Neuropsychiatry: Definitions, Concepts, and Patient Types

Vassilis E. Koliatsos, Robert Wisner-Carlson, Crystal Watkins

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Abstract

Neuropsychiatry is an integrative discipline defined by its history, its preferred patients, and its theoretic framework. Dealing with human behavior needs to consider the brain, but such consideration should avoid oversimplification: neurologic understanding is not essential, necessary, or desirable in all conditions encountered in clinical psychiatry. Neuropsychiatric theory is founded on discoveries in the areas of synaptic plasticity and cortical/limbic anatomy (bottom-up), but also evolutionary biology and anthropology (top-down). Going forward, we need to synthesize vital information, distinguish the essential from the trivial or tenuous, and remain open to dialogue with allied disciplines, our patients, and our students.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)213-227
Number of pages15
JournalPsychiatric Clinics of North America
Volume43
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2020

Keywords

  • Evolutionary biology
  • Medicine
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Neurology
  • Neuropathology
  • Neuroplasticity
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Psychiatry and Mental health

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