Behavioral Disorders Can Be Cured Shen Chu-wen, chief of the Veterans General Hospital's neurology and psychiatry department, explains that nervous disorders are simply malfunctions in the central nervous system, whereas mental disorders are shown by abnormal behavior.
榮總精神科主任沈楚文指出，「神經病」指的是神經系統的疾病，例如腦瘤、中風等，至於一個人言行舉止異常，應該屬於「精神病」的範疇。沈大夫說：「許多人之所以會把一個精神異常者誤稱為『神經病』，是因許多神經方面的疾病，表現出來的症狀和精神病非常類似。」