Topic: From Thought to Language ; Sub-Topic: Communicating in Words

One Intermediate Tool Module: Sign Language
One Intermediate Tool Module: Using Wada’s Test To Identify the Dominant Hemisphere for Language
One Intermediate Tool Module: Different Types of Bilingualism
One Intermediate Tool Module: The Human Vocal Apparatus
One Advanced Tool Module: Chomsky's Universal Grammar
One Intermediate History Module: The Anatomical Traces of the Emergence of Language During Hominization
One Beginner Experiment Module: The Language Abilities of the Fetus
One Intermediate Experiment Module: What Split Brains Tell Us About Language
One Intermediate Experiment Module: Attempts To Teach Language to Primates

Topic: How the Mind Develops; Sub-Topic: From Embryo to Ethics

One Beginner Tool Module: Resilience
One Intermediate Tool Module: Apoptosis (Programmed Cell Death)
One Advanced Tool Module: Homeotic Genes
One Intermediate History Module: The Devastating Effects of Isolation on Social Behaviour
One Advanced Experiment Module: Effects of Visual Deprivation During the Critical Period for Development of Vision

A new "site map" page which gives you an overview of all the subjects of the website.

In the User's Guide section, we put a link to a short article about this website in Science magazine, Volume 312, Number 5772, Issue of 21 April 2006.

The Brain from Top to Bottom received a 2006 MERLOT Awards for exemplary online learning resources. See all the details in the User's Guide section.

Topic: Mental Disorders; Sub-Topic: Depression and Manic Depression

Topic: Mental Disorders; Sub-Topic: Anxiety Disorders

One Beginner Tool Module: Treating Anxiety Disorders
One Intermediate Tool Module: Anxiety Disorders and Psychoanalysis: Extinguishing Conditioned Fears by "Rewiring" the Brain
One Intermediate History Module: The Growth of New Neurons in the Adult Human Brain

The fourth question in the guided tour:
4. What's the connection between the Big Bang and a brilliant chess move?

Topic: The senses; Sub-Topic: Vision

One Beginner Tool Module: Brodmann's Cortical Areas
One Intermediate Tool Module: Optics
One Advanced Tool Module: "Grandmother Cells", or Synchronous Discharges of Neurons?
One Beginner Experiment Module: The Blind Spot
One Beginner Experiment Module: Proving That the Periphery of the Retina Is More Sensitive to Light
One Intermediate Experiment Module : How the Brain Keeps Information from the Left and Right Eyes Separate

Topic: Body movement and the brain; Sub-Topic: Making a voluntary movement

One Intermediate Tool Module: The hand

One Advanced Experiment Module: Activity Pattern of Neurons in the Motor Cortex of Monkeys

Topic: Evolution and the brain; Sub-Topic: Our Evolutionary Inheritance

Two beginner History Module:
Hominization, or The History of the Human Lineage
The Expansion of the Hominid Brain

Five Intermediate Tool Module:
What Is Evolution?
Gradual Evolution or Punctuated Equilibria?
Darwin's Natural Selection
Sexual Selection and the Theory of Parental Investment
The Connection between Ontogeny and Phylogeny

One Advanced Tool Module:
Neural Darwinism