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[edit] Slightly meta question
How is it that Neuroscience is not a topic area???
[edit] Two comments
First, the postulate ” Some researchers believe that cognitive neuroscience provides a bottom-up approach to understanding the mind and consciousness that is complementary to, or may replace, the top-down approach of psychology” is a mere speculation. The top-down/bottom-up debate in psychology was going on before the field of neuroscience emerged, and it is unlikely to be resolved by neuroscience in any near future. One could even claim that the fMRI-technique widely used within cognitive neuroscience actually is a top-down approach. It is in some sense in the name itself: "FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging".
Second, do you have any concrete reference to people claiming that psychology is a sub-field of neuroscience? I've never read anybody claiming this. Are there actually people saying this? Biological psychology is obviously only one subfield of psychology. There are other fields such as social psychology, health psychology, personality and so on. Are all these a part of neuroscience?
Having said these things, I like the approach taken in the article. I just think that the text is not optimally organized.
[edit] Neuroscience Template
How about a template for neuroscience like the template for psychology (right side of page):
--Nectarflowed 10:34, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- Okay, but are the distinctions so clear? Sayeth 16:36, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Neuroscience & Neurobiology
I've read in one glossary a definition of neuroscience as technically being within psychology rather than biology, while neurobiology is within biology. Wikipedia currently has neurobiology redirect to neuroscience. Can anyone explain the distinction between neuroscience and neurobiology? --Nectarflowed 11:36, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- This is very difficult because there is even some ambiguity within the neuroscience community. "Neuroscience" is a blanket term that refers to all the specific fields that study the nervous system. In some sense psychology is actually of sub field of neuroscience (though there are some mind/body theorists that would argue it goes the other way). Neurobiology is specifically the the study of the biology of the nervous system. Now that overlapps with neurophysiology which studies physiological propoerties of the nervous system which necessarily involve biological processes.Goferwiki 10:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] population coding
The "population coding" hyperlink in the text is invalid, while there's an entry "population encoding" in Wikipedia. Do they refer to the same thing? If so, maybe we could link them?
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- The most commonly used term is "population coding". I've moved the contents from "population encoding" to a new population coding page. That page needs a lot of work though... semiconscious (talk · home) 04:44, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] What does this article need?
The easiest way to expand this article is for us to suggest the section headers it needs and then create and develop them. One way to do this is to look at comparable articles (cardiology, for example - a list t the moment). Anyone have any suggestions? --Oldak Quill 00:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
- An awful lot of Cardiology is just a list of disorders.. is that the structure we want to copy? However, I think sections like Anatomy/Physiology and also a look at Methods in Neuroscience would be useful. Maybe also some history? I know some of this stuff is also over on the Brain page, and I'm not sure where it fits better.aelscha 00:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Neurosurgery
I believe that neurosuegery should be added to Fiels in neuroscience. Neurosurgeons are as important of neuroscientists as anyone else.
[edit] revisions as of august 2006
This is an important article and right now it's not that great. Several things, firstly the history of neuroscience is NOT the same as the history of brain. We need someone to write a comprehensive review of the history of neuroscience. There needs to be more material, if only parsed from Kandel's text book. I've cleaned it up quite a bit. Let's try to make the section more like other major entries on disciplines. I think I'll try to use tables.
Is anyone around? I'm still not done yet with the Computational neuroscience entry. we also need a portal for neuroscience!!sluox
[edit] New Portal up and running
I would appreciate, on behalf of us three at Portal:Neuroscience if we could have some help in maintaining. Thanks. — [Mac Davis] (talk) (Desk|Help me improve)
[edit] AC Model Membranes
What is this? I have never heard of it? No Google hits either (except this very WP page). The content has only one line pertinent to the topic. Should it be deleted as 'non-notable'? I think so at least. Shushruth \talk page \ contribs 18:29, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Link Spam
The external links section is getting out of control. We don't need links to every graduate program or journal on the subject.
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--Selket 23:41, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
