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neuropsychiatry Med.|njʊərəʊsaɪˈkaɪətrɪ|
[f. neuro- + psychiatry.]
Psychiatry which relates mental or emotional disturbance to disordered brain function; neurology and psychiatry as a single discipline.
1918M. W. Brown (title) Neuropsychiatry and the war. 1945Times 11 Jan. 2/4 Smith was examined by Major Thomas March, chief of the section of neuropsychiatry at a United States service hospital. 1955Psychiatric Q. XXIX. 392 The brain has been enthroned once again as the organ of thought, and a new era of neuropsychiatry is about to unfold. 1971New Scientist 5 Aug. 335/1 This careful and scholarly investigation is of great help to the understanding of this difficult aspect of neuropsychiatry; it also..stresses the necessity of close cooperation between paediatricians, neurologists, and psychologists.
So ˌneuropsychiˈatric a.; neuropsyˈchiatrist, an expert or specialist in neuropsychiatry.
1918M. W. Brown Neuropsychiatry & the War 113 A plea..for the establishment also of medico-legal centers to collaborate with the medical and neuro-psychiatric centers. 1922N.Y. State Jrnl. Med. XXII. 512/2 The neuropsychiatrist..has to deal with the structure and functions in health and in disease of the most highly organized part of man, namely the multi-neuronic integrate known as the nervous system. 1952Sun (Baltimore) 28 Feb. 11/3 The neuropsychiatrist conducts his interviews in an office apart from the hospital buildings. 1953A.M.A. Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry LXX. 428 (heading) Neuropsychiatric aspects of infantile eczema. 1971New Scientist 5 Aug. 335/1 For anyone who has struggled with the diagnosis of mild conditions in psychologically affected children A Neuropsychiatric Study in Childhood comes as very welcome help. |