Body Systems

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Microbial Mind Control
Do microbes living in our gastrointestinal tracts influence the way our brains work? Hear from a scientist who has been studying this question for nearly a decade.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Brain and Nervous System Movie
Do you ever wish you could call the brain up and ask it what it does all day?
  • Kids Health
The Nervous System
Looking to combine your students' love for crafts, magic tricks, and learning? Look no further.
  • University of Washington
Spinal Cord Teacher Pages
The Regenerative Medicine Partnership for Education uses two lesson plans to teach students about the importance of the spinal cord and your brain!
  • Regenerative Medicine Partnership for Education
Human Body Series Nervous System
Can you name the three main parts of the nervous system?
  • Kids Health
Hacking the Nervous System
One nerve connects your vital organs, sensing and shaping your health. If we learn to control it, the future of medicine will be electric.
  • Wellcome Trust
Meldonium, Tennis Star Maria Sharapova’s Performance enhancing Drug Explained
Tennis star Maria Sharapova has admitted to using the performance-enhancing drug meldonium, which boosts brain and body power and endurance. Here’s how it works.
Zika and the Brain
How viruses like Zika disturb fetal brain development is a long-standing mystery.
  • The Dana Foundation
Hormones and the Brain: The End of Adolescence
Hormones help to physically shape the brain during adolescence and beyond.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Hormones and the Adolescent Brain
The cocktail of hormones produced during adolescence contributes to some of the dramatic brain changes underway.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
How the Neurotoxin in Dungeness Crab Causes Brain Damage
The California Fish and Game Commission has banned crab fishing until further notice after detecting high levels of a neurotoxin in Dungeness and rock crabs. The toxin, domoic acid, is produced by certain types of planktonic algae, and it becomes concentrated in tissue of crabs and other marine organisms during plankton blooms.
Ups and Downs in the Nervous System
The vagus nerve brings information from all over the body to the brain – but is it being hacked by the bacteria in our gut?
  • Wellcome Trust
Parenting and the Brain
Becoming a parent can induce significant changes in the brain.
  • BrainFacts/SfN

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