TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuropsychiatry
T2 - Definitions, Concepts, and Patient Types
AU - Koliatsos, Vassilis E.
AU - Wisner-Carlson, Robert
AU - Watkins, Crystal
N1 - Funding Information:
A grant from the Leonard & Elen R. Stulman Foundation, Spyros N. Lemos Memorial Fund, and the Sidran Family Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Author(s)
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Evolutionary biology
KW - Medicine
KW - Neuroanatomy
KW - Neurology
KW - Neuropathology
KW - Neuroplasticity
KW - Neuroscience
KW - Psychiatry
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U2 - 10.1016/j.psc.2020.02.007
DO - 10.1016/j.psc.2020.02.007
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32439018
AN - SCOPUS:85085070768
SN - 0193-953X
VL - 43
SP - 213
EP - 227
JO - Psychiatric Clinics of North America
JF - Psychiatric Clinics of North America
IS - 2
ER -