Neuro Diseases
The core work of neuropsychiatrists consists of assessing and managing emotional and behavioural aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury, Epilepsy, movement disorders such as Parkinson's Disease or Huntington's Disease, Cerebrovascular Disease and other neurological and neurosurgical disorders. However there is also a role in assessing and managing emotional disorder which may present in a similar way to neurological disorders, and these include conversion disorders, non-epileptic attack disorders, psychogenic movement disorders, and so forth. Finally, there are disorders in the borderland between neurology and psychiatry which are sometimes thought best assisted by neuropsychiatrists, including adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, disorders on the autism spectrum, and certain sleep disorders.
List of Services
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Adult ADHDList Item 1
The myth that impulsivity, hyperactivity and attentional difficulties in children always resolve in adolescence has now been well and truly overturned...
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Huntington's DiseaseList Item 2
This is an uncommon genetic condition affecting perhaps up to 12 per 100,000 people, originally described by Dr George Huntington of Long Island, New York, whose own father and grandfather had been doctors there and so could follow the families of affected individuals over time...
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Parkinsons DiseaseList Item 3
This is a progressive neurodegenerative disease of unknown cause though there is a genetic basis to a proportion of early onset cases and it is implausible that environmental factors are not relevant...
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Traumatic Brain InjuryList Item 4
This is the commonest cause of neuropsychiatric disability, and a major part of the workload of those psychiatrists practicing neuropsychiatry in this country...
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Epilepsy
Epilepsy is by definition a pattern of recurrent seizures (at least two or more) though sometimes it is appropriate to prevent further seizures after only one has occurred...
