About

About AXON

AXON exists to make neuroscience more popular and easier to learn. It is a bilingual atlas where you can turn 3D structure, read short clinical notes beside the models, explore MRI-style scans, and keep papers and open textbooks in one place — so more people can see how the nervous system works.

Who it is for

Students, educators, publishers, researchers, and curious readers with a strong interest in neuroscience and neurobiology. The UI stays bilingual so learners in Azerbaijan and readers abroad can use the same atlas.

What you will find

  • Atlases — 3D viewers for neuron, synapse, meninges, cortex, brainstem, pathways, and more.
  • Brain Bee prep — anatomy and function quizzes with 3D atlas links, plus a patient-diagnosis drill.
  • Brain scans — MRI-style exploration with region context.
  • Articles — a curated shelf with original commentary and legal access links only.
  • Books — open textbooks you can read here when redistribution is allowed, plus link-only sources when it is not.
  • Publish — propose a paper, book, or 3D atlas structure for review.

How proposals are reviewed

Publish is a review workflow, not an open upload. You can propose a research article, a book, or a 3D atlas structure. Submit the details and licence answers (articles and books also include a short original summary). Next, the site author receives the proposal, checks accuracy and rights, then decides whether the proposed work gets published on this site.

A short history of neuroscience

In Plato’s Athens, the Timaeus already imagined the marrow‑pathways of the head as a seat where soul and body meet—speculative, yet pointing toward the brain as the organ of command long before microscopy. Galen’s Roman anatomy, preserved and debated through late antiquity and the medieval world, tied ventricles and nerves to sensation and motion; Islamic Golden Age physicians refined cranial observations in clinics and commentary, carrying classical questions forward with new precision. Renaissance dissections opened the folded cerebrum to systematic drawing; the nineteenth century added the cell doctrine and electrophysiology, turning philosophy’s old guess into measurable biology.

Who’s behind AXON

Omar Garagozov

Founder · student at Oxbridge Academy, Baku

Omar’s research interest is hearing and balance neuroscience. He has written a scoping review on how migraine affects the inner ear, observes neurosurgical operations alongside a neurosurgeon, and is the author of the book A Healthy Mind.

He started AXON so that students in Azerbaijan can prepare for the Brain Bee in their own language, for free.

Licences & teaching use

We host open textbooks only when the licence clearly allows redistribution (Creative Commons or public domain), with attribution. Several hosted titles are NonCommercial (NC) — while those files are on AXON, this site does not carry advertising or sell products tied to them. Free-to-read works without redistribution rights stay as external links. Article summaries are original commentary, not publisher abstracts.