Serendip has information on an wide array of different topics in the area of brain and behavior, including papers with web references written by students in
Biology 103, a course at Bryn Mawr College. Like other things on Serendip, these are not intended to be the final word on any subject, but rather represent the sense that individuals have been able to make for themselves about particular questions and windows through which others can begin their own explorations of them. Following is a topic index of these papers, making it possible to easily search for topics of particular interest. Use the alphabet links to get to topics starting with particular letters, and topic links to get lists of particular papers. Click on titles under particular topics to
get to the papers themselves. Lists of relevant web references can be found at the end of each paper. Index prepared by
Katie DiFelice in spring, 2001.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J-K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U-V | W | X-Y | Z |
A
ABORTION
AIDS
AGING
AGRICULTURE
ALTERNATIVE HEALING
ASPARTAME
ASTIGMATISM
ATHLETES
AURORA BOREALIS
AUTISM
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B
BIOINFORMATICS
BIRTH CONTROL
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C
CANCER
CANNABIS
CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
CLENBUTEROL
CLONING
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D
DEEP-SEA LIVING
DEPRESSION
DNA
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E
EBOLA VIRUS
ECSTASY
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY
EMOTIONS
ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
ENVIRONMENTALISM
ESTROGEN
EUGENICS
EVOLUTION
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G
GENETIC ENGINEERING
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H
HABITATS
HEMISPHERES OF BRAIN
HOMOSEXUALITY
HUMOR
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I
ILLNESS
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L
LANGUAGE
LEUKEMIA
LOBOTOMY
LUNAR CYCLES
LYME DISEASE
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M
MANGROVE FORESTS
MELATONIN
MEMORY
MENINGITIS
MENSTRUATION
MIFEPRISTONE
MORALITY
MUSIC
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N
NANOTECHNOLOGY
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O
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
ORGANISMS
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P
PAIN
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
PHEROMONES
PHOBIAS
PRE-IMPLANATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS
PROTEINS
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R
RACISM
REWARD DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
RIPARIAN ZONE
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S
SCHIZOPHRENIA
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER
SEX DETERMINATION
SHINGLES
SHROUD OF TURIN
SLEEP
SMELL
SOCIOBIOLOGY
STEREOGRAPHS
STEROIDS
STRESS
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T
TECHNOLOGY
TISSUE ENGINEERING
TWINS
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W
WEST NILE VIRUS
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Z
ZOMBIES
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ABORTION
Mifepristone (RU-486): The Medical Abortion
Bome Marrow Deficiency, Genetics, and Abortion
Mifepristone... "The Abortion Pill": The Facts
Abortion - Methods and Procedures
AIDS
The AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
HIV/AIDS
Mutant CCR5: A Cure For AIDS?
AGING
Accepting and Adapting: Antioxidants and Aging
Teens Before Their Time
AGRICULTURE
Large Cranberry and High-Bush Blueberry Cultivation
The Origins of Agriculture: Rise of Civilization or Defying Evolution?
ALTERNATIVE HEALING
Eastern and Western Shingles Treatment
ASPARTAME
Aspartame:the REAL Story?
ASTIGMATISM
Seeing Straight
ATHLETES
Wonder Girls and Steroids
The Female Athlete Triad: Characteristics, Consequences, and Social Implications
AURORA BOREALIS
Aurora Borealis
AUTISM
Autism in Children
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BIOINFORMATICS
Bioinformatics: The Gold Rush of Today
BIRTH CONTROL
Different Forms of Birth Control
Health Effects of Menstruation and Birth Control Pills
Sexual Politics and Sperm Inhibition: The Male Birth Control Pill
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CANCER
Breast Cancer and the Environment
Incidence of Breast Cancer
Cannabis: Passing the Pipe to Cancer Patients
CANNABIS
Cannabis: Passing the Pipe to Cancer Patients
CIRADIAN RHYTHM
Talk of Circadian Rhythm
CLENBUTEROL
Tainted Meat: Clenbuterol Use in the Meat Industry
CLONING
What is cloning - Is it Right or Wrong?
Cloning: Right or Wrong
Cloning: Controversial Science
Friend for Live: My Clone and I
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DEEP-SEA LIVING
It's a Tough Life
DEPRESSION
Clearing Thoughts on Depression
DNA
DNA Computing
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EBOLA VIRUS
The Ebola Virus: Candidate for Genetic Mutation?
ECSTASY
Now Get in the Pit and Try to Love Someone: Ecstasy, Empathy, and Evolution
ELECTROSHOCK THERAPY
Shocking to Recovery, or Just Shocking?: a Look into the Process, the Pros and the Cons of Electroshock Therapy
EMOTIONS
Did Emotions Evolve?
ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
The Brain in Your Gut
ENVIRONMENTALISM
When Economics and Environment Collide
ESTROGEN
Estrogen and the Memory
EUGENICS
Who Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World?
The Heart of Difference: Reconciling Bioethics with the Doctrine of Perfection
EVOLUTION
Location and Evolution: Habitats Creating Inhabitants
Did Emotions Evolve?
The Origins of Agriculture: Rise of Civilization or Defying Evolution?
The Evolution of Techologically Inspired Evlutionary Thoughts
The Evolutionary Steps of Fish
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GENETIC ENGINEERING
To Uplift or Not To Uplift: The Ethics of Genetic Manipulation
The Uncertainties of Genetically Modified Foods
Is This Really a Tomato?
What Are We Eating?
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HABITATS
Location and Evolution: Habitats Creating Inhabitants
Why the World Needs its Mangroves: A Look into the Natural and Human Relationships With Mangrove Forests
HEMISPHERES OF BRAIN
Left and Right Sides of the Brain: Which is Your Dominant Side?
HOMOSEXUALITY
The Genetics of Homosexuality
HUMOR
Biological Humor: the Intricacies of Scientific Jest
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ILLNESS
Four Common College Ailments
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LANGUAGE
Technology and Bilingualism
Language Acquisition and Affective Variables
LEUKEMIA
The Feline Leukemia Virus
LOBOTOMY
Lobotomy and Schizophrenia
LUNAR CYCLES
Full Moon Madness: The Search or a Relationship between the Mind and Lunar Cycles
LYME DISEASE
Lyme Disease Ticks Me Off
Dr. Me
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MANGROVE FORESTS
Why the World Needs its Mangroves: A Look into the Natural and Human Relationships With Mangrove Forests
MELATONIN
Melatonin: Miracle Cure for Jet Lag?
MEMORY
Estrogen and the Memory
Remember This: Memory and the Brain
MENINGITIS
Researching the Childhood Mystry
MENSTRUATION
Synchronized Cycles
Health Effects of Menstruation and Birth Control Pills
MIFEPRISTONE
Mifepristone (RU-486): The Medical Abortion
Mifepristone... "The Abortion Pill": The Facts
MORALITY
The Bioethics Dilemma
The Heart of Difference: Reconciling Bioethics with the Doctrine of Perfection
Morality: Biologically Based?
MUSIC
"We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams" (Arthur O'Shaughnessy)
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Nanotechnology: the Smaller the Better
Nanomachines and Biological Systems: Utopia or Dystopia
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OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
How to Diagnose a Friend with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (And What to Do With Them Afterwards...)
OCD: Another Brain Puzzle
ORGANISMS
Dinosaur Extinction
The Evolutionary Steps of Fish
The Giant Panda
Jellyfish
Malaclemys Terrapin Terrapin - The Northern Diamondback Terrapin
Moss Reproduction
The Northern Spotted owl in Danger of Finding a Home
The Sexuality of Flowers
Sharks: Killing Machines?
Wolf Culling
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PAIN
How We Biologically Experience Physical and Emotional Pain
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
Parkinson's Disease
PHEROMONES
Do Human Pheromones Really Exist?
PHOBIAS
"There's Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself"
PRE-IMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS
Bome Marrow Deficiency, Genetics, and Abortion
PROTEINS
Two-Faced Proteins (Prions)
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RACISM
"Scientific Racism" in Enlightened Europe: Linnaeus, Darwin, and Galton
Race: Social Concept, Biological Idea
REWARD DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
The Root of Reward of Reward Deficiency Syndrome
RIPARIAN ZONE
Streamway Corridrs: The Importance of Riparian Buffer Zones
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SCHIZOPHENIA
Lobotomy and Schizophrenia
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Lighting the Way
Seasonal Affective Disorder
SEX DETERMINATION
He/She/Thee/Me and How We Came to Be
SHINGLES
Eastern and Western Shingles Treatment
SHROUD OF TURIN
Debating the Shroud of Turin
SLEEP
Zzzzzzz's: Catch 'em While You Can!
SMELL
It's Right Under Our Noses: The Importance of Smell to Science and our Lives
SOCIOBIOLOGY
All Things Explained: A Look into Sociobiology
STEREOGRAPHS
Seeing 3D: Sterographic Carpeting?
STEROIDS
Wonder Girls and Steroids
The Female Athlete Triad: Characteristics, Consequences, and Social Implications
STRESS
How to Deal with Stress Productively
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TECHNOLOGY
The Stone Age, the Ice Age, the Bronze Age...
Bioinformatics: The Gold Rush of Today
Technology and Bilingualism
The Evolution of Techologically Inspired Evlutionary Thoughts
TISSUE ENGINEERING
Tissue Engineering
TWINS
Twinning and Twinship
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WEST NILE VIRUS
West Nile Virus
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ZOMBIES
You Think I Therefore Am?: The Ethnobiology and Ethics of the Haitian Zombie
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