Nature of Neurons creates educational materials that begin with the structures and signals themselves. We look at how they are built, where they are found, what they interact with and how their behaviour changes with context.
That might begin with an ion moving across a membrane, continue with a receptor and a signalling cascade, and end with a question about how larger systems coordinate activity. Or it might begin with the shape of a hormone molecule and the changes that allow it to be made from another molecule.
Education you can examine
The aim is to offer materials that can be explored rather than merely memorised. Illustrations, diagrams, exercises, questions and visual models should show what is known, what is simplified for teaching and where a more detailed account changes the picture.
Children and adults can be curious about the same biology at different levels of complexity. Accessibility should not require removing the interesting details.
Part of The School of Abnormal
Nature of Neurons supplies biological learning materials for the school's broader questions. It can help readers investigate action, inhibition, sensation, learning, hormonal feedback and neural diversity.
Bring a question about a receptor, a neuron, a hormone or a process you have never seen explained properly. That question can become the beginning of a lesson.