Websites from the text:

1. Mind and Body covers the history of the idea from René Descartes to William James. Most pertinent sections are I: 1–5 and II: 1–2.

2. You can search Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man by characteristic/disorder (e.g., schizophrenia), chromosomal location (e.g., 1q21–q22), or gene symbol (e.g., SCZD9) to get useful genetic information and summaries of research articles.

3. The Wikipedia article “Exome” includes several links to descriptions of several research projects using exome sequencing.

4. PLoS Biology and PLoS Genetics.

5. The following journals are major sources of neuroscience and biopsychology articles. While many require subscriptions to obtain full-text articles, an increasing number of Open Access journals are being offered with free full-text articles.

• Behavioral Sciences (Open Access)
• Brain and Behavior (Open Access)
• Brain, Behavior, and Evolution
• Journal of Neuroscience
• Frontiers in Neuroscience (Open Access. There are numerous other “Frontiers” journals)
• Nature
• Nature Neuroscience
• New Scientist (nonprofessional; for the general reader)
• Science
• Scientific American Mind (nonprofessional; for the general reader)
• The Scientist (nonprofessional; for the general reader. Most articles are free)
• Trends in Neuroscience
• Current Opinion in Neurobiology

6. General information sites:

• Brain Briefings (various topics in neuroscience)
• Brain in the News (neuroscience news from media sources)
• Neuroguide (a small but growing offering of resources)
• Science Daily (latest developments in science; see “Mind & Brain” and “Health & Medicine”)
• Brain and Mind (a collection of brain-related articles published in the magazine New Scientist)

7. Non-scientific site that can be useful for discussion

• Phrenology dot org (A site that supports phrenology and provides examples).

Additional Websites:

• Charlie Rose series on the brain and interviews with scientists and scholars.
• What color eyes would your children have? A fun calculator for determining likelihood a child will have different eye colors based on the genetics of the parents.
• An easy to understand description of the process of natural selection.
• The argument between dualism versus monism.  Watch the video as a class and discuss which side makes more sense.