Welcome to the American Neuropsychiatric Association Online

The American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) is the professional home for clinicians, scientists, and educators in behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, and the clinical neurosciences. ANPA's mission is to improve the lives of people with disorders at the interface of psychiatry and neurology.

Click below to learn more about both the scientific field of neuropsychiatry and the medical subspeciality of neuropsychiatry.

What is neuropsychiatry?

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Special Interest Groups

Artificial Intelligence & Digital Innovation

Chairs: Stanley Lyndon, MD, David Benrimoh, MD

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Autoimmune Encephalitis

Chairs: Anly Olivera, MD, PhD, Lindsey Gurin, MD, Silky Pahaljani, MD

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Catatonia

Chair: Michael Schrift, DO

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Dementia

Chair: James ("Trey") Bateman

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Early Career

Chair: Shawn Smyth, MD, Elizabeth DeGrush, MD

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Epilepsy

Chair: Jay Salpekar, MD

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Forensic Neuropsychiatry

Chairs: Hal Wortzel, MD, Manish Fozdar, MD

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Functional Neurological Disorders

Chairs: Caitlyn Adams, MD, Charick Lane, MD

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History of Neuropsychiatry

Chair: Sheldon Benjamin, MD

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Long COVID

Chair: Jordan Anderson, DO

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Neurodevelopmental and Pediatric Neuropsychiatry

Chair: Aaron Hauptman, MD

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Neuroimaging

Chairs: Kathy Niu, MD, Joey Cooper, MD, Richard Cowles, PsyD

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Neuromodulation

Chairs: Daniel Farrar, MD, Nicholas Trapp, MD, Joan Camprodon-Gimenez, MD

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Neuropsychiatric Genetics

Chairs: Mark Colijn, MD, Robert Stowe, MD

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Sleep

Chairs: Melissa B Jones, MD, Margo Lauterbach, MD

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Traumatic Brain Injury

Chairs: David B Arciniegas, MD, Lindsey Gurin, MD

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Barbara Schildkrout, MD
Fellow Spotlight
Barbara Schildkrout, MD quote

When I was first beginning to expand my thinking from purely psychodynamic to neuropsychiatric, I discovered ANPA. The organization’s annual meetings provided the opportunity to meet like-minded professionals who, like me, never tired of talking about the brain and human behavior. ANPA gatherings became an important pillar in my on-going education. Volunteering to be on ANPA committees has allowed me to enjoy collegial relationships with members from around the country and to feel that I have had the chance to participate in shaping ANPA and, in a small way, the field of neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology.

Barbara Schildkrout, MD

Vice Chair of Membership Committee, Member of Educational Committee, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, part time Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry Brigham and Women's Hospital