Mapping the Brain: Brain Scans-New Amazing Interactive

I just received my newsletter from PBS about NOVA Spark newsletter--available here: http://app.nationalproduction.wgbh.org/e/es.aspx?s=2531&e=4434&elq=357d7be649404349bf35470a8e6033a3

In it, there was a link to an amazing brain scan online tool where the user can choose the brain scan, choose the view, and choose the brain part(s) to be examined.  This is just so cool I could spend a couple of hours just playing around and investigating how and where everything is and connects.  Thank you PBS.

In addition to the scans, you see the different views--coronal, sagittal and axial.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/assets/swf/1/mapping-the-brain/mapping-the-brain.html

Check it out--very much worth your time.

Posted by Chuck

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APA and fMRI

The cover (see right) of this month's Monitor on Psychology from APA really caught my eye. I was so taken by the image, the issue sat on my desk for weeks. The edition contains two excellent articles on the latest in brain imaging.

A sidebar to the articles discusses two booklets from the APA describing how fMRI research is adding to psychological knowledge. One is written specifically to adults, the other to teens. To download a copy of either, go to http://www.apa.org/science/fmribooklets.html

To order a hard copy of the booklet, email the APA Science Directorate at science@apa.org

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