The first release includes information on just 240 neurons out of hundreds of thousands in the mouse visual cortex, with a focus on the electrophysiology of those individual cells: the electrical pulses that tell a neuron to fire, initiating a pattern of neural activation that results in perception and action.
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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.
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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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In this post, we have identified a number of documents published by OSTP, NSF, and NSF clarifying their policy towards public access to US funded research including the following:
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),”Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research” National Science Foundation (NSF), “NSF Public Access Initiative” National Institutes of Health (NIH), “Public Access Policy”
About the Office of Science and Technology Policy
February 22, 2013 – The Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve easy access to the results of scientific research their tax dollars have paid for. That’s why, in a policy memorandum released today, OSTP Director John Holdren has directed Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of federally funded research freely available to the public within one year of publication and requiring researchers to better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research. OSTP has been looking into this issue for some time, soliciting broad public input on multiple occasions and convening an interagency working group to develop a policy. ...
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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 ...
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This online, interactive courseware for the study of neuroscience is provided by the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy atThe University of Texas Medical School at Houston. The project is being developed under the direction of the Department Chair and Editor, John H. Byrne.
Neuroanatomy Online is UT Health’s new open-access electronic laboratory designed to complement Neuroscience Online.
Neuroanatomy Online: http://www.uth.tmc.edu/nba/neuroscience/index.htm
Neuroanatomy Online: http://www.uth.tmc.edu/nba/neuroanatomy/index.html
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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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Scholarpedia articles are written by invited expert authors and are subject to peer review. Scholarpedia lists the real names and affiliations of all authors, curators and editors involved in an article: however, the peer review process (which can suggest changes or additions, and has to be satisfied before an article can appear) is anonymous
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