If both fields study problems with brain function, shouldn’t they be studied in unison? Shouldn’t a neurologist be a psychiatrist and vice versa?
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There’s a big ol’ pyramid of things to study. But inverted like. At the very bottom is fundamental physics. Upon that is atoms and nuclear chemistry. Then regular chemistry. Then biochemistry. Then neuroscience on top of that. While it’s good to know about how protons stick to neutrons, it’s not super pertinent to why the presynaptic part is located on an axon. Likewise, up above the layer of how neurons fire, is how the system works on the whole, the brain. Above that is how brains work within a collection of other people and scenarios. That would be psychology. Even THAT isn’t actually psychiatry yet. Not all psychologists are psychiatrists. Psychiatrists study all the disorders. Those that deviate from the norm.
Will a psychiatrist know a good deal of psychology? You betcha. Will a nuclear chemist know what’s going on in a neuron? Parts of it. There’s a lot of overlap. But there’s a lot of distance between neuroscience and psychiatry.
“We’re all quarks and leptons and stuff, shouldn’t we be studying about quarks instead of macro-economics?”
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