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Recent advances in imaging technologies have enabled doctors and scientists to greatly increase their understanding of the brain, how it works, and how to treat disease and injury. Plus, these amazing techniques used to map and visualize the brain are now available to all of us via the Internet. We started in the Yahoo! directory. The Brain category contains dozens of sites that focus on this remarkable organ. We're guessing that you're primarily interested in human brains; nevertheless, you'll notice sites about monkey, manatee, mouse brains, and others. We scanned the site descriptions and chose The Whole Brain Atlas, an encyclopedic collection
of images of normal and diseased brains. A section titled Top 100 Brain Structures lets you click on labeled anatomical maps that display everything from the basal ganglia to the optic nerve. In Yahooligans!, Yahoo!'s web guide for children, we found a wonderful introductory site called Neuroscience for Kids, with an exploration of the brain and spinal cord that seemed simple enough for grade-schoolers and detailed enough for their non-scientist parents.
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