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.