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Psychiatry is the medical specialty that seeks to help (i.e., assess and treat) people and families living with complex brain disorders including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, substance abuse disorders, developmental disorders such as autism, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer dementia. Traditionally, disorders falling into the province of psychiatry have been those of unknown etiology, and, as researchers have ascertained etiology, some disorders, such as central nervous system disorders, have often shifted to the province of neurology. (Tertiary syphilis is a good historical example of this shift.) Now, however, with the tools of modern neuroscience, a deeper understanding of causal pathways to major neuropsychiatric illness is evolving, thus rendering artificial the boundary between psychiatry and neurology. The artificiality of this boundary has profound implications for psychiatry’s future
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