Educational Tools for Self-Directed Learning

Video Introduction to this Web Site (5 minutes).

Help With Pathways and Structures

Review pathways with this tutorial (created by Justin Van Klein, class of 2012) that sequentially steps through each slide while highlighting the relevant structure for a pathway and displaying its name and level. Pathways include: tactile sensation, pain and temp, trigeminal, auditory, visual system and reflexes, corticospinal, cerebellar, and cranial nerve motor nuclei.

Compare individual pathways and their positions in cross-sections in this tutorial.

Learn how to draw brainstem sections by running this Powerpoint show.

Test yourself on slide structures for Exams 1, 2, and 3 with this tutorial (created by Tim Lai, class of 2012), which presents each cross section slide and asks you to name structures.

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Help With Other Topics

Introductory Brainstem Videos
   These videos cover information in Chapter 1 of our Lab Manual.

Gross Brainstem Overview
Introduction to brainstem Sections
Diencephalon

The Ventricular System
   View the locations of the cisterns and parts of the ventricular system.

Subarachnoid Cisterns
Ventricles

Structure of Neurons and Glia
   Review the components and properties of neurons and glia.

Nerve Cells
Glial Cells

Blood Vessel Tutorials
   Review the blood supply to hemispheres, brainstem, spinal cord.

Blood Vessels and their territories
Blood Vessels of the Brainstem
Angiograms