NEUROSCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neuroscience mean? 

• NEUROSCIENCE (noun)
  The noun NEUROSCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the scientific study of the nervous system

  Familiarity information: NEUROSCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROSCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The scientific study of the nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("neuroscience" is a kind of...):

neurobiology (the branch of biology that deals with the anatomy and physiology and pathology of the nervous system)

Domain member category:

axonal (of or relating to or resembling an axon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neuroscience"):

neurophysiology (the branch of neuroscience that studies the physiology of the nervous system)

brain science (the branch of neuroscience concerned with the brain)

cognitive neuroscience (the branch of neuroscience that studies the biological foundations of mental phenomena)

Derivation:

neuroscientist (a neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain)

 Context examples 

A branch of neuroscience concerned with the physiology of the nervous system.

(Neurophysiology, NCI Thesaurus)

The cynomolgus monkey is most commonly utilized in the pre-clinical setting for neuroscience pre-clinical research and has also been shown to be a reservoir for the Ebola virus, monkey pox, and B-virus.

(Cynomolgus Maritius Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

These results show once again the importance of cognitive neuroscience also in the understanding of extremely topical clinical fields such as dietary disorders.

(Our Weight Tells How We Assess Food, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The finding by a European team of researchers has also made it possible to analyse the scientific basis of consciousness, an increasingly important field of neuroscience.

(Brain Is Still 'Connected' during Non-REM Sleep, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In pre-clinical research, the ferret is used most commonly in toxicological screening and studies involving human influenza virus, as well as studies in reproductive physiology, anatomy, endocrinology and neuroscience.

(Ferret, NCI Thesaurus)

"Nearly every disease killing us in later life has a causal link to lack of sleep," said the article's senior author, Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor of psychology and neuroscience.

(Deep Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A model used in behavioral neuroscience to study behavioral processes and plasticity, memory, learning and perceptual processes and underlying neural mechanisms such as the cellular changes and modulations in sensory transduction and their evolutionary control.

(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)

By pooling resources and expertise, the Blueprint takes advantage of economies of scale, confronts challenges too large for any single institute or center, and develops research tools and infrastructure that serve the entire neuroscience community.

(Blueprint for Neuroscience, NCI Thesaurus)

NIH Emphasis Area — New emphasis on the biology of brain disorders reflects the extraordinary rate at which the neurosciences, with strong support from the fields of molecular genetics, imaging, and cell biology, is growing.

(Biology of the Brain Disorders, NCI Thesaurus)