Neuropsiquiatría en Colombia: ¿por qué?, ¿para qué?

Introduction: There are two broad ways of defi ning neuropsychiatry: the North American view understands this discipline as behavioral neurology and European view argues that it constitutes a subspeciality within psychiatry dealing with diagnosis and treatment of patients with established neurological diseases that have disturbances in their behavior. Objectives: To understand the clinical practice of neuropsychiatry as a sort of neuro-liasion creates the need of an interdisciplinary work for the neuropsychiatrist adapted to the different needs of the affected individual. From this perspective treatment and rehabilitation teams in neuropsychiatry accept the relationships existing between structural brain damage, behavior and environment and relational contexts. Additionally, psychiatric interview and case formulation