Care setting overview
Neuropsychiatry Service
BH-NPSIntegrated assessment and treatment where psychiatric symptoms, cognition, behavior, neurologic function, medications, and rehabilitation needs overlap.
- Care model
- Specialty psychiatric-neurologic consultation
- Typical pace
- Focused consultation with longitudinal follow-up when indicated
- Population
- Patients with psychiatric symptoms associated with neurologic disease, injury, seizures, or complex cognitive-behavioral change
Common presentations
- TBI and post-concussive symptoms
- Seizure-related behavioral change and functional neurologic symptoms
- Movement disorders, autoimmune or other neurologic illness with psychiatric manifestations
PMHNP priorities
- Define the neurologic timeline and relationship to psychiatric change
- Review medications, testing, cognition, function, and rehabilitation needs
- Coordinate recommendations across neurology, psychiatry, primary care, and rehabilitation
Care team
Neuropsychiatrists, neurologists, PMHNPs, neuropsychologists, pharmacists, nurses, rehabilitation clinicians, therapists, and primary care clinicians