Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Neuroscience

A tool to monitor and improve images in this Wikiproject

Hi there! I am not part of this Wikiproject, but I am a Wikigraphist. I am interested in improving Wikipedia’s visual content and I built a tool that could help detect visual gaps in Wikiprojects.

I called it Visual Content Assessment Tool, or simply VCAT.

A working version of VCAT with data for Wikiproject Neuroscience already extracted by me on 26/07/2023 can be found at VCAT-dashboard. You can always extract fresh data for any Wikiproject using the extraction tool, a command line tool I created for this purpose.

Some of the actions you can do with this tool are:

• Monitoring the visual content coverage in a Wikiproject
• Detecting articles needing images (eg. articles without images)
• Detecting low resolution images to improve (eg. raster diagrams to be vectorized)

Then you can ask for image creation or vectorization on the Graphics Lab.

What do you think? Could it be a useful tool? MingoBerlingo (talk)

Discussion about WikiProject banner templates

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:46, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)

Relevant discussion at WikiProject Medicine

Hi fellow WP:Neuroscience editors, an enthusiastic new editor has made a request regarding improvements to the Nun Study article. They reposted their request in a few places, but not here, and I figured it might be relevant. I'm personally going to try to resolve some of the issues I see with the article, but I would definitely welcome other voices in the discussion, as I do related research and probably have not only conscious but unconscious biases on the matter. Aeffenberger (talk) 20:09, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I saw the comment at Talk:Neuroscience, and my reaction is that there would be WP:DUE issues. I'm not questioning that the study is significant, but in the overall breadth of neuroscience, it's not that significant. It's probably a lot more due at pages specifically about Alzheimer's. --Tryptofish (talk) 01:15, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Neuroqueer theory#Split?

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Neuroqueer theory#Split? that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abesca (talk) 04:38, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Depression (mood)#Requested move 5 March 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Depression (mood)#Requested move 5 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Abesca (talk) 07:46, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request relevant to this project: Cerebral organoid

Just notifying members of this project that there is a Conflict of Interest edit request relevant to this WikiProject at the Cerebral organoid article. DrThneed (talk) 23:50, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Let's move "Category:Molecular neuroscience" into "Category:Basic neuroscience research".

Please see: Category talk:Molecular neuroscience#Let's move "Category:Molecular neuroscience" into "Category:Basic neuroscience research". and share your opinion about it there.

Ion Soggo (talk) 02:54, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

On April 9, 2026, I moved Category:Molecular neuroscience from Category:Branches of neuroscience to Category:Basic neuroscience research. Ion Soggo (talk) 21:02, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Melanie Walker nominated for deletion

The "Melanie Walker" was re-listed the second time. Link: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melanie Walker. George Ho (talk) 20:56, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Dopamine is not a neurotoxin

Please see: Category talk:Dopamine#Dopamine is not a neurotoxin and share your opinion about it there. Ion Soggo (talk) 16:28, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Not all acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are neurotoxins

Please see Category talk:Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors#Not all acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are neurotoxins and share your opinion about it there. Ion Soggo (talk) 22:54, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Request for review: Draft:Caswell Barry

I would like to flag for review a draft biography of an academic neuroscientist that was declined at AfC in December 2025 on `prof` boilerplate and has since been substantially rewritten:

• Draft: Draft:Caswell Barry
• Subject: Caswell Barry, Professor of Neuroscience and AI at UCL, Vice Dean (Research) for UCL Faculty of Life Sciences.
• Notability claim (WP:NACADEMIC): the subject has joint first authorship on the 2018 Nature paper with DeepMind on grid-cell-like representations in artificial agents (Banino, Barry et al., widely covered in international press); third authorship on the 2010 Nature paper that first identified grid-cell-like signals in the human brain (Doeller, Barry, Burgess); co-authorship on the 2020 Cell paper on the Tolman–Eichenbaum machine; and ~10,900 citations / h-index 41 per Google Scholar. He held a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship (Wellcome / Royal Society, 2013–2018) and a Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship (since 2018).
• Rewrite vs declined version: the lead now states the WP:NACADEMIC C1 and C7 claims explicitly; independent secondary sources (FT, Guardian, Wired, Quanta, Scientific American, Nature News, Kirkus Reviews, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) are placed adjacent to each notability claim; SHD and SRF are independently sourced via Royal Society and Wellcome scheme pages.

I am the subject and have declared COI on my user page and on the draft talk page. I would value an independent review and, ideally, submission by an unconnected editor with experience of academic biographies. I am happy to make any changes suggested.

Many thanks. CaswellBarry (talk) 16:47, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

I am going to review Draft:Caswell Barry.

Ion Soggo (talk) 17:34, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction needs updating

The Postoperative cognitive dysfunction article is in serious need of updating and copyediting. It was created in 2006, and many of the statements cite 2006/2007 references, when much less was known. I've added a citation from 2024 that seems to summarize the current research. However, updating the article is a larger task than I'm able to tackle at this time. I'm hoping that a member of this project would adopt the article and get it into good shape. The topic has far reaching implications and it would be great if Wikipedia's article could be a good resource for readers interested in the topic.

Comment: The article was tagged to Medicine WikiProject as mid-importance article. It seems that this should also be under Neuroscience.

— ERcheck (talk) 01:45, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

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Proposed to remove category Laboratory rodents from category Molecular neuroscience

@Tryptofish: Following your suggestion, I proposed to remove Category:Laboratory rodents from its current parent categories Category:Molecular neuroscience and Category:Molecular genetics. Please discuss at Category talk:Laboratory rodents. Ion Soggo (talk) 01:55, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Remove category Ion channels from categories Molecular neuroscience and Neurochemistry

I proposed to remove Category:Ion channels from its parent categories Category:Molecular neuroscience and Category:Neurochemistry. Kindly, express your opinion at Category talk:Ion channels.

Ion Soggo (talk) 17:07, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder#Requested move 25 May 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder#Requested move 25 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 08:56, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Make category Ion channels a subcategory of Membrane channels

I proposed to to make Category:Ion channels a sub-category of Category:Membrane channels. Kindly, share your opinion at Category talk:Ion channels#Make this category a subcategory of Membrane channels.

Ion Soggo (talk) 02:12, 12 June 2026 (UTC)