Neurological diagnoses in psychiatric patients. The uncertain boundaries between neurology and psychiatry.
The study highlights the high prevalence of neurological diagnoses in a population of psychiatric in-patients admitted to 16 private clinics and 6 private institutes because of their mental and behavioral disorders. Neurological diseases affected 13.05% of acute and 68.09% of chronic psychiatric patients. These results emphasize the need for specific neurological competence in the treatment of many psychiatric patients and better integration between neurological and psychiatric departments. The close relationship between neurology and psychiatry, as well as the renaissance of neuropsychiatry are discussed.
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Servizio Psichiatrico Diagnosi, Dipartimento di salute mentale USL RM11, Roma.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies