Neuropsychiatry Health Dictionary

The branch of medicine dealing with the relationship between psychiatric symptoms and neurological disorder.

This may include the effects of head injury and alcohol on the brain, or disorders such as brain tumours, infections, inherited illnesses, and disorders causing brain damage in childhood.

n. the branch of medicine concerned with the psychiatric effects of disorders of neurological function or structure. Increasingly, the correlation is being drawn between demonstrable brain changes and the resulting effects on the mind. It is the function of the growing specialty of neuropsychiatry to investigate this relationship.