Neuropsychiatry

The Department of Neuropsychiatry is part of the School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It sits at the interface between neurology and psychiatry, and its research addresses brain based disorders in South African clinical settings.

Its main research strengths, as shown by its publications, are neuropsychiatric manifestations of COVID-19, including new onset psychosis, delirium and mood disturbances linked to infection, together with bioethics and the ethical dimensions of care. The work appears in South African medical journals and combines clinically grounded investigation with psychiatry in infectious disease contexts.

Further themes include emerging public health crises and the integration of mental health with general medicine. The research is focused on South Africa and its high burden healthcare settings, with an emphasis on urgent clinical questions arising in that context.