Diagnosing Brain Injuries

Posted by Administrator on Fri, 12 Dec 2008

Excerpted from “Who’s Crazy Now?”
By Todd Clements M.D. & Sue Rueb

Many of us in psychiatry are guilty of failing to thoroughly look for a brain injury before diagnosing someone with a psychiatric condition.  The way we diagnose and treat patients here in the 21st century is still quite archaic.  I compare what happens in psychiatry to someone who goes to the eye doctor complaining that something is wrong with…