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There are many disorders that currently fit the bill of being “neuropsychiatric”. What characterizes them is that the principles of either psychiatry or neurology are unable to fully encapsulate these disorders, and the neuropsychiatric approach is needed for their diagnosis and management. The diagnoses that come to mind are neurocognitive disorders (including the dementias and mild cognitive impairment), drug-induced movement disorders, Tourette’s syndrome, psychiatric disorders associated with other movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and dystonia, those associated with epilepsy, cerebrovascular disease, and head injury, chronic fatigue syndrome and other psychoneuroimmunological disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other conditions in which cognitive, behavioral, or affective disturbance results directly from brain insult.

Together, these disorders comprise a body of clinical work that can underpin a robust discipline. While some neuropsychiatrists claim schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, melancholic depression, and obsessive compulsive disorder, these disorders remain the province of general psychiatrists with perhaps some input from neuropsychiatrists in the management of resistant cases with novel treatment techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, leukotomy, and in the future, genetic and stem cell therapies