Bridging the Gap: Neuroloigy Psychiatry, and Women's Health

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I am extremely indebted to my Columbia University colleague, Dr. Martha Morrell, for her stewardship of this month's issue of CNS Spectrums. Four of the five articles this month deal with epilepsy, its causes, modern treatments, and potential adverse outcomes of treatment. When I became editor of CNS Spectrums last year, one of my goals was to involve more neurologists in shaping the journal's content. A distinguishing aspect of this goal is to present cutting-edge information of value to both psychiatrists and neurologists. We are, after all, the clinicians and scientists most involved with diseases of the central nervous system, and we even share the same specialty board association. More importantly, however, there have recently been calls for better coordination of training and information between psychiatry and neurology. Dr. Eric Kandel, the recent Nobel Prize winner in physiology, has stated that in some ways the separation of psychiatry and neurology is artificial and impedes both fields. While I do not personally favor a complete merger of the two specialties, I do hope that CNS Spectrums will be one forum for bringing them closer together.