Adaptation Statement

This book is an adaptation of two introductory neuroscience OER. Chapters 3-8, 10-17, 19-29, 35-38 and 44 were adapted from Foundations of Neuroscience by Casey Henley which is licensed CC BY NC SA. Chapters 1, 2, 9, 18, 30-34, 38-43, 45-49 were adapted from Introduction to Neuroscience by Valerie Hedges which is licensed CC BY NC SA. Valerie Hedges’s book is also an adaptation of Casey Henley’s book and another introductory neuroscience OER. Many chapters from both Henley’s and Hedges’ versions were excluded from this book.

Avinash Singh, the author of Introduction to Neurobiology, made significant changes to several chapters, added citations as needed, and contributed a new Bioelectricity chapter. He also made significant changes to many of the figures in this book. All the figures that he contributed are licensed under the same license as the text. Figures by Henley and Hedges have license statements included in the caption.