Psychiatry and neurosurgery do not usually argue over the same patient. A case published this year in the Oxford University Press journal Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology puts one squarely between them.
The report, by Candace Marsters, appears in volume 41, issue 5, under the title " Serial neuropsychological assessment of multiple meningiomas complicated by psychosis following ventriculoperitoneal shunt revision. The patient had multiple meningiomas and a shunt draining cerebrospinal fluid from the brain to the abdomen. After that shunt was revised, psychosis followed, and the case was tracked with repeated neuropsychological testing rather than a single snapshot.
