Neuropsychiatry

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The Neuropsychiatry is a medical discipline in the intersecting area of psychiatry , neurology and psychology . It deals with the investigation of anatomical, structural, physiological and metabolic foundations of cognitive and emotional processes as well as the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases with psychological symptoms. Neuropsychiatrie is also the name of a medical journal that is the official organ of the Austrian Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics .

Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Neuropsychiatry deals with organically caused cognitive and psychological disorders, e.g. B. forms of schizophrenia , depressive , delirious and compulsive symptoms, as well as movement disorders , behind which clearly identifiable organic pathomechanisms (e.g. inflammation, infections, metabolic disorders, microbleeding, tumors etc.) hide. Epilepsies , neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease , frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease , basal ganglia diseases (e.g. Parkinson's disease , Gilles-de-la-Tourette syndrome , PANS) are classic neuropsychiatric diseases with symptoms in both the neurological and psychiatric fields / PANDAS , Chorea Minor ), Autism Spectrum Disorders .

Bordering on other disciplines

In everyday clinical practice there are many points of contact with clinical psychology, but neuropsychiatry, as a purely medical discipline, moves more in the border area of ​​neurology and psychiatry. The diseases that fall into the field of neuropsychiatry share numerous symptoms with classic psychological disorders , whereby in the case of neuropsychiatric diseases these have a primarily organic cause.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yudofsky, SC; Hales, EH (2002). "Neuropsychiatry and the Future of Psychiatry and Neurology". American Journal of Psychiatry 159 (8): 1261-1264.
  2. ↑ neuropsychiatry. SpringerLink , accessed June 12, 2018 .
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  4. ^ Price, BH; Adams, RD; Coyle, JT (2000). "Neurology and psychiatry: Closing the great divide". Neurology 54 (1): 8-14.
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