Talk:Behavioral neuroscience

message: After editing biological psychology, I discovered that the behavioral neuroscience page redirected to biological psychology.  I did not feel this was appropriate or desirable.
I did not feel it was appropriate because the two fields are, to my mind, distinct.  They overlap almost completely in methodology, and they overlap considerably in terms of the scientists involved, but they are philosophically different and they emphasize different facts of nature.  Biological psychology is directed at understanding behavior and thought; behavioral neuroscience is directed at understanding the organization of the nervous system.
I did not feel it was desirable because the Psychology article talks about its subfields, which should allow a link to a standalone article on that subfield.  The neuroscience article also lists its subfields, with the appropriate links.  To have a neuroscience article link to a psychology subfield, or vice versa, made navigation pretty disorganized.
I know it is also not desirable to have overlap, so there may be others who would consider merging in the future.  I wanted to state my reasons for preferring a separation.
SJS1971 23:09, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *That's true. And it would be challenging to define the two coherently as being different. My point was mainly that Behav Neurosci is used much more frequently than Biological Psychology. I would have no problem with redirecting that article to this one (and merging the two, as the biopsy article is actually much more detailed than this one). I'm leaving in an hour for a trip abroad, so I won't have time to do this for the coming week, so feel free to go ahead, otherwise I'll take care of it when I get back. --Crusio (talk) 06:42, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

text: *I will leave it to you make the appropriate changes then. No rush. I guess in the meantime, we could place a banner suggesting that biopsychology be a redirect to behavioral neuroscience. mezzaninelounge (talk) 14:08, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Page From Redirect 

message: I just reverted a change to the references that modified the reference to be to a more recent edition of the work originally referenced.  Since the prior edition was the original basis for the article, it should remain the reference of record unless substantive changes to the article are made based on material in the new edition.
The Uninvited Co., Inc. 15:53, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: Somebody (whoever you are please stop immediately) keeps redirecting David Jay Brown's Wikipedia page to here. There is no logic in this redirect. I am also going into Wikipedia help files now to report this issue regarding this page.
This message is also posted on David's talk page.
Altogether (talk) 17:49, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Editors Please Help

message: I'm concerned about the capitalization of "Behavioral Neuroscience."  I have seen it always where both are capitalized, so I believe this page should have both as well. It is a specific field. It also looks very unprofessional for it to not be.
sau (talk) 20:00, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This is just a practice from Wikipedia's manual of style and is not a problem here. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 01:31, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: This sort of violates WP:FORUM so make responses short and sweet, please. :) My guess is the difference is moot and tied up in technicalities 137.124.161.31 (talk) 21:31, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The difference appears to be one of emphasis. Neuroethology is generally more concerned with "natural behaviors" of animals. Common topics in neuroethology include migratory behavior of birds or cricket song []. Behavioral neuroscience is generally more focused on topics that are of clinical interests such as sensation and perception, learning and memory, psychopharmacology, circadian rhythms, disease states (e.g., Alzheimer's) []. Of course, there will be overlaps for sure. But in general, biologists tend to study neuroethology whereas psychologists (or biopsychologists) and biomedical scientists tend to study behavioral neuroscience. My two cents. danielkueh (talk) 19:45, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differences between Behavioral Neurobiology and Neuroethology? 

message: I think that expanding on some of the fundamental ideas that guide research design could use some further hashing out to make the articles more accessible to the public. I've included a small example of this in the Limitations section, but that sort of theme would probably benefit the article as a whole. On the topic of the section I edited, specifically, it feels like we are relying far too much on a single citation to guide it, I'll put some work into it over the next few days. Di4gram (talk) 17:15, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advantages and Limitations