Yes, thank you for posting this Faerie. It is true that they are using scans more and more, especially in research. Unfortunately it isn't quite a standard diagnostic tool. I think a lot of it has to do with cost.

As I said in another thread regarding my family history and mental health questions, my abnormal MRI's and other test results parallel my mother's. So there IS a brain disease process going on, just not a definite diagnosis.( for me and mom)

Up until the imaging tests became available as a diagnostic tool in medicine these patients would typically present with symptoms that look like some vague psychiatric disease. I wonder how many people with a huge MI label are out there who may actually have brains that are diseased?

And forgive me Faerie if I am wrong, but didn't you mention a question your Dr.s had at one point about you possibly having MS?

MS is a fine example of a disease that often presents with symptoms that can easily be wrongly Dx.d with a psychiatric label