Where to start studying neuroscience?

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dima_antonenko2015-04-05 05:12:00

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dima_antonenko, 2015-04-05 05:12:00

Prompt literature, articles, and other sources for the study of neuroscience.

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Hexe, 2015-12-03
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At first I tried to study according to scientific articles, but the knowledge was superficial. But learned academic English.
Then a large book Fundamental Neuroscience 4th edition, Larry R.Squire, was bought on Amazon . It provides general knowledge throughout the CNS from scratch, does not require a background in chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics, the language of presentation is not very complicated. There are no formulas in it, only text, pictures and graphics. Pictures are quality. There are more than 1000 pages. Of the minuses for me - there is too much water and there are no chapters on oscillations in neural networks. Perhaps there are better textbooks.
About articles. If you need to find articles on a specific topic, then, as usual, Google Scholar . If you want to read a magazine, you can, for example, Frontiers In (journal.frontiersin.org ). There is a large neuroscience section (Journals -> Science -> Neuroscience) and many narrower sections like:
journal.frontiersin.org/journal/synaptic-neuroscience
journal.frontiersin.org/journal/neural-circuits
etc. This is not the coolest journal in terms of impact factor, but it is completely free. And the site itself is well organized.
Finally, anatomy. Personally, it was difficult for me to imagine how it all looks in 3D from the pictures and slices of the brain. What is next to what and under what. And when reading articles / textbook, it is better to imagine. Therefore, I recommend anatomy to start with this: www.finr.net/files/brain/index.htmThere you can select the desired structure in the drop-down list, and it will be shown in a 3D model of the brain, which can be twisted this way and that.

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Vladimir Martyanov, 2015-04-05
@vilgeforce

Chemistry + biology, school course. Then biochemistry, for example, the book "Visual Biochemistry" will do. Then - genetics (for example www.amazon.com/Color-Genetics-FLEXIBOOK-Eberhard-P... - a book on the same principle as the previous one). Enough for a start :-) Specifically for the CNS from the review, you can take a look at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-centra....

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polyhedron, 2015-04-05
@polyhedron

Maybe these EdX courses will be useful to get you started:
Fundamentals of Neuroscience, Part I
Fundamentals of Neuroscience Part 2: Neurons and N...