neuroscience

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈnjʊroʊˌsaɪəns/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    The scientific study of the structure, function, development, and disorders of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.; An interdisciplinary field encompassing biology, psychology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and medicine as applied to the study of the nervous system.

🔗 Details

Word forms

uncountable

Collocations

cognitive neurosciencecomputational neurosciencebehavioral neuroscienceneuroscience researchneuroscience departmentsystems neuroscience

Derivatives

neuroscientistneuroscientific

Synonyms

neurobiologybrain science

Commonly confused

neurology
EN: 'Neurology' is the clinical medical specialty dealing with diagnosis and treatment of nervous system disorders; 'neuroscience' is the broader scientific study of the nervous system.
neurobiology
EN: 'Neurobiology' emphasizes the biological aspects of the nervous system; 'neuroscience' is a broader interdisciplinary field encompassing psychology, computation, and philosophy as well.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember the connecting vowel 'o' in the prefix 'neuro-' (from Greek 'neuron'); do not write 'neurscience' or 'neurscience'.

💬 Examples

  1. Advances in neuroscience have greatly improved our understanding of how memory is formed and stored.

  2. She pursued a graduate degree in neuroscience with a focus on computational modeling.