The branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system's structure and function is called?

• A. Anatomy
• B. Physiology
• C. Neurology
• D. Pathology

Answer: (C)

Neurology is the medical branch that focuses on disorders of the nervous system, integrating knowledge of how the brain, spinal cord, and nerves are built with how they work in health and disease. This field is responsible for diagnosing and treating conditions that affect structure and function, such as headaches, seizures, nerve injuries, stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. Anatomy is the study of the body's physical structure, and physiology is the study of how those structures function; neither alone describes a medical specialty that treats nervous system disorders. Pathology, meanwhile, looks at disease processes and tissue changes, often in lab analysis, rather than the clinical practice of managing nervous system conditions. So the best fit for a branch dealing with both structure and function of the nervous system in a medical context is neurology.