Neuropsychiatry addresses mental and behavioural symptoms that arise from brain disease, and conditions lying between neurology and psychiatry. Examples are depression or psychosis in Parkinson's disease, personality change after head injury, and tic disorders.
It works through joint assessment: the same symptoms can come from brain injury, medication, a psychiatric disorder or all three, and treatment differs for each.
Bedingungen, die dieser Service betreut
- Mood, anxiety and psychosis in epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, MS or after stroke
- Behaviour and personality change after brain injury
- Behavioural symptoms of dementia
- Tourette syndrome with OCD or ADHD
- Functional neurological disorder
- Autoimmune encephalitis presenting with psychiatric symptoms
- Huntington's disease
- Adult ADHD and autism assessment where neurological questions arise
Tests, die Ihnen möglicherweise angeboten werden
- Combined neurological and psychiatric interview: Ideally with a family member contributing.
- Cognitive and neuropsychological testing: Separates cognitive impairment from mood-related difficulty.
- MRI brain and EEG: Look for structural disease and seizure activity.
- Blood and spinal fluid tests: Thyroid, B12, infections and autoimmune antibodies in new-onset atypical psychosis.
- Medication review: Drugs such as levetiracetam, steroids and dopamine agonists commonly affect mood and behaviour.
Behandlungen verfügbar
- Tailored medication: Choosing psychiatric drugs that do not worsen seizures, movement or cognition.
- Adjusting neurological drugs: Reducing agents that provoke impulsivity, psychosis or irritability.
- Psychological therapies: CBT and behavioural approaches adapted for cognitive impairment.
- Comprehensive behavioural intervention for tics: The first-line non-drug treatment for Tourette syndrome.
- Neuromodulation: rTMS or ECT for severe depression; DBS for severe OCD or Tourette syndrome in exceptional cases.
- Family education and support: Helps carers manage behaviour change.
Wann Sie eine Fachmeinung einholen sollten
- Psychiatric symptoms appearing for the first time after 40 without a clear trigger
- Behaviour change following a head injury or stroke
- Low mood, hallucinations or gambling and compulsive behaviour on Parkinson's medication
- Psychiatric symptoms together with seizures, movement problems or rapid memory loss
Reisen nach Türkiye für diese Pflege
A one-week joint assessment can clarify a puzzling picture and give your home clinicians a plan. Psychiatric treatment depends on a continuing therapeutic relationship, ideally in your own language, and on access to the same medicines at home. Anyone at risk of self-harm or acutely unwell needs local crisis care, not a journey.
Senden Sie Ihre Berichte, Scans und eine kurze Geschichte und eine Clinic-Y Koordinator Antworten innerhalb von 24 Stunden mit geeigneten Teams und schriftlich, All-inclusive Vorschläge nebeneinander. Die Überprüfung Ihres Falls ist kostenlos.
Häufig gestellte Fragen
How does this differ from general psychiatry?
The neuropsychiatrist is trained to examine for and treat the brain disease component, working with neurologists.
Can epilepsy cause depression?
Yes. Depression is several times more common in epilepsy, partly through shared brain mechanisms and partly through medication.
Can I be assessed through an interpreter?
Yes, though nuance is lost. A professional medical interpreter should be used, not a relative.