What is "neurology"?

What is "neurology"?

Les Weiner (Former Chair of the Department of Neurology, University of Southern California) gives expert video advice on: What are the different areas of the spinal cord, and what are their functions?; How does pain work in the nervous system? and more...

Neurology is a field of medicine concerned with how the brain works, how nerves and muscles work and the diseases that affect them, in brief. Neurology focuses on the central nervous system, which includes the eye, the brain and the spinal cord; and neurology also focuses on the peripheral nervous system (nerves) and also on muscles. So neurology looks at the diseases and the effects on those things. For the most part, neurologists are interested in cognitive and behavioral changes, mostly as they relate to a disease of the brain rather than in terms of the environment. Neurologists think that most psychiatric diseases are probably of an organic nature, like bipolar disease, schizophrenia, etcetera. So they study the brain. Neurologists study how the brain works and so forth, and their branch of medicine is called neurology.