Marzieh Ghiasi

Every year, for more than twenty years or so, the McGill Anatomy & Cell Biology Students Society has held an “anatomically correct” bake sale at the systemic human anatomy class. This year’s bake sale was pretty amazing and apparently in an hour managed to raise nearly two-thousand dollars for a charity for deaf students here in Montréal! I took a couple of (low-quality) cell-phone pictures. Yes the last one is legs and kind of NSFW.

I’ve been absolutely immersed in brain anatomy (which I now heart) for the past eight months. In the process I’ve amassed a rather large collection of links. I’ve listed some of the better resources below, hopefully others will find this helpful.

Image Source: the Morbid Anatomy Collection

1. The Brain from Top to Bottom (McGill University) offers a fantastic overview of the brain. It can serve as a good starting point for introducing the molecular to histological to social aspects of the brain. The nice design is a great bonus.

2. The Digital Anatomist (University of Washington) is a site I use frequently for my studies. The organization is a bit confusing but the site has amazing gross and histological sections, vascular and pathway diagrams, and MRI animations. There is a self-test for almost every slide, which is a great way to reinforce the structures and pathways.

3. Salamon’s Neuroanatomy and Neurovasculature Web-Atlas Resource (UCLA) is a pretty comprehensive tutorial resource covering both anatomy and vascularization of the brain. With clear explanations and diagrams, the site is good for self-study or as a complement to neuroanatomy classes. The interface could be better (the text is all in jpg form) but the thorough quiz section makes up for that.

4. Neuroanatomy Tutorial (University of Utah) is a fairly simple but highly effective site for learning gross structure of the brain. Its labeling system is particularly useful.
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