The neurology–psychiatry divide: a thought experiment†

Neurology or psychiatry?

No doubt, a historian sometime further on in the new century will look back with some anguish at the relationship between neurology and psychiatry which existed in the twentieth century – or rather, should I say the separation of psychiatry away from neurology. It has always seemed curious to me that one of the leaders of this movement on the psychiatric side was Freud, despite the fact that hi...

Interface between neurology and psychiatry in childhood.

In the post war years of the 20th century, the divide between neurology and psychiatry seemed nearly complete. Such a separation between the “organic” biologically based disorders with florid neurological physical signs, and the “functional” mentally ill behaviourally, affectively or psychotically disturbed with minimal physical neurological abnormalities on examination would have seemed extrao...

Is shared learning the way to bring UK neurology and psychiatry closer: what teachers, trainers and trainees think.

BACKGROUND Rapid advances in brain sciences are challenging the validity of the traditional divide between neurology and psychiatry. The need for closer ties has been widely advocated. OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes of neurologists and psychiatrists to closer links in general and to joint education in particular. METHODS Postal questionnaire survey of trainees (SpRs) trainers (Members of Spe...

Social relationships, knowledge and adjustment to multiple sclerosis.

A number of factors thought to influence psychological adjustment to multiple sclerosis were studied. Patients' knowledge about their disorder was assessed, but neither their knowledge, level of disability, nor demographic characteristics were related to adjustment. Better adjustment was however associated with having more contact with able-bodied people.

The specificity of reserpine in the treatment of schizophrenia in identical twins. A controlled experiment.