Portal talk:Neuroscience

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Hi Everyone... I am setting up the portal somewhat along the lines of the Mathematics portal. However, I have one question... do we have to stick to the same template or can we be a little more innovative with our portal? One of the things I am thinking of is to have a series of small boxes on the top which will feature an article from 'molecular neuroscience', cellular neuroscience, computational neuroscience, developmental neuroscience, systems neuroscience and cognitive neuroscience. It will make this portal stand out a bit and will also be a good reminder of the breadth of topics involved here. What says?

Shushruth 05:34, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

We can really do anything we want, while keeping the standard links to other portals— it is our portal. Oh and yes, that means I'm up for it. Most of the portals have been abandoned kind of, or updated every month. My updating the science portal, I think is totally fruitless. I'm eager to help out here. Did you get the "Science News" idea from me on the Science portal, or your own? — [Mac Davis] (talk) (Desk|Help me improve)
YIPPPIEE! So happy that you here. I hoped to have friday evenings to add content to Neuroscience articles (which need a LOOT of improvement, I should say)...instead, all I do is try to do the weekly update on the portal. So how should we go about for this week's update(it is due by latest by tomorrow btw)? How shall we share duties and responsibilities?
PS: I did steal from the Science portal among other portals --can't remember what I stole from where though! Shushruth 00:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured articles for week starting Nov 2

Hi! I have updated the news section for this week. Any suggestions on what we should do for featured article and featured picture? I propose that at least one of them have some relation to any of the news item. Shushruth 04:27, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

We should list featured images and articles on the talk pages of the section. — [Mac Davis] (talk) (Desk|Help me improve)
Good idea. As of now, I am using only featured articles listed on the Project Neuroscience page. We have 12 there which should last us at least 2 months. By then, hopefully we can start working on one article a week and bring it to featured status. I have started a discussion for Collaboration of the Week kind so that maybe we can mobilize more neuroscience interested people. Shushruth \talk\contribs 21:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
If more than two people do it I think it would be fun! :) I have never done any research in neuroscience, have you? — [Mac Davis] (talk) (Desk|Help me improve)
I am currently a second year grad student in neuroscience Shushruth \talk page \ contribs 02:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help with the Images

I would like to help anyone who needs images, and will try to check back daily. Are there any requests for images?Robinson0120 04:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it actually really bothers me that a cat brain has been chosen for the Neuroscience portal image instead of a human brain, a depiction of the homunculus, a color-coded map of Brodmann's Areas or something more relevant. Not a huge deal, and I'd do it if I knew how to.

i started an article on neuroregeneration and have included a small section on the inhibition of the RhoA pathway. i have a great picture from a nature neuroscience review article, and i assume i cant use it because of copyright. do you think it could be used? do you have any usable (and up to date) pictures on RhoA/ ROCK mediated growth cone collapse, which includes receptors like NgR1/2, p75, TROY, blah blah blah? Also, the article needs more help. Its a big interest of mine, and i would love to see it grow. Countryroad 17:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal:Neuropedia

Portal:Neuroscience-> Portal:Neuropedia... --Ommm 18:45, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category Addition

I would like to suggest the addition of the Neuroethology Category to the Neuroscience portal. I don't want to mess with the lovely portal graphics that have obviously taken a bit of work. Can someone walk me through how to make these edits? Cheers Jasongallant 21:51, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Emotion and Logic‎ new article - assistance please

Hi there is a new article Emotion and Logic‎ that apparently relates to Neuroscience. Could someone with a bit of expertise please look at the article and tell me if it makes any sense whatsoever? It does not make any sense to me and I'm not sure what to do with the article. Barrylb (talk) 12:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know... cerebellum contains half of the neurons ...

Did you know that the cerebellum (the region behind the brainstem) contains half of the neurons in the brain? it says on the Neuroscience Portal front page. No, I did not know that. Is that really right? My count is the following:

Structure Cell Count Reference
Cerebellum Granule 109 milliards [1]
Purkinje 38 millions [2]
Neocortex Neurons 21 milliards [3]
Basal ganglia Neurons  ?

I haven't got a count of the number of neurons in other regions than neocortex and cerebellum, but I am doubting that they can make up for the large number of granule cells in the cerebellum. — fnielsen (talk) 09:09, 9 April 2008 (UTC)