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Parent topics

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. [e]
• Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
• Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]

Subtopics

• Schizophrenia [r]: A mental disorder characterized by impaired perception of the individual's environment. [e]
• Autism [r]: Developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. [e]
• Alzheimer's disease [r]: A degenerative disease of the brain characterized by the insidious onset of dementia. Impairment of memory, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills are followed by severe apraxias and a global loss of cognitive abilities (National Library of Medicine). [e]

Other related topics

• Neurology [r]: The medical specialty concerned with evaluating the nervous system and the other system that it affects, and the treatment of nervous system disorders. [e]
• Brain morphometry [r]: The quantification of correlations between structures and functions in the brain. [e]