Chapter 7 Links-Audition, the Body

Senses, and the Chemical Senses

Opioid Narcotics: http://wizard.pharm.wayne.edu/medchem/opioid.html This site provides a comprehensive student primer on the chemistry of the opioid analgesics.

Sex Differences in Pain: ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/bbs.neur5.berkley.html This site provides an advanced discussion of gender differences in pain sensation and physiology.

Headache: http://www.noah.cuny.edu/headache/headache.html This site contains a series of links to information on headache. Intro to Pain: http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/specialty/pain/intro.html This site contains an introductory discussion of the causes and treatment of pain.

Organ of Corti: http://www.bp.sissa.it/cochlea/cortifm.htm This site provides access to several AVI movies on the travelling wave, the outer hair cells, and transduction processes within the Organ of Corti. Music Cognition Experiments: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~aweigend/Home.html Site that provides students with an opportunity to take part in one of four experiments on music and cognition.

Exploratorium Exhibits: http://www.exploratorium.edu/imagery/exhibits.html This site is a digital version of the popular science museum in San Francisco. In addition to several interesting visual illusions, the site has two modules that are relevant to auditory processing including:

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut: This demonstration shows how intonation can radically alter perception of the meaning of a popular childhood fairy tale.

Vocal Vowels: This interactive module allows students to select various models that in turn create unique sounds.

Pain Lecture Slide Show: http://pain.roxane.com/SlideShow/TOC.html This site offers a slide show on pain management in the treatment of cancer. The site was created by the Roxane Corporation and provides an overview of issues in pain perception ranging from neurotransmitters to pharmacology.

International Association for the Study of Pain: http://www.halcyon.com/iasp/ This site provides links to pain research laboratories, to web resources on pain, and to sites that provide PET images of brain activity during acute and chronic pain states.

Bells’ Palsy: http://www.healthpartners.com/group/neuro/bp.html This site provides a medical tutorial on the symptoms and causes of Bell’s palsy.

Muscle Spindle Structure: http://www.umds.ac.uk/physiology/mcal/spin2.html This site provides a summary diagram of the internal structure of a muscle fiber. The diagram can be clicked to explore the details of this structure.

Common Spinal Reflexes: http://metalab.unc.edu/Neuro/handbook/csr.html This site provides a summary of spinal reflexes from the cervical to sacral region of the spinal cord.

Neuromuscular Home Page: http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/ This site provides diagnostic information on neuromuscular disorders. Introduction to Muscle: http://ortho84-13.ucsd.edu/MusIntro/Jump.html This site contains seventeen tutorial links for students to access information on muscle physiology. For faculty, there is an extensive bibliography section as well a link to a site containing photomicrographs of muscle fibers.

Functional Neurosurgery for Parkinson’s Disease: http://medweb.bham.ac.uk/http/depts/clin_neuro/teaching/tutorials/parkinsons/surgery/parkinsons-surgery.html

This web site provides a history of the pallidotomy technique, images of the surgical technique, and a Quick-Time movie of a stereotaxic surgery for Parkinson’s disease. A similar site on pallidotomy can be found at: http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/pdpallid.htm Huntington’s Chorea Slides: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/cases/java/case11/tc1/007.html This Harvard Medical School web site contains a series of MRI and SPECT images of a Huntington’s Chorea patient taken over time.

Spinal Cord: http://www.ability.org.uk/spinal.html

This reference site provides links to pages devoted to spinal cord injury assessment and adjustment.