Useful sites
- The Society for Neuroscience is the voice of the neuroscience community.
- The Society also maintains a useful list of Neuroscience Departments and Programs.
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is the largest private supporter of biomedical sciences.
- Neuroguide lists useful neuroscience resources on the internet.
- PubMed lists more than 20 million published articles in the biomedical literature; an indispensable resource for researchers.
- The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health are the main providers of federally funded research grants.
- The MIT open courseware provides lots of free science courses and resources online.
- A Neuroscience Tutorial from Washington University has very good anatomical illustrations.
- The NIH maintains a vast collection of videotaped seminars by prominent neuroscientists.
- Matlab is a very useful software package for computer programming. Many computer simulations, data analysis programs, statistical tests, and plotting routines have been developed in this language.
- The Psychophysics Toolbox is a series of Matlab routines for performing and analyzing psychophysical experiments.
- The Best Illusion of the Year contest has generated some amazing visual illusions.
Journals that publish original research in neuroscience
- Annual Review of Neuroscience
- *BMC Neuroscience
- Cerebral Cortex
- Current Biology
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- European Journal of Neuroscience
- Experimental Brain Research
- *Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Journal of Computational Neuroscience
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Journal of Neurophysiology
- Nature
- Nature Neuroscience
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Neural Computation
- Neuron
- Neuropharmacology
- Neuroscience
- *PLoS Biology
- *PLoS ONE
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
- Science
- The Neuroscientist
- Trends in Neurosciences
* indicates open access journal