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)

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)

Make category Ionotropic receptors a subcategory of Ion channels

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

Ion Soggo (talk) 01:39, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Schizophrenia under fourth FA review

I have nominated Schizophrenia for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria, or help improve the article. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regard to the article's featured status (see review instructions). George Ho (talk) 07:51, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

REBUS needs expansion

REBUS currently consists of a single sentence and a references list. The topic is well-cited (Carhart-Harris & Friston 2019 in Pharmacological Reviews, plus several follow-up papers including the 2025 REBAS revision), so it appears notable, but the article doesn't explain the model itself or anything about the topic. Could use attention from someone familiar with psychedelics, neuroscience, or psychology. -From a passing Wikipedian Bluefist ^talk 19:09, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for flagging this. I pruned some redundant source listings from the further reading section, so there may not necessarily be that much WP:INDEPENDENT sourcing. For now, I'll be watchlisting it, in case other editors come up with better ideas or more sourcing, but I have a feeling that it might be appropriate to merge it to Karl Friston. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:23, 18 August 2026 (UTC)

Rearranging subsections in "Histamine"

I proposed to move two subsections to section "Disorders" in article Histamine. please share your thoughts at Talk:Histamine#Shall we move "Schizophrenia" and "Multiple sclerosis" to "Disorders"?

Ion Soggo (talk) 03:27, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

COI edit request: Randolph Nudo

There is a pending COI edit request at Talk:Randolph Nudo concerning expansion of the Career section and addition of a Research section. I am the subject of the biography and therefore am not making the edits directly. The request includes proposed text and sources. If an uninvolved editor with neuroscience expertise has time to review it, I would appreciate it. Thank you. FilefishItalia (talk) 11:37, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

I did, thanks. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:08, 25 August 2026 (UTC)

Deorphaning request: Frank Krueger (COI)

Declaring a conflict of interest up front: I am the subject of Frank Krueger, declared at User:XiyuanWFlora and on the article's talk page. The article came through AfC on 15 August 2026 and carries an {{Orphan}} tag — no article currently links to it.

My papers are already cited in a number of articles in this project's scope, so in each case the link would be routine rather than promotional. Because of the COI I would rather not add them myself. Would someone here be willing to look at these?

• Cognitive specialization — the prose already reads "Krueger et al. (2007) have argued that trust…", so this is only a pipe to Krueger.
• Neuromorality — cites Moll, Zahn, de Oliveira-Souza, Krueger & Grafman (2005).
• Altruism — cites Moll, Krueger et al. (2006) on charitable donation.
• Reciprocity (social psychology) — cites Krueger et al. (2017), "Neural signatures of trust in reciprocity".
• Social emotions — cites Zahn, Moll, Krueger et al. on social concepts.
• Neural synchrony — cites Krueger et al. (2016) on interpersonal brain synchronisation.
• Sexual dimorphism in human bonding — cites a paper I edited.

Three or four of these would clear the tag. If editors think a link is not warranted in a given context, that is of course a perfectly good answer too. Thanks. XiyuanWFlora (talk) 07:43, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for following the COI guideline. I have added links to Cognitive specialization: , Altruism: , and Reciprocity (social psychology): , and removed the orphan tag: . --Tryptofish (talk) 17:22, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you — that was quick, and much appreciated. I will keep working through talk pages rather than editing the article directly. XiyuanWFlora (talk) 01:09, 31 August 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Lancet MMR vaccine-autism report#Requested move 23 August 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Lancet MMR vaccine-autism report#Requested move 23 August 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 17:11, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Possible biography: Marsel Mesulam

I am M. Marsel Mesulam and am therefore disclosing a conflict of interest. I will not create or directly edit an article about myself.

I have posted a request at WikiProject Biography/Science and academia, with independent sources concerning my work on primary progressive aphasia, neurocognitive networks, attention, and neurodegenerative disease. I wanted to alert WikiProject Neuroscience in case an uninvolved editor is interested in assessing or developing the article.

Thank you. Pass386 (talk) 19:33, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

Second opinion wanted: COI edit request at Talk:Frank Krueger

Declaring a conflict of interest up front: I am the subject of Frank Krueger, declared at User:XiyuanWFlora and on the article's talk page.

On 31 August I posted a COI edit request with two parts. Tryptofish handled the second (removing a leftover AfC comment) and deliberately left the first open, saying he would rather see what someone else thinks. Three weeks on, nobody has, so I am flagging it here rather than letting it sit quietly in the queue.

The open part is adding a short Education section — two sentences on a physics master's from the Free University of Berlin and a psychology master's, 2001 doctorate and habilitation from the Humboldt University of Berlin. It is sourced entirely to the George Mason University directory page already cited in the article, and if it is added, the second sentence of the lead becomes redundant and could go.

Proposed wording and the source quote are at Talk:Frank Krueger#COI edit request: Education section. If the view is that it is not worth adding, that is a perfectly good answer too. Thanks. XiyuanWFlora (talk) 04:47, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

I'll just add by way of clarification that I don't have any specific concerns, but it's more like I think it would be best to have another set of eyes on what is WP:DUE, rather than me making the decision unilaterally. If no one else responds here, you could also post at WT:PROF, but with the knowledge that editors watching there will be particularly focused on notability and deletion. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:53, 20 September 2026 (UTC)