Neuropathology consists largely of examination of biopsy tissue from thebrain and spinal cord to aid in diagnosis of disease. It is an important aspectfor neurosurgery. The subject often confused with neuropathy deals withlaboratory analysis of tissue samples for personalized diagnosis or forensicinvestigations.
Neurological disorder pathogenesis including related neuronal and glialpathology, the Golgi apparatus, RNA-mediated regulation of gene expression, RNAstability, RNA splicing, signal transduction, and the cytoskeleton may comeunder the part of neuropathology. Research subjects on neurology likedevelopmental neurobiology, developmental neuropathology and biology ofpaediatric and adult brain tumours are recent additional.