ABSTRACT
The long historical relationship between neurology and psychiatry impacts the area of transient traumatic head injury. This neuropsychiatric link impacts both the actual brain injury facets and the psychological elements. Historically, physicians interested in the central nervous system focused either globally on behavior or more specifically on demonstrated pathology of the central nervous system, reflecting such terms as posttraumatic and postconcussional in the brain injury context and interpretations of etiology that were polarized. Most practitioners in the area have had very little exposure, if any, to neuropsychiatry.
