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Originally Posted by ruffy
How important do you think it is to have a brain scan done as a part of your diagnostic testing? I know p-docs usually make their Dx. based on what we tell them, but I watch shows on TV that show mentally ill patients usually having a brain scan to confirm mental illness, and to discount any physical form of brain injury/illness.
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for some diagnosing it is a requirement to have brain scans. for example the diagnostic criteria for DID says the symptoms cannot be because the person has physical health problems that may be causing the problem. So I had to go through - a complete physical, scans, EEG's, MRI's that kind of thing as well as the psychiatric evaluation, to make sure I did not have things like epilepsy, other seizure disorders, brain tumors, alzheimers and other physical problems that share the same symptom as having memory problems, loss of time, changes in speech and behaviors, that kind of thing.
some mental disorders actually show up in the brain scans like they now know some types of schizophrenia have alterations in their neuro-pathways. Bipolar disorder also sometimes shows up during medical workups because their receptors and fluids and that kind of thing in the brain works differently than normal peoples do and have different chemical make up in their brain.
