When tagging a question I was going to chose neurology - using the 'ology' as previously discussed but neuroscience is the preferred choice at present.
Would anyone object to renaming neuroscience to neurology to avoid having a 'special case'?
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$\begingroup$ I think we're introducing some errors in terminology in some cases here by trying to use the more professional terms. But I'm not an expert in the definition of all those fields, so I don't necesarily notice those problems. $\endgroup$– Mad ScientistMay 3, 2012 at 20:26
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$\begingroup$ Neuroscience was already pushing the bounds of overlap with CogSci.SE; neurology would really be overstepping those bounds, no? $\endgroup$– Artem KaznatcheevJul 20, 2012 at 10:18
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Neuroscience is a far more general term, and probably the best one to use for tagging. Neurology is about disorders of the nervous system, while neuroscience is the study of the nervous system.
I'd say that neuroscience is at the correct level for tagging, and that we don't need a neurology tag so far.
answered May 3, 2012 at 20:24