Primary psychiatric illness in a neurological out‐patient department in North East England

Abstract

A total of 2716 patients attended a neurological out-patient clinic in northeastern England [United Kingdom] between May 1970 and May 1974. The symptomatology of 358 patients with primary psychiatric illness was analyzed. There were 172 symptom wordings and these were grouped in 18 headings. The most common symptoms were headache, dizziness and pain in the body. The presenting symptoms were analyzed with reference to age, sex, pattern of referral, diagnostic category and method of disposal. Aspects of non-organic disease in a neurological clinic were discussed.