Responding to @L_andreae from another network: a good neuroscience book for a 17 year old?
I'd suggest:
1. Braitenberg's "Vehicles":
https://archive.org/details/vehiclesexperime00brai
2. Kandel's "In search of memory":
https://archive.org/details/insearchofmemory00kand
@albertcardona what about Guy #Leschziner’s “The nocturnal brain”??
It is not about #Everything in #neuroscience, but as a primer to pique interest, it’s really on point.
In that vein there's also "What's going on in there? How the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life" by Lise Eliot.
And then led to #FAFB and to this:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@albertcardona/113238565283630500
Attached: 1 image Whole adult fly brain connectome for FAFB (female adult fly brain) – last year in preprint form, today as an immersive feature in Nature. 140,000 neurons, over 50 million synapses – organised into over 8,000 cell types. (VNC not included.) https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-024-00053-4/index.html The whole connectome: Dorkenwald et al. 2024 (Seung, Murthy) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y Cell types: Schlegel et al. 2024 (Jefferis) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07686-5 by @[email protected] Network statistics: Lin et al. 2024 (Murthy) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07968-y Visual system: Garner et al. 2024 (Wernet, Kim) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07967-z and Matsliah et al. (Murthy, Seung) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07981-1 Seung also put out a solo paper on predicting visual function from the connectome: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07953-5 Control of halting in walking: Sapkal et al. 2024 (Bidaye) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07854-7 FAFB imaged by @[email protected] 's group back in 2018: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30787-6 #neuroscience #Drosophila #connectomics #FAFB
HUGE Braitenberg/synthetic psychology fan here. Fully support using Vehicles as a gateway drug to get teens hooked on science.
As a 17 year old, I was inspired to get into science by Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity.
Few suggestions:
1. The Living Brain
by W. Grey Walter
https://archive.org/details/livingbrain0000unse_c0o5
2. The Entangled Brain
by L. Pessoa
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5490/The-Entangled-BrainHow-Perception-Cognition-and
3. The Brain Facts book
https://www.brainfacts.org/the-brain-facts-book
4. More educational resources
https://www.sfn.org/advocacy/science-funding/global-neuroscience-initiatives
https://fi.edu/en/neuroscience-society-curriculum
https://alleninstitute.org/education/scientific-training-education/
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