Neuropsychiatry

Branch of medicine that treats mental disorders caused by diseases of the nervous system X-ray image of deep brain stimulation, a procedure used to treat disorders such as OCD and clinical depression. Neuropsychiatry 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 psychological factors. Within neuropsychiatry, the mind is considered "as an emergent property of the brain", whereas other behavioral and neurological specialties might consider the two as separate entities. Those disciplines are typically practiced separately. Neuropsychiatry has become a growing subspecialty of neurology as it closely relates the fields of neuropsychology and behavioral neurology, and attempts to utilize this understanding to better understand psychological trauma, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Tourette syndrome, among others. The case for the rapprochement of neurology and psychiatry Given the considerable overlap between behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, there has been a resurgence of interest and debate relating to neuropsychiatry in ac