Brian Project - Resources

DRUG USE

• Opioid Epidemic (Gale) (see the "more like this" section)

• Substance Abuse and Addiction Treatment Plans (Gale) 

• The Effects of Alcohol on the Brain (Brittanica) 

• DRUGS, BRAINS AND BEHAVIOR: THE SCIENCE OF ADDICTION (Proquest)

• Brain chemistry behind drug abuse investigated (SIRS)

MENTAL ILLNESS

• Mental Illness - Two Points of View (SIRS)

• How Can Psychiatrists Care for the Brain, Mind and Soul of their Patients? (Proquest)

• Epigenome Defines Aberrant Brain Laterality in Major Mental Illnesses (Proquest)

• Rethinking human–technology relations: exploring the sociopolitical dimensions of invasive brain stimulation (Proquest)

• Mental Illness - General Information (Gale)

• The Storm - VIDEO - A Story of youth with mental illness and their journey (PBS)

• Improving Treatments for Mental Disorders using Computational Models (Gale)

MUSCLE MEMORY

• The Impact of Endurance Training on Human Skeletal Muscle Memory (Gale)

• Gymnastics balance (Gale)

• Direct electrical stimulation impacts on neuromuscular junction morphology on both stimulated and unstimulated contralateral soleus  (Gale)

• Neuromuscular Junction - General U

DEGENERATIVE BRAIN DISEASE

• Athletes and Degenerative Brain Disease - CTE - (CBS News) 

• Parkinson's Disease (Gale)

• Alzheimer's Disease Fact Sheet (NIH)

BRAIN INJURY

• Athletes and Degenerative Brain Disease - CTE - (CBS News) 

• Concussion - General Information (Gale)

• Traumatic Brain Injury - General (Gale)

• Adelphi University Researcher Has Provided New Study Findings on Brain Injury (Gale)

BRAIN PLASTICITY

• Neuroplasticity - General (Gale)

• Brain plasticity - General (Gale)

• Training of brain processes makes reading more efficient (Gale)

• Diet and cognition: interplay between cell metabolism and neuronal plasticity (NIH)

NEURODIVERGANCE

• Asperger Syndrome (Gale)

• EVERY BRAIN IS BEAUTIFUL: A Little Kids' Guide To Neurodiversity (every Brain Is Beautiful-explaining Neurodiversity For Children 3-8) (Proquest) 

• Neurodiversity - General (Brittanica) 

• THIS IS MY BRAIN!: A Book on Neurodiversity (Proquest)

SYNESTHESIA 

• Perceptual processing links autism and synesthesia: a twin study (Updated November 28, 2024)

• Increased structural connectivity in grapheme-color synesthesia (Gale) 

• Understand the concept of synesthesia and know its advantages (Brittanica) - Video

• Synesthesia - General (Brittanica)