Neurology

Neurology, the sum of disciplines covering the study of both healthy and diseased nervous systems. Thus it includes descriptive anatomy, comparative anatomy, embryology, histology (including the doctrine of conducting pathways) of the nervous system, chemistry of nervous tissue, normal and comparative physiology, cytophysiology, clinical neuropathology with all its branches, comparative neuropathology, neurological statistics, racial and geographical neuropathology, pediatric and school neuropathology, neurogenetics, neurohygiene, and social neurology. In a broader interpretation, the concept of N. also includes analogous sections concerning the study of psychic life (psychoneurology). N. is thus a cycle of separate specialties that are in contact with each other. In medicine, this term is often used as equivalent to the term "neuropathology."