Importance of structured cooperation between child and adolescent psychiatry and neuropediatrics

Neuropediatric-psychiatric comorbidity is a frequent phenomenon typically described in the clinical entity autism and epilepsy. The obvious influence of the level of intelligence on the type of the psychiatric diagnosis is also described. The data of 176 commonly patients attended patients illustrate complex diagnosis spectra other than the above-mentioned combination, e.g. the association not only of epilepsy but of structural brain damage or cerebral palsy with conduct disorders. The therapeutic consequences with respect to drug and patient management are discussed. The intelligence level is of considerable importance for the planning of interventions because of its association with impulse control disorders. The results show that attention disorders and conduct disorders play a major role in neuropediatric patients. An early and common patient management within a structured cooperation should be the consequence of these results.