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Brain disorder: An umbrella term for medical conditions describing a significant deviation in brain structure or function from what is typical for our species. [e]

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  • Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. [e]
  • Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
  • Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
  • Disease [r]: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. [e]
  • Pathology [r]: The medical specialty that is expert in the use of laboratory methods to support clinicians in diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis [e]
  • 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]
  • Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]

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