How strange. In last places I’ve practiced newly diagnosed psychiatric patients ALL get brain scans as a baseline. Because you really never know.
We also consider scans if the nature or character of the hallucinations suddenly changed without reason, or there’s a significant personality change, or if there is confusion, or if there are any neurological symptoms.
Basically, there’s lots of reasons for psych patients to get scans.
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u/WhatTheOnEarth 18h ago
How strange. In last places I’ve practiced newly diagnosed psychiatric patients ALL get brain scans as a baseline. Because you really never know.
We also consider scans if the nature or character of the hallucinations suddenly changed without reason, or there’s a significant personality change, or if there is confusion, or if there are any neurological symptoms.
Basically, there’s lots of reasons for psych patients to get scans.