Portal:Neurobiology

Welcome to the Department of Neurobiology, part of the Center for Neuroscience. The Department is a content development project devoted to learning resources about the structures and functions of nervous systems with special emphasis on how the cells of a nervous system form neural networks.

Topics of Study

• Development and evolution of the cell types of nervous systems
• Synapse formation
• Axon targetting
• Synaptic plasticity
  • Neuroplasticity research
• How drugs alter synapse function
• Diseases of neurons and glial cells
• Mathematical modeling of neural networks

Research on Wikiversity

• Friedman Lab

Other Content Developers

• AFriedman