We have great hopes for “Action Potential”. But it’s also an experiment, which may fail. If you’ve ever participated in an online discussion forum you have probably seen that they can be ruined by “spam” and “trolls”. Here are our ground rules (these may change with time):

1. Anything neuroscience, or affecting neuroscience, is fair game. But we will not discuss football leagues, supreme court nominees, or the Tibet question. Grossly off-topic comments will be deleted.

2. We want to strongly encourage you to use your real name, and to provide your email address when commenting. Your name, but not your email address, will appear online with your post. It is possible to comment using an alias, BUT…

3. We will not tolerate any anonymous criticism, be it of us or others, papers in NN or elsewhere. Critical comments are very welcome, but you must sign with your real name and email address. There’s a good chance we’ll double-check with you via email before putting your strongly critical comment live online. Once more, participants’ email addresses remain confidential; you do not need to fear a spam attack when commenting on “Action Potential”.

Once again – welcome!!