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neuropsychiatry  

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  • Neuropsychiatry is a nonboarded subspecialty of the medical discipline of psychiatry that focuses on the treatment of persons whose psychiatric symptoms appear to be most related to documented brain disease or brain injury. The term neuropsychiatry refers to psychiatrists who have had one or more years of postresidency training in a neuropsychiatry fellowship program or who have had some neurological experience. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disability; Neuropsychiatry]

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