What is the difference between psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry?


Psychiatry is a broader field. Although it is a sub specialty of medicine, it can be considered a speciality in itself, as medical students don't have adequate exposure to psych in their MBBS days. It deals with the thoughts, mood and behavioural symptoms affecting the mind.

Neuropsychiatry is a sub specialty of Psychiatry, wherein there are broad overlaps between neurology, psychiatric symptoms of neurological diseases, behavioural neurology and neuropsychology. For example, a neuropsychiatric professional would see cases like dementia, depression associated with dementia, psychiatric symptoms secondary to organic brain diseases, etc.
Reference: Sriram Raghavendran

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