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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 229849" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Thanks! I'm looking in regards to testing. I'm wondering if the "neuropsychologist" testing and ability to diagnosis, make recommendations, etc., would be any different if done by these two different professionals. I am sure that I would have NO faith in the psychiatric's ability to diagnosis bipolar- no matter how long she tested difficult child. Mainly because I don't see how 5 days of testing could diagnosis it. I was told that there is no test for it and quite frankly, wouldn't the test results have a lot to do with whether or not the kid was depressed, manic, or stable that period of testing? </p><p></p><p>If a person tests my difficult child the entire month of June, they might detect executive functioning issues, restlessness, etc., but how on earth is that going to let them know that he's depressed every fall and manic every late winter/early spring? And teachers' and parents' forms- pleeeaaase- they ALL point to adhd. ("Has your child EVER done ABC?????") There is no form that I've seen that says "does your child do XYZ often at certain periods then hardly ever do them at other periods".</p><p></p><p>Sorry- I'm frustrated....</p><p></p><p>A neurologist isn't the same thing as a neuropsychologist is it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 229849, member: 3699"] Thanks! I'm looking in regards to testing. I'm wondering if the "neuropsychologist" testing and ability to diagnosis, make recommendations, etc., would be any different if done by these two different professionals. I am sure that I would have NO faith in the psychiatric's ability to diagnosis bipolar- no matter how long she tested difficult child. Mainly because I don't see how 5 days of testing could diagnosis it. I was told that there is no test for it and quite frankly, wouldn't the test results have a lot to do with whether or not the kid was depressed, manic, or stable that period of testing? If a person tests my difficult child the entire month of June, they might detect executive functioning issues, restlessness, etc., but how on earth is that going to let them know that he's depressed every fall and manic every late winter/early spring? And teachers' and parents' forms- pleeeaaase- they ALL point to adhd. ("Has your child EVER done ABC?????") There is no form that I've seen that says "does your child do XYZ often at certain periods then hardly ever do them at other periods". Sorry- I'm frustrated.... A neurologist isn't the same thing as a neuropsychologist is it? [/QUOTE]
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