eli5 Why are psychiatry and neuroscience different medical fields?

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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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No, not really.

A Software engineer, esports player and Intel CPU architect all attempt to manipulate how a computer processes information, but in extremely different ways.

You can address the brain electrically, physically, chemically, or through external stimulus and internal processes.

Usually a problem will have different methods suit it…you’re not going to do brain surgery to help someone cope with the death of their father, and you’re not going to do talk therapy to fix a brain tumor.

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