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Neuropsychiatry for Past, Today and Future ——For the launch of International Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology Jun Yang Neurologist and Pharmacist Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology Dean and Professor, College of Pharmacy, Xinxiang Medical University Neuropsychiatry, which has been persecuting the global, is the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. “Chinese Mental Health Plan (2002-2010)”reported that there were about 450 million people suffering from mental disorders in the world which bore 11% burden of the global medical cost in 2002. About 20% people had mental disorder problems in USA depending on 2003 report of the United States Presi- dents New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. In 2009 China Disease Prevention and Control Health Center pub- lished the data of over 100 million people with neuropsychiatric diseases in China. Neuropsychiatry including the fields of psychiatry and neurology, has become a frontier of human scientific research, and a lot of countries have been paying close attentions to brain function study so as to understand the psychological activities, specially in neuropsychiatric processes. Response to the fast development of neuropsychiatric science, we launched an international Chinese jour- nal—International Journal of Psychiatry and Neurology, which was focusing on neuropsychiastric achievements and establishing an exchange platform for neurologists, psychiatrists, clinicians and researchers to share their idea about basic and clinic study in the field of neuropsychiatry. 1. Past of Neuropsychiatry The symptom, diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders have been written in ancient medical books. The mental disorders (心疾) and brain diseases (首疾) were recorded in Chinese oracle 3600 years ago. A famous medical scientist and father of neuropsychiastry in ancient