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Originally Posted by mimi2112
Some learning hospitals and mental health clinics are now treating prodromal clients. People who are in early stages, often adolescents are being treated. If the disease process is caught early enough, there may be much more hope for preventing decompensation, and further damage.
A lot of this boils down to money. If imaging was not so expensive, then everyone who presents with early symptoms could get an MRI which would also rule out other disease before slapping on an MI dx.
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I was supposed to get an MRI, but that's not nearly so cool as fMRI---there was a little glitch where I thought that I was pregnant and filled out the forms that way so I never got the MRI, but I had two head CTs which ruled out the other possibilities anyway. I actually thought an MRI was standard for psychosis---I think it is here, another reason why my pdoc is better than I thought.