Let’s tear down the silos and reunify psychiatry and neurology!
Psychiatry is as much anchored in the brain as its sister specialty neurology is.
The reintegration of psychiatry and neurology is good and necessary. It’s a no brainer!
Henry A. Nasrallah, MD
Editor-In-Chief
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