The Link Map in this post provides an easy way to access all the videos in this Hub from one PDF. Each name is a link to a slide show of video posts.
One of this Hub’s goals is to aggregate and organize the most comprehensive selection of high quality videos related to the Brain Projects. We particularly focus on YouTube uploaded videos because they adhere to the CC-BY standard.
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This Hub has created a number of categories to facilitate users finding the neuroscience resources they maybe interested in. These categories are listed below. To learn more about a specific resource and related posts, go directly to its category slider.
Resources are rated by this Hub’s curators with the highest rated or most important ones listed first.
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The BRAIN Initiative has numerous active funding opportunities.
The active and closed funding opportunities are organized into seven categories: Brain Cell Types, Tools for Circuit Diagrams, Monitor Neural Activity, Precise Interventional Tools, Theory and Data Analysis Tools, Advance Human Neuroscience, and Integrated Approaches.
Upcoming Funding Opportunities: http://braininitiative.nih.gov/funding/coming-xml.htm
Active Funding Opportunities: http://braininitiative.nih.gov/funding/index.htm
Identify and provide experimental access to the different brain cell types to determine their roles in health and disease.
There are no new funding opportunities in this category.
Generate circuit diagrams that vary in resolution from synapses to the whole brain.
To be awarded: Short Courses in Research Tools and Methods
Produce a dynamic picture of the functioning brain by developing and applying improved methods for large-scale monitoring of neural activity.
To be awarded:
This post has a list of Publishers and their neuroscience related journals. Most of the journals listed here require a subscription to access.
Müller, U. (Ed), Graeber, M. B. (Ed), Ptacek, L. J. (Ed)
Neurogenetics publishes findings that contribute to a better understanding of the genetic basis of normal and abnormal function of the nervous system. Neurogenetic disorders are the main focus of the journal. Neurogenetics therefore includes findings in humans and other organisms that help understand neurological disease mechanisms and publishes papers from many different fields such as biophysics, cell biology, human genetics, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurology, neuropathology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. All papers submitted to Neurogenetics should be of sufficient immediate importance to justify urgent publication. They should present new scientific results. Data merely confirming previously published findings are not acceptable. Neurogenetics is published in hardcopy and online. It includes Review Articles, Original Articles, Short Communications and Letters to the Editors.Wilms, G. (Ed)
Official Journal of the European Society of Neuroradiology Japanese Neuroradiological Society Austrian Society of Neuroradiology Belgian Society of Neuroradiology British Society of Neuroradiologists Bulgarian Association of Radiology Czech Neuroradiological Society Dutch Society of Neuroradiology Finnish Society of Neuroradiology ...OnAir Post: Academic neuroscience journals
Fundamentals of Neuroscience is a joint online / on-campus course at Harvard University. The online version of the course is completely free to take, and those students who successfully complete the course are eligible to receive a certificate of completion from edX.
The course serves as an introductory survey of topics in neuroscience, ranging from the function of ion channels in the neuronal membrane, to the activity of individual neurons and small groups of neurons, to the function of the brain and its subsystems. The online version of the course has no specific prerequisites, though some prior exposure to biology and/or chemistry can be helpful.
Website: https://www.mcb80x.org/
There are no formal requirements for MCB80x, though prior background in biology, chemistry and/or physics is helpful.
Textbook: There is no required textbook to buy. We link to related text in open-source Neuroscience textbooks online
Lab kits: Lab kits are optional, but if you want to start doing some hands-on science at home alongside our DIY Lab section, you can buy a SpikerBox from our partners at Backyard Brains. We recommend getting a 2=Channel SpikerBox, but a single-channel SpikerBox works for most of the experiments we do.
OnAir Post: Fundamentals of Neuroscience- Harvard edX
The Whole Brain Atlas is an online resource for central nervous system imaging developed by Keith Johnson, MD, and Alex Becker, PhD. It is jointly supported by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School, the Countway Library of Medicine, and the American Academy of Neurology.
The site has six main sections: (1) a neuroimaging primer for those with limited knowledge of the imaging vocabulary; (2) a normal anatomy atlas; (3) cerebrovascular disease; (4) neoplastic disease; (5) degenerative disease; and (6) inflammatory disease.
OnAir Post: The Whole Brain Atlas – Harvard Med
Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader “without financial, legal, or technical barriers.”
While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author. The Neuroscience Knowledge Network which includes this top level Neuroscience Hub focuses primarily on open access content that falls under one of the Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
Open Access Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/
From Wikipedia 11/20/15
Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader “without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” They remove price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and most permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions). While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.
Some open access journals are subsidized and are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center. Others are financed ...
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Frontiers is a community-oriented open-access academic publisher and research network.
Frontier’s grand vision is to build an Open Science platform that empowers researchers in their daily work and where everybody has equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge.
Home page: http://www.frontiersin.org/
Frontiers in Neuroscience: http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroscience
Frontiers is at the forefront of building the ultimate Open Science platform. We are driving innovations and new technologies around peer-review, article and author impact metrics, social networking for researchers, and a whole ecosystem of open science tools. We are the first – and only – platform that combines open-access publishing with research networking, with the goal to increase the reach of publications and ultimately the impact of articles and their authors.
Frontiers was launched as a grassroots initiative in 2007 by scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, out of the collective desire to improve the publishing options and provide better tools and services to researchers in the Internet age. Since then, Frontiers has become one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers: over 20,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed articles have been published in 45 community-driven journals across more than 300 specialty niches in science, medicine and technology, and more ...
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PLOS has four open access journals that address, with varying focus, neuroscience research: PLOS Biology, PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Medicine, and PLOS ONE.
PLOS also has a Neuroscience Collection of research organized in two broad categories: Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Mapping Methods and a blog with neuroscience related posts including contributors commenting on the SfN conferences called PLOS Neuro.
PLOS Biology: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/
PLOS Computational Biology: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/
PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/
PLOS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/
Neuroscience Collection: http://collections.plos.org/s/neuroscience
PLOS Neuro: http://blogs.plos.org/neuro/
OnAir Experimental Hub: http://plosneuroscience.onair.cc/
Memory The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Memory.
Reward & Decision Making The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Reward & Decision Making.
Emotion The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Emotion.
Social Cognition The Neuroscience Collection has been organized to provide more structured and efficient access to papers of interest in the PLOS corpus. This section includes papers about Social Cognition.
Connectomics The Neuroscience Collection has been ...
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MIT Open Courseware has, for many years, made available the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences courses online.
edX presently has 25 “neuroscience” courses and many other related courses. Courses originate from MIT, Harvard, CalTech, EPFL, Adelaide, UC Berkeley, UT Austin, Rice, Colgate, Purdue, KyotoU, and McGill.
MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/
edX neuroscience courses: https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=neuroscience
The human brain is the most complex, sophisticated, and powerful information-processing device known.
To study its complexities, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology combines the experimental technologies of neurobiology, neuroscience, and psychology, with the theoretical power that comes from the fields of computational neuroscience and cognitive science.
The Department was founded by Hans-Lukas Teuber in 1964 as a Department of Psychology, with the then-radical vision that the study of brain and mind are inseparable. Today, at a time of increasing specialization and fragmentation, our goal remains to understand cognition- its processes, and its mechanisms at the level of molecules, neurons, networks of neurons, and cognitive modules. We are unique among neuroscience and cognitive science departments in our breadth, and in the scope of our ambition. We span a very large range of inquiry into ...
OnAir Post: MIT & edX Neuroscience courses
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand.
MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
Medline Plus home: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Neurosciences page: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007456.htm
Browse the encyclopedia: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
You can use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up-to-date. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 950 diseases and conditions. There are directories, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus ...
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The site is a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Society for Neuroscience, all leading global nonprofit organizations working to advance brain research. Leading neuroscientists from around the world form the BrainFacts.org editorial board.
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Science Careers job board provides job opportunities from around the world and free career development tools and resources make Science Careers a one-stop site for scientists looking to advance their careers.
Science Careers and its job board is brought to you by the journal Science and AAAS
Jobs in Neuroscience and Neurobiology: http://jobs.sciencecareers.org/jobs/neuroscience/
Science Careers is dedicated to being the world leader in matching qualified scientists with jobs in industry, academia, and government. We are committed to providing all the necessary career resources for scientists as well as effective recruiting solutions for employers. Our mission supports the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) commitment to furthering careers in science and technology, with an emphasis on fostering greater diversity among the scientific community.
The journal Science is one of the most prestigious and widely cited scientific journals in the world. Founded by Thomas Edison in 1880, Science has been publishing breaking news and seminal research for more than 125 years. Science Careers is the careers component ofScience that scientists rely on for career information and job postings. Both Science andScience Careers are produced by AAAS, the world’s largest nonprofit membership ...
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Explore open neuroscience jobs or post a job opening, check out SfN’s NeuroJobs Listings.
SfN also provides professional development resources and scientific training opportunities. Society members can access a wide range of resources for scientists at all career stages through Neuronline, SfN’s community for learning and discussion.
NeuroJobs Listings: http://www.sfn.org/Careers-and-Training/Jobs
Neuronline: http://neuronline.sfn.org/
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Portraits of the Mind by Carl E. Schoonover follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the brain as never before.
Each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced by a leading scientist in that field of study.
The images in the slide show below are from Portrait of the Mind by Carl E. Schoonover
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Dana Foundation’s list of books about the brain as of November 2010 on “the great books, past and present, that capture the unfolding story of the brain and how brain research is changing our ideas about memory and emotion, life span and language, neurological disorders and psychiatric syndromes.”
To draw out the best current and classic books from the crowded field, we selected 10 categories, based on our earlier list. Then we opened up a poll to Dana.org readers, asking them to nominate their favorites in as many of the categories as they wished.
By: Johanna Goldberg, M.S.L.I.S. 11/10/10
1. General Books About the Brain
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge. Viking, 2007.
This book was far and away the most popular choice of Dana.org readers. Exploring the plasticity of the brain—something that was only recently proven to exist—Dr. Doidge uses case studies to discuss how people remember, recovery from injury, love, and learn.
Rhythms of the Brain By Gyorgy Buzsaki. Oxford University Press, 2006.
How ...
OnAir Post: Dana’s top brain books
The National Science Foundation has numerous neuroscience-related funding opportunities that relate to Brain Projects.
Some of the major programs include: Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS), Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF-NCS), Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) and the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) neuroscience, and Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC).
CRCNS funding web page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pg
NCS funding web page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pg
IOS & MCB funding web page: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
I/UCRC Dear Colleague Letter page: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014
OnAir Post: NSF Neuroscience Funding Opportunities
Some of the best selling “neuroscience” books on Amazon in 2015:
A Scientist’s Case for the Afterlife…
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.
Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.
Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.
Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any ...
OnAir Post: Best Selling Books on Amazon
Kavli Foundation sponsored numerous symposiums and informal meetings in 2011 through 2013 that developed the initial concept for the BRAIN Inititative. Over 100 neuroscientists participated in these meetings which resulted in the Brain Activity Map Project proposal that "would prove important to the scientific thinking behind the BRAIN Initiative, as well as a major catalyst for its launching."
OnAir Post: Kavli video on the BRAIN Initiative
Three search engines for neuroscience related internships are sponsored by Barnard College, Emory University, and National Science Foundation.
Barnard’s web page lists summer internships in Neuroscience and Behavior. Emory College has a database of paid and unpaid summer research programs and internships that can be searched by target audience, recruitment emphasis, nature of experience, and other criteria. National Science Foundation’s web site is titled Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF/REU).
Barnard’s web page: http://hspp.barnard.edu/barnard-student/internship-opportunities/summer/neuro
Emory’s web page: http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/undergrad/Summer_Research/Browse.cfm
NSF/REU website: http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.jsp
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BRAIN 2015 curators and members have begun to create Overview posts related to BRAIN Initiaitve topics. For each Overview, we start with the Scholarpedia authored articles, Wikipedia entries, and Open Access review articles.
If you would like to become an editor on one or more Overviews, contact our lead curator, Todd Gillette, at Todd@onair.cc. If you are member of this Hub, you can enter your edits and suggestions in the comment field at the bottom of the Overview post.
OnAir Post: Initiative-related Overviews
This Hub’s focus is on open access content and “public” networks that do not require membership to search and browse content. At the present time, Twitter is the primary external network we connect to. Our YouTube channel called Neuroscience On Air is mostly used to store this Hub’s Hangouts On Air. As a service to our members, we also have compiled YouTube Playlists of most of the videos in this Hub, and we have subscribed to Iniatiative-related YouTube Channels.
We are also editing a select number of Initiative-related Wikipedia entries.
We have set up a Neuroscience Twitter account with the handle @on_Neuroscience
We will be mostly tweeting content that has been posted in this BRAIN 2015 Hub website. Space permitting, we will acknowledge, via Twitter handles, the source(s) for the content in our posts.
The Twitter #hashtags we will be particularly focusing on are:
#BRAINInitiative @NINDSdirector @NIMHgov @whitehouseostp #BrainMapping #NeuroIntervention #Neuroethics #BRAINpartners #BRAIN2015
Other hashtags of interest:
#bigneuron #neuro and #brain
Below is a list of the Twitter handles (with embedded links to their Twitter accounts) of people and organizations who ...
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At age fifty, Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) has it all: a Columbia University linguistics professorship, a devoted husband, and three loving children. Her life is a whirlwind of work and family, and she thrives on it.
But, while lecturing at UCLA, something unexpected happens: mid-sentence, she struggles to find a word. Though a seemingly innocuous relapse, the incident leads to a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, a stunning realisation that sees the bonds between Alice and her family thoroughly tested.
OnAir Post: Reviews of Still Alice – in The Conversation
