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The Neuroscientist

The Neuroscientist is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Neuroscientist rather than just read about it. In short: The Neuroscientist is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Neurology and Neuroscience. The journal's editor is Stephen G Waxman (Yale University).

Key takeaways

The Neuroscientist belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Neuroscientist to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Neuroscientist from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Neuroscientist is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Neurology and Neuroscience. The journal's editor is Stephen G Waxman (Yale University). It has been in publication since 1995 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Scope The Neuroscientist is aimed at basic neuroscientists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and psychiatrists in research, academic, and clinical settings, reviewing new and emerging basic and clinical neuroscience research. The journal evaluates key trends in molecular, cellular, developmental, behavioral systems, and cognitive neuroscience in a disease-relevant format.

Abstracting and indexing The Neuroscientist is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2013/2014 impact factor is 6.837, ranking it 11 out of 194 journals in the category ‘Clinical Neurology’. and 25 out of 185 journals in the category ‘Clinical Neurology’.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Neuroscientist

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Neuroscientist claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Neuroscientist before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Neuroscientist ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Neuroscientist

In research: The Neuroscientist appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Neuroscientist in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Neuroscientist is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Bimonthly journals, English-language journals, Neurology journal stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Neuroscientist outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Neuroscientist in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Neuroscientist means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Neuroscientist out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Neuroscientist in simple terms?

The Neuroscientist is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Neurology and Neuroscience. The journal's editor is Stephen G Waxman (Yale University).

Why does The Neuroscientist matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Neuroscientist?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Neuroscientist.