What Is Neuropsychiatry?

Neuropsychiatry links psychiatric symptoms to brain-body function as the following examples indicate:

  • ·      Psychiatric Disorder—Dysfunction in brain structures & brain neurocircuits
  • ·      Depressive Disorder—Limbic-cortical dysregulation
  • ·      Obsessive Compulsive Disorder—Frontal-subcortical circuitry, right caudate dysfunction
  • ·      Schizophrenia—NMDA receptor activation in the prefrontal cortex
  • ·      Bipolar Disorder—Prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and amygdala dysfunction

Medication, neurosurgery, brain stimulators, or structural implants are chosen based on the dysfunction in the brain structures and brain neurocircuits.

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