Saturday, March 21, 2009

Psychiatrists, Neurologists Need to Work Together

Researchers say that better communication between psychiatrists and neurologists is vital for improving patient care and ending the stigma of psychological illnesses. Concurrence among psychiatrists and neurologists on disorders of the brain could change conceptions of mental illness.

Mental illness should not imply blame or weakness. Patients deserved a change in the stigmatized perception about brain and behavioral disorders. The theme is that when mind meets brain neurologists, psychiatrists and psychologists must talk to one another.

According to researches though there was a significant overlap between psychiatric and neurology towards the start of the 1900s, the union between the specialties proved to short lived. The psychiatrists took the mind, the ghost and the invisible.

The neurologists adopted the brain, the machine and the visible. One group used the bio-psychosocial model and the other adopted a bio-medical model, studied physical signs and insisted on the concrete and the measurable for a good health.

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