Should Psychiatry and Neurology Integrate?
W. P. WILSON M.D.1,
C. E. WELLS M.D.2, , and
P. J. IRIGARAY M.D.3
1 Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 27710
2 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
3 Superintendent of John Umstead State Hospital, Butner, N.C., and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center
The authors present a brief sketch of the changes that have occurred in the teaching of psychiatry and neurology and set forth their reasons for believing that a number of benefits would accrue, both to these disciplines and to the community at large, if there were greater cooperation between training programs in psychiatry and those in neurology.
