The neurology-psychiatry divide: a thought experiment
Open Access
- 1 June 2015
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in BJPsych Bulletin
- Vol. 39 (3), 134-135
- https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.113.045740
Abstract
SummaryDiseases of the brain are generally classified as either neurological or psychiatric. However, these two groups of illnesses cannot be readily separated on the basis of pathophysiology or symptomatology. It is difficult to rationally explain to someone with no prior frame of reference why we have the split between neurological and psychiatric illness. This demonstrates that the division is untenable, which has implications for training in both psychiatry and neurology.Keywords
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