plasticity

Physiology

• Brain Chemistry (Baseball)
• Collective Memory
• Memory Loss with Aging
• Remember This
• The Emotional Brain
• Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory
• Scans of monks’ brains show Meditation alters Structure, Functioning
• Brain Plasticity (Neuroplasticity)
• How does memory work?
• Memory and learning: Psychology of memory
• Forgetting and Amnesia
• Controlling Confusion: Insight into memory and forgetting
• Gender and brain imaging
• Gender and the brain
• He thinks, She thinks
• The Pleasure Centers – affected by drugs
• PET reveals why some people may be born to smoke
• I think, therefore I am, I think: Consciousness awaits its Einstein
• Key Brain Growth goes on into teens: Study disputes old assumptions

Hormones & Brain

• Hormones & Behavior.
• The Endocrine System.
• Fat, Hormones and the Brain. 

Genetics

• DNA Questions
• Principles of Genetics for Health Professionals
• The Selfless Gene
• How genes work
• Behavioral Genetics: An introduction
• Genetics and Human Behavior: the ethical content
• Beyond Stones and Bones: The new science of the brain and DNA is rewriting the history of human origins
• DNA and Behavior: Is our fate our genes?
• The Gene Responsibility: Why don’t you have total control over how your kid turns out.

Brain Imaging

• What's the difference: PET, SPECT, EEG, MRI, CAT
• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
• Brain Scan "Can read your mind"

Diseases

• Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Pervasive Development Disorder (PDD), Asperger’s Syndrome
• Silent Minds
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Gene therapy for the brain (Alzheimer’s)
• The Neurobiology of Depression
• Should Obesity be included as a brain disorder?
• Brain-Obesity Connection
• Savant Syndrome: An Extraordinary Condition (A Review)

Aggression & Altruism

• Biological Altruism
• Neuroeconomics: The Pleasure of Other People’s Pain
• Patience, Fairness and the Human Condition
• Aggression (Review)
• Biological Basis of Aggression
• Positive neural payoff for revenge
• Game Theory: Prisoner’s Dilemma
• The Anatomy of Violence
• Disease underlies Hatfield-McCoy feud
• Aggression-related gene weakens brain’s impulse control circuits
• Can the Source of Aggression be found in the brain?
• The Violent Brain

The Law & Neuroscience

• The brain on the stand:  How neuroscience is transforming the legal system
• Brain injury said to affect moral choices
• Impaired emotional processing affects moral judgments

Miscellaneous

• Brain Fitness 101: Answers to your Top 25 Questions
• 10 Debunked Brain Fitness Myths
• Music and the Mind
• Miracle on Probability Street
• Exercise is a State of Mind
• Stronger, faster, smarter: Exercise boosts brain power
• Synesthesia: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology (Review)
• Myths about the brain: 10% and counting
• I Think, Therefore I am: Free Will (3 book reviews)
• New toys/games - Play by reading brain waves
• Move objects by thought alone
• Dreams, Premonitions, Scepticism (Hyperlinks)
• How dreams work
• Building babies brain: Ten myths
• Music and the brain
• The General Intelligence factor (EQ & IQ)
• Speaking in tongues: Faith’s language barrier?

The Future

• The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2007: A DNA Driven World
• Grand challenges of Mind and Brain: The Future