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I'm looking for recommendations (books, papers, courses, or YouTube) to understand the brain in a way that stays close to established facts and clearly separates fact from interpretation. For example, many books just ignore glia cells completely.

Two things I especially want:

1. Comparative and evolutionary: nervous systems across the animal kingdom and how they evolved, not human-centric. I'm as interested in C. elegans, insects, and up to the human cortex.

2. Attention to the whole system: glia, energy/metabolism, wiring, the body rather than an all-neurons view.

I've already read Behave, Models of the Mind, The Laws of Thought, and similar so happy with textbooks, lecture courses, or primary literature.

I suspect books on brain physiology could be interesting.

Hello👋 As the title says, I am preparing the International Neurosciences Olympiads. I am looking for material to learn about neurosciences, any references (books, textbooks, magazines) videos etc) I should know abt?

Thank you for your time

Today we are excited to release a tool, where one can browse and find all available neuroscience datasets for all major modalities: EEG, MRI, MEG, NIRS, PET and more.

⁃        10,000+ datasets
⁃        19 modalities
⁃        2000+ tasks
⁃        19+ devices
⁃        1000+ institutions
⁃        ~1000 funders
⁃        ~1500 papers
⁃        170,000+ citations
⁃        100,000+ humans who contributed their data to these datasets (THANK YOU!!!)
⁃        140,000+ hours of data
⁃        200TB of data

Hi everyone.

I’m currently transitioning from a career in finance into neuroscience and am looking to start getting more involved in research.

I’m still early in the learning process and have been working on building my understanding of the literature, reading papers, and getting familiar with how research is approached in the field. I’d love to connect with others who are also interested in neuroscience research and potentially collaborate on a paper or research project. I', looking for cognitive neuroscience and computational neuroscience (no wet-lab/ medical side).

I’m particularly interested in learning through hands-on experience and contributing wherever I can, while continuing to develop my skills along the way.

If anyone is working on a project and is open to collaborating with someone at an early stage (or are are looking to collaborate with someone on a new project), I’d be happy to connect and discuss further.

Kindly DM.

Thanks!

P.S. I used AI to smooth out the sentence flow.

Edit: added specific part I'm studying for.

I’m submitting an application with my project for the AAN Neuroscience research prize. I have e-signatures from everyone except a mentor, I don’t even know if it’s ethical to ask just for the signature, or what constitutes a mentor if it’s largely subjective… but I’m shooting my shot if anyone is willing to sign off on it

I’ve heard that during eye procedures such as lasik doctors will ask patients to wiggle a specific toe or do some other specific small movement to relax your eye/help get it into the right position.
Why does a small unrelated movement affect the eye? What’s the neural pathway for how it works?
I’ve tried looking it up online and haven’t found a satisfying answer other than “it distracts your brain” which doesn’t explain much. It just seems like a really random way to affect the eye.

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Given both disciplines study mind and behaviour, what is the specific appeal of neuroscience over psychology?

Does anyone have a degree map, or sample 4 year plan they followed for higher education in neuroscience and what school they went to? Tis the season for college applications and my senior can't decide where to go and is sick of the boiler-plate websites. Thank you for anyone willing to share. I'm impressed by all these brilliant minds and I'm excited to have one in my family!

hey everyone! i'm an incoming undergrad studying neuroscience, interested in careers related to neurotechnology.

i'm curious about two things and would love your guys's insight:

1. what do careers in neurotech look like? give me the whole spectrum
2. what skills should one build to be successful in this field?

i'm between this and medicine. the only upset between the two are the lack of clarity i have in the former's career outcomes / pathways.

This week its Neurotech in the Uk. A full map, shit loads of start ups, loads of amazing tech. The complete working map contains 74 active organisations: 45 core neurotechnology companies, 12 enabling businesses and 17 adjacent organisations. Galvani Bioelectronics is listed separately as a historical cautionary case and is not included in the active total. The list uses current principal UK operating bases where those are public, and every company name links to its official source.

https://www.reddit.com/u/NeurotechNewsletter/s/zYokIFiXLg

Hellou!
Im currently finishing off my cellbiology masters and will be starting a neuroscience masters program next month. I have started to regret not taking the oppurtunity to go on an exchange semester during my first masters and was thinking that a free mover exchange could be a nice, shorter alternative.
Has anyone done this as a neuroscience student, if so do you have any recomendations destination-wise. Studying in Europe currently.

Thanks in advance!

^^ title!

We can know what a concept is by 'visualizing' it, or imagining it inside our minds. For example, even if there is nothing orange in the room, you can still understand what 'orange' means by visualizing it in in your mind. Some things can only be conceived of through 'visualization', since they can't be seen directly (for example, God).

I lost the ability to visualize a couple of specific concepts, a few years ago. I have a vague understanding of what these concepts are, as I can't really think about them. Over time the concepts have grown more vague to my senses.

The entire structure of my psychology has remained the same, the only difference is my loss of ability to conceptualize two specific things. This seems to be a very unusual phenomenon, and I've failed to find anything about it through research.

Does anyone know why this happens, or how it can be reversed?

Edit: The things I can't visualize are :

1. I can't conceive of mathematical concepts, I can only think about the symbols and representations

2. I can't think about a divine God, I can only think about an anthropomorphic God.

inspired by this post from Quora, not sure how informed the answers are: https://www.quora.com/What-if-we-looked-at-the-self-as-a-model-that-our-brain-creates-Would-people-still-claim-that-is-an-ignorant-way-to-live-when-in-fact-it-is-part-of-our-nature-to-live-as-a-self

one says we are nothing more but just a stream of biological data, another talked about how it’s functional and useful to have, overall though the answers feel like they are leaving things out more than answering them.

After decades of research in neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces lots of people asked which parts of the brain do what, and how can we measure it, and what modalities help us understand it better.

We are happy to announce the release of the new NeuroAtlas tool, which helps answer this question and enables more scientists and researchers to explore and push the frontiers of what’s known.

This includes EEG, MEG, fMRI, tFUS, iEEG, TMS, DBS, and more.

All published data sources are referenced via DOIs in the web interface.