Introducing a 'neuropsychiatry' special issue: but what does that mean?

Efficacy of brief interdisciplinary psychotherapeutic intervention for motor conversion disorder and nonepileptic attacks

“…A second key milestone in the care of these patients is the involvement of psychiatrists [19]. Indeed, after a long-lasting separation between neurology and psychiatry over the last century, there has been a recent new collaboration between the two specialties in particular around this paradigmatic "neuropsychiatric" disorder [20]. The newly released DSM-5 classification does not consider the presence of associated psychological factors as a required diagnostic criterion but as an additional suggestive feature; however, literature does suggest a role for psychiatric stressors and/or comorbidities as either triggering or maintaining factors [21,22].…”

Biological and perceived stress in motor functional neurological disorders

“…Although psychiatric stressors have long been considered as causal factors, experts have agreed recently that the onset and maintenance of the physical neurological deficit cannot always be linked to a causal psychological stressor (Stone et al, 2011), as reflected in the new DSM-5 classification (DSM-5, 2013). The dualism that the cause had to be either psychological or physical (a so-called "organic" neurological condition) has been resolved and FND is now considered a neuropsychiatric condition (Carson, 2014): it manifests with neurological symptoms that are linked to (and not caused by) psychological risk and/or maintaining factors (Hinson et al, 2006;Kroenke, 2007;Reuber et al, 2007;Hubschmid et al, 2015). Indeed, there is evidence from increased rates of childhood trauma (Roelofs et al, 2002;Sar et al, 2004) and life adversities (Roelofs et al, 2005) in motor FND, which may play a role as predisposing factors.…”

The capacity of the BATCH as a predictive tool for discharge planning for people with neuropsychiatric disorders

“…Neuropsychiatry is an approach to the understanding of psychiatric disorders, which particularly focuses on the link between neuroscience and behaviour (Carson, ). While all psychiatric disorders are potentially amenable to neuropsychiatry, the most common diagnostic populations seen in these specialist services include people with atypical or young‐onset dementia, familial neurodegenerative disorders, psychologically‐driven presentations (such as factitious or conversion disorders) and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease and major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or depression.…”