Reddit reviews Neuroscience

Dale Purves et al, Neuroscience, 6th edition. This is a good overview of neuro. I've seen it used in grad courses but it was also was a mainstay of undergrad.

After that, the latest edition of Principles of Neural Science, Eric Kandel et al. This is more involved and is often used as a reference for labs and grad students. Some might say this is a grad level book; however, I personally needed it for both undergrad and grad.

You might want to get both of them at the same time, so Kandel can be used if needed for further information whilst reading Purves. Both of these books can likely be found as pdfs on libgen.io.

Neuroanatomy: I used a book called The Human Brain in Photographs and Diagrams by John Nolte but there are many resources out there. She might want to get some free software to examine the brain in 3d. The Allen institute comes to mind.

I imagine this program is not research based, but she should still get used to reading papers, and also keep an eye on current neuro news. Science Daily, Neuroscience News, and New Scientist are good places to start. That said, reading papers can be hard if you don't have the background (neuro, stats, lab techniques).

I'm not sure how much time she has, so realistically speaking I would focus on reading Purves front to back and use everything else I've listed as supplementary first, and then dig deeper into them if she has the time.

https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Dale-Purves/dp/1605353809/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?keywords=neuroscience+purves+6th+edition&qid=1574056105&sprefix=Neuroscience+pur&sr=8-2

My wife uses this book to teach intro to neuro. I've read every edition since the 4th. Unless you got master's level questions it's in here.

Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology by Bryan Kolb

If you want to also cover it on a more biochemical level, Neuroscience by Dale Purves et al. is a good read.

Oh and Behave by Robert Sapolsky. I would say thats a must read 😋

Why have you deleted the post you did on r/neuroscience 18hrs ago?

There was literally a full discussion with people saying “we’re not doing your homework for you”

And

“The study doesn’t show if there is any correlation between the meds the people are already taking and the psychosis may therefore be defined by a chemical make up and induced by that rather than societal differences”

So, I’m not sure why:

1. You’ve deleted the post that you posted at the same time as this one in r/neuroscience
   
2. You’re getting so aggressive when I was directing someone who said they were interested to a place they could find a bit more discussion since this is nothing to do with neurology in the first place.
   
3. I now think this is actually your homework and you may need to do it yourself.
   
4. May I recommend this book: (Neuroscience - Purves et al, 2019)
   
5. Please stop commenting on my comments that have no reference to this.

Sure, I'd start with Neuroscience for an overview, some more cognitive related computational systems are described in Cognitive Neuroscience, more advanced ones in Vision and Finally Rhythms of the Brain, you can then branch out further into language and memory.

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https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Dale-Purves/dp/1605353809/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=neuroscience&qid=1563645060&s=gateway&sr=8-6

https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Neuroscience-Biology-Mind-Fifth/dp/0393603172/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=cognitive+neuroscience&qid=1563645142&s=gateway&sr=8-2

https://www.amazon.com/Rhythms-Brain-Gyorgy-Buzsaki/dp/0199828237/ref=sr_1_1?crid=813HTOI3332A&keywords=rhythms+of+the+brain&qid=1563645094&s=gateway&sprefix=rhythms+of+the+%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Computational-Investigation-Representation-Information/dp/0262514621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=vision+neuroscience&qid=1563645008&s=gateway&sr=8-1