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The need for a unified approach to the study of the mind and the brain can be traced back to Hippocrates’ writings at the dawn of Western thought. However, in more recent times, there have been difficulties with the formulation of an univocal definition of neuropsychiatry. Neuropsychiatry is often seen as a clinical discipline located at the crossroads of neurology and psychiatry, dealing with the interface of behavioural phenomena driven by brain dysfunction. Although behavioural symptoms are highly prevalent in patients with neurological conditions and are a major source of disability and diminished health-related quality of life, patients often slip through the net of healthcare services. The bridge discipline of neuropsychiatry could be a natural remedy to the extreme views adopted by so-called ‘mindless neurology’ and ‘brainless psychiatry’. Attempts to prevent the radical split between neurology and psychiatry can be traced in the writings of the fathers of modern neuropsychiatry and behavioural neurology from the twentieth century, such as Stanley Cobb and Norman Geschwind.

Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory […] And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us […] All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy […] In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man

Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease (400 BC)

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Cavanna, A.E. (2018). Men Ought to Know…. In: Motion and Emotion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89330-3_1

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