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Perspectives on Neuroscience
Published on: July 31, 2007
[On the reunion between neurology and psychiatry. An old neuropsychiatrist's reflections]
1Catedrático Emérito de Psicogeriatría, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Guadalupe, España. dbarcias@terra.es
Abstract:
What appears in this article is nothing more than a series of reflections on psychiatry and neurology based on my own experience as an educator, practitioner and scholar of both disciplines. It is not, therefore, a piece of research work in the usual sense of the word. Such has been my commitment to Revista de Neurologia that I was asked to analyse the current situation of neurology and psychiatry and the possible relations between them, and the editors have accepted this way of studying the matter.
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