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Although they were integrated in the early days of clinicalmedicine, psychiatry and neurology diverged substantially overthe past half-century into distinct fields, one involved withpsychopathology (disease of the mind) and the other involvedwith abnormal function resulting from cerebral abnormalities(disease of the brain). Each had its own collection of referencebooks. More recently, the two fields have begun to reconverge,with a common focus on brain structure and function as the coreof each — hence the term "neuropsychiatry." This long-overduereunion is perhaps most deserved in child and adolescent psychiatryand neurology, in which many underlying . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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