neuropsychiatry

neuropsychiatry
The specialty dealing with both organic and psychic disorders of the nervous system; earlier term for psychiatry.

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neu·ro·psy·chi·a·try -sə-'kī-ə-trē, -sī- n, pl -tries a branch of medicine concerned with both neurology and psychiatry
neu·ro·psy·chi·at·ric -.sī-kē-'a-trik adj
neu·ro·psy·chi·at·ri·cal·ly -tri-k(ə-)lē adv

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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 speciality of neuropsychiatry to investigate this relationship.

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neu·ro·psy·chi·a·try (noor″o-si-kiґə-tre) [neuro- + psychiatry] the branch of medicine which includes both neurology and psychiatry. neuropsychiatric adj

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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