Neuropathology

thumb|Micrograph of a [[vasculitic neuropathy. Plastic embedded. Toluidine blue stain.]] Neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system tissue, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole-body autopsies. Neuropathologists usually work in a department of anatomic pathology, but work closely with the clinical disciplines of neurology, and neurosurgery, which often depend on neuropathology for a diagnosis. Neuropathology also relates to forensic pathology because brain disease or brain injury can be related to cause of death. Neuropathology should not be confused with

spherical inclusion commonly found in damaged neurons

in microbiology

sleep disorder that involves abnormal behavior including the acting out of violent or dramatic dreams during the sleep phase with rapid eye movement

intracellular mass of paired, helically wound protein filaments lying in the cytoplasm of neuronal cell bodies and neuritic cell processes

Synucleins are a family of soluble proteins common to vertebrates, primarily expressed in neural tissue and in certain tumors.

rare disease

thumb|This drawing compares a normal neuron to one undergoing chromatolysis after axonal injury. Regeneration after axonal injury may occur.

cell type