Consciousness Overview
Consciousness is the quality or state of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. At one time consciousness was viewed with skepticism by many scientists, but in...
View ArticleBrain Mapping Overview
Brain mapping – set of neuroscience techniques predicated on the mapping of (biological) quantities or properties onto spatial representations of the (human or non-human) brain resulting in maps....
View ArticleAging and the Brain Overview
Age is a major risk factor for most common neurodegenerative diseases, including Mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease,cerebrovascular disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease....
View ArticleNeuroethics Overview
Neuroethics refers to two related fields of study: what the philosopher Adina Roskies has called the ethics of neuroscience, and the neuroscience of ethics. The ethics of neuroscience comprises the...
View ArticleNeural Recording Overview
Neural recording is the use of neurotechnologies to measure an aspect of brain function and the electro-physiological responses of single neurons. Common neuroimaging methods for measuring brain...
View ArticleNeural Engineering Overview
Neural engineering (also known as neuroengineering) is a discipline within biomedical engineering that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, enhance, or otherwise exploit the...
View ArticleBrain Evolution Overview
The principles that govern the evolution of brain structure are not well understood. Brain to body size does not scale isometrically (in a linear fashion) but rather allometrically. The brains and...
View ArticleNeuromorphic Computing
Link to Neuromorphic Computing Hub Initial Overview based on Neuromorphic Engineering Wikipedia entry Jan. 6, 2016 Also see Cognitive computing and physical neural network. Examples Neurogrid, built...
View ArticleNeuromodulation Overview
Overview Link to Neuromodulation Hub Initial Overview based on Wikipedia entry Jan. 7, 2016. Neuromodulation can be conceptualized as a neurotransmitter that is not reabsorbed by the pre-synaptic...
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