Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system.
Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of
biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science
that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer
science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine and
allied disciplines, philosophy, physics, and psychology. The
term neurobiology is usually used interchangeably with the term
neuroscience, although the former refers specifically to the
biology 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
molecular, cellular, developmental, structural, functional,
evolutionary, computational, and medical aspects of the nervous
system. The techniques used by neuroscientists have also
expanded enormously, from molecular and cellular studies of
individual nerve cells to imaging of sensory and motor tasks in
the brain. Recent theoretical advanc