Welcome to the Neuroscience Literature Guide. 

This guide contains selected core reference and other literature finding aids for this subject area. 

Definitions:

Neuroscience is "the study of all aspects of nerves and the nervous system, in health and in disease. It includes the anatomy, physiology, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of nerve cells; the behavioural and psychological features that depend on the function of the nervous system; and the clinical disciplines that deal with them, such as neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry."¹

Also see "History of Neuroscience" from the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.

 

References

1. "neuroscience"  The Oxford Companion to the Body. Ed. Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jennett. Oxford University Press, 2001.