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    intute "Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK Universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database."


    AllPsych: "Provides psychology related material to help improve factual knowledge, inspire thoughtful discussion, and facilitate a unique understanding of the psychological theories, applications, and needs for research."

     

    AmoebaWeb: This site provides a large number of links to psychology content (including full-text articles) freely available on the Web. AmoebaWeb is maintained by Douglas Degelman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Vanguard University of Southern California.


    Gateway to Neuroscience Resources: "The SfN Neuroscience Database Gateway provides links to five main types of database: Databases of experimental data, Knowledge bases, Software tools for neuroscience, Bioinformatics resources, Providers of research materials, All neuroscience databases."

     

    Lycoming College Psychology Subject Links: The Librarians at Lycoming College have compiled a list of links and resources in the Pyschology subject area including databases, specialized search engines, and selected Web sites.

     

    Maternal and Child Health Library: "The MCH Library at Georgetown University provides accurate and timely information including the weekly newsletter MCH Alert, resource guides, full text publications, databases, and links to quality MCH sites."

     

    National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education: "Visit web sites with the latest research and findings on hot educational topics. Each of the links provides connections to web sites with specialties in these topical areas sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement."

     

    National Network for Child Care Child Development: List of resources related to the development of children with categories such as infant, toddler, preschooler, school-age, language development, brain development.

     

    Neuropsychology Central: This site is devoted exclusively to the study of neuropsychology with primary emphasis on brain and behavior, and various other topics in the neurosciences.

     

    NeuroTransmitter.net: This site "exists to improve online access to biomedical information in fields such as neuroscience, pharmacology, and psychology." The director of this site, Shawn Thomas, has provided multiple links to drug treatments and their neurological effects.

     

    New York Psychoanalytic Institute & Society: "This collection of links points to Internet resources related to Sigmund Freud and his works. Included in this collection are libraries, museums, and biographical materials, as well as materials in the Brill Library Archives."

     

    On The Brain: Full text access to the Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Newsletter published by the Harvard Medical School. Coverage starts in Summer of 1994 and ends in Winter of 2002.

     

    PsycARTICLES: "APA's Online Full-Text Journal Article Database. Use this seach engine to locate articles published in major psychology journals.

     

    PsychCrawler: "PsycCrawler is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology. This product is now in its beta phase of testing."

     

    PsychScholar: "A collection of web resources for psychological scholars and budding psychological scholars compiled by John H. Krantz, Ph.D." "This site has recieved the Psychological Science.net Award for outstanding contribution to psychology on the Internet, 2/7/2000."

     

    SenseLab: "The SenseLab Project is a long term effort to build integrated, multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems, using the olfactory pathway as a model. The project involves novel informatics approaches to constructing databases and database tools for collecting and analyzing neuroscience information, and providing for efficient interoperability with other neuroscience databases."

     

    Whole Brain Atlas: This atlas created Keith A. Johnson M.D. and J. Alex Becker, Ph.D. of Harvard medical school, provide neuroimaging for the normal brain, cerebrovascular disease, neoplastic disease, degenerative disease, and inflammatory or infectious disease.

     

    WWW Virtual Library: Psychology: Links to sites focusing on the topics relevant to the subject of Psychology.

     

    WWW Virtual Library: Stress: "Vital links to sites focusing on stress psychology.

    American Psychological Association: "Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 148,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide." Use this site to search for specific psychology topics.

     

    Autism Information Center: CDC seeks to give people accurate and timely information about public health and the Autism Spectrum Disorders. AIC is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the direction of the Department of Health and Human Services.

     

    BrainConnection: The Brain and Learning: "An online source of information about the brain and learning for educators, parents, students and teachers."

     

    BrainMaps: This site is an interactive multiresolution next-generation brain atlas that is based on over 20 million megapixels of sub-micron resolution, annotated, scanned images of serial sections of both primate and non-primate brains and is integrated with a high-speed database for querying and retrieving data about brain structure and function. Created and maintained by Principal Investigator Edward G. Jones and the Brainmaps Team (Ade Adowe, Kate Brown, Maly Bun, Megan Cleary, Matt Countryman, Xinran Cui, Fred Gorin, Alessandro Graziano, Brendan Hunt, Larry Lau, Albert Lim, Robert Linehan, Xiaobo Liu, Parisa Mehran, Shawn Mikula, Karl Murray, Phong Nguyen, Barbara Rubino, James Stone, Issac Trotts, Long Votran, Shang Wei, Jennifer Wright) at the UC Regents, Davis campus.

     

    California Department of Education Child Development Division: Child development resources including the following categories: annual CDD conference, program descriptions, desired results, CalWORKs, state plan, Head Start, Pre-K learning and development and guidelines.

     

    Center for Mind and Brain: To discover the latest research go to this website provided by UC Davis. Meet the faculty and participants in the latest studies in the mysteries of the human mind from infant to adult behavior.

     

    C. G. Jung Page: This page is "dedicated to exploring questions of meaning which engage the individual as well as the varied cultures in which they live. This conversation is greatly enlarged by the contributions of C. G. Jung, (1875-1961) and the rich permutations of analytical psychology which continue to develop. Here you will find original essays, reprinted articles, reviews of books and films, research tools, a lexicon of terms, and works of creativity." Maintained by Webmaster Sean Fitzpatrick of the Jung Center.

     

    ChildTrauma Academy: "The ChildTrauma Academy (CTA) works to create unique partnerships with corporate, public and other private organizations. Over the years, The ChildTrauma Academy has developed a unique insight and skill set that helps create and sustain successful partnerships and projects. Two primary activities of The ChildTrauma Academy are program consultation and development and education and training."

     

    Developmental Psychology: A selection of Developmental Psychology textbooks published by McGraw-Hill plus valuable resource links for both students and instructors alike. Use the links provided to find some good developmental psychology sites on the web.

     

    Discovering Psychology: Companion website to the video series and telecourse with Philip G. Zimbardo, Ph.D. "The 26 video programs review the history of the field, including the work of early and contemporary theorists, practitioners, and researchers, illustrating their work with footage of classic experiments and modern studies. They tell the story of psychology through demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation all based on extensive investigation and superior scholarship."

     

    Diseases of the Mind: "The History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine at the NIH collects, preserves, interprets, and presents materials documenting the history of medicine, biomedical science, health and disease in all time periods and cultures, providing access to manuscripts, books, photographs, films and other historical resources."

     

    Encyclopedia of Psychology: "The Encyclopedia of Psychology is intended to facilitate browsing in any area of psychology. There are two paths envisioned for this purpose: Original information generated by respected researchers and practitioners in various fields of psychology. A hierarchical database of links to websites providing information about scientific psychology."

     

    Enpsychlopedia: This site offers a searchable interface to Psych Central, as well as about a dozen other mental health and psychology websites, offering a subject-specific guide to 40,000 psychology and mental health resources online.

     

    Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals: A full text electronic version of Charles Darwin's entire book, "Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals".

     

    Foundation for Child Development: "The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated and productive members of their communities."

     

    Grey Matters: "Grey Matters is an educational series that seeks to enhance public awareness of recent developments in brain research. Topics include stem cells, brain development, perception, addiction and sleep."

     

    Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience: "Salk Institute's Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience (LCN) is dedicated to the study of the neural and genetic underpinnings of language and cognition. Our approach brings together experts in diverse fields to study these complex issues. The LCN organizes its resources into two research foci: Linking Gene, Brain, and Cognition, and Language, Modality and the Brain."

     

    MCG Department of Neurosurgery: News and publications on the subject of Neurosurgery provided by the Medical College of Georgia.

     

    National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: "Established by congress in 1962, conducts and supports research on topics related to the health of children, adults, families, and populations."

     

    National Mental Health Information Center: "The National Mental Health Information Center was developed for users of mental health services and their families, the general public, policy makers, providers, and the media."

     

    Organization For Autism Research: "The OAR was created in December 2001 as the product of the shared vision and unique life experiences of OAR’s seven founders. Led by these parents and grandparents of children and adults on the autism spectrum, OAR set out to use applied science to answer questions that parents, families, individuals with autism, teachers and caregivers confront daily."

     

    Personality- Temperament: Use this online personality questionnaire developed by Stephen Montgomery and David Keirsey, author of Please Understand Me II, available in the library.

     

    Psychoactive Drug Mechanisms: This site has been developed by Shawn M. Thomas who has a Masters of Science degree in LIbrary Information Science. He has developed this site with a focus on the way to find biomedical or neuroscience resources on the Internet. He has offered links to drug research and has provided more information on a comparable site called neurotransmitter.net.

     

    The Pilots Database: "The PILOTS database is an electronic index to the worldwide literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD, and is electronically available to the public. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs."

     

    Research and Documentation Online: Online version of "Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age" by Diana Hacker. It contains research guides to Humanities, Social Sciences, History, and Sciences.

     

    Scientific Psychic: Created and maintained by Programmer Antonio Zamora of the American Chemical Society, "Scientific Psychic is a web site dedicated to the exploration of language and the human mind with the objective of encouraging critical thinking and a healthy life style." Click the links on the home page to find sections on ESP, mind puzzles, personality tests, health and educational software programs.

     

    Sigmund Freud: Conflict & Culture: "This exhibit features vintage photographs, prints, manuscripts and first editions. Also displayed are home movies of Freud and objects from his study and consulting room--including materials from his desk, the chair in which he sat when listening to patients, a model of his consulting couch, and pieces from his own collection of antiquities. Selected film and television clips, and materials from newspapers, magazines and comic books are interwoven throughout the exhibition to highlight the pervasive influence of psychoanalysis on popular culture. Exhibit items are drawn largely from the collections of the Library of Congress, supplemented with loans from other important holdings, especially those of the Sigmund Freud-Museum in Vienna, and the Freud Museum in London."

     

    Somatic Experiencing Trama Institute: "Somatic Experiencing® is a body-awareness approach to trauma being taught throughout the world. It is the result of over forty years of observation, research, and hands-on development by Dr. Peter Levine. This is the primary website for the SE training, support of health professionals in Somatic Experiencing® and connecting trauma victims to the approximately 5,000 SE® Practitioners across the globe."

     

    Teen Pregnancy: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy has provided resources for teens, parents, professionals, press, and policy makers as well as information regarding religion as it relates to teen/unwanted pregnancy. The site offers information on preventing and dealing with teen/unwanted pregnancy.

     

    U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Institute: "The M.I.N.D. Institute is an international, multidisciplinary research organization, committed to excellence, collaboration and hope, striving to understand the causes and develop better treatments and ultimately cures for neurodevelopmental disorders."