What is behavioral neurology?

Behavioral neurology refers to that sub-specialty of neurology (neurology being the investigation of the function and disorders of the nervous system, central and peripheral). that focuses on the way the brain thinks, learns, memorizes and behaves in the sense of directing social conduct, communicating and feelings as in the sense of anxiety, depression or obsessiveness. As a consequence of these interests, behavioral neurology overlaps into psychiatry. And for those psychiatrists who are very much interested into the neurology of behavior, they will refer to their specialty as neuropsychiatry. More than ever before, the use of specialized techniques permits identification of behavioral syndromes with greater precision, and the multiplicity of medicinal agents available to us increases considerably the possibility of improving brain function. What this means is to maximize the individual's potential; i.e., people aren't made any brighter than what they ever were or less anxious than they ever were. Rather, the glitch if one will, inside that person's nervous system is minimized and as a consequence their intellectual and emotional potential, latent in the past, is now realized and actuated.

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