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
Autoimmune Encephalitis
Chairs: Anly Olivera, MD, PhD, Lindsey Gurin, MD, Silky Pahaljani, MD
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Neuromodulation
Chairs: Daniel Farrar, MD, Nicholas Trapp, MD, Joan Camprodon-Gimenez, MD
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Fellow Spotlight
ANPA has been an inspiring source for professional growth and knowledge, the fascinating mind-brain synapse.
Christian Lachner, MD
Christian Lachner, M.D., is a consultant with the Departments of Neurology, Neurologic Surgery and Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic in Florida. Dr. Lachner is certified in Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, and Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Neurology. His clinical focus includes the evaluation and treatment of neurocognitive disorders such as mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer disease & related dementias (Lewy body disease, Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes, etc.). Dr. Lachner also specializes in the evaluation and management of neuropsychiatric symptoms (i.e., psychiatric manifestations of neurological disorders) such as non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease, stroke, brain tumors, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and encephalitis.