Animated Neuroscience

Neuroscience, animated and cited: ten moments in one life, played from inside it. Animated Neuroscience is made for students of psychology, biology, physiology, anatomy, nursing and pre-med, and for anyone who wants to know how the brain and nervous system work. Chapter I is free.

THE CHAPTERS
I. The Table Leg (free): Noor stubs her toe. Pain: nociceptors, the action potential, myelin, A-delta and C fibers, the dorsal horn, the withdrawal reflex and the brain's own pain control.
II. The Near Miss: a car door opens in front of her bike. Fear and stress: the amygdala, adrenaline, the HPA axis and cortisol, emotional memory.
III. The First Song: she learns Teta's melody on the piano. Motor learning: the motor cortex, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, dopamine, LTP and sleep.
IV. The Smell of Cardamom: a jar of cardamom brings back Teta's kitchen. Smell and memory: olfactory neurons, the piriform cortex, the hippocampus, engrams.
V. Sami Forgets: her grandfather loses what happened an hour ago. Alzheimer's disease: the entorhinal cortex, amyloid, tau, synapse loss, microglia.
VI. The Button: after surgery on her broken ankle, she presses her morphine pump. Pain relief: local anaesthetics, COX, endorphins, the μ-opioid receptor, naloxone, tolerance.
VII. The Red-Eye: jet-lagged in her childhood bedroom, she lies awake at 3 a.m. Sleep and the body clock: the suprachiasmatic nucleus, melatonin, adenosine and caffeine, orexin, REM sleep.
VIII. The Cup: at breakfast her mother's words come out wrong and the cup slips. Stroke: the penumbra, excitotoxicity, Broca's and Wernicke's areas, clot retrieval, recovery.
IX. The Dabke: at a wedding she is spun until the room turns. Senses and movement: the cochlea and hair cells, attention, the vestibular system, the muscle spindle.
X. The Walk to the Sea: her brother Yusuf, recovering from depression, asks her for a walk. Mood: serotonin and SSRIs, anhedonia, stress hormones, ketamine, twin studies.
Each chapter ends with a clinical what-if, from diabetic neuropathy and PTSD to narcolepsy and psychosis.

A STORY YOU PLAY
Each chapter is told from inside Noor's nervous system. You don't watch the signal travel. You carry it: hold a nerve ending until it reaches threshold, race a fast fiber against a slow one, drag the reflex through the spinal cord.

A CABINET OF SPECIMENS, EVERY CLAIM CITED
Every structure you meet becomes a 3D specimen in your Cabinet. Its card explains it and names its source in peer-reviewed research or a standard textbook; where the story simplifies, it says how and why. Study view shows which specimens teach each topic of a course outline you pick.

SHORT, SPACED RECALL
While you're away, Noor sleeps. In sleep, the hippocampus replays recent experience, and researchers think this helps memories last. When you come back, a short recall round brings back the specimens that have faded. Recall is capped each day, so a missed day never piles up.

FREE TO START, ONE PURCHASE FOR THE REST
Chapter I is free and stays free, recall included. The Complete Edition is a single purchase that unlocks Chapters II to X, the rest of Noor's story, and every update to them. No subscription, no ads, no account. A purchase made on Google Play doesn't carry over to the App Store.

MADE WITH CARE
• Works offline. The narration for Chapters II to X downloads once from Google Play after you unlock them.
• Collects no data. No analytics, no tracking.
• Sound and haptics can each be turned off.

Animated Neuroscience is a study companion and a story. It isn't exam prep, it isn't a medical device, it doesn't diagnose or treat anything, and it isn't brain training. It won't make you smarter. It explains how your nervous system works.

Recent changes:
Chapters VI to X complete Noor’s story: a morphine pump after surgery (The Button), jet lag at 3 a.m. (The Red-Eye), her mother’s stroke (The Cup), a wedding dance (The Dabke) and her brother’s recovery from depression (The Walk to the Sea). New Study view in the Cabinet: pick a course outline and see which specimens teach each topic. And a smaller download: each chapter’s narration arrives when you unlock it.