10-22-08

=**Wednesday October 22, 2008**=


 * 1) ====**Call for [|Student Technology Conference Participants]**====
 * 2) ====**Reading Taser Quiz - 5 minutes**====
 * 3) ====**Powerpoint Notes (slides 1-25)**====
 * 4) ====**Computer/Blogging Time**====

**Homework: Videos & Outside Readings--2 of each group**

 * Video:**
 * [|The Brain] #30-Understanding the Brain through Epilepsy
 * [|The Brain] #2-The Effects of Hormones and Environment on Brain Development
 * [|The Mind] #5-Endorphins: The Brain's Natural Morphine
 * TED Talk-[|Looking Inside the Brain in Real Time]
 * [|Designing the Human Mind] (Henry Markram-Director of the Blue Brain Project)
 * Discovering Psychology-[|The Behaving Brain Episode #3]


 * Outside Readings:**
 * //[|This Is Your Brain on Love: Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Oxytocin] (//RadioLab Podcast) OR //[|An Affair of the Head]//(Washington Post article)
 * //[|Improved Estrogen Reception May Sharpen Fuzzy Memory]// (Science Daily)
 * //[|The Mirror Neuron Revolution-Explaining What Makes Humans Social]// (Science Daily)
 * //[|Fluctuations in Serotonin Transport May Explain Winter Blues]// (Psychology in the News)
 * //[|Brain to Muscle Link in the Monkey]// (Pure Pedantry-a blog story about Nature Neuroscience)
 * //[|Taking the New Out of Neurons]// (Not Exactly Rocket Science Blog) & //[|The Function of New Cells]// (The Frontal Cortex Blog)
 * //[|Memories Are Made of These]// (PsyBlog)
 * //[|The Action Potential Through the Medium of Dance]// (Mind Hacks)