Sciences · Curated directory
Neuroscience: the brain, its disorders and its scientists
Five lists on the nervous system: the parts of the brain, the chemicals its neurons signal with, the methods used to study it, its disorders and the people who worked it out. Two more on where neuroscience and artificial intelligence meet: the ideas the fields share, and the people who work across both. Each one chosen by machine from open data and ranked by how much of the world has written about it.
- Lists
- 7
- Entries
- 186
- Photographed
- 128
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The lists
Each one ranked by how much of the world has written about its entries, and filtered for what it is really about.
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Brain structures
Cerebellum · Hypothalamus · Cerebrum
30 structures
Photo: Images are generated by Life Science Databases(LSDB)., CC BY-SA 2.1 jp
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Neurotransmitters
Adrenaline · Dopamine · Glycine
20 neurotransmitters
Photo: Edgar181, Public domain
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Disorders of the nervous system
Alzheimer's disease · Stroke · Epilepsy
30 disorders
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain
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Neuroscientists
Sigmund Freud · Galen · Ivan Pavlov
40 neuroscientists
Photo: Max Halberstadt, Public domain
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AI and neuroscience
Where the two fields meet: the ideas artificial intelligence took from the brain, the models neuroscience built in return, and the people who work across both.
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AI and neuroscience: shared ideas
Neural network · Reinforcement learning · Brain–computer interface
16 ideas
Photo: Dake , Mysid, CC BY 1.0
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AI and neuroscience: people
Geoffrey Hinton · Demis Hassabis · John Hopfield
25 people
Photo: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0
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