The American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) is a non-profit organization of professionals in
neuropsychiatry
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,
behavioral neurology
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and the
clinical neuroscience
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s, with over 700 members from around the world. Established in 1988, its
mission
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is to improve the lives of people with disorders at the interface of
psychiatry
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and
neurology
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, with the
vision
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of transforming recognition, understanding and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. It founded in 1988 by two academic physicians doubly certified in neurology and psychiatry,
Barry S. Fogel and Randolph Schiffer.
The ANPA holds an annual scientific meeting in the early spring. It has also established Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for its members to enhance peer discussion, education, and potential collaboration. Current SIGs include Clinical Practice,
Conversion Disorders,
Dementia
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,
Developmental Disorders and
Pediatrics, Early Career,
Epilepsy
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,
Forensics,
Global Health
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,
Movement Disorders
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,
Neuroimaging
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and
Traumatic Brain Injury
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.
Some other professional organizations with similar scope include the
British Neuropsychiatry Association
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(BNPA),
Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) Section of Neuropsychiatry, the
International Neuropsychiatric Association
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, and
Neuropsychiatric forum (NPF).
Together with the
Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology
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, the ANPA co-sponsors the
subspecialty certification in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry, offered under the auspices of the
United Council for Neurological Subspecialties
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(UCNS).
The ''
Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
''The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal in the field of neuropsychiatry. It was established in 1989 by Stuart Yudofsky and Robert Hales, with its first issue published that winter. ...
'' (JNCN), published by the
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world. It has more than 37,000 members are involv ...
, is the official journal of the ANPA.
Fellows
Fellows of the ANPA (FANPA) are elected from members with special achievement in neuropsychiatry, behavioral neurology, neuropsychology or the clinical neurosciences. fellows include:
* 2000:
James R. Merikangas, M.D.
Barry S. Fogel, M.D.
Randolph B. Schiffer, M.D.
Gary J. Tucker, M.D.
Trevor R.P.Price, M.D.
Jeffrey L. Cummings, M.D.
Stephen Salloway, M.D., M.S.
Robert G. Robinson, M.D.
C. Edward Coffey, M.D
Stuart C. Yudofsky, M.D.
Thomas W. McAllister, M.D.
* 2001:
John J. Campbell, M.D.
Edward Lauterbach, M.D.
Jonathan M. Silver, M.D.
Robert A. Stern, Ph.D.
Paula T. Trzepacz, M.D.
* 2002:
Fred Ovsiew, M.D.
Laura A. Flashman, Ph.D.
Paul F. Malloy, Ph.D.
Richard M. Restak, M.D.
* 2003:
Sheldon Benjamin, M.D.
Robert C. Green, M.D.
Alya Reeve, M.D.
* 2004:
Nashaat Boutros, M.D.
James D. Duffy, M.B.Ch.B.
Robin A. Hurley, M.D.
* 2005:
David B. Arciniegas, M.D.
Daniel I. Kaufer, M.D.
Katherine H. Taber, Ph.D.
* 2006:
Kevin J. Black, M.D.
Allen J. Rubin, M.D.
* 2007:
Tiffany Chow, M.D.
* 2008:
Robert A. Bornstein, Ph.D.
Jeremy D. Schmahmann, M.D.
* 2009:
Yonas E. Geda, M.D.
Daniel R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
* 2010:
Deborah N. Black, M.D.
Richard B. Ferrell, M.D.
Colin J. Harrington, M.D.
Bernardino Vaccaro, M.D.
* 2011:
Clark A. Anderson, M.D.
Miles G. Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D.
Mario F. Mendez, M.D., Ph.D.,
Kenneth Bryant, M.D.
* 2012
W. Curt LaFrance, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.
* 2013
Kristin Brousseau, D.O.
David A. Silbersweig, M.D.
* 2014
Moises Gaviria, M.D.
Kaloyan S. Tanev, M.D.
Hal S. Wortzel, M.D.
* 2015
Jay Salpekar, M.D.
Valerie Voon, M.D.
* 2016
Omar Ghaffar, M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC
Margo D. Lauterbach, MD
Shirlene M. Sampson, M.D.
Vani Rao, M.B.B.S., M.D.
* 2017
Andrea E. Cavanna, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP
* 2018
Barbara Schildkrout, M.D.
See also
*
Neuropsychiatry
Neuropsychiatry or Organic Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with psychiatry as it relates to neurology, in an effort to understand and attribute behavior to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology factors. Within neurop ...
*
Clinical neuroscience
Clinical neuroscience is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the scientific study of fundamental mechanisms that underlie diseases and disorders of the brain and central nervous system. It seeks to develop new ways of conceptualizing and dia ...
*
Behavioral neurology
Behavioral neurology is a subspecialty of neurology that studies the impact of neurological damage and disease upon behavior, memory, and cognition, and the treatment thereof. Two fields associated with behavioral neurology are neuropsychiatry an ...
*
Neurology
Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...
*
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psych ...
*
Neuropsychology
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