Neuropsychiatry

The Neuro Psychiatry is a medical discipline in the overlapping area of psychiatry, neurology and psychology. It deals with the study of anatomical, structural, physiological and metabolic basis of cognitive and emotional processes as well as the diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders with psychological symptoms.

Neuropsychiatric disorders

The Neuro Psychiatry deals with organically related cognitive and mental disorder images, such as schizophreniform, depression, delirium and compulsive symptomatology as well as movement disorders, behind which clearly nameable organic pathological mechanisms (eg, inflammation, infection, metabolic disorders, micro-hemorrhages, tumors, etc.) hide. As a classic neuropsychiatric diseases with pathologies in both neurological and psychiatric field are epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's disease, frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer 's disease, basal ganglia diseases (eg Parkinson's disease, Gilles de la Tourette syndrome, PANS / PANDAS, chorea Minor) autism spectrum disorders.

Abutment of other disciplines

In clinical practice, the points of contact for clinical psychology are big, but moves the neuropsychiatry as a purely medical discipline more in the border area of the compartments neurology and psychiatry. The diseases which fall within the field of neuropsychiatry, share many symptoms with classic mental disorders, which in the case of neuropsychiatric disorders have a primarily organic cause.