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Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in the Elderly: An Overview

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Neuropsychiatric syndromes may be defined as the clusters of behaviour, mood, emotional and cognitive disturbance which occur as the result of brain disease. The organic mental disorders, as defined in the DSM-III-R, (American Psychiatric Association, 1987) can be used to classify this group of syndromes. Neuropsychiatry has been described as “the specialty dealing with both organic and functional diseases of the nervous system” (Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 1982). However, in trying to conceptualize neuropsychiatric disease, the artificial division of disorders into “organic” and “functional” seems redundant. A more integrated view, linking physiological and mental processes, is required. Fortunately, there has been a dramatic growth in interest and research in this field with major contributions from geriatric and biological psychiatry, behavioural neurology and neuropsychology.

“Dementia, by separating and isolating certain faculties, and by interfering with the outcome of mind, enables one to get a clearer view of mind than is to be gleaned from the study of the normal mind in healthy action.” George H. Savage, (Physician and superintendent of Bethlem Royal Hospital) 1890.

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