Use this site to learn how to make a neuron. This site shows students a step by step process for creating a model of a neuron. Teachers and students alike will appreciate this multi-sensory approach to learning.

Use this site to learn how to make a neuron. This site shows students a step by step process for creating a model of a neuron. Teachers and students alike will appreciate this multi-sensory approach to learning.

Use this site to learn how to make a neuron. This site shows students a step by step process for creating a model of a neuron. Teachers and students alike will appreciate this multi-sensory approach to learning.

Go on a mission inside a nerve cell to find out about how neurons produce and release neurotransmitters to communicate with other neurons. Learn what happens to these brain chemicals when the drug ecstasy interrupts the process.

A resource for information on illnesses of the motor neuron.

In this full-color image, a neuron is expressing the light-gated cation channel channelrhodopsin-2 (small green shapes), and is being illuminated by a focused beam of blue light (coming from the top).

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The peripheral nervous system (PNS) contains all the nerves in the body that are found outside of the central nervous system. They include nerves of the hands, arms,...

Nathan S. Jacobs takes us inside the always active, surprisingly spontaneous brain. [5:18]

Learn here all about nervous tissue, a tissue that is excitable and capable of sending and receiving electrochemical signals that provide the body with information.

A good description of the process of transmission across the synapse in nerve cells.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the brain and its basic parts. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

A slide show presentation introducing the facts about the human nervous system.

Read the passage and study the graphics to complete the five-question quiz that follows.

Learn about the brain and brain science using this Spanish version of the excellent Neuroscience for Kids site. Translation of the site is a work in progress. Portions are in Spanish but links for many pages still lead to the English...

Inside your brain, you have over 80 billion neurons - tiny brain cells, all working together to make you the person you are.Neurons talk to each other by sending electrical messages. Each message creates a tiny magnetic field. If enough...

Learn about Charles Sherrington, the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the functions of neurons.

How do you know when your hand touches something? How do you know if something brushes against your shoulder? Think about your fingertip, arm, and back. In which of these places might your nerves be closer together? Review the concept of...

Understand the human senses of taste and smell.

Understand the human body's sense of touch.

Students will reflect on the following question and record their responses - How would learning a new skill make your life better or more interesting?

Investigate the brain and it's connections - the number of possible routes along which a brain message might travel - by solving and creating geometric progressions. Conduct an experiment to learn about stimulus and response.

This lesson will describe how the differences in concentrations of ions across a plasma membrane set the stage for a nerve impulse.

Prepare for the MCAT by reading this passage and answering questions based on the given table about how different viral doses affect behavioral or electrical abnormalities in mice.

Understand the structure and function of the peripheral nervous system in the human body.