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piracetam
I'm 18, an undergraduate biochemistry undergrad student. I have a great fascination with neuroscience, but it's just such a broad, overwhelming field that I have no clue how to really start learning. I've read up on various subjects from hundreds of websites, but I don't know how to get a good foundation knowledge to be able to fully comprehend journal articles and be able to enhance my knowledge from there. My particular interests are in neuropharmacology, affective neuroscience, and motivation/reward. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Wafa..
Well I may need advice just like you..biggrin.gif

but here is a helpful interesting publication for "psycho-neuro-pharmacology" wish this helps
http://www.acnp.org/default.aspx?Page=Publications

also this is an interesting one
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognit...ences/index.htm
maximus242
QUOTE(piracetam @ Sep 05, 2007, 05:33 PM) *

I'm 18, an undergraduate biochemistry undergrad student. I have a great fascination with neuroscience, but it's just such a broad, overwhelming field that I have no clue how to really start learning. I've read up on various subjects from hundreds of websites, but I don't know how to get a good foundation knowledge to be able to fully comprehend journal articles and be able to enhance my knowledge from there. My particular interests are in neuropharmacology, affective neuroscience, and motivation/reward. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


Start with the simple and move to the complex. Get knowing the basics of neuroscience and move into more specialized fields later. So start by getting a good understanding of how the brain works and go from there. You need to know how neurons work, the various areas of the brain, yada yada yada.
Flex
I am in the same position, and I have found that attempting to plow through any neuroscience book no matter how basic, does not work without a solid backround in chemistry.

BTW great links! I am so glad MIT put all of their courses online~
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