Neurophysics
The Neurophysics is a part of biophysics and neuroscience , which deals with the application and development of physical concepts and measurement methods for the study of the nervous system busy. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience, the term "neurophysics" is used relatively rarely. Nevertheless, some departments or working groups of public institutes in Germany have the name in their name.
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Term used in neuroscience
Since neuroscience is highly interdisciplinary, there is usually no distinction made between disciplines such as neurobiology, neurophysics, neuropharmacology, etc. However, if reference is to be made to the methodological workings of a certain discipline (such as biology, physics, pharmacology, etc.), such a distinction is often made.
While most areas of neuroscience are more likely to be assigned to neurobiology due to the way they work, theoretical neuroscience , for example, is more likely to be assigned to neurophysics, since the concepts and methods used mainly originate from the theoretical physics of complex systems . Research into many phenomena at the cellular level, such as ion channel dynamics or cell motility , is also referred to as neuro (bio) physics if the methods used come from experimental biophysics. Neurophysics is sometimes used when the measured quantities are "typically physical" quantities such as electrical voltage, speed or mechanical tension.
Term in physics
In order to refer to the specific research area within a discipline such as physics, terms are used for subject areas such as biophysics, particle physics, material physics, etc. In the course of the increasing importance of neuroscience, the term neurophysics specifically refers to the physical research of neuronal systems as an independent one Subject area taken, which would otherwise be assigned to biophysics and / or the physics of complex systems.