See it, move it, remember it.
Interactive study units for the course. Explore a real 3D brain, run a working neuron, and lock it all in with Professor Freed’s Mimages: memory scenes for every part.
Why neuroscience is hard
Travel from the Big Bang to your brain, play Conway’s Game of Life, size up the brain’s numbers, step inside Leibniz’s mill, and bust common brain myths.
Start here →Neurons
Fire an action potential and watch Na⁺ flood in. Compare dominoes with a skipping stone, add multiple sclerosis, shine light on the cell, and zoom into the synapse.
Open the Neuron Lab →The membrane’s 4 “holes”
Leak channels, gated channels, metabotropic receptors and pumps, each with its own 3D demo, plus the case files: TTX, barium, Devil’s Breath and digoxin.
Open the Membrane Lab →SOMA: the glue that does a lot more
Swans on the Purple Sea, octopuses in Central Park, the Microcleaner and the stars: watch each glial cell wrap, clean, guard and repair in 3D.
Open Glial cells →NYC = Nervous system
Explore the Mimage in 3D: Central Park (CNS), the Purple Sea (PNS), the Samurai (somatic) and the Atomic Sub with its sympathetic, parasympathetic and enteric crew.
Open Nervous system →Twelve nerves, twelve shapes
Candle, swan, butterfly… all the way to the clock. Watch each nerve work: move the eyes, test the pupil reflex, smile, shrug, stick out the tongue and slow the heart.
Open Cranial nerves →How we study the brain
Put an EEG cap on, fire a TMS coil, implant a DBS lead, light up an fMRI scan and shine light on neurons. See what each method reads or changes, and how fast and how sharply.
Open Methods →The lobes
Walk through the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes and the cerebellum. Every part of each memory scene lights up its own spot on a real brain.
Open Neuroanatomy Part I →Deeper structures
The other brain areas in more detail, in their own section so Part I stays clean.
Start with the scene
Each unit opens on its Mimage. Read the story first, then step through the parts.
Tap what’s underlined
Underlined terms open cards with explanations, real images, quick experiments and sources.
Quiz yourself
Turn on “Quiz me” in Neuroanatomy to hide the answers, and predict what the neuron will do before you press Fire.