User:Barnarev/Neuromorphology

Wikipedia Proposal: Neuromorphology
Stanley Cooper, Susan Chan, Sahaan Sozhamannan, Evangelina Barnard

Introduction
Neuromorphology studies the formation and interaction of the geometrical properties of nervous systems.

Theoretical Neuromorphology

 * Branch of neuromorphology focused on the mathematical description of the shape, structure and connectivity of the nervous system.

Gravitational Neuromorphology

 * The study of the effects of altered gravity on the development of the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems.

Medical Implications

 * Medical research in neuromorphology is used in studying various neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia.

Techniques for Studying Neuromorphology

 * current: confocal microscopy, neuron tracing, neuron reconstruction.
 * future: virtual microscopy, automated stereology, cortical mapping, map guided automated neuron tracing, network analysis.

Current and Future Research on Neuromorphology

 * Computational Neuromorphology
 * Researches neurons by cutting the neurons into slices and studying these different subsections.

Workload Division Plan
Stanley Cooper and Susan Chan will primarily be doing research in the library looking for secondary sources, while Sahaan Sozhamannan and  Evangelina Barnard will be researching through online databases and journals. All four of us will be meeting periodically to go over research we have found, and working on editing our project page. Specifically, Evangelina Barnard will be focusing on the medical implications and directions of neuromorphology, Stanley Cooper will be focusing on gravitational neuromorphology, Sahaan Sozhamannan will be focusing on theoretical neuromorphology, and Susan Chan will be focusing on techniques for studying and research on neuromorphology.