Our nervous system is composed of our brain, spine and connecting nerves. A neurologist and neurosurgeon both treat patients with neurological disorders that impact the brain, spinal cord, nerves and their surrounding and supporting structures. Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, central and peripheral nervous system, and cerebrovascular system. Neuropathology is a specialty within the study of pathology focused on the disease of the brain, spinal cord, and neural tissue. This includes the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. Tissue analysis comes from either surgical biopsies or post mortem autopsies. Neurologists and neurosurgeons both diagnose and manage nervous system disorders, but neurologists do not perform surgery.

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