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It appears that our Neural correlates of consciousness article is very similar to that from Scholarpedia, here. Do we have permission to use it? I suppose it is possible that Fmorm ( talk · contribs) is Florian Mormann who coauthored the Scholarpedia article. AxelBoldt ( talk) 19:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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I have nominated this article for FAC, here [2]. SandyGeorgia suggested I approach your Project to find reviewers. Its a slightly obscure subject but it does cover early development and is one of those areas where although there's been insufficient research so far there really ought to be alot more, of the neuroscientific variety. I'd be very grateful if someone would take the trouble to review it. Thanks in advance. Fainites barley 23:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
In my sandbox I have been experimenting with representing data contained in a neuroimaging paper on a Wikipedia page. The idea is to construct templates and/or tables with this data, and make functions that can up and download it. One sandbox example is available here that contain the so-called Talairach coordinates (In this case it contains excerpt of data from a paper where I am a coauthor). In a database that I have built there are numerous other papers from different research groups, for an example see here. I am wondering whether other Wikipedia editors think it would be a good idea to have such articles. Are such articles appropriate or they will quickly be deleted? — fnielsen ( talk) 00:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
You might be unaware, but action potential is due to be delisted as a Featured Article very soon, possibly as early as this Saturday, April 5th. A small band of non-scientists is working to save it; perhaps some of you scientists like to help out? The article is still very rough and patchy, as you'll see, but your contributions would be very welcome. Referencing is especially needed; thank you! :) Willow ( talk) 22:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I would appreciate commentary and critique on whether the current action potential article is worthy to be a Featured Article. It's a long article, I know, but please read through it and vote your conscience, Keep or Remove, at its FAR. If you don't like it, then let me know what needs to be fixed! Willow ( talk) 19:07, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Please add 2c here Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 19:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks, i've managed to get WikiProject Neurology up and running in about a day but it's still in a basic state and needs a lot of work! Those of you who are more interested in the disease and treatment side of things may wish to join up to the project! (plus any laypersons who just want to do the hard work!) Thanks! Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 18:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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Are there any active participants of this project? Would anyone like to become one? delldot on a public computer talk 20:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I would like to become an active participant. Please advise me how to do so. FrancineEisner ( talk) 17:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I might try to join up here and become active. Perhaps we should get started with creating a new section listing members and go from there. I'll see if I can't find who started the project. Chupper ( talk) 20:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi: Please see my note at the Village Pump. As I see it there are several Wiki projects occuring: genetics, neurology, and neuroscience. I would argue that neuroscience is an atttempt to establishg description of the operation of healthy (if I can use that term) nervous system function, whereas neurology is more focused on human illness. The general division between neurlogists and psychiatrists is that, in general, neurologist have focused on a subset of illness (epilepsy, and illnesses in the CNS that are expressed as visible motor symptoms.)
The difficulty with this definition is that by and large, psychiatrists see the same group of patients, unless their primary illness is in the peripheral motor neurons or sensory neurons.
I'd suggest, unless otherwise, that the proper place for a psychiatric neuroanatomy Wiki Project would encompass the framework of neurology, neuroscience, and neuroanatomy.
One that basis, I'm inclined (although the neurologists may object) to place psychiatric neuroanatomy within either neurolgy or neuroscience. However, some structures of the CNS are described in more detail for humans. If neuroscientists make the alternate argument that neuroanatomical structures are artifacts of differentiation in an ecological context, then the anatomy articles would eventually drift from neurlogy to neuroscience (which I would consider to be a reasonable outcome). Thanks (user name Menelaus2) 20:40, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
The article on Neuroplasticity needs a good deal of work but IMHO it also needs reassessment. If Synaptogenesis has a high importance ranking, so must Neuroplasticity. Synaptogenesis is a form of brain plasticity but Neuroplasticity is the more inclusive topic. I have made a few changes to the page in the past few days, including some useful external links, minor editing in style (wording, grammar, and paragraph construction) and citations. I am not an expert on the subject, but have done quite a bit of research on current findings. The article does not reflect the dynamic nature of these findings, although new articles related to the subject appear almost daily on such sites as HHMI, ScienceDaily, and EurekAlert. I intend to assist in the improvement of this article, and I invite other, more knowledgeable persons to do so as well . FrancineEisner ( talk) 17:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Folks, I bring this up now as I want to get this sorted here and now rather than at FAC. In psychiatry here in Oz we all use DSM IV, like the US, and as far as I can tell, there is a lot more written and researched using DSM IV criteria than ICD 10. Thus, we have major depressive disorder aka major depression, which has loads of epidemiological/treatment effectiveness etc. research, and MDD sorta fits somewhere between 'moderate' and 'severe' depression on ICD 10. Unfortunately, we have a naming convention using ICD 10...
Also, the situation is even more of an issue when we get to borderline personality disorder (DSM IVTR) vs the stubby ICD 10 article Emotionally unstable personality disorder - the former has a much higher profile and common usage. Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 13:56, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I've just added this WikiProject template to the AD talkpage, if that's appropriate. We're currently buffing it up before going to FAC and could use a few more eyes engaged. Thanks. LeadSongDog ( talk) 16:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Should there be an article on the evolution of nervous systems? Richard001 ( talk) 10:36, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
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Could some expert take a look at that article? It's been nominated for deletion and has quite a few problems. VG ☎ 14:21, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
OK, we have an interesting photo of a house with lots of writing of apparently delusional material which can be seen on an olde version of the page before being reverted.
It is being discussed about here at Talk:Schizophrenia#I_like_the_image_but.... - all input most welcome. Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 13:43, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Both of these articles are at FAC currently. Many wikiprojects have a dashboard or area on the project page where this would be noted, but couldn't see one so noting it here. Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 01:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I was reading on one of your articles about the theory of high IQ and a "cooler running" brain which produces less heat for the same output. I'm trying to find information of how much heat the brain can produce though very highly stimulative brain activity. Specifically I want to know the upper limits of heat that can be produced by the metabolic activity of the brain (during mental stimulation like solving a puzzle). Thanks, I don't know what to query. When I search for terms like GMR, the material is too complicated and technical. Biologicithician ( talk) 10:24, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Bingo! That's a much better explanation than my heat proximity to sensors guess. I replicated the experiment another time trying to pay closer attention to what you said. When I'm in the hyper-alert state, my entire body is extremely tense and ready to move, just like a sprinter before the gun goes off. I also didn't want to make this a medical question, so I omitted the relevant information about caffeine and my stimulant medication which I'm prescribed. I already know their effect on brain activity, but their effect should be constant, and I wouldn't imagine it to vary with rapid piano-playing. I too am extremely skeptical about the popular literature about puzzles significantly raising brain combustion rates of O2. Thanks WP:neuroscience, I plan to help you guys in a couple years, when I get more educated. Biologicithician ( talk) 14:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
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An article about Wade Regehr, PhD Professor of Neuro biology has been started. His research includes Neuroplasticity, Serotonin Evokes Endocannabinoid Release and Retrogradely Suppresses Excitatory Synapses, Sodium action potentializes in the dendrites of cerebellar Purkinje cells, and Control of neurotransmitter release by presynaptic waveform at the granule cell to Purkinje cell synapse, and calcium dependent processes which control the release of neurotransmitter. If anyone can help develop it, that would be awesome. His clinical physiological research assists in the understanding of neurological disorders such as epilepsy, shizophrenia and depression, as well as learning and memory.. SriMesh | talk 15:56, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
The Unipolar cell article is named Unipolar neuron. The Bipolar neuron article is named Bipolar cell. The Pseudounipolar cell article is named Pseudounipolar neuron. The Multipolar cell article is named Multipolar neuron. The Pyramidal neuron article is named the Pyramidal cell. The granule neuron article is named the Granule cell. The Anterior horn cell article is named Anterior horn (spinal cord). Is it ok to flutter back and forth? SriMesh | talk 01:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi: I'm working on the Wiki article about the essay " Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and I have been unable to determine the difference between the adjectives neural and neuronal. The question has also been posed at WikiAnswers by someone other than me. If you could enlighten me about the differences I would appreciate it. Nicholas Carr, in his essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", says "Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory." However, in an email, he told me that "Given what we know now about neuroplasticity, it seems certain that internet use is changing our neuronal circuitry." So he even seems to use the terms "neural circuitry" and "neuronal circuitry" interchangeably. The same goes for "neural network" and "neuronal network", as well as "neural level" and "neuronal level"—terms which are used on page 117 of Norman Doidge's book The Brain That Changes Itself without any apparent differences. I can't see any at least. Sincerely, Manhattan Samurai ( talk) 19:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
I was surprised to find rabies was listed as a Good article. In its present state, I believe it fails to meet the criteria, and would therefore propose delisting. Please add your comments to the appropriate section of the rabies talk page. Espresso Addict ( talk) 15:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
There has been a minor content dispute at Mismatch negativity over the inclusion of two references. In the beginning, an editor was removing two references because they were formatted differently from the others; after agreeing to discuss, he said the articles in the refs are not seminal and are not relevant to the issue being discussed (specifically, whether or not the mismatch negativity is dependent on the subject's attention). Personally, I feel at least one of the two removed references is relevant (it is a report of an experiment specifically designed to test the effect of attentional resources on MMN magnitude) and that even though it's not seminal it's still good to provide converging evidence.
The refs in question are currently commented out (the other editor has added another ref, which he says is superior to these other ones, so at least the original statement isn't unreferenced), and you can find a summary of the discussion at Talk:Mismatch negativity. An outside opinion would be much appreciated. Politizer talk/ contribs 16:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed that there are a lot of articles in Category:Neuroscience stubs which would be more properly placed into Category:Neuroanatomy stubs. I started doing some of this myself but I'm not an expert in the field, and I may make mistakes. You folks should have a look at this. -- Eastlaw talk · contribs 06:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
If our guiding purpose is to provide useful information about neuroscience, I think the scope of our project should include the development of other Wikimedia resources. For example, I've been developing neuroscience courses on Wikiversity. IMO a course is a particularly useful format for gaining a basic background in neuroscience, perhaps more useful than the Wikipedia articles. I've changed the project page accordingly. -- AFriedman ( talk) 14:37, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
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The article on Behavioral Neuroscience currently redirects to Biological psychology, which I think is erroneous. If the two should remain merged, then at least the title should be "behavioral neuroscience", as this is the more commonly used one. But I actually feel that the two fields (despite much overlap) are distinct and would appreciate input from other editors at Talk:Biological psychology. Thanks. -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 08:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Dear all,
I have proposed new text for intro on consciousness article on the related discussion pages. I think that I managed to articulate it in line with the latest findings in psychology and neurology, but would like others to review it and comment.
Kind regards, Damir Ibrisimovic ( talk) 06:56, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I just came across LCM4MP while new article patrolling. Is it salvageable? I was thinking of taking it to AfD, but thought I'd flag it here, first. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 17:23, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Project members - I am not a member of this particular project but in trying to figure out who to ask about this topic, it seems you folks have the requisite knowledge and mad skills necessary to do a bang up job. I have an interest in this stuff called PharmaGaba because I had some success taking a supplement called Dreamerz that contains a propriatery blend of PharmaGaba and melatonin. Of course the manufacturers claim the stuff is miraculous and safe with no bad side effects etc. and so forth. I decided to do a little googling and I see that this PharmaGaba supplement is available all over the place as pills, drinks and other forms. I was hoping that you folks could do a basic article on the supplement, it's proposed method of action, any potential side effects that have been documented and anything else worth mentioning. If it's the latest insomnia supplement craze, it would be worth covering. Of course, it could also be covered under the article on Gaba. Whatever you think is best. Thanks! LiPollis ( talk) 21:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I peer reviewed Toxic encephalopathy and the images used in it are claimed as free, but do not seem to be so. Please see the peer review for a more detailed discussion, and the article the images are taken from is here. The journal is "Environmental Health Perspectives" and it is "free online" but I do not see any notice that the images are free to use here (freely licensed). COuld someone double check this? Also if the images are not free, does anyone know of another source of free images? Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:47, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
I could use an assist dealing with an IP who is trying to make an unacceptable edit -- a look at the article history should make the situation obvious. (I'd rather ask for help than single-handedly edit-war.) Looie496 ( talk) 14:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
I just read that the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has started a large initiative to re-write and re-organize all neuroscience related articles in Wikipedia. This massive coordinated effort will involve SfN members as contributors and maybe a bit troubling as content facilitators whose role is to organize and sort out various subject areas. While this effort is commendable on the part of SfN, it somehow seems to leave out all the "non expert" contributors to neuroscience articles in WP over the years and the initiative apparently has no plan to coordinate with ongoing WP efforts to organize and expand neuroscience content. I was curious what the reaction of amy of the contributors to these pages and to get a survey of other usuers opinions on the matter. Here's a link to the SfN initiative: http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=wikipedia_main
Nrets 17:30, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Yikes, would have been nice to get some warning of this. I'll try to register as a "content facilitator" as soon as I can figure out how to log in on the SfN site. Looie496 ( talk) 18:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
It might be worth posting in some of the SfN forums something to direct them to this page, so that efforts could be better coordinated with ongoing WP efforts. I could probably register as a facilitator too at the SfN site, although I haven't been very active in editing WP for the last couple of years, but have worked in the past in neuroscience-related WP articles. Nrets 13:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Looks like the spam has been removed, along with the actual messages, which is no problem because they didn't really have any content. I've tried a new message that actually gives some information, and points to this page. Looie496 ( talk) 00:04, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the SfN website, I just realized that they have now posted a listing of content facilitators by subject area, and there is already quite a large number, although not all subject areas are equally represented yet. I hope that this is a good sign that (post-abstracts) there will be a high level of participation. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Anybody noticed that the last time the portal was edited was on June 16, 2007.... (and disregarding vandalism and categorization, it actually never has been edited since it was created in August 2006.... It's a pity, because it actully does look pretty good. I have no time to do this, but perhaps somebody else can do it? -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 19:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I just removed a large chunk of unsubstantiated material from this article, which I just discovered. I think it isn't too bad now, but I expect a dedicated IP editor to revert my edit shortly, and it would be nice to have some extra eyes on the article for a while. Not of key importance since the article gets very little viewership, but we ought to try to get a handle on this sort of thing. At some point I'm going to make another attempt to fix Brain fitness, which will be a lot more challenging. Looie496 ( talk) 00:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to all new editors from SfN!
Editors, new and old, who would like to be identified with the SfN initiative are invited to add the following userbox to their user pages:
This user supports the Society for Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative. |
-- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
I've created the category [[Category:Wikipedian members of the Society for Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative]] (link at bottom of this talk page). If you put the userbox above on your userpage, you are automatically listed in the category. You can also put yourself into the category manually by typing the name of the category (with "Category:" at the start) in double square brackets, near the bottom of your page. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 17:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I have just nominated Hippocampus at FAC, and opinions from the people who participate here would be valued. Note while I'm at it that Benzodiazepine is also currently nominated as of May 26. Looie496 ( talk) 17:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
This new article needs our attention, I'm afraid -- see WP:FTN#Telepathy and war. Looie496 ( talk) 17:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Some editors here may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unsolved problems in cognitive science (2nd nomination). -- Tryptofish ( talk) 18:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
This question has been discussed extensively at Talk:Neurobiology. Please indicate now whether you support merging the contents of the two articles and turning Neurobiology into a redirect to Neuroscience. Justify your position briefly if you feel a need to, but let's avoid cluttering this section if we can. Looie496 ( talk) 23:58, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Support:
Oppose:
Just asking: do we feel that this question has been settled yet, or not? --
Tryptofish (
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18:29, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm new to the scene here. I would like to take up the SFN call for action and have my upper level undergrad neuro students participate in adding/editing content this fall as part of our survey course. I have seen the list of other faculty members using Wikipedia editing as part of their course requirements and will ask some of them the same question, but I thought I would also ask it here: Where is the best place to start? Thx NeuroJoe ( talk) 19:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
There will be a workshop at the SfN meeting in Chicago (on Monday afternoon of the meeting) about writing for Wikipedia. It's not clear to me whether those of us who already write are going to be asked to be part of it (I'm going to ask at the SfN website forum), but those of us who will attend the meeting might want to be aware of the event. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 16:47, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Neuroscience to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 20:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
There are a few important changes to the popular pages system. A quick summary:
-- Mr. Z-man 00:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Editors interested in this project may want to look at the discussion at Talk:Neuroscience#Merger proposal, about merging the page on Neuroscience studies. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This is a early description of the History of Neuroscience project. Project has been moved here if you want to follow the progress. 72.0.216.87 ( Jean-Francois Gariepy) 17:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone! Well I'm one of those SfN members who received the email and I was interested in being part of the initiative. I have a lot of knowledge on Wikipedia editing (altough my contributions are not under this nickname). I managed 3 GPL-licensed-wikis in my life. If you want a complete description of my projects here it is (description is in french, but projects are in english). I was mainly interested in history of informatics and sociology of internet-based subcultures. These experiences allowed me to acquire some knowledge about the MediaWiki software and I contributed to many MediaWiki extensions, which, if used in combination, can make of MediaWiki a true content and database management system. I also know about the Wikipedia specific rules, principles, and methods of editing / debatting. I think that makes me a good candidate to be a 'content advisor'. This expression makes me laugh a little bit, it does show some ignorance of the Wikipedian culture from the persons who started this initiative, and I think it was a little bit rude to start this without coming here first and talking to people that were already here, but I don't blame them; for such a big organization to be able to say : 'Hey let's call our members and tell them to contribute to Wikipedia', I think it's just wonderful and the intention is noble. You don't see that kind of opening from big organizations very often.
Beside my hobbies, my main job is neuroscience research in the field of respiration and locomotion (rhythm generation, CPGs, modulation, etc...). In the last year I became progressively interested in history of neurosciences. In part as a hobby and in part because I'm preparing a thesis on respiration, I started collecting old books and journal articles about motor control, especially locomotion and respiration. But reading these books is like a drug and eventually you start collecting more and more books even outside your own area. So I end up with a list of about 200 books of motor control physiology written between 1700 and 2000, and I find some very interesting treasures that need to be shared with the world. I also started reading some older works from the greeks like Aristotle, who did write a book about respiration. At that time the debate was whether respiratory movements were generated by our own body/brain or if the environment (air) was pushing itself into the lungs (that was 'the vital spirit' entering our body to keep us alive). Lots of works were made in 18th, 19th, 20th centuries about motor control, some of the authors are the main authors that are always cited everywhere you read about the history of neuroscience but some of them have just been forgotten. Most books in my collection are available as PDF file through Google Books. As a matter of fact, Google took a great initiative to scan all books on the planet since a couple of years. They are a very good ressource for old physiology books because the copyright has expired on these books and most of them can be searched for specific terms using the google search engine. I also had to buy some books I couldn't find and the universities library remain a good ressource. I also ended up with some interesting articles that were published by scientists in general interest journals; in these years, some scientists were publishing directly in political or general interest journals to expose some scientific ideas. That list of 200 books / articles I regrouped is just a starting point. I'm pretty sure during the next year if we coordinate the efforts with whoever is interested, we might come up with more than 2000 books / articles that need to be read and from which we need to extract information about the authors, the ideas, etc... Right now I'm concentrating on writing my abstract for Neuroscience due for May 14th but from there I'll be able to build something so that anyone who wants to contribute to the historical section on neuroscience knows what tasks need to be done. I'll probably divide the work in 3 categories, and these works will be done paralelly and not serially :
If you have any comment about this, do not hesitate to
contact me. I wonder whether I should start a portal/project page or if I can just join the neuroscience project page and create a subsection on history of neuroscience to organize the works. I personaly would prefer joining the project page that's already there.
Jean-Francois Gariepy (
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19:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys, just to keep it coordinated between here and the forums.sfn.org, here's a copy of my answer to the Wikipedia Initiative team that was asking about feedback and everything. Of course most of the comments I make are not addressed to those who are actively reading this talk page, more to those who subscribed as content facilitators but that have not been in contact with us at all - even not by email :
I don't have precise ideas on what could improve that, but the current state of coordination is pure anarchy. We have no communication at all with most of the content facilitators who did subscribe but from whom we have no feedback. Even in my own section, history of neuroscience, we are 2 content facilitators and the other one does not answer my emails, neither does he/she contact us through any kind of Wikipedia page. You should not make the feedback and plans reporting volunteer, it should just be obligatory for anyone who subscribe as a content faciliator : what do you want to do, on what time scale you want to do it, and how many volunteers would you need for that. Also, there should be more coordination between those who stay after that. Not that coordination is THAT important for Wikipedia editing - in fact Wikipedia has been relying in big part on anarchy to improve its content and it works great - but somehow it would be interesting to measure the impact of this whole initiative. For example on my project page I'm starting to list all books we are/plan adding to the encyclopedia and I'm preparing a list of biographies that will be written and sections that need to be edited... It's not that I want SfN to impose its control over all this - it's that humans tend to be very lazy when they don't report their progress and I know that for myself, that's why I report everything on my page even if it's not that important that people read it. Without any form of plans and no report of progress, this initiative is becoming a big circus. You're too kind with the facilitators : You did post their name as content facilitators ? They do write this proudly on their C.V. ? Well then you should expect a minimum from them - that is to know something about what they're doing. If everyone is a facilitator the work will never be done. We're like a bunch of enzymes with no substrate.
Jean-François Gariépy
Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 11:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Would it be useful to create a separate article for Paul Bach-y-Rita, considering he is an important figure in neuroplasticity? He already has a fairly sizeable chunk here and also in the sensory substitution article; perhaps the first of these could be split off and expanded into a separate article? Jhbuk ( talk) 22:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Editors who are part of the project might be interested in this discussion about merging Cerebral Hemispheric Dominance and Lateralization of brain function. Edhubbard ( talk) 19:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Editors here may be interested in this discussion of a proposal about links to IUPHAR databases. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
I have asked for imput on the usability of a review as a reliable secondary source for the Alzheimer's disease in the Reliable Sources Noticeboard here
The article is Kheifets, L; Bowman, Jd; Checkoway, H; Feychting, M; Harrington, Jm; Kavet, R; Marsh, G; Mezei, G; Renew, Dc; Van, Wijngaarden, E (Feb 2009). "Future needs of occupational epidemiology of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields: review and recommendations". Occupational and environmental medicine 66 (2): 72–80. doi:10.1136/oem.2007.037994. ISSN 1351-0711. PMID 18805878
Specific concerns have been raised by an editor that states that the author can not be considered an expert according to wikipedia standards of WP:MEDRS; while I disagree. Since the discussion directly affects one of the FA articles of the project I would greatly acknowledge any comments on the matter. Thanks to everybody in advance.-- Garrondo ( talk) 16:35, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I'd like some second opinions about this edit to List of neuroscientists. I cannot make up my mind whether or not a contestant on "Big Brother" who happens to be a neuroscientist, but who is not identified as being notable as a neuroscientist, should be included on the list. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:37, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) By the way, let me suggest that one good reason for having such lists (or at least a good reason for watch-listing them!) is as one way to keep an eye on new bio pages as they come up. For an example of what I mean, that list let me notice this page, which struck me as an example of someone "who has published a paper," and allowed me to tag it for notability with the possibility of future AfD. For whatever that's worth. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
As many of you already know, there is going to be a Wikipedia workshop at the Chicago meeting, Monday afternoon from 2 to 5 PM. The first half of the workshop will consist of a few short talks; the second half is intended to be a "hands-on" tutorial in writing for Wikipedia. It would be great, especially for the second half, to have experienced SfN-Wikipedians available to help out and answer questions. Anybody who would be interested in doing that, could you let us know? Either saying so here or emailing me would work. Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 17:15, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I feel that the articles for several SSRI's ( paroxetine, etc.) contain a negative POV. These articles are less about science and more about drug industry politics. Care to help Wikipedia be an encyclepedia? Neurofish ( talk) 14:45, 27 August 2009 (UTC)Neurofish
Hi. Can someone answer Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Brain_Development from a neuroscientific point of view? I can't find any wikipedia articles related to it. Thanks. 86.139.54.213 ( talk) 10:56, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Tiny tanycytes need help. I've added an image. If somebody copy-edits and all, would be great. (0: -- CopperKettle 05:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
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I would love to have a wiki work day where we focus on adding references to and generally improving the article on the Human brain! Where would we announce this? How is this normally done? Could we set up a chat? -- Bcjordan ( talk) 17:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
The article has a section called Applications of neuroplasticity, which is largely a sequence of subsections describing the work of individual people. The whole thing seems like kind of a hash to me and I am inclined to remove it, although some of the people are quite notable. The particular impetus behind starting this section is that an IP editor tried to add a section about a doctor named Paul Nussbaum -- it seems to me that listlike sections of this sort are practically an invitation to that sort of thing. Any opinions? Looie496 ( talk) 18:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
All comments /advice welcome. Fainites barley scribs 14:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
There are several neuroscience-related journals missing in Journals cited by Wikipedia. If you're interested, I can go through them and build a list for this project. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:56, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Alright well I went ahead and did it anyway. Here goes
Have fun. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I have started this AfD, and I think editors in this project may wish to give input. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 23:53, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
The article Neurobiology makes, to me at least, a rather artificial distinction between Neuroscience and Neurobiology. To me, all of neuroscience (studying a biological system, after all) falls in the realm of biology and I consider Neuroscience and Neurobiology to be mere synonyms. Some editors on Talk:Neurobiology disagree. Anyone care to join the discussion? -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 09:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm just a lowly undergraduate studying psychology and neuroscience, but I have been told that neuroscience is not the same as neurobiology - it is broader. The main reason is that not all neuroscientists can be called biologists. A biologist is someone who got a PhD in biology from a biology department. Remember that many neuroscience programs are not in biology departments these days. Many psychology departments, cognitive science programs, and interdisciplinary neuroscience programs offer a PhD in various areas of neuroscience. Would you really call someone a biologist if they were never a biology major? Also there are physicists, chemists, anthropologists, engineers, and computer scientists who work on neuroscience. You would not call them biologists. So I think it depends on the degree acquired. Arcadian Genesis ( talk) 01:28, 8 November 2009 (UTC)Arcadian Genesis
Maybe my point is that neuroscientists =/= neurobiologists, even if they are both "doing" neurobiology. I refer to the people and not the field itself. Also, there is never a "moot point" on wikipedia because it is dynamic, constantly changing. You're assuming everything is going to stay the way it is now, but I guarantee more changes will be made in the future. My suggestion is to leave it as a single article, but include a paragraph about neuroscientists who are not biologists. Arcadian Genesis ( talk) 00:48, 9 November 2009 (UTC)Arcadian Genesis
User:Proteins has been working on what I think is shaping up to be a superb welcome page for the new editors from SfN, and I've been making a few minor tweaks to it. The draft page can be found here. Perhaps other editors involved in the WikiProject might want to take a look at it before we make a link to it from the Wikiproject page. Thanks. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:08, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Recently this year (March 2009), there has been a paper published by a number of neuroscientists entitled:
"A Proposal for a Coordinated Effort for the Determination of Brainwide Neuroanatomical Connectivity in Model Organisms at a Mesoscopic Scale".
The ConnectomeWiki is an open and collaborative platform concerned with the goals of this proposal.
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I put the article about the book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control up for peer review. Input would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control/archive1. Cirt ( talk) 01:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I've just spent a few hours expanding and reformulating this into a general guide to Wikipedia's neuroscience coverage. Comments would be welcome -- no doubt I've missed at least a few important things -- and also opinions about whether it would be appropriate to put a pointer to this at the top of the Neuroscience article, and perhaps even Nervous system as well. Looie496 ( talk) 19:49, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to note that I just set up this wikilinked image map of a synapse, with the aim of replacing the simple image that is used in many articles. I've already put it into a couple. My grasp of template syntax is limited, so if you spot any problems or possible improvements, please let me know. (Or fix it if you want to, of course!) Looie496 ( talk) 19:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Started an article about Inhibitory Control Test. Help is welcomed. Cheers, -- CopperKettle 23:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed deleting Category:Fish nervous system.
See the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 January 7#Category:Fish_nervous_system, where your comments would be welcome. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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I've been working on Nervous system for the last few weeks, and feel like I've been making pretty good progress, but the Development section has really been giving me hell. Development has always been my weak point, and I don't have much confidence in being able to put together a section that is both correct and accessible to a typical reader of such a high-level article. If anybody would be able to help out with this, I would be very appreciative. I think that in other respects the article is getting close to GA-class. Unfortunately the Neural development article is even more incoherent than what I have been able to accomplish, so it isn't very helpful. Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 19:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm inclined to think these two articles should be merged. Neurodegeneration is a pretty decent article; Neurodegenerative disease is pretty much junk except that it contains a useful list of disorders. What I would like to do is convert Neurodegenerative disease into a redirect to Neurodegeneration, while extracting out the list as a new article List of neurodegenerative disorders. Any opinions? Looie496 ( talk) 19:38, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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Magnetism (neurological sign) has been nominated for deletion here as a possible hoax. There are no refs, but the editor's usual standard was quite high, e.g., [4] [5] [6], so I really doubt that it's a hoax. Is there perhaps another name for this phenomenon? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:44, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone from this project take a look at Parvocellular part, Magnocellular part, and Koniocellular? The terminology and article names don't seem to match, among other issues. I'm not sure the best way to organize these articles. Cmcnicoll ( talk) 02:53, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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I encountered the article Marijuana and the brain and found several statements in the article to be false, not supported by the references given, and many more statements which I believe are misleading. The article presents many interesting studies, but I feel the primary author of this article may have misunderstood some of the findings, presenting them from a personal bias. The organization of the article is also confusing. I believe many terms and concepts are not properly introduced and may further confuse readers. I would appreciate the assistance of another editor to help resolve some of the issues in the article. -- Tea with toast ( talk) 00:44, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
I've updated my list of missing topics related to neurology - Skysmith ( talk) 13:22, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey guys, maybe you remember me from last year I started collecting works from the 18th - 19th - 20th century concerning pre-history and history of neuroscience. I'm now starting to write the biographies. Paul Souriau is my first one, started from scratch. So if you have a minute, have a look and come back to me with some comments, the more errors we correct now, the better the next biographies will look! Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 23:33, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I thought everyone here would be interested in lending constructive criticism to a newish page called the Neuroscience of free will. It discusses any studies that have direct, interesting implications for the free will hypothesis. Tesseract2 ( talk) 17:57, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I wish to find out what people think of the idea of renaming the article on “ mesencephalon” to “ midbrain”? Please to go talk:mesencephalon to offer your input. Bwrs ( talk) 04:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
We are devising an illustration of a brain cell and would appreciate input here. Anthony ( talk) 19:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I just recently made the Dynamical Neuroscience wiki article. Please consider giving me input on the page and updating relevant neuroscience articles that you may curate to link to this new article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xurtio ( talk • contribs) 04:55, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you both for your input:
Xurtio ( talk) 09:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
There is a couple of major issues with this new article. In some sentences, it looks more like a live discussion about your opinions on dynamical systems in the field of neuroscience rather than an actual encyclopedia-style article about what it is really. There are a lot of "wishful thinking" sentences that are typical of new articles bent at promoting a certain view rather than describing encyclopedically the facts. Do you think that most people making computational neuroscience and using non-linear equations define themselves as "dynamical neuroscientists" ? I personaly read Dayan & Abbott and others, and although it is not my primary field of research, I didn't end up with the impression that dynamical neuroscience is a term that is accepted by the whole community, am I wrong ? What I see described in this article is Theoritical neuroscience, Computational neuroscience with what is often referred to as Hodgkin-Huxley-like models and more simplified versions of the model. I am not approaching the problems in this article with a closed mind but I would like you to prove your point and give us references which show that dynamical neuroscience is a term that is generally accepted. From what I could gather, this is a rather new term and simply googling it shows that you are one of the only persons who actually use it. The SfN did use it as a title for poster sessions in their meetings, but from your article it seems a pretty new term and it is not clear how it is really a useful denomination considering that computational neuroscience already encompass these kind of models. Moreover, even if you would in fact bring the references showing that this is a generally accepted term by people using these models, the article needs a major restructuration and I would say, a merge. If people here end up with the decision that dynamical neuroscience does in fact deserve a wikipedia article (I don't see the point since this is just computational neuroscience with non-linearity ... Computational neuroscience have always been non-linear), even if people choose to keep it, I would definetly suggest rewriting the whole article, especially the historical part which looks more like a fantasmed view of how this field developed rather than a true description of what happened. The nomenclature part needs to be completely deleted, it is not pertinent and actually makes it less clear what you really mean, and the relation of dynamical neuroscience with respect to other fields. It is typical for new Wikipedians to want to define everything the way they want, thinking they will clarify the situation, but it makes the article extremely tendentious and makes it look more like a promotion pamphlet rather than an encyclopedic article. The other sections are also of very low quality, everything looking as it was thrown out there. An article about a subfield of theoritical neuroscience is not the place to make small comments about the current view on glia, neuromodulation or cognitive neuroscience. Do the authors cited in this section consider themselves as "dynamical neuroscientist" ? I doubt it. So this article becomes a primary research article where a given author (you) tries to argue about why all these works should be placed in Dynamical neuroscience. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not the place to argue. Even the hallmark books that you cite in the text do not use the term Dynamical neuroscience, they use theoritical neuroscience and "dynamical systems in neuroscience", so beside the name of 1 conference, I don't see what would justify a separate article for dynamical neuroscience since most of the models used in computational neuroscience are already non-linear by nature. Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 02:05, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
I suggested a merge of the article to Computational Neuroscience. Please participate in the discussion here. Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 02:29, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
At this point, it is good that this talk section is notifying interested editors of the discussion elsewhere, but this talk is no longer the right venue to discuss the Dynamical neuroscience page, or the merger proposal at Talk:Computational neuroscience. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 15:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, ironically, the new article I made is very relevant to the neural oscillations article in a strange way. The article used to be called neurodynamics and includes some of the history of neurodynamics, but then specializes in neural oscillations. It even redirects from neurodynamics.
I have my page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xurtio/Dynamical_neuroscience
The proper name for the what I've been calling 'dynamical neuroscience' is indeed 'neurodynamics'. 'Dynamical Neuroscience' is used as well by the neurodynamics group, but it's not very common. My allure to it was that 'neuroscience' seems more broad then 'neuron' to me and today it's grown to encompass more than just neurons, but I desist.
But I think we might consider sorting out the two pages so that one is actually neurodynamics in general, and one is the specific concept of 'neural oscillations'.
Anyway, as always, I'd like to hear the communities opinion. Xurtio ( talk) 07:30, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
In addition to this, I think the neurophysics page needs attention. There's several Theoretical Neurophysics departments that do what I'm specializing in (neurodynamics) but there's also quantum consciousness approaches being labeled neurophysics (which I guess makes sense). But then there's also neurophysics as a sort of biotechnology practice. So we need a disambiguation page as well. Xurtio ( talk) 08:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Users here may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Proposals#Adding interactive pathway maps, which may affect page content at pages involved in this project. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:21, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I have raised some basic questions at Talk:Efference copy about the article's lede and some other passages. Since you assess the article C/Mid and it is written from a neuroscientific perspective I would like to bring this to the attention of your project, and I would be glad if there is some interest. Best, Morton Shumway— talk 23:30, 11 September 2010 (UTC).
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Most people who watch this page will be familiar with Looie496's work. If you're interested in expressing an opinion, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Looie496. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
There are three outstanding "expert assistance" requests related to neuroscience:
{{ Expert-subject}} sometimes gets spammed to articles that just need some attention from anybody, but if someone here could please look over these three and figure out what help, if any, was wanted -- and to either fix the articles or to remove the tags, if you can't figure out what's going on -- I'd appreciate it. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:58, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Editors in this project may be interested in a merger proposal at Talk:List of misconceptions about the brain#Merger proposal. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure how "importance" is decided, but making the LGN lowest importance is completely crazy. All the visual input to the cortex (the nest studies part of the brain) comes through the lgn. This would be like ranking the "gravity" article in Physics unimportant!! Paulhummerman ( talk) 00:49, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Some help would be appreciated to decide the fate of this book. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of this WikiProject previously. Keep up the good work. Meanwhile, since I've begun editing a half year ago, I've seen several requests for more neuroscience perspective in articles such as Intelligence (which is badly in need of a top-to-bottom rewrite), Intelligence quotient (better, with editors already suggesting some helpful changes on the talk page), Race and intelligence (the subject of a recent Arbitration Committee case, and full of citations to primary research studies, including neuroscience studies, that may not have been replicated), and several of the other articles in the same categories as those. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources for the Intelligence Citations bibliography through comments on that page. I have been digging into the psychology literature for a while to build up that citation list, and you can tell me all you want to say about the neuroscience literature, the better to share good sources with other wikipedians. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk) 23:28, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
is at present not a part of any WikiProject. Can neuroscience adopt this orphan? Thanks, Hordaland ( talk) 19:21, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi all, I will be presenting a poster in San Diego on Saturday detailing the experience we had in my inro to neuroscience course during the fall 2009 semester with Neuroscience stub expansion and editing. If anyone from this group is attending and is interested, it will be shown during the public outreach session. -Neurojoe
I have just nominated Parkinson's disease for good article, as a way of improving it before taking it to FAC. While I believe that sources and scope are a strong point of the article, I know that my prose is far from being as professional as it should. Any kind of comments or copy-editing would be most useful. A commited reviewer would also be great, since the article is quite long. Thanks to everybody.
I was also thinking of an image for the symptoms section, and I thought of a writting by a PD patient with micrography. I do not have such kind of image, but maybe somebody from the project is capable of getting one directly from a patient. Best image would be a short text with some rule on it to show scale...-- Garrondo ( talk) 20:07, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
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It appears that our Neural correlates of consciousness article is very similar to that from Scholarpedia, here. Do we have permission to use it? I suppose it is possible that Fmorm ( talk · contribs) is Florian Mormann who coauthored the Scholarpedia article. AxelBoldt ( talk) 19:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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I have nominated this article for FAC, here [2]. SandyGeorgia suggested I approach your Project to find reviewers. Its a slightly obscure subject but it does cover early development and is one of those areas where although there's been insufficient research so far there really ought to be alot more, of the neuroscientific variety. I'd be very grateful if someone would take the trouble to review it. Thanks in advance. Fainites barley 23:02, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
In my sandbox I have been experimenting with representing data contained in a neuroimaging paper on a Wikipedia page. The idea is to construct templates and/or tables with this data, and make functions that can up and download it. One sandbox example is available here that contain the so-called Talairach coordinates (In this case it contains excerpt of data from a paper where I am a coauthor). In a database that I have built there are numerous other papers from different research groups, for an example see here. I am wondering whether other Wikipedia editors think it would be a good idea to have such articles. Are such articles appropriate or they will quickly be deleted? — fnielsen ( talk) 00:56, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi all,
You might be unaware, but action potential is due to be delisted as a Featured Article very soon, possibly as early as this Saturday, April 5th. A small band of non-scientists is working to save it; perhaps some of you scientists like to help out? The article is still very rough and patchy, as you'll see, but your contributions would be very welcome. Referencing is especially needed; thank you! :) Willow ( talk) 22:16, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
I would appreciate commentary and critique on whether the current action potential article is worthy to be a Featured Article. It's a long article, I know, but please read through it and vote your conscience, Keep or Remove, at its FAR. If you don't like it, then let me know what needs to be fixed! Willow ( talk) 19:07, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Please add 2c here Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 19:14, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi folks, i've managed to get WikiProject Neurology up and running in about a day but it's still in a basic state and needs a lot of work! Those of you who are more interested in the disease and treatment side of things may wish to join up to the project! (plus any laypersons who just want to do the hard work!) Thanks! Regards, CycloneNimrod Talk? Sign? 18:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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see title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.174.42.22 ( talk) 01:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
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I would like to become an active participant. Please advise me how to do so. FrancineEisner ( talk) 17:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I might try to join up here and become active. Perhaps we should get started with creating a new section listing members and go from there. I'll see if I can't find who started the project. Chupper ( talk) 20:08, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi: Please see my note at the Village Pump. As I see it there are several Wiki projects occuring: genetics, neurology, and neuroscience. I would argue that neuroscience is an atttempt to establishg description of the operation of healthy (if I can use that term) nervous system function, whereas neurology is more focused on human illness. The general division between neurlogists and psychiatrists is that, in general, neurologist have focused on a subset of illness (epilepsy, and illnesses in the CNS that are expressed as visible motor symptoms.)
The difficulty with this definition is that by and large, psychiatrists see the same group of patients, unless their primary illness is in the peripheral motor neurons or sensory neurons.
I'd suggest, unless otherwise, that the proper place for a psychiatric neuroanatomy Wiki Project would encompass the framework of neurology, neuroscience, and neuroanatomy.
One that basis, I'm inclined (although the neurologists may object) to place psychiatric neuroanatomy within either neurolgy or neuroscience. However, some structures of the CNS are described in more detail for humans. If neuroscientists make the alternate argument that neuroanatomical structures are artifacts of differentiation in an ecological context, then the anatomy articles would eventually drift from neurlogy to neuroscience (which I would consider to be a reasonable outcome). Thanks (user name Menelaus2) 20:40, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
The article on Neuroplasticity needs a good deal of work but IMHO it also needs reassessment. If Synaptogenesis has a high importance ranking, so must Neuroplasticity. Synaptogenesis is a form of brain plasticity but Neuroplasticity is the more inclusive topic. I have made a few changes to the page in the past few days, including some useful external links, minor editing in style (wording, grammar, and paragraph construction) and citations. I am not an expert on the subject, but have done quite a bit of research on current findings. The article does not reflect the dynamic nature of these findings, although new articles related to the subject appear almost daily on such sites as HHMI, ScienceDaily, and EurekAlert. I intend to assist in the improvement of this article, and I invite other, more knowledgeable persons to do so as well . FrancineEisner ( talk) 17:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Folks, I bring this up now as I want to get this sorted here and now rather than at FAC. In psychiatry here in Oz we all use DSM IV, like the US, and as far as I can tell, there is a lot more written and researched using DSM IV criteria than ICD 10. Thus, we have major depressive disorder aka major depression, which has loads of epidemiological/treatment effectiveness etc. research, and MDD sorta fits somewhere between 'moderate' and 'severe' depression on ICD 10. Unfortunately, we have a naming convention using ICD 10...
Also, the situation is even more of an issue when we get to borderline personality disorder (DSM IVTR) vs the stubby ICD 10 article Emotionally unstable personality disorder - the former has a much higher profile and common usage. Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 13:56, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
I've just added this WikiProject template to the AD talkpage, if that's appropriate. We're currently buffing it up before going to FAC and could use a few more eyes engaged. Thanks. LeadSongDog ( talk) 16:50, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Should there be an article on the evolution of nervous systems? Richard001 ( talk) 10:36, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
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Could some expert take a look at that article? It's been nominated for deletion and has quite a few problems. VG ☎ 14:21, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
OK, we have an interesting photo of a house with lots of writing of apparently delusional material which can be seen on an olde version of the page before being reverted.
It is being discussed about here at Talk:Schizophrenia#I_like_the_image_but.... - all input most welcome. Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 13:43, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Both of these articles are at FAC currently. Many wikiprojects have a dashboard or area on the project page where this would be noted, but couldn't see one so noting it here. Cheers, Casliber ( talk · contribs) 01:57, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
Ok, I was reading on one of your articles about the theory of high IQ and a "cooler running" brain which produces less heat for the same output. I'm trying to find information of how much heat the brain can produce though very highly stimulative brain activity. Specifically I want to know the upper limits of heat that can be produced by the metabolic activity of the brain (during mental stimulation like solving a puzzle). Thanks, I don't know what to query. When I search for terms like GMR, the material is too complicated and technical. Biologicithician ( talk) 10:24, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Bingo! That's a much better explanation than my heat proximity to sensors guess. I replicated the experiment another time trying to pay closer attention to what you said. When I'm in the hyper-alert state, my entire body is extremely tense and ready to move, just like a sprinter before the gun goes off. I also didn't want to make this a medical question, so I omitted the relevant information about caffeine and my stimulant medication which I'm prescribed. I already know their effect on brain activity, but their effect should be constant, and I wouldn't imagine it to vary with rapid piano-playing. I too am extremely skeptical about the popular literature about puzzles significantly raising brain combustion rates of O2. Thanks WP:neuroscience, I plan to help you guys in a couple years, when I get more educated. Biologicithician ( talk) 14:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
A bot has been set up, which looks through the new Wikipedia articles and picks up those that are likely related to neuroscience. The search results are available at User:AlexNewArtBot/NeuroscienceSearchResult and are normally updated on a daily basis. Colchicum ( talk) 21:46, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
An article about Wade Regehr, PhD Professor of Neuro biology has been started. His research includes Neuroplasticity, Serotonin Evokes Endocannabinoid Release and Retrogradely Suppresses Excitatory Synapses, Sodium action potentializes in the dendrites of cerebellar Purkinje cells, and Control of neurotransmitter release by presynaptic waveform at the granule cell to Purkinje cell synapse, and calcium dependent processes which control the release of neurotransmitter. If anyone can help develop it, that would be awesome. His clinical physiological research assists in the understanding of neurological disorders such as epilepsy, shizophrenia and depression, as well as learning and memory.. SriMesh | talk 15:56, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
The Unipolar cell article is named Unipolar neuron. The Bipolar neuron article is named Bipolar cell. The Pseudounipolar cell article is named Pseudounipolar neuron. The Multipolar cell article is named Multipolar neuron. The Pyramidal neuron article is named the Pyramidal cell. The granule neuron article is named the Granule cell. The Anterior horn cell article is named Anterior horn (spinal cord). Is it ok to flutter back and forth? SriMesh | talk 01:18, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
Hi: I'm working on the Wiki article about the essay " Is Google Making Us Stupid?" and I have been unable to determine the difference between the adjectives neural and neuronal. The question has also been posed at WikiAnswers by someone other than me. If you could enlighten me about the differences I would appreciate it. Nicholas Carr, in his essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", says "Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory." However, in an email, he told me that "Given what we know now about neuroplasticity, it seems certain that internet use is changing our neuronal circuitry." So he even seems to use the terms "neural circuitry" and "neuronal circuitry" interchangeably. The same goes for "neural network" and "neuronal network", as well as "neural level" and "neuronal level"—terms which are used on page 117 of Norman Doidge's book The Brain That Changes Itself without any apparent differences. I can't see any at least. Sincerely, Manhattan Samurai ( talk) 19:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
I was surprised to find rabies was listed as a Good article. In its present state, I believe it fails to meet the criteria, and would therefore propose delisting. Please add your comments to the appropriate section of the rabies talk page. Espresso Addict ( talk) 15:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
There has been a minor content dispute at Mismatch negativity over the inclusion of two references. In the beginning, an editor was removing two references because they were formatted differently from the others; after agreeing to discuss, he said the articles in the refs are not seminal and are not relevant to the issue being discussed (specifically, whether or not the mismatch negativity is dependent on the subject's attention). Personally, I feel at least one of the two removed references is relevant (it is a report of an experiment specifically designed to test the effect of attentional resources on MMN magnitude) and that even though it's not seminal it's still good to provide converging evidence.
The refs in question are currently commented out (the other editor has added another ref, which he says is superior to these other ones, so at least the original statement isn't unreferenced), and you can find a summary of the discussion at Talk:Mismatch negativity. An outside opinion would be much appreciated. Politizer talk/ contribs 16:47, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed that there are a lot of articles in Category:Neuroscience stubs which would be more properly placed into Category:Neuroanatomy stubs. I started doing some of this myself but I'm not an expert in the field, and I may make mistakes. You folks should have a look at this. -- Eastlaw talk · contribs 06:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
If our guiding purpose is to provide useful information about neuroscience, I think the scope of our project should include the development of other Wikimedia resources. For example, I've been developing neuroscience courses on Wikiversity. IMO a course is a particularly useful format for gaining a basic background in neuroscience, perhaps more useful than the Wikipedia articles. I've changed the project page accordingly. -- AFriedman ( talk) 14:37, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
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The article on Behavioral Neuroscience currently redirects to Biological psychology, which I think is erroneous. If the two should remain merged, then at least the title should be "behavioral neuroscience", as this is the more commonly used one. But I actually feel that the two fields (despite much overlap) are distinct and would appreciate input from other editors at Talk:Biological psychology. Thanks. -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 08:57, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
Dear all,
I have proposed new text for intro on consciousness article on the related discussion pages. I think that I managed to articulate it in line with the latest findings in psychology and neurology, but would like others to review it and comment.
Kind regards, Damir Ibrisimovic ( talk) 06:56, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
I just came across LCM4MP while new article patrolling. Is it salvageable? I was thinking of taking it to AfD, but thought I'd flag it here, first. Shawn in Montreal ( talk) 17:23, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello Project members - I am not a member of this particular project but in trying to figure out who to ask about this topic, it seems you folks have the requisite knowledge and mad skills necessary to do a bang up job. I have an interest in this stuff called PharmaGaba because I had some success taking a supplement called Dreamerz that contains a propriatery blend of PharmaGaba and melatonin. Of course the manufacturers claim the stuff is miraculous and safe with no bad side effects etc. and so forth. I decided to do a little googling and I see that this PharmaGaba supplement is available all over the place as pills, drinks and other forms. I was hoping that you folks could do a basic article on the supplement, it's proposed method of action, any potential side effects that have been documented and anything else worth mentioning. If it's the latest insomnia supplement craze, it would be worth covering. Of course, it could also be covered under the article on Gaba. Whatever you think is best. Thanks! LiPollis ( talk) 21:58, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
I peer reviewed Toxic encephalopathy and the images used in it are claimed as free, but do not seem to be so. Please see the peer review for a more detailed discussion, and the article the images are taken from is here. The journal is "Environmental Health Perspectives" and it is "free online" but I do not see any notice that the images are free to use here (freely licensed). COuld someone double check this? Also if the images are not free, does anyone know of another source of free images? Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:47, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
I could use an assist dealing with an IP who is trying to make an unacceptable edit -- a look at the article history should make the situation obvious. (I'd rather ask for help than single-handedly edit-war.) Looie496 ( talk) 14:52, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
I just read that the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has started a large initiative to re-write and re-organize all neuroscience related articles in Wikipedia. This massive coordinated effort will involve SfN members as contributors and maybe a bit troubling as content facilitators whose role is to organize and sort out various subject areas. While this effort is commendable on the part of SfN, it somehow seems to leave out all the "non expert" contributors to neuroscience articles in WP over the years and the initiative apparently has no plan to coordinate with ongoing WP efforts to organize and expand neuroscience content. I was curious what the reaction of amy of the contributors to these pages and to get a survey of other usuers opinions on the matter. Here's a link to the SfN initiative: http://www.sfn.org/index.aspx?pagename=wikipedia_main
Nrets 17:30, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Yikes, would have been nice to get some warning of this. I'll try to register as a "content facilitator" as soon as I can figure out how to log in on the SfN site. Looie496 ( talk) 18:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
It might be worth posting in some of the SfN forums something to direct them to this page, so that efforts could be better coordinated with ongoing WP efforts. I could probably register as a facilitator too at the SfN site, although I haven't been very active in editing WP for the last couple of years, but have worked in the past in neuroscience-related WP articles. Nrets 13:36, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Looks like the spam has been removed, along with the actual messages, which is no problem because they didn't really have any content. I've tried a new message that actually gives some information, and points to this page. Looie496 ( talk) 00:04, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the SfN website, I just realized that they have now posted a listing of content facilitators by subject area, and there is already quite a large number, although not all subject areas are equally represented yet. I hope that this is a good sign that (post-abstracts) there will be a high level of participation. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Anybody noticed that the last time the portal was edited was on June 16, 2007.... (and disregarding vandalism and categorization, it actually never has been edited since it was created in August 2006.... It's a pity, because it actully does look pretty good. I have no time to do this, but perhaps somebody else can do it? -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 19:09, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
I just removed a large chunk of unsubstantiated material from this article, which I just discovered. I think it isn't too bad now, but I expect a dedicated IP editor to revert my edit shortly, and it would be nice to have some extra eyes on the article for a while. Not of key importance since the article gets very little viewership, but we ought to try to get a handle on this sort of thing. At some point I'm going to make another attempt to fix Brain fitness, which will be a lot more challenging. Looie496 ( talk) 00:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to all new editors from SfN!
Editors, new and old, who would like to be identified with the SfN initiative are invited to add the following userbox to their user pages:
This user supports the Society for Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative. |
-- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:16, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
I've created the category [[Category:Wikipedian members of the Society for Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative]] (link at bottom of this talk page). If you put the userbox above on your userpage, you are automatically listed in the category. You can also put yourself into the category manually by typing the name of the category (with "Category:" at the start) in double square brackets, near the bottom of your page. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 17:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
I have just nominated Hippocampus at FAC, and opinions from the people who participate here would be valued. Note while I'm at it that Benzodiazepine is also currently nominated as of May 26. Looie496 ( talk) 17:52, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
This new article needs our attention, I'm afraid -- see WP:FTN#Telepathy and war. Looie496 ( talk) 17:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Some editors here may be interested in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Unsolved problems in cognitive science (2nd nomination). -- Tryptofish ( talk) 18:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
This question has been discussed extensively at Talk:Neurobiology. Please indicate now whether you support merging the contents of the two articles and turning Neurobiology into a redirect to Neuroscience. Justify your position briefly if you feel a need to, but let's avoid cluttering this section if we can. Looie496 ( talk) 23:58, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Support:
Oppose:
Just asking: do we feel that this question has been settled yet, or not? --
Tryptofish (
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18:29, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi all, I'm new to the scene here. I would like to take up the SFN call for action and have my upper level undergrad neuro students participate in adding/editing content this fall as part of our survey course. I have seen the list of other faculty members using Wikipedia editing as part of their course requirements and will ask some of them the same question, but I thought I would also ask it here: Where is the best place to start? Thx NeuroJoe ( talk) 19:49, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
There will be a workshop at the SfN meeting in Chicago (on Monday afternoon of the meeting) about writing for Wikipedia. It's not clear to me whether those of us who already write are going to be asked to be part of it (I'm going to ask at the SfN website forum), but those of us who will attend the meeting might want to be aware of the event. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 16:47, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Neuroscience to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 20:31, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
There are a few important changes to the popular pages system. A quick summary:
-- Mr. Z-man 00:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Editors interested in this project may want to look at the discussion at Talk:Neuroscience#Merger proposal, about merging the page on Neuroscience studies. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 20:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
This is a early description of the History of Neuroscience project. Project has been moved here if you want to follow the progress. 72.0.216.87 ( Jean-Francois Gariepy) 17:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone! Well I'm one of those SfN members who received the email and I was interested in being part of the initiative. I have a lot of knowledge on Wikipedia editing (altough my contributions are not under this nickname). I managed 3 GPL-licensed-wikis in my life. If you want a complete description of my projects here it is (description is in french, but projects are in english). I was mainly interested in history of informatics and sociology of internet-based subcultures. These experiences allowed me to acquire some knowledge about the MediaWiki software and I contributed to many MediaWiki extensions, which, if used in combination, can make of MediaWiki a true content and database management system. I also know about the Wikipedia specific rules, principles, and methods of editing / debatting. I think that makes me a good candidate to be a 'content advisor'. This expression makes me laugh a little bit, it does show some ignorance of the Wikipedian culture from the persons who started this initiative, and I think it was a little bit rude to start this without coming here first and talking to people that were already here, but I don't blame them; for such a big organization to be able to say : 'Hey let's call our members and tell them to contribute to Wikipedia', I think it's just wonderful and the intention is noble. You don't see that kind of opening from big organizations very often.
Beside my hobbies, my main job is neuroscience research in the field of respiration and locomotion (rhythm generation, CPGs, modulation, etc...). In the last year I became progressively interested in history of neurosciences. In part as a hobby and in part because I'm preparing a thesis on respiration, I started collecting old books and journal articles about motor control, especially locomotion and respiration. But reading these books is like a drug and eventually you start collecting more and more books even outside your own area. So I end up with a list of about 200 books of motor control physiology written between 1700 and 2000, and I find some very interesting treasures that need to be shared with the world. I also started reading some older works from the greeks like Aristotle, who did write a book about respiration. At that time the debate was whether respiratory movements were generated by our own body/brain or if the environment (air) was pushing itself into the lungs (that was 'the vital spirit' entering our body to keep us alive). Lots of works were made in 18th, 19th, 20th centuries about motor control, some of the authors are the main authors that are always cited everywhere you read about the history of neuroscience but some of them have just been forgotten. Most books in my collection are available as PDF file through Google Books. As a matter of fact, Google took a great initiative to scan all books on the planet since a couple of years. They are a very good ressource for old physiology books because the copyright has expired on these books and most of them can be searched for specific terms using the google search engine. I also had to buy some books I couldn't find and the universities library remain a good ressource. I also ended up with some interesting articles that were published by scientists in general interest journals; in these years, some scientists were publishing directly in political or general interest journals to expose some scientific ideas. That list of 200 books / articles I regrouped is just a starting point. I'm pretty sure during the next year if we coordinate the efforts with whoever is interested, we might come up with more than 2000 books / articles that need to be read and from which we need to extract information about the authors, the ideas, etc... Right now I'm concentrating on writing my abstract for Neuroscience due for May 14th but from there I'll be able to build something so that anyone who wants to contribute to the historical section on neuroscience knows what tasks need to be done. I'll probably divide the work in 3 categories, and these works will be done paralelly and not serially :
If you have any comment about this, do not hesitate to
contact me. I wonder whether I should start a portal/project page or if I can just join the neuroscience project page and create a subsection on history of neuroscience to organize the works. I personaly would prefer joining the project page that's already there.
Jean-Francois Gariepy (
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19:51, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi guys, just to keep it coordinated between here and the forums.sfn.org, here's a copy of my answer to the Wikipedia Initiative team that was asking about feedback and everything. Of course most of the comments I make are not addressed to those who are actively reading this talk page, more to those who subscribed as content facilitators but that have not been in contact with us at all - even not by email :
I don't have precise ideas on what could improve that, but the current state of coordination is pure anarchy. We have no communication at all with most of the content facilitators who did subscribe but from whom we have no feedback. Even in my own section, history of neuroscience, we are 2 content facilitators and the other one does not answer my emails, neither does he/she contact us through any kind of Wikipedia page. You should not make the feedback and plans reporting volunteer, it should just be obligatory for anyone who subscribe as a content faciliator : what do you want to do, on what time scale you want to do it, and how many volunteers would you need for that. Also, there should be more coordination between those who stay after that. Not that coordination is THAT important for Wikipedia editing - in fact Wikipedia has been relying in big part on anarchy to improve its content and it works great - but somehow it would be interesting to measure the impact of this whole initiative. For example on my project page I'm starting to list all books we are/plan adding to the encyclopedia and I'm preparing a list of biographies that will be written and sections that need to be edited... It's not that I want SfN to impose its control over all this - it's that humans tend to be very lazy when they don't report their progress and I know that for myself, that's why I report everything on my page even if it's not that important that people read it. Without any form of plans and no report of progress, this initiative is becoming a big circus. You're too kind with the facilitators : You did post their name as content facilitators ? They do write this proudly on their C.V. ? Well then you should expect a minimum from them - that is to know something about what they're doing. If everyone is a facilitator the work will never be done. We're like a bunch of enzymes with no substrate.
Jean-François Gariépy
Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 11:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Would it be useful to create a separate article for Paul Bach-y-Rita, considering he is an important figure in neuroplasticity? He already has a fairly sizeable chunk here and also in the sensory substitution article; perhaps the first of these could be split off and expanded into a separate article? Jhbuk ( talk) 22:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
Editors who are part of the project might be interested in this discussion about merging Cerebral Hemispheric Dominance and Lateralization of brain function. Edhubbard ( talk) 19:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Editors here may be interested in this discussion of a proposal about links to IUPHAR databases. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
I have asked for imput on the usability of a review as a reliable secondary source for the Alzheimer's disease in the Reliable Sources Noticeboard here
The article is Kheifets, L; Bowman, Jd; Checkoway, H; Feychting, M; Harrington, Jm; Kavet, R; Marsh, G; Mezei, G; Renew, Dc; Van, Wijngaarden, E (Feb 2009). "Future needs of occupational epidemiology of extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields: review and recommendations". Occupational and environmental medicine 66 (2): 72–80. doi:10.1136/oem.2007.037994. ISSN 1351-0711. PMID 18805878
Specific concerns have been raised by an editor that states that the author can not be considered an expert according to wikipedia standards of WP:MEDRS; while I disagree. Since the discussion directly affects one of the FA articles of the project I would greatly acknowledge any comments on the matter. Thanks to everybody in advance.-- Garrondo ( talk) 16:35, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
I'd like some second opinions about this edit to List of neuroscientists. I cannot make up my mind whether or not a contestant on "Big Brother" who happens to be a neuroscientist, but who is not identified as being notable as a neuroscientist, should be included on the list. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:37, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) By the way, let me suggest that one good reason for having such lists (or at least a good reason for watch-listing them!) is as one way to keep an eye on new bio pages as they come up. For an example of what I mean, that list let me notice this page, which struck me as an example of someone "who has published a paper," and allowed me to tag it for notability with the possibility of future AfD. For whatever that's worth. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
As many of you already know, there is going to be a Wikipedia workshop at the Chicago meeting, Monday afternoon from 2 to 5 PM. The first half of the workshop will consist of a few short talks; the second half is intended to be a "hands-on" tutorial in writing for Wikipedia. It would be great, especially for the second half, to have experienced SfN-Wikipedians available to help out and answer questions. Anybody who would be interested in doing that, could you let us know? Either saying so here or emailing me would work. Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 17:15, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
I feel that the articles for several SSRI's ( paroxetine, etc.) contain a negative POV. These articles are less about science and more about drug industry politics. Care to help Wikipedia be an encyclepedia? Neurofish ( talk) 14:45, 27 August 2009 (UTC)Neurofish
Hi. Can someone answer Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science#Brain_Development from a neuroscientific point of view? I can't find any wikipedia articles related to it. Thanks. 86.139.54.213 ( talk) 10:56, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Tiny tanycytes need help. I've added an image. If somebody copy-edits and all, would be great. (0: -- CopperKettle 05:01, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
Brain has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here.-- TonyTheTiger ( t/ c/ bio/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:LOTM) 03:01, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
I would love to have a wiki work day where we focus on adding references to and generally improving the article on the Human brain! Where would we announce this? How is this normally done? Could we set up a chat? -- Bcjordan ( talk) 17:14, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
The article has a section called Applications of neuroplasticity, which is largely a sequence of subsections describing the work of individual people. The whole thing seems like kind of a hash to me and I am inclined to remove it, although some of the people are quite notable. The particular impetus behind starting this section is that an IP editor tried to add a section about a doctor named Paul Nussbaum -- it seems to me that listlike sections of this sort are practically an invitation to that sort of thing. Any opinions? Looie496 ( talk) 18:07, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
All comments /advice welcome. Fainites barley scribs 14:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
There are several neuroscience-related journals missing in Journals cited by Wikipedia. If you're interested, I can go through them and build a list for this project. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 01:56, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Alright well I went ahead and did it anyway. Here goes
Have fun. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:19, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I have started this AfD, and I think editors in this project may wish to give input. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 23:53, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
The article Neurobiology makes, to me at least, a rather artificial distinction between Neuroscience and Neurobiology. To me, all of neuroscience (studying a biological system, after all) falls in the realm of biology and I consider Neuroscience and Neurobiology to be mere synonyms. Some editors on Talk:Neurobiology disagree. Anyone care to join the discussion? -- Guillaume2303 ( talk) 09:22, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm just a lowly undergraduate studying psychology and neuroscience, but I have been told that neuroscience is not the same as neurobiology - it is broader. The main reason is that not all neuroscientists can be called biologists. A biologist is someone who got a PhD in biology from a biology department. Remember that many neuroscience programs are not in biology departments these days. Many psychology departments, cognitive science programs, and interdisciplinary neuroscience programs offer a PhD in various areas of neuroscience. Would you really call someone a biologist if they were never a biology major? Also there are physicists, chemists, anthropologists, engineers, and computer scientists who work on neuroscience. You would not call them biologists. So I think it depends on the degree acquired. Arcadian Genesis ( talk) 01:28, 8 November 2009 (UTC)Arcadian Genesis
Maybe my point is that neuroscientists =/= neurobiologists, even if they are both "doing" neurobiology. I refer to the people and not the field itself. Also, there is never a "moot point" on wikipedia because it is dynamic, constantly changing. You're assuming everything is going to stay the way it is now, but I guarantee more changes will be made in the future. My suggestion is to leave it as a single article, but include a paragraph about neuroscientists who are not biologists. Arcadian Genesis ( talk) 00:48, 9 November 2009 (UTC)Arcadian Genesis
User:Proteins has been working on what I think is shaping up to be a superb welcome page for the new editors from SfN, and I've been making a few minor tweaks to it. The draft page can be found here. Perhaps other editors involved in the WikiProject might want to take a look at it before we make a link to it from the Wikiproject page. Thanks. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 19:08, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Recently this year (March 2009), there has been a paper published by a number of neuroscientists entitled:
"A Proposal for a Coordinated Effort for the Determination of Brainwide Neuroanatomical Connectivity in Model Organisms at a Mesoscopic Scale".
The ConnectomeWiki is an open and collaborative platform concerned with the goals of this proposal.
Please see
User:ConnectomeBot for the discussion! --
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I opened a discussion at the VPR (Village Pump Proposals) about this ConnectomeBot's RFBA. -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 03:32, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I put the article about the book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control up for peer review. Input would be appreciated, at Wikipedia:Peer review/Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control/archive1. Cirt ( talk) 01:51, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
I've just spent a few hours expanding and reformulating this into a general guide to Wikipedia's neuroscience coverage. Comments would be welcome -- no doubt I've missed at least a few important things -- and also opinions about whether it would be appropriate to put a pointer to this at the top of the Neuroscience article, and perhaps even Nervous system as well. Looie496 ( talk) 19:49, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to note that I just set up this wikilinked image map of a synapse, with the aim of replacing the simple image that is used in many articles. I've already put it into a couple. My grasp of template syntax is limited, so if you spot any problems or possible improvements, please let me know. (Or fix it if you want to, of course!) Looie496 ( talk) 19:52, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
Started an article about Inhibitory Control Test. Help is welcomed. Cheers, -- CopperKettle 23:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
I have proposed deleting Category:Fish nervous system.
See the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 January 7#Category:Fish_nervous_system, where your comments would be welcome. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
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I've been working on Nervous system for the last few weeks, and feel like I've been making pretty good progress, but the Development section has really been giving me hell. Development has always been my weak point, and I don't have much confidence in being able to put together a section that is both correct and accessible to a typical reader of such a high-level article. If anybody would be able to help out with this, I would be very appreciative. I think that in other respects the article is getting close to GA-class. Unfortunately the Neural development article is even more incoherent than what I have been able to accomplish, so it isn't very helpful. Regards, Looie496 ( talk) 19:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm inclined to think these two articles should be merged. Neurodegeneration is a pretty decent article; Neurodegenerative disease is pretty much junk except that it contains a useful list of disorders. What I would like to do is convert Neurodegenerative disease into a redirect to Neurodegeneration, while extracting out the list as a new article List of neurodegenerative disorders. Any opinions? Looie496 ( talk) 19:38, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. You are being notified as this project's banner is on the article talk page. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Prion/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells ( talk) 21:35, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Magnetism (neurological sign) has been nominated for deletion here as a possible hoax. There are no refs, but the editor's usual standard was quite high, e.g., [4] [5] [6], so I really doubt that it's a hoax. Is there perhaps another name for this phenomenon? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 05:44, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Can someone from this project take a look at Parvocellular part, Magnocellular part, and Koniocellular? The terminology and article names don't seem to match, among other issues. I'm not sure the best way to organize these articles. Cmcnicoll ( talk) 02:53, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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I encountered the article Marijuana and the brain and found several statements in the article to be false, not supported by the references given, and many more statements which I believe are misleading. The article presents many interesting studies, but I feel the primary author of this article may have misunderstood some of the findings, presenting them from a personal bias. The organization of the article is also confusing. I believe many terms and concepts are not properly introduced and may further confuse readers. I would appreciate the assistance of another editor to help resolve some of the issues in the article. -- Tea with toast ( talk) 00:44, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
I've updated my list of missing topics related to neurology - Skysmith ( talk) 13:22, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey guys, maybe you remember me from last year I started collecting works from the 18th - 19th - 20th century concerning pre-history and history of neuroscience. I'm now starting to write the biographies. Paul Souriau is my first one, started from scratch. So if you have a minute, have a look and come back to me with some comments, the more errors we correct now, the better the next biographies will look! Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 23:33, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I thought everyone here would be interested in lending constructive criticism to a newish page called the Neuroscience of free will. It discusses any studies that have direct, interesting implications for the free will hypothesis. Tesseract2 ( talk) 17:57, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I wish to find out what people think of the idea of renaming the article on “ mesencephalon” to “ midbrain”? Please to go talk:mesencephalon to offer your input. Bwrs ( talk) 04:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
We are devising an illustration of a brain cell and would appreciate input here. Anthony ( talk) 19:46, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Please see
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#Equivalent word for illegible with respect to images (permanent link
here, section 7.8).
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Hello, I just recently made the Dynamical Neuroscience wiki article. Please consider giving me input on the page and updating relevant neuroscience articles that you may curate to link to this new article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xurtio ( talk • contribs) 04:55, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Thank you both for your input:
Xurtio ( talk) 09:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
There is a couple of major issues with this new article. In some sentences, it looks more like a live discussion about your opinions on dynamical systems in the field of neuroscience rather than an actual encyclopedia-style article about what it is really. There are a lot of "wishful thinking" sentences that are typical of new articles bent at promoting a certain view rather than describing encyclopedically the facts. Do you think that most people making computational neuroscience and using non-linear equations define themselves as "dynamical neuroscientists" ? I personaly read Dayan & Abbott and others, and although it is not my primary field of research, I didn't end up with the impression that dynamical neuroscience is a term that is accepted by the whole community, am I wrong ? What I see described in this article is Theoritical neuroscience, Computational neuroscience with what is often referred to as Hodgkin-Huxley-like models and more simplified versions of the model. I am not approaching the problems in this article with a closed mind but I would like you to prove your point and give us references which show that dynamical neuroscience is a term that is generally accepted. From what I could gather, this is a rather new term and simply googling it shows that you are one of the only persons who actually use it. The SfN did use it as a title for poster sessions in their meetings, but from your article it seems a pretty new term and it is not clear how it is really a useful denomination considering that computational neuroscience already encompass these kind of models. Moreover, even if you would in fact bring the references showing that this is a generally accepted term by people using these models, the article needs a major restructuration and I would say, a merge. If people here end up with the decision that dynamical neuroscience does in fact deserve a wikipedia article (I don't see the point since this is just computational neuroscience with non-linearity ... Computational neuroscience have always been non-linear), even if people choose to keep it, I would definetly suggest rewriting the whole article, especially the historical part which looks more like a fantasmed view of how this field developed rather than a true description of what happened. The nomenclature part needs to be completely deleted, it is not pertinent and actually makes it less clear what you really mean, and the relation of dynamical neuroscience with respect to other fields. It is typical for new Wikipedians to want to define everything the way they want, thinking they will clarify the situation, but it makes the article extremely tendentious and makes it look more like a promotion pamphlet rather than an encyclopedic article. The other sections are also of very low quality, everything looking as it was thrown out there. An article about a subfield of theoritical neuroscience is not the place to make small comments about the current view on glia, neuromodulation or cognitive neuroscience. Do the authors cited in this section consider themselves as "dynamical neuroscientist" ? I doubt it. So this article becomes a primary research article where a given author (you) tries to argue about why all these works should be placed in Dynamical neuroscience. Unfortunately, Wikipedia is not the place to argue. Even the hallmark books that you cite in the text do not use the term Dynamical neuroscience, they use theoritical neuroscience and "dynamical systems in neuroscience", so beside the name of 1 conference, I don't see what would justify a separate article for dynamical neuroscience since most of the models used in computational neuroscience are already non-linear by nature. Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 02:05, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
I suggested a merge of the article to Computational Neuroscience. Please participate in the discussion here. Jean-Francois Gariepy ( talk) 02:29, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
At this point, it is good that this talk section is notifying interested editors of the discussion elsewhere, but this talk is no longer the right venue to discuss the Dynamical neuroscience page, or the merger proposal at Talk:Computational neuroscience. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 15:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, ironically, the new article I made is very relevant to the neural oscillations article in a strange way. The article used to be called neurodynamics and includes some of the history of neurodynamics, but then specializes in neural oscillations. It even redirects from neurodynamics.
I have my page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Xurtio/Dynamical_neuroscience
The proper name for the what I've been calling 'dynamical neuroscience' is indeed 'neurodynamics'. 'Dynamical Neuroscience' is used as well by the neurodynamics group, but it's not very common. My allure to it was that 'neuroscience' seems more broad then 'neuron' to me and today it's grown to encompass more than just neurons, but I desist.
But I think we might consider sorting out the two pages so that one is actually neurodynamics in general, and one is the specific concept of 'neural oscillations'.
Anyway, as always, I'd like to hear the communities opinion. Xurtio ( talk) 07:30, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
In addition to this, I think the neurophysics page needs attention. There's several Theoretical Neurophysics departments that do what I'm specializing in (neurodynamics) but there's also quantum consciousness approaches being labeled neurophysics (which I guess makes sense). But then there's also neurophysics as a sort of biotechnology practice. So we need a disambiguation page as well. Xurtio ( talk) 08:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Users here may be interested in the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology/Proposals#Adding interactive pathway maps, which may affect page content at pages involved in this project. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 22:21, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
I have raised some basic questions at Talk:Efference copy about the article's lede and some other passages. Since you assess the article C/Mid and it is written from a neuroscientific perspective I would like to bring this to the attention of your project, and I would be glad if there is some interest. Best, Morton Shumway— talk 23:30, 11 September 2010 (UTC).
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Most people who watch this page will be familiar with Looie496's work. If you're interested in expressing an opinion, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Looie496. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:32, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
There are three outstanding "expert assistance" requests related to neuroscience:
{{ Expert-subject}} sometimes gets spammed to articles that just need some attention from anybody, but if someone here could please look over these three and figure out what help, if any, was wanted -- and to either fix the articles or to remove the tags, if you can't figure out what's going on -- I'd appreciate it. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:58, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
Editors in this project may be interested in a merger proposal at Talk:List of misconceptions about the brain#Merger proposal. -- Tryptofish ( talk) 21:19, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I am not sure how "importance" is decided, but making the LGN lowest importance is completely crazy. All the visual input to the cortex (the nest studies part of the brain) comes through the lgn. This would be like ranking the "gravity" article in Physics unimportant!! Paulhummerman ( talk) 00:49, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
Some help would be appreciated to decide the fate of this book. Headbomb { talk / contribs / physics / books} 16:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
I wasn't aware of this WikiProject previously. Keep up the good work. Meanwhile, since I've begun editing a half year ago, I've seen several requests for more neuroscience perspective in articles such as Intelligence (which is badly in need of a top-to-bottom rewrite), Intelligence quotient (better, with editors already suggesting some helpful changes on the talk page), Race and intelligence (the subject of a recent Arbitration Committee case, and full of citations to primary research studies, including neuroscience studies, that may not have been replicated), and several of the other articles in the same categories as those. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources for the Intelligence Citations bibliography through comments on that page. I have been digging into the psychology literature for a while to build up that citation list, and you can tell me all you want to say about the neuroscience literature, the better to share good sources with other wikipedians. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human intelligence to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji ( talk) 23:28, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
is at present not a part of any WikiProject. Can neuroscience adopt this orphan? Thanks, Hordaland ( talk) 19:21, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi all, I will be presenting a poster in San Diego on Saturday detailing the experience we had in my inro to neuroscience course during the fall 2009 semester with Neuroscience stub expansion and editing. If anyone from this group is attending and is interested, it will be shown during the public outreach session. -Neurojoe
I have just nominated Parkinson's disease for good article, as a way of improving it before taking it to FAC. While I believe that sources and scope are a strong point of the article, I know that my prose is far from being as professional as it should. Any kind of comments or copy-editing would be most useful. A commited reviewer would also be great, since the article is quite long. Thanks to everybody.
I was also thinking of an image for the symptoms section, and I thought of a writting by a PD patient with micrography. I do not have such kind of image, but maybe somebody from the project is capable of getting one directly from a patient. Best image would be a short text with some rule on it to show scale...-- Garrondo ( talk) 20:07, 8 November 2010 (UTC)