Neuroscience studies are based on biological approaches to psychology. Neuroscience, so-called Neural Science, is the study of how the nervous system develops, structure, and does.
EXPLANATION:
The branches of neuroscience, according to research areas and study subjects can be widely categorized in the following disciplines (neuroscientists often cover several branches at the same time):
•Affective Neuroscience: in many cases, research is conducted on laboratory animals and observes how neurons act in connection to feeling.
•Behavioral Neuroscience: the study of the basis of biological behavior. It observes how the brain influences behavior.
•Cellular neurology: the study of neurons, comprising their shape and physiological assets at the cellular level.
•Clinical Neuroscience: it observes the disorders of the nervous system, while psychiatry, for instance, looking at disorders of the mind.
•Computational Neuroscience: seeks to understand how the brain calculates, uses computers to model and simulate brain functions, and implements techniques from physics, mathematics, and other computational areas to study brain functions.
•Cognitive Neuroscience: the study of the higher cognitive roles that are present in humans, and the fundamental neural basis. Cognitive neuroscience originates from neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Cognitive neuroscientists can take two wide directions; computational/modeling or behavioral/experimental, the purpose is to understand the cognition nature from a neural perspective.
•Cultural Neuroscience: looks at how practices, beliefs, and cultural values are formed by and form the mind, brain, and genes during different periods.
•Development Neuroscience: sees how the nervous system grows on a cellular basis; what the fundamental mechanism present in neurodevelopment.
•Molecular neuroscience: the study of the role of the individual molecule in the nervous system.
•Neuro-engineering: uses techniques of engineering to better understand, repair, replace or enhance the neural system.
•Neuroimaging: a medical imaging branch that focuses on the brain. Neuroimaging is employed to identify diseases and measure brain health. This can also be useful in brain studies, how the brain works, and how various activities influence the brain.
•Neuro-informatics: incorporates data in all fields of neuroscience, to understand the brain and take care of diseases. Neuro-informatics includes obtaining data, sharing, storing and publishing information, analysis, simulation, and modeling.
•Neurolinguistics: learning what neural mechanisms inside the brain organize language acquisition, comprehension, and speech.
•Neurophysiology: observes the relationship of the brain and brain’s functions, and the number of body parts and how they are interconnected. The study of how the nervous system operates, often using physiological methods, such as stimulus with electrodes, light-sensitive channels, or ion or voltage-sensitive dyes.
•Paleoneurology: the brain study that uses fossils as the focus.
•Social Neuroscience: this is an interdisciplinary area devoted to comprehending how biological systems apply social behavior and processes. Social neuroscience collects biological ideas and methods to inform and improve theories of social behavior. It utilizes social and behavioral ideas and data to improve the organizational theory and neural functions.
•Systems Neuroscience: studies the data flow path in the CNS (central nervous system) and attempts to determine the type of processing that occurs there. It utilizes that information to describe behavioral functions.
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KEYWORDS: Neuroscience, Psychology
Subject : Social Studies
Class : 10-12
Sub-Chapter: Neuroscience
