Brain Animations
Below are several animations that you can use freely in your courses. They will animate when placed on a PowerPoint slide and shown in “Slideshow View.” They will also animate when displayed on a web page.
- Brainstem (red, blue, green) and cerebellum (beige)
- Thalamus (yellow), hypothalamus (orange), and pituitary gland (green)
- Surface of the cortex (frontal-blue, parietal-purple, temporal-green, occipital-yellow)
- Basal ganglia (blue), hippocampus/fornix (yellow), amygdala (red), and corpus callosum (green)
- Brainstem and subcortical structures with transparent cortex
- Visual pathways (optic nerve, optic chiasm, thalamus, and occipital cortex)
Create your own customized view of 3-D Brain (and Body) Parts
- Go to: http://lifesciencedb.jp/bp3d/
- To add a body part, just select from the body part navigation menu on the left, then select the name of the body part to add and click on the button “add.” I recommend you delete the default “bone” part by checking the box next to it and clicking on “Delete checked.”
- Add whatever body parts you want, then change the color and opacity of each part, so you can highlight certain parts. You can use the “image rotation” buttons at the top right of the screen to change the viewing angle.
- To save your customized body parts as an image, right-click on the body part image and select “Save image as...” (Firefox) or “Save picture as...” (Internet Explorer). The file is saved as a *.PNG image, which can be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation, or edited in many graphic software programs.
- If you want to get fancy and create an animated rotation through the different angles of view, then save an image of each view (this would result in 24 different images). Then, upload each of the images into a free GIF Animator program.
Contact Me
Psychology Department
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920
Phone: (217) 581-2279
Fax: (217) 581-6764
E-mail: jrstowell@eiu.edu
