Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience?

Re:Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience? by toddml on Sunday November 02, 2008 @12:35PM (#351498)

My undergrad neuroscience textbook was the classic "Principles Of Neural Science" by Kandell, Schwartz, and Jessell.

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Eric-Kandel/...

If you're looking for something a bit more digestable, you could try "Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral, Cognitive, and Clinical Neuroscience", which is more appropriate for a survey level (100, 1000, depending on your school) course.

http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Psychology-Introduction-Beh...

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience? by robg on Sunday November 02, 2008 @12:44PM (#351507)

Upvote for Kandell, not BioPsych. The latter just emphasizes the wrong things and too broadly.

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience? by jackchristopher on Sunday November 02, 2008 @03:05PM (#351606)

What about MITECS? [1] Is it outdated?

Eliezer Yudkowsky recommended it[2]. But I'm not sure if he still would.

I know you work at MIT, what do you use?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/MIT-Encyclopedia-Cognitive-Sciences-MI...

[2] http://sl4.org/wiki/MITECS

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience? by robg on Sunday November 02, 2008 @03:13PM (#351611)

That's just a reference volume. It's fine for what it is, but really as a launching off point for specific topics. And reading it cover to cover would get old, fast.

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good introduction to neuroscience? by sgrove on Sunday November 02, 2008 @02:39PM (#351579)

I'd second principles of neural science, though that's with the expectation that the reader has the appropriate background in basic chemistry, biology, and maybe anatomy. Out of the dozens of books I have on neurosci, that's probably the single most comprehensive.

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