Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience

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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.

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!

Identify target articles-particularly covering fundamental concepts and ideas.
Improve and discuss the proposed structures of articles.
Improve articles yourself!
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.

Neuroscience: This really should be a better article. We need images, history, etc. We can borrow some history from brain.
Brain: Underway!
Human brain
Autonomic nervous system
Neuron
List of neuroscience topics
...and pretty much everything on Category:Neuroscience stubs.
Drugs by Indication.
Neurobiology

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.

Voltage clamp - cleanup
Electrophysiology - cleanup, trim
Postsynaptic potential - cleanup
Autonomic nervous system - cleanup, wikify, fact check
MERMER - Huh?
Efficient coding hypothesis - expand
Parkinson's disease - need expert input on neuropathology, biochemistry
Cerebral cortex - It needs a clear structure and major rewriting
Brodmann area and Cytoarchitectonics - should be merged in one single article about cortical architecture (cyto- myelo- chemio-). Different areas shouldn't be treated one by one (it's not sure if they are clearly delimited anyway...) but by broader regions, for example, frontal, parietal, etc. (as Brodmann itself did, by the way...)

Featured items

Articles

The following articles concerned with neuroscience are featured articles:

Useful links

Related media

The Psychology Wiki is a Wikia project, meaning that it is hosted by Wikia Inc., which was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. You can think of the project as a daughter of the wikipedia site.

The Psychology Wiki's mission is to create an online resource placing the entire body of psychology knowledge in the hands of its users, be they academics, practitioners or users of psychology services. It is intended to be a meta-textbook, with full academic referencing and extensive cross linking between different subject areas.

The Psychology Wiki differs from Wikipedia psychology articles in that:

1) It is intended to contain all of the discipline of psychology, like a giant meta-textbook, rather than an Encyclopedia.
2) It will therefore go into much greater technical detail than one would have in an encyclopedia. It will have full academic referencing.
3) It will have Personal Experiences relating to psychology issues on seperate user pages, protected by admins, allowing POV to be expressed on these pages only. The rest of the wiki is NPOV, but expression of personal experience is nessesary and desireable on our wiki.
4) It will have course content pages from academic and clinical courses with links to internal wiki articles.
5) It will be a place for researchers to discuss latest papers etc...

6) As the site will mainly be of interest to people who study or work in psychology, we expect that the majority of our contributors will be psychologists by training. Of our current contributors, approximately 80% are psychologists. This means that the community works very differently from Wikipedia, due to a much greater level of expertise.

Here are some useful pages on our site:

Main Page

Our Vision

Community Portal

Tasks To Do Portal

Discussion Forum

Featured Article: Recovery from Acquired Brain Injury

Soon to be featured: Clinical depression

Please have a look at the Psychology Wiki and let us know what you think. We need your criticisms as much as your advice. Most of all though, we need your Contributions in order to make the project a success. See Our Vision for more details.

Mostly Zen

Contributors

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

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.
Brain-mapper, Ph.D.: I map the brain for a living and will help out with this project as time permits.
Constantine Michailidis: Medical student interested in Applied Neuroscience and Brain-Computer Interfacing.
Daniel Kueh: I am a doctoral student in the biological sciences with emphases on electrophysiology. I would be more than happy to proof read and edit any articles related to neuroscience.
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.
Devon Ryan: I'm a grad student working on a novel K_ir channel and a periodic paralytic disorder. I'll be making a lot of edits to the relevant pages.
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.
Ed Hubbard: I am an experimental psychologist/cognitive scientist (PhD, 2004). My research uses fMRI to explore high level perception, numerical cognition and synesthesia.
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.
Matt Valley: Graduate Student. I will contribute what I can to subjects of olfactory neurophysiology.
MethoxyRoxy: Student, about to become a bachelor in analytical chemistry, but wanting to become a master of neuroscience. From Holland. Doing my final internship now at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research on epilepsy and also a bit mental retardation.
Mostly Zen|: I'm an undergrad Psychology Student doing work in Depression (biopsy perspective especially) and also an Administrator on The Psychology Wiki.
Nautim|:"My main interest is anything to do with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. I'm at the start of my PhD in Autism".
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."
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".
Oligodendrocyte: PhD student studying MMP regulation and adult neurogenesis.
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.
Phineas G.: Grad student studying development of the cortex.
Purple Biochemist, did my PhD on prions, bit obscure I know...
Rto Neuroanatomy. There's a lot of work to do at Cerebral cortex...
Saganaki-: Brain-computer interfaces. I pay the rent by writing but I'm also a neuroscience enthusiast.
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.
Shushruth: A neuroscience grad student and a physician. Will put in as many hours as my research will allow me to! :-)
Silmarillion: Student who although is not currently pursuing classes, enjoys learning about neuroscience through independent study and will contribute where possible.
sluox: MD/PhD student at a major university, computational neuroscientist
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.
Teemu08: I'm a junior at the UIUC focusing on neuroimaging. I also have major depression, so I research that a lot as well.
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.
Gabemck: Undergrad doing research in the field of developmental neuroscience. I have wide interests inside and outside of the field; within the field I am very interested in the evolutionary relationship between transcriptional regulators of neural differentiation. I am taking grad classes and am applying to grad school for neuroscience.
Wlad: Graduate student of Biochemistry
Rich Richie: Any help in medical field, I can do.
HilJackson: UK neuroscience PhD student - would like to help if I can (but I am supposed to be writing my thesis). I like copyediting (may be bad at it, though; nobody's commented yet!).
Neurobio: PHD on Stroke studies. I want to start a full scale work on behavioral test. Any question about behavioral test wellcome. I can create pictures from my own lab.neurobio 23:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CopperKettle Just an amateur, interested in psychiatry and neuroscience, more specifically - in the brain development (Reelin pathway) and the mechanisms of schizophrenia. I try to contribute both to Russian and English wikipedias. --CopperKettle 06:33, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Tewfik: undergraduate currently researching motion disorders - I don't have a wide breadth of knowledge, but I'll help where I can.
Josephus78: Graduate student. Research related to information theoretic learning in sensory systems. General interest in computational neuroscience.
I am Kiwi: PsychoPharmacology, Personality Disorders