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Welcome to WikiProject Neuroscience, a project that aims to create and improve all Wikipedia neuroscience and brain-related articles.

Neuroscience Portal

1 Similar WikiProjects
2 Aims
- 2.1 Accuracy
- 2.2 Simplicity and depth
3 Areas of coverage
4 How you can help
- 4.1 Focus articles
5 Featured items
- 5.1 Articles
6 Categories
- 6.1 Pictures
7 Useful links

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Aims

Accuracy

The main goal of this project is accuracy of information. We aim to ensure that all neuroscience-related articles on Wikipedia are clear, well-referenced, and include proper use of media. The end product should be articles with in-depth, qualitative information that are accessible-enough to be encyclopedia articles but well-referenced enough for academic use.

To fulfill these aims, the project will initially focus on articles covering broad ideas and concepts. The project will then develop more detailed, specific articles. This top-down approach will allow Wikipedia to serve immediately as a useful resource that becomes more detailed over time.

The project's approach is to cover the brain through a cross-species, multidisciplinary approach. This should provide detailed information about the distinct differences between species with evolutionary/ecological reasoning for such differences. We aim to integrate information from the cellular/molecular level all the way up to the cognitive/clinical level.

The history of neuroscience will also be an area of focus. The progress of theories and ideas is important to understanding current scientific thinking. This includes "History" sections in articles, biography articles, articles on refuted theories, and articles about historical institutions.

Simplicity and depth

Basic questions should have simple answers. A major goal of this project is to ensure that neuroscience articles are not only comprehensive enough for a specialist, but should be simple enough for laymen and children alike.

Areas of coverage

The following is a list of areas which this project hopes to cover. There will, no doubt, be overlap with existing and related projects but this can only help.

How you can help

Anybody can help!

Identify target articles-particularly covering fundamental concepts and ideas.
Improve and discuss the proposed structures of articles.
Improve articles yourself!
Leave comments here for feedback.

Focus articles

This section lists relatively complete articles which are fundamental to neuroscience which should be worked on to meet Featured Article criteria. This section emphasizes the general before the specific.

Neuroscience: This really should be a better article. We need images, history, etc. We can borrow some history from brain.
Brain: Underway! v--- Careful. Much being put in here belongs down there!
Human brain <--
Autonomic nervous system
Neuron
List of neuroscience topics
...and pretty much everything on Category:Neuroscience stubs.
Drugs by Indication.
Neurobiology