neuropsychiatryn.
/ˌnjʊərə(ʊ)sʌɪˈkʌɪətri/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)ʊroʊˌsaɪˈkaɪətri/; see also psychiatry n. Medicine.
Psychiatry that relates or attributes mental illness to organic brain dysfunction or disease.
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neuropsychiatry1918
psychiatric social work1919
social psychiatry1924
child psychiatry1925
orthopsychiatry1929
phenomenology1930
transcultural psychiatry1958
1918 M. W. Brown (title) Neuropsychiatry and the war.
1945 Times 11 Jan. 2/4 Smith was examined by Major Thomas March, chief of the section of neuropsychiatry at a United States service hospital.
1955 Psychiatric Q. 29 392 The brain has been enthroned once again as the organ of thought, and a new era of neuropsychiatry is about to unfold.
1971 New Scientist 5 Aug. 335/1 This careful and scholarly investigation is of great help to the understanding of this difficult aspect of neuropsychiatry; it also..stresses the necessity of close cooperation between paediatricians, neurologists, and psychologists.
1990 Brain 113 572 Many neurologists would term psychiatry as behavioural neurology and some psychiatrists would see a deeper divide within their own subject between psychodynamic psychiatry and neuropsychiatry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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