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Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. ^[e]
Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
Psychosis [r]: A brain disorder characterized by severely distorted sensory perception. ^[e]

Delusion [r]: A belief with no basis in reality, or shared with a person's culture, that persists despite evidence to the contrary. ^[e]
Hallucination [r]: Perception of objects, sounds, or sensations having no demonstrable reality, usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system or in response to certain drugs. ^[e]

Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. ^[e]
Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. ^[e]
Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. ^[e]

Synapse [r]: Contact point between neurons and other cells, crucial for nerve signalling ^[e]
Synaptic pruning [r]: The usage-controlled loss of connections between nerve cells during brain development. ^[e]
Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. ^[e]
Dopamine [r]: A monoamine neurotransmitter formed in the brain by the decarboxylation of dopa and essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. ^[e]
GABA [r]: Add brief definition or description

Lipid metabolism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Genomic imprinting [r]: A genetic phenomenon by which certain genes are expressed in a parent-of-origin-specific manner. ^[e]

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+{{r|Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder}}
 ==Biographies==
 {{r|Emil Kraepelin}}