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Neuroscience Fundamentals

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Understanding basic aspects of brain anatomy and evolution are fundamental in neuroscience.

The seminal general text for neuroscience is Kandel, Jessel and Schwartz’s Principles of Neural Science:

Other textbooks:

This one in particular is an amazing, incredibly comprehensive resource on neuroanatomy:

Online resources:

Courses and learning platforms:

Mathematical Neuroscience:

Lecture series:

Historical resources:

Brain evolution

Chapters in The Evolution of Nervous Systems worth exploring:

  • 3.02 - What Primate Brains Are Made of
  • 4.09 - Remarkable, But Not Special: What Human Brains Are Made of
  • 3.07 - Evolutionary-Developmental Aspects of Cortical Connectivity
  • 1.18 - Functional Correlates of Brain and Brain Region Sizes in Nonmammalian Vertebrates
  • 4.12 - Evolutionary Specializations of Human Association Cortex
  • 2.09 - Comparative Aspects of Mammalian Cortical Development
  • 3.03 - The Expansion of the Cortical Sheet in Primates
  • 4.13 - Evolutionary Specializations of the Human Prefrontal Cortex
  • 2.15 - White Matter Expansion
  • 2.14 - Comparative Structure of the Cerebral Cortex in Large Mammals
  • 4.08 - Evolutionary Specializations of Human Brain Microstructure
  • 3.22 - The Evolution of the Prefrontal Cortex in Early Primates and Anthropoids
  • 4.04 - Energetics, Life History, and Human Brain Evolution
  • 3.06 - Scaling Up the Simian Primate Cortex
  • 4.11 - Human Association Cortex: Expanded, Untethered, Neotenous, and Plastic
  • 4.10 - Evolution of the Human Brain: Design Without a Designer

Books on brain evolution:

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