Here’s the latest news about The Brain from Top to Bottom.
As
of May 2012, the site provided beginner, intermediate, and advanced discussions
of 155 different subjects, for a total of 465 main content pages, plus 74 supplementary
modules and 4 guided tours.
| May 2012 | Topic: Mental Disorders; Sub-Topic: Alzheimer's-type Dementia A Beginner History
Module: Dr. Alois Alzheimer's First Cases Recent media coverage listed in the "Publicity" section of this site includes: In its Web page about the human brain (first published in January 2007 and updated in November 2011), L'Encyclopédie de l'Agora, a Quebec-based, French-language online encyclopedia, highlights The Brain from Top to Bottom and describes the method used to navigate this web site. |
| March 2012 | The
Brain from Top to Bottom home page gets a new look The Brain
from Top to Bottom Blog launched |
| June 2011 | Topic: Pleasure and Pain; Sub-Topic: Avoiding Pain An Intermediate Experiment Module:
Acupuncture and the Placebo Effect Recent media coverage listed in the "Publicity" section of this site includes: In February 2011, the web portal Thot Cursus, "Le monde de la formation à distance", put The Brain from Top to Bottom in his repertory of free e-learning resources. In January 2011, The Brain from Top to Bottom was briefly reviewed in Perspective infirmière, the magazine of l'Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ) (vol. 8, no 1). In December 2010, the blog Mister Medicine made a list of 50 great ebooks for nurses entitled "Top 50 eBooks for Nurses". The Brain from Top to Bottom has been selected in the "Anatomy" section of this list. In October 2010, The Brain from Top to Bottom was briefly reviewed in the magazine Sciences et Avenir, no 764, p.58. In August 2010, The Brain from Top to Bottom was briefly reviewed in the magazine Les Dossiers de La Recherche, no 40, p.96. |
| May 2010 | Easier navigation from topic to topic a) A new navigation box in the upper left-hand corner of each content page now lets you switch among the site's 12 main topics without having to go back to the home page first. This box shows the same 12 icons as on the home page. Place your mouse cursor over any icon, and the corresponding topic name appears at the top of the box. To go to that topic, just click the icon.b) Tabs now make it easier for you to consult the supplementary information modules for which icon links are provided on the left side of the current page. These tabs group these icons by module category (Experiment, History, Tool, Researcher, and Linked). In addition to having a light-green border, the icons for the modules developed especially for this site are now identified by their clickable titles as well. c) Hyperlinks in the site's navigation boxes are now visually identified in the same way as those in the text. In other words, whether you are reading text or using a navigation box, all you need to remember is that if a word is in colour and underlined, then if you click it, you will go to related information at the level of explanation identified by that colour. This new standardized appearance for hyperlinks will make the site much easier to use! Recent media coverage about this site (listed in the "Publicity" section of this site) In March 2010, The Neuroscience
Information Framework (NIF), sponsored by the NIH Blueprint Consortium, includes
The Brain from Top to Bottom as part of its catalog of web-based resources relevant
for neuroscience research. |
| February 2009 | Topic: The Emergence of Consciousness; Sub-Topic: The Sense of Self One Beginner
History Module: When the History of Science Sheds Light on the Philosophy of Mind A new preview feature, Snap Shots, has been added so that you can see thumbnail previews of the Web pages to which our Linked module icons (the ones without green borders) will take you on other sites. Simply place your mouse cursor over the icon, and a small Snap Shots window opens immediately, showing a thumbnail image of the page to which that icon will take you. This feature not only makes consulting these external sites easier and more intuitive, but also lets you quickly tell whether you have already visited a given site, when there are lots of module icons on the same page. Among the examples of recent media coverage listed in the "Publicity" section of this site, three have made us especially proud. In January 2009, the French version of The Brain from Top to Bottom was nominated at the 22th Roberval Award in the Multimedia category. In February 2008, the French version of The Brain from Top to Bottom was briefly reviewed in the magazine Les Dossiers de La Recherche, no 30, p.97. In December 2007, The Brain from Top to Bottom was reviewed by Dr. Kevin Ahern (scroll down the page to find it) in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Dec 1, 2007 (Vol. 27, No. 21 ). |
| November 2007 | Topic: Sleep and Dreams; Sub-Topic: The Sleep / Dream / Wake Cycle and Our Biological Clocks
One Beginner Tool Module:
Sleep in Other Animals
A new, Flash-enabled home page with new user-friendly
features. For example, whenever you place your mouse cursor over one of the site's
main topics, you now see a list of all its sub-topics and can access any of them
directly. The left-hand menu has also been extensively reworked to give you much
easier access to all of the site's contents. Meanwhile, all of the site's "housekeeping"
features have been moved to the menu at the bottom of the page. The Brain from Top to Bottom is mentioned in the Acknowledgement section of A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense, by Normand Baillargeon, 7 Stories Press, July 2007. In summer 2006, The Brain from Top to Bottom was reviewed by Dennis Liu in CBE Life Sciences Education, 2006 Summer; 5(2): 94-98. In March 2007, USA Today reporter April Holladay used The Brain from Top To Bottom as her primary source for a three-part series that she published on how human memory operates. |
| November 2006 |
Topic: From Thought to Language ; Sub-Topic: Communicating in Words
One Intermediate Tool Module: Sign
Language |
| October 2006 |
Topic: How the Mind Develops; Sub-Topic: From Embryo to Ethics One
Beginner Tool Module: Resilience 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. |
| November 2005 |
Topic: Mental Disorders; Sub-Topic: Depression and Manic Depression Topic: Mental Disorders; Sub-Topic: Anxiety Disorders One Beginner
Tool Module: Treating Anxiety Disorders The fourth question in the guided tour: |
| April 2005 | Topic: The senses; Sub-Topic: Vision One Beginner Tool Module: Brodmann's Cortical Areas |
| March 2005 |
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 |
| February 2005 | Topic: Evolution
and the brain; Sub-Topic: Our Evolutionary Inheritance Two beginner
History Module: Five Intermediate Tool Module: One Advanced Tool Module: |
| February 2003 | The
first three questions in the guided tour: 1. Why do I say so many stupid things when I am drunk? 2. Why do I make myself sick, instead of just strangling my boss? 3. Why can I remember exactly what I was doing the morning of September 11, 2001 (or the day that JFK was assassinated)? |
| January 2003 | Topic: Emotions; Sub-topic: Fear, Anxiety and Anguish |
| October 2002 | Topic: Pleasure and Pain; Sub-topics: Pleasure-Seeking Behaviour and Pleasure and Drugs |
| July 2002 | Topic: Remembering and Forgetting; Sub-topics: How Memory Works and Forgetting and Amnesia |
| April 2002 | Topic: Anatomy and Function; Sub-topics: Anatomy by Level of Organization and Function by Level of Organization |
| January 2002 | Site development began |