Neuroscience
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<b>Neuroscience</b> is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science" title="Science" >scientific study</a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system" title="Nervous system" >nervous system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup> Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology" title="Biology" >biology</a>. However, it is currently an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary" title="Interdisciplinary" class="mw-redirect" >interdisciplinary</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science" title="Science" >science</a>that collaborates with other fields such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry" >chemistry</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science" >computer science</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering" title="Engineering" >engineering</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics" >linguistics</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics" title="Mathematics" >mathematics</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine" title="Medicine" >medicine</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_health_professions" title="Allied health professions" >allied disciplines</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy" >philosophy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics" title="Physics" >physics</a>, and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology" >psychology</a>. </p>
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The term <b>neurobiology</b> is usually used interchangeably with the term neuroscience, although the former refers specifically to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology" title="Biology" >biology</a> of the nervous system, whereas the latter refers to the entire science of the nervous system.
The scope of neuroscience has broadened to include different approaches used to study the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_biology" title="Molecular biology" >molecular</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_neuroscience" title="Cellular neuroscience" >cellular</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_development" title="Neural development" >developmental</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroanatomy" title="Neuroanatomy" >structural</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurophysiology" title="Neurophysiology" >functional</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_neuroscience" title="Evolutionary neuroscience" >evolutionary</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience" title="Computational neuroscience" >computational</a>, and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurological_disorders" title="Neurological disorders" class="mw-redirect" >medical</a> aspects of the nervous system. The techniques used by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscientist" title="Neuroscientist" >neuroscientists</a> have also expanded enormously, from molecular and cellular studies of individual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron" title="Neuron" >nerve cells</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_mapping" title="Brain mapping" >imaging</a>of sensory and motor tasks in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain" title="Brain" >brain</a>. Recent theoretical advances in neuroscience have also been aided by the study of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network" title="Neural network" >neural networks</a>.
Given the increasing number of scientists who study the nervous system, several prominent neuroscience organizations have been formed to provide a forum to all neuroscientists and educators. For example, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Brain_Research_Organization" title="International Brain Research Organization" >International Brain Research Organization</a> was founded in 1960,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience#cite_note-1" >[2]</a></sup> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Neurochemistry" title="International Society for Neurochemistry" >International Society for Neurochemistry</a> in 1963,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience#cite_note-2" >[3]</a></sup> the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Brain_and_Behaviour_Society" title="European Brain and Behaviour Society" >European Brain and Behaviour Society</a> in 1968,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience#cite_note-3" >[4]</a></sup> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Neuroscience" title="Society for Neuroscience" >Society for Neuroscience</a> in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience#cite_note-4" >[5]</a></sup></p>