Auckland Neuropsychiatry

Welcome to Auckland Neuropsychiatry

This is an increasingly well established subspecialty of psychiatry with strong links both with neuropsychology and behavioural neurology, and the major local group is the Neuropsychiatry Section of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (formerly the Neuropsychiatry Interest Group of the College).

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At present there is little training in this country in Neuropsychiatry, and this is a matter to be rectified over the coming years, especially by the  Section of Neuropsychiatry of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Much of the management of the above disorders is undertaken by general psychiatrists, and helpfully at least some training is now included in a number of educational programs, especially the annual Neuropsychiatry and Behavioural Neurology Conference, next in Novbember 2022, and has mostly been convened in Melbourne but also in Queensland. 

Psychiatrists specialising in the mental health of older persons and psychiatrists liaising to general hospitals usually have considerable familiarity with neuropsychiatric disorders, and the majority of Australasian psychiatrists belonging to the Neuropsychiatry Section have trained and work as psychogeriatricians or consultation liaison psychiatrists. There was a Special Interest Group in Intellectual Disability in the RANZCP, which became the RANZCP Section of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in late 2014, and obviously again there is considerable overlap in interest here.