LibGuides: Neuroscience: Reference Materials

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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

A Student's Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience
Publication Date: 2018
Accessible online
Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences
Publication Date: 2014
Accessible online
Encyclopedia of the Human Brain
Publication Date: 2012
Accessible online
Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience
Publication Date: 2010
Accessible online
Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness
Publication Date: 2007
Accessible online
A Dictionary of Neurological Signs
Publication Date: 2005
Accessible online
A Dictionary of Neurological Signs
Publication Date: 2001
Accessible online

Web Databases/Sources

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
Includes access to the NIH Blueprint Non-Human Primate Brain Atlas (publicly accessible), the Neuroscience Information Framework (datasharing platform), and the Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas (GENSAT). Other resources & tools are available.
Neurosciences on the Internet
Includes graphical demonstration of the cutaneous fields of peripheral nerves as well as a list of 'best bets' - links to relevant and informative sites on different aspects of neurosciences.
Neuroscience Education
Access materials on behavioral neuroscience, memory and learning, neuroanatomy, neurohistochemistry, neuropharmacology, neurophysiology, neurosurgery/neurology, sensory systems, ethical issues, neuroscience glossaries, brain imaging, and current news.
Sense Lab
Contains ten related databases that cover experimental and theoretical research on the membrane properties that mediate information processing in nerve cells, using the olfactory pathway as a model system. Divided into three groups: Neuronal, Olfactory, and Disease.
Synapse Web
SynapseWeb hosts anatomy tutorials, the Atlas of Ultrastructural Neurocytology, free download of Reconstruct, as well as shared data, publications & lab protocols from the Harris Lab.
The Whole Brain Atlas
Both still and moving images form an atlas of the human brain in health and disease.