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Re: Neuropsych Testing, Validity, Feedback/Report

Posted by Lonely on February 8, 2006, at 19:02:54

In reply to Re: Neuropsych Testing, Validity, Feedback/Report » Lonely, posted by B2chica on February 8, 2006, at 9:15:48

The neuropsych testing was ordered when we took my hubby to a new neurologist in a major medical center where they specialize in MS. Because of my hubby's problems with anger, depression, moodiness, etc. I followed the advice of a knowledgable person from the support group and asked if we could see the social worker affiliated w/the MS clinic. The neurologist hesitated, then side stepped my request by saying that the first thing to do was a neuropsych study to see what is psychiatric (mood disorder, mental illness) and what is caused by MS. That was back in September!

This is a very interesting situation ... I'm reading lots of conflicting information about psychiatric disorders and MS. Traditionally it was thought that MS just caused physical disability. But, from what I've read, bipolar disorder is twice as high in folks w/MS. Depression is about 70%. The loss of cognition is known to happen in many MS patients but traditionally wasn't talked about much. For that matter, if it wasn't for the MRI, we would never know he has MS - it was misdiagnosed as stroke. The false theory is that men don't get MS very much - especially older men.

The psychiatrist that he goes to, whom I like, indicates there is no way to tease out what is psychiatric and what is MS. The MS meds are certainly not helping. MS does affect the brain and presumably any disease that affects the brain can also affect behavior. So, I guess it's a little bit of an academic question re psychiatric versus MS.

I appreciate hearing from other people with these brain & psychiatric disorders.


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