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From pulsating brains to paranoid psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gillian Doody*
Affiliation:
Lynebank Hospital, Halbeath Road, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland KY11 4VW
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The recent technological explosion in the advancement of brain imaging, resulting in MRI, SPECT and PET scanning, has served to further blur the interfaces of neurology, neurosurgery and psychiatry. As proposed by Reynolds (1990), the traditional divergence of classical neurological science and psychiatry, originating from Cullen's description of ‘neurosis’, is currently changing to convergence and in many areas coalescing.

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