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Neuroscience in General
The neuroguide, a useful collection of websites related to neuroscience: http://www.neuroguide.com
The secret life of the brain: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/
Neurotransmitter net: http://www.neurotransmitter.net/
The Dana foundation: http://www.dana.org/
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience: http://www.funfaculty.org/
Free Booklet Downloads
Two nice and informative general introductions into neuroscience, easy to read without too much special knowledge required. Well suited for beginners from a different academic discipline to get a first glance on what is taught in the program.
Ideal also if your relatives keep asking you what precisely it is you are doing now...
Kosmos Gehirn (German only): http://nwg.glia.mdc-berlin.de/de/info/cosmos.html
Brainfacts: http://www.sfn.org/index.cfm?pagename=brainFacts
And an interesting related link:
The accidental mind: http://accidentalmind.org/
Medical Dictionaries online
Mondofacto: http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary
Merriam Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/
Anatomy
The Allen institute: http://www.brain-map.org/
Brain atlas: http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html
www.thehumanbrain.com
www.brainconnection.com
www.neuroanatomy.wisc.edu/virtualbrain/Index.html
http://www.loni.ucla.edu/
Anatomy dissections: http://www.anatomy.wisc.edu/courses/gross/
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Online textbook on medical biochemistry: themedicalbiochemistrypage.org
Useful tool convert different weight units into concentrations and vice versa: http://www.molbiol.ru/eng/scripts/01_04.html
Statistics
http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/
http://www.statistics.com/
PSPP (Free and open-source replacement for the proprietary program SPSS)
R
Octave
SigmaPlot
Textbook on stats: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
Statistics for non statisticans:
http://www.bmj.com/archive/7104/7104ed.htm
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/315/7105/422
Mathematics, Physics and Programming
Electronically Available Books
Bookshelf at NIH: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
Science Books Online: http://www.sciencebooksonline.info/