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Article: Neurosciences
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Neurosciences
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and its function. Since the nervous system can be studied at many levels
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from the molecular structure of nerve cell membranes to the whole-brain functions involved in the highest of human mental activity
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neuroscience is a multidisciplinary field. Neuroscientists might study the nervous systems of simple creatures (e.g., sea slugs), more complex animals (e.g., rats, cats, and monkeys), or human beings. At meetings of the Society for Neuroscience one finds over ten thousand scientists representing a wide variety of fields such as microbiology, histology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, physiological ...