Research Insight: Neuroscience

Abstract

Neuroscience is the technical study of the nervous system. By tradition, neuroscience is acknowledged as a branch of biology. However, it is presently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine (including neurology), genetics, and allied disciplines including philosophy, physics, and psychology. It likewise wields an influence on other fields, such as neuroeducation, neuroethics, and neurolaw. The medical term neurobiology is often used with neuroscience, even though the former refers unambiguously to the biology of the nervous system, whereas the latter mentions to the entire science of the nervous system, including elements of psychology as well as the wholly physical sciences.