[Brain, mind and symptoms].
BACKGROUND
Neuropsychiatry, which is the point where neurology and psychiatry meet, together with other neighbouring disciplines (psychology, anthropology, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and so forth), are committed to unravelling both the psychopathological definition and the anatomical-physiological foundations of mental symptoms (signs).


METHODS
This work attempts to review several moments in the history of the localisation of neurology and the difficulties involved in accomplishing a systematisation of mental symptoms.


CONCLUSIONS
Further knowledge of this delicate matter--the mind, or more specifically, the sick brain-mind complex--can only be gained by cooperation in a number of different areas (clinical, psychological, philosophical, biochemical, imaging, and so forth).
García-Albea Ristol
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Sección de Neurología, Universidad de Alcalá, Hospital Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain. egarciaalbea.hupa@salud.madrid.org
García-Albea Martín
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D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006666:History of Medicine; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D009484:Neuropsychology; D011570:Psychiatry; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000266:history