Cognitive neuropsychiatry: towards a scientific psychopathology

Cognitive neuropsychiatry represents a systematic and theoretically driven approach to explain clinical psychopathologies in terms of deficits to norm al cognitive mechanisms. A concern with the neural substrates of impaired c ognitive mechanisms links cognitive neuropsychiatry to the basic neuroscien ces. The emergence of cognitive neuropsychiatry in the 1990s illustrates th e growing rapprochement between cognitive neuropsychology, clinical medicin e and the neurosciences in addressing common questions about disorders of t he mind/brain. In reviewing recent applications, we highlight how this hybr id discipline will make a distinctive contribution to the science of psycho pathology.