The patient sample comprised 104 psychiatric outpatients with structured clinical interviewbased primary diagnoses of social phobia, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, major depression and dysthymia.
Too many neural signals going too fast almost certainly play an important role in the causes of bipolar disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, ADD/ADHD, seizure disorder, migraines, explosive anger disorder and irritable bowel syndrome, to name a few.
Several other disorders, such as conduct disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, anxiety disorders, post traumatic stress disorder and social phobia share many symptoms and are often comorbid with or confused with RAD, leading to over and under diagnosis.
Tic disorder, post traumatic disorder, panic disorder, and ADHD had the highest positive predictive validities.
Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
These include Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Nicotine Withdrawal, Pathological Gambling, and Schizoaffective Disorder [ 1, 9, 10].
Self-reported prevalence of bipolar disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder was 3.9%, 6%, and 0.9%, respectively.
Due to the lack of a genetic test for this disorder, post mortem neuropathological examinations are required to confirm the diagnosis.
Further studies examining attention, executive function, and working memory for instance would be needed to fully account for the presence of co-morbid disorders post TBI.
Every year an enormous amount of new research is published on the assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders post stroke.
Accordingly, NIRS has been used to assess brain function in people with many types of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post traumatic disorder, OCD, and ADHD [ 25- 30].
