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Welcome to WikiProject Neuroscience! This project has been gathered together with the aim of improving and filling out all articles brain-related.

Aims

Accuracy

The main goal of this project is of course accuracy of information. We aim to ensure that all neuroscience-related articles on Wikipedia are clear, well-referenced, and include proper use of media. The overall aim is to provide articles with in-depth, qualitative information that are referenced enough for academic use. To fulfill these aims we will initially focus on articles covering broad ideas and concepts through collaborative and individual efforts to maximise their usefulness. We will then develop more detailed, specific articles. This top-down approach will allow Wikipedia to serve immediately as a useful resource that becomes more detailed over time.

We aim to provide articles that cover the brain through a cross-species, multidisciplinary approach. The idea is that we wish to have detailed information regarding the distinct differences between species with evolutionary/ ecological reasoning for such differences. We aim to integrate information from the cellular/ molecular level all the way up to the cognitive/ clinical level.

Simplicity and depth

Basic questions should have simple answers. A major goal of this project is to ensure that neuroscience articles are not only comprehensive enough for a specialist, but should be simple enough for laymen and children alike.

Contributors

If you wish to contribute to this project, please enter your name below:

  • Carl W.F. Bird: I am a graduate student of Biology. My research is in finding methods of neuroprotection from various methods of apoptosis with direct implications in Spinal Cord Injury and Alzheimer's. I have studied neuropharmacology and I am writing a book on the cognition of Music and its homologues to speech.
  • A J Hay: As a student, I don't know much yet, but I will help where I can.
  • Alex Tan: A medical officer currently working emergency department shifts - will do copyedits and basic checks for correctness and consistency.
  • Amutepiggy: bachelor's in neuroscience + 2 years in behavioral neuroscience lab (animal models of addiction) + a pleasant natural chemical imbalance = interest general neuro, addiction, psychopharmacology, and whatever.
  • Arcadian: Student -- BS computers and psychology, MS computers, beginning med school in August. Not an expert, but happy to help where I can.
  • Ben Houston: Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science with a specialization Neuroscience. I've interned in a molecular neuroscience laboratory doing both in vitro electroneurophysiology (patch clamping) and coding up immunocytochemistry analysis tools.
  • David Iberri: I'm a grad student in physiology and make most of my neuroscience edits while studying for exams.
  • delldot: I'm working on an undergraduate thesis on excitotoxicity in traumatic brain injury and I'm interested in contributing to articles related to those and other topics.
  • Eric Mercer: A neuroscientist with particular interest and expertise in consciousness, attention, neurodevelopment, and the autonomic nervous system. I'm considering doing some restructuring and writing for the ANS articles, which seem to have been developed a little haphazardly (extracts from Gray's Anatomy plus some filler).
  • Gleng: academic, neuroendocrinology. Keen on promoting public understanding of science.
  • hemisphere: Graduate student in neuroscience. My research is related to movement and locomotion.
  • Iamnotanorange: I'm not an orange.
  • Icelus
  • Ikkyu2: I'm a board-certified neurologist doing a clinical neurophysiology fellowship. My area of interest is epilepsy and seizures.
  • JeremyA
  • Jessica Chang: "I'm interested in expanding all articles as much as possible, delving into the realms of animal neurology, and the differences between human and animal impulses, interaction, and differentiation in terms of cranial capacity, intelligence, brain function, and the related actions".
  • Jfurr1981: I'm a medical student with a particular interest in neurology...the clinical aspects of neuroscience, along with its basis in neuroanatomy, are my special interests.
  • John Schmidt: "I just noticed this project. Thanks for a good excuse for me to pay more attention to neuro articles. I have a special interest in learning and memory".
  • Kaushik Ghose: I study the sonar beams of echolocating bats, I'm almost done with my thesis and I will move on to primate vision next.
  • Neurogeek: "I am a grad student writing a dissertation on the auditory nerve. I'm glad to find this group, and hope to learn more about Wikipedia editing. I will turn my attention first to improving the auditory related pages."
  • NeuronExMachina: "I'm a grad student specializing in computer vision, and am fairly knowledgeable about visual neuroscience and computational neuroscience."
  • Nrets: "My main area of specialization is cellular neuroscience and electrophysiology. My own work is in the area of neural development and synaptic plasticity, although I can contribute to a wide variety of neuroscience articles. I will try and contribute as much as possible whenever I have some free time from my responsibilities of teaching and running my lab."
  • Oldak Quill: "A neuroscience undergraduate with a wide range of interests within and without neuroscience. My interests cover a wide range within the field: neuroanatomy, cognitive neuroscience, neuropathology and so-called "neurophilosophy" (including future studies considering arifical intelligence and brain-computer interfacing). I am, apart from this, a general Wiki(pedia) enthusiast and will thus also hope to improve the prose and structure of articles as well as their referencing and scientific worth".
  • Paul Wicks Postdoc in Parkinson's disease, PhD on motor neuron disease. Trained in psychology, specialise in neurodegenerative movement disorders, more of a neuropsychologist really.
  • Purple Biochemist, did my PhD on prions, bit obscure I know...
  • Sallison: neurology and affective neuroscience.
  • Sayeth: I'll try to contribute as much as I can, but being a neurosci grad student, I don't know how much I'll be able to help.
  • Semiconscious: "My real-life neuroscience focus is on cognitive neuroscience, the basal ganglia, neuroanatomy, EEG, and computational neuroscience".
  • Silmarillion: Student who although is not currently pursuing classes, enjoys learning about neuroscience through independent study and will contribute where possible.
  • Synaptidude: I am a professor of Physiology at a major university. My specialities are CNS electrophysiology, the cellular basis of learning and memory, synaptic plasticity and inhibitory neural circuitry. Most of my contributions thus far have been on the articles: Action Potential, Long-term potentiation, Electrophysiology and several others.
  • Tycho
  • Uthbrian
  • Vaughan: Good to see the group becoming active. I look forward to reading (and editing!) the results...
  • Yama Thi Khuu: Student who is learning about computational neuroscience and intends on potentially contributing to this site, as more is learned.
  • Colin Harkness: Interested in epilepsy-related articles.

Areas of coverage

The following is a list of areas which this project hopes to cover. There will, no doubt, be overlap with existing and related projects but this can only help.

How you can help

Anybody can help!

  1. Identify target articles-particularly covering fundamental concepts and ideas.
  2. Improve and discuss the proposed structures of articles.
  3. Improve articles yourself!
  4. Leave comments here for feedback.

Focus articles

This section lists relatively complete articles which are fundamental to neuroscience which should be worked on to meet Featured Article criteria. This section emphasizes the general before the specific.

Articles needing attention

If you know of any articles that especially need help, list them here. If you feel these articles have been expanded or repaired to an acceptable level, please remove them from this list.

Articles

The following articles concerned with neuroscience are featured articles:

Categories

Pictures

The following featured pictures are neuroscientific in subject:

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Neuroscience.
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