brain science
Studying neural activity
Brain science is the study of the brain and nervous system—how they're structured, how they function, and how they produce behavior and cognition.
The term is informal shorthand for neuroscience, often used when speaking to general audiences: The brain science behind addiction is more complicated than people think.
It emphasizes empirical research over philosophy of mind.
- neuroscienceStudy of nervous systems
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- neuronsSignal-transmitting brain cells
- nerve cellsSignal-transmitting body units
- synapsesNeuron-to-neuron transmission points
cortex · gray matter · thinking · memory · plasticity · consciousness · cerebral · dendrites · prefrontal · hippocampus · amygdala · fight or flight · brainwaves · MRI · gray area · cognitive · neural · psychology
- sciencebiology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology
- Brain Learningneuroplasticity, neural plasticity, neurons, synapses, neural pathways
- psychology booksabnormal psychology, child psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, positive psychology
- Biomedicineanatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, immunology
- psychologypsychology, psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, clinical psychology
brain sciencephilosophy of mind
Study of mental states
armchair philosophy · metaphysics · phenomenology · introspection · folk psychology
brain sciencetheology
Study of the divine
spirituality · religious thought · mysticism · parapsychology · occultism
brain, brains, brained, braining, brainy, brainier, brainiest, science, sciences