The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

TLDR

The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences highlights the growing biomedical orientation of psychiatry, covering brain‑related disorders and offering insights into conditions such as schizophrenia through EEG and attentional studies. The journal seeks to address the evolving field of psychiatry by concentrating on psychiatric disorders with an organic brain substrate. It concentrates on brain‑based psychiatric disorders such as strokes, delirium, alcohol‑induced mental disorders, schizophrenia, and similar conditions, emphasizing medically observable aspects.

Abstract

<i>The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences</i>is of interest for what it says about one of the major directions in American psychiatry as well as for what it offers to the medical field. An increasing number of psychiatrists see their primary interest as lying in the biomedical mainstream of medicine, with a focus on diseases of the brain, or the central nervous system component of systemic diseases. This journal, the official publication of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, is an effort to address this evolving field of psychiatry. Its focus is on those psychiatric disorders in which there is an organic substrate, especially in the brain. These include strokes, delirium, alcohol-induced mental disorders, schizophrenia, and similar conditions. The journal tends to concentrate on those aspects of disease that are medically observable rather than strictly inferential. Thus, for schizophrenia, one finds articles about electroencephalographic patterns and attentional states and higher cortical