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Computational Neuroscience (CN) is an interdisciplinary field that combines neuroscience, mathematics, artificial intelligence, theoretical models and experimental data to understand how the brain works. It unravels the intricacies of the nervous system contributing significantly to cognitive science, neuroengineering and machine learning. CN importance in artificial intelligence and medical research remains underrepresented in Africa's academic landscape. This paper explores the current state of CN in Africa, the challenges hindering its integration, the emerging opportunities, and the evidence-based strategies for curriculum implementation. Capacity building, interdisciplinary collaboration, open science, theoretical neuroscience, development of local capacity, and leveraging international partnerships are emphasized.
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The Journal of Computational Neuroscience provides a forum for papers that fit the interface between computational and experimental work in the neurosciences. The Journal of Computational Neuroscience publishes full length original papers, rapid communications and review articles describing theoretical and experimental work relevant to computations in the brain and nervous system. Papers that combine theoretical and experimental work are especially encouraged. Primarily theoretical papers should deal with issues of obvious relevance to biological nervous systems. Experimental papers should have implications for the computational function of the nervous system, and may report results using any of a variety of approaches including anatomy, electrophysiology, biophysics, imaging, and molecular biology. Papers investigating the physiological mechanisms underlying pathologies of the nervous system, or papers that report novel technologies of interest to researchers in computational neuroscience, including advances in neural data analysis methods yielding insights into the function of the nervous system, are also welcomed (in this case, methodological papers should include an application of the new method, exemplifying the insights that it yields).It is anticipated that all levels of analysis from cognitive to cellular will be represented in the Journal of Computational Neuroscience.
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