How To Prepare

Join our Neuroscience community by registering for our in person event. Students will gain access to a live Q&A session hosted by University of Utah Graduate Students! Registrants will also receive a link to virtual recordings of our study session and can also join our Virtual SLACK community, the Utah Synapses, to meet other Utah High school students interested in Neuroscience and STEM subjects and have discussions. This SLACK is moderated by members of the SLC Brain Bee Committee at the University of Utah. 

Please feel free to reach out to us if you have questions before registering! You can reach us through any of the channels on our Contact Us page. 

Download and study the official book used to create the Brain Bee Competition material: Brain Facts from the Society for Neuroscience and Neuroscience: The Science of the Brain. These two books will serve as resources for us to generate questions for the competition. Check out their 3D online brain for further reference! You can also listen to the study materials in a Podcast Form by going to this link. 

The Neuroanatomy and Neurological Disease section will also ask you to identify five neurological diseases out of the choices below. You can learn more about how to diagnose each disorder at the Medical Encyclopedia of Medline-Plus that can be found at the National Library of Medicine. There will also be a series of posts about these diseases on our social media pages through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, so follow us! 

Alcohol Addiction, Alzheimer's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Huntington's Disease, Korsakoff´s Syndrome, Major Depression, Multiple Sclerosis, Narcolepsy, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Parkinson's Disease, Phobia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia, Stroke, and Tourette's Syndrome. 

Additional Online Textbook Resources
These free online textbooks are also excellent in depth resources for students to use to learn from and dig a little deeper into topics that they encounter in the study guides above but are interested in finding more information on.

Neuroscience Online: https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/toc.htm

Neuroanatomy Online: https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy/index.html

Brain Bee Easy Questions

Brain Bee Medium Questions

Brain Bee Hard Questions

There are additional mock exam questions at the International Brain Bee website, and we will be posting them as well in our Twitter, Instagram and Facebook interfaces, so keep an eye for those!  

MIT has a lot of online coursework that is available on their Open Course Ware Website.  Much of this material is at the undergraduate level, but for highly motivated high-school students who are interested, it can be a way to delve a little deeper into some specific neuroscience topics, or find references and primary resources to direct you where to go to dig in further to a particular topic that interests you.

MIT Open Course Ware Neuroscience Courses
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=science&subcat=biology&spec=neuroscience