The following tutorials include brief descriptive essays, 3D reconstructions, light micrographs, and electron micrographs. In addition, Dr. Josef Spacek's Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology and Normal and Pathological Human Brain Anatomy feature hundreds of labeled 3D and EM images from the rat brain and human brain.
Read: the first reference to the Synapse Structure in the CNS (Palay SL, J Biophys Biochem Cytol. 1956).
The Brain
Neuronal Components
Ultrastructure
- Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology
- Hundreds of labeled EM and 3D images from human and rat brains
- Chemical Synapses
- Neuromuscular Junction (NMJ)
- Neuropil of S. Radiatum
- Comparative Morphology of Spine Synapses
- Organelles
- Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum in Dendrites and their Spines
- Endoplasmic Reticulum in Neuronal Perikaryon and Dendritic Spines
- Spine Apparatus
- Adhesion Junctions
- Subsynaptic Ribosomes
- "Cruise through Hippocampal Neuropil" video
- "Cruise..." video narrated by Kristen Harris
- Full lecture on synaptic plasticity by Kristen Harris