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Bring brain science into your course: using Doc Lobe visuals in lectures, labs and assignments.
Doc Lobe Teaching, Learning, and Research Firm
Brain science for mental health learners and leaders, made visual.
We build interactive lessons that connect neurotransmitters, brain imaging and mental health, so mental health students, professionals and educational leaders can see how the brain works instead of memorizing it.
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The Brain and Disorders · interactive lessons
Lessons that link brain chemistry, structure and diagnosis.
Five interactive 3D lessons, starting with a full 3D map of the brain. Most let you step through typical → condition → after treatment for each diagnosis. After each lesson, test your knowledge with a six-question quiz.
AnatomyLesson 1
The 3D Brain
Turn a real 3D brain and click any part to see where it is, what it does and why it matters for mental health.
- 88 structures: lobes, gyri, limbic system, basal ganglia, thalamus, hypothalamic nuclei, brainstem, ventricles and all 12 cranial nerves
- X-ray, one-hemisphere view, "Find it" game and flashcards
ChemistryLesson 2
Synapse to Symptom
A 3D brain with neurotransmitter pathways and an animated synapse showing release, receptors, reuptake and where medications act.
- Serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, GABA, glutamate, endocannabinoids
- Cannabis under 30, over 30 and chronic use
ImagingLesson 3
Scanning the Mind
Nine imaging methods, each with a schematic scan, a fact card and what it can and can’t show at diagnosis.
- MRI, fMRI, DTI, PET, SPECT, CT, EEG, MEG, fNIRS
- Why group differences don’t diagnose individuals
AnatomyLesson 4
Slice by Slice
A three-plane MRI viewer with gray matter, white matter and CSF, plus the structural findings for each diagnosis.
- Axial, sagittal and coronal views
- T1, T2 and FLAIR contrast
GeneticsLesson 5
DNA and the Epigenome
How experience adds chemical tags that switch genes on or off, from the double helix to development before birth and stress across generations.
- DNA structure and gene switching
- Prenatal stress and intergenerational trauma
Start hereGuide
The Brain and Disorders collection
An overview of how Lessons 2–4 fit together, with a chart of which lesson covers each diagnosis.
Open the guideMore diagnoses on the way
Each lesson uses the same typical → condition → treatment layout, so new disorders and materials can be added over time.
Class results
See how often students answer correctly and how confident they feel, lesson by lesson and question by question.
Which lesson covers each diagnosis
A ✓ means that lesson has the typical, condition and after-treatment views for that diagnosis.
| Diagnosis | 2 · Synapse to Symptom | 3 · Scanning the Mind | 4 · Slice by Slice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental health conditions | |||
| Depression | ✓Serotonin synapse, SSRI | ✓MRI, fMRI, FDG-PET, EEG, fNIRS | ✓Hippocampus, cortex; after ECT |
| Anxiety (GAD) | ✓GABA synapse, benzodiazepine | – | ✓Structure usually typical |
| Schizophrenia | ✓Dopamine synapse, antipsychotic | ✓MRI, DTI, dopamine PET, MEG | ✓Ventricles, hippocampus, cortex |
| ADHD | ✓Dopamine synapse, stimulant | ✓EEG theta/beta | ✓Deep gray matter, child vs. adult |
| PTSD | ✓Norepinephrine synapse | ✓fMRI fear circuit | ✓Hippocampus |
| Substance use | |||
| Substance use (general) | ✓Dopamine reward synapse | ✓Methamphetamine transporter PET | – |
| Alcohol use disorder | – | ✓DTI, CT reversible atrophy | ✓Ventricles, sulci, cerebellum |
| Cannabis · under 30 | ✓CB1 brake, THC, tolerance | ✓MRI prefrontal thinning, CB1 PET | ✓Prefrontal cortex, hippocampus |
| Cannabis · over 30 | ✓CB1 brake, blunted reward | ✓MRI hippocampus, CB1 PET | ✓Hippocampus at midlife |
| Cannabis · chronic heavy use | ✓Blunted dopamine release | ✓MRI, DTI, dopamine PET | ✓Hippocampus, amygdala |
History, culture & development · new lessons
Where psychology came from, and how it serves people today.
Three new lessons with interactive timelines, labs, flashcards and games, each built on peer-reviewed sources from the last ten years. A Teacher's Guide gives a lesson plan, activities and teaching approaches for each one.
History & systemsNew
The True Roots of Psychology
From ancient Kemet to modern America: the Kemetic self, the House of Life, an interactive timeline, the reclamation movement led by Black scholars, and the unethical history that produced today's research ethics.
- Ma'at, Sakhu and the Edwin Smith Papyrus
- Tuskegee, Henrietta Lacks and medical mistrust
AppliedNew
Multicultural & Forensic Psychology
Culture, identity and culturally responsive practice; psychology in the courtroom; and the Dark Triad and Dark Tetrad of personality.
- Acculturation, microaggressions, MSJCC
- Competency, insanity, eyewitnesses, dark traits
Human developmentNew · Lab
The Neuron Lab
Build a neuron by dragging each part into place, fire it, and watch the signal cross the synaptic cleft. Then follow brain development from before birth to old age.
- Drag-and-drop neuron builder
- Glia, pruning, myelination and the lifespan
For educatorsGuide
Teacher's Guide
Lesson plans, activities, discussion questions and assessment for each new lesson, with the teacher as the more knowledgeable other.
Open the guideClinical foundations
From diagnosis to the whole body.
See how mental disorders affect the brain, nervous system and body in 3D, learn to read the DSM-5-TR from criteria and codes to comorbidity, and explore the ten personality disorders.
Theorists & scholars
The people behind the ideas.
91 profiles, from Freud, Adler, Piaget and Maslow to the neo-Freudians such as Karen Horney, the personality psychologists, and the African American, Latino, Indian and Asian scholars who expanded the field. Each one covers background, framework, key works and sources, with portraits where a free image exists.
Research methods
Learn to do graduate-level research.
Nine modules on terms, designs, choosing the right test, significance, z- and t-tests and regression, with 3D models, live z and t tables, worked examples, a thesis and dissertation roadmap, and how to get published using Wendy Laura Belcher’s Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks (© 2019, University of Chicago Press; all rights reserved to the author and publisher). Each module includes videos, open-access readings and a test.
Interactive labs & games
Learn it, then play it.
18 timed games cover every section of the site. Each one has how-to-play instructions and a countdown timer, and explains every missed answer. Play alone, pass one device around a study group, run a buzzer battle at the front of class, or host a live game where everyone answers on their own phone.
5Brain & lesson gamesLobe Locator, Synapse Sprint, Scan Sorter, Slice & Tissue, Epigenome Memory
1Theorist gameTheorist Match: name the scholar behind 66 frameworks
12Research methods gamesOne or two for every module, from Variable Spotter to Path to Publication
4Ways to playSolo · take turns · buzzer battle · live on many devices
Research
Research that starts in the classroom.
Our studies focus on how undergraduates learn, what gets in the way, and how mental health education can reach them.
Academic stress in undergraduates
Quantitative study of how teaching methods and learning styles relate to stress among college students.
Research, videos, books and games →Equity in education
The gap between equal and equitable instruction in American schools, and what culturally responsive teaching changes.
History, school law, civil rights and games →Mental health data analytics
Teaching statistics with real mental health datasets in SAS, so students learn methods on questions that matter to them.
Datasets, SAS workflow, research and games →Substance use prevention
Evidence-based education on cannabis and other substances for students, families and campus staff.
Programs that work, research and games →How we work
- Methods
- Quantitative surveys, validated instruments, classroom studies
- Tools
- SAS, interactive visuals built for teaching
- Audience
- College students, faculty, counseling and student-life teams
- Partners
- Universities, school-based programs, community organizations
Posters and presentationsGenerational trauma and education, and the fetal development pilot study, with a narrative explaining both →
Publications and research briefs will be posted here as they are released.
Training opportunities
Workshops for the people who teach and support students.
Trainings can be delivered virtually or on campus, and adjusted to your group's size and schedule.
Student sessions
Interactive sessions on the brain, stress and mental health for classes, residence halls and student groups.
Mental health data with SAS
Hands-on analytics training built around mental health datasets, from cleaning data to reporting results.
Substance use and the developing brain
Training for counseling centers, student-life staff and families on cannabis and substance use prevention.
Contact
Book a training or ask about a partnership.
Tell us about your class, campus or organization and we'll follow up.
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- @michealmcgee9339
- Website
- doclobe.com
- Phone
- 301-281-1756
- Location
- Hyattsville, MD · Virtual nationwide
- Hours
- 9 a.m.–5 p.m. ET
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