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Please explain why is a brain tumor considered a neurological disorder?

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It's in the brain: Technically speaking anything that happens to nerves is neurological. In medicine diseases that cause structural damage are considered neurological and some of these are surgical diseases. Diseases that cause changes in behavior are psychiatric

Answered 6/9/2014

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