The Overlap Between Neuroscience and Psychiatry An Exploration of the Effectiveness of Neurological Applications in Treating Psychiatric Disorders

Abstract

Neuroscience and psychiatry, once indistinguishable fields, had developed into their own disciplines over the course of the 20th century. By the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, however, developments in neuroscience that enable psychiatric disorders to be treated in terms of structural abnormalities of the brain have led to a possible reunification between the two fields, though the fields still remain separate toda