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<blockquote data-quote="pepperidge" data-source="post: 228218" data-attributes="member: 2322"><p>Shari,</p><p></p><p>we had them done on both our kids several years ago, out of desperation. no psychiatrists we trusted or knew about in 200 miles, Adhd and depression were the diagnosis offered and medications offered, but weren't working, etc. So we went for the scans as much for the psychiatrist medication expertise, which was terrific, as well as trying to understand better what we were up against. </p><p></p><p>What we got out of it was a a medication plan, try a, then b, etc in a very orderly way, and got things dialed in relatively quickly. I was interested to know as well whether there was observable brain damage from prenatal alcohol issues. The scan showed that there was not major damage--which doesn't mean that there wasn't damage, but at least there was not horrific revealed by scans.</p><p></p><p>I must say that I have trotted out the the diagnosis along with the brain scans at my kids' IEP qualifying meeting and got an OHI classification without any question.</p><p></p><p>My kids were clearly not on the autistic spectrum. I guess one question to ask would be if yours were how would that show up in the brain scans, if at all, would it be distinguishable from bipolar diagnosis etc.</p><p></p><p>I also think that in the next five years or so the use of some form of brain image, EEG type stuff correlated with large scale medication response data bases will be much more common. There is much research going on in this area. </p><p></p><p>If you go for the scans, make sure that your consultation is with a psychiatrist that is very very knowledgeable about scans and about medications both. </p><p></p><p>pepperidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pepperidge, post: 228218, member: 2322"] Shari, we had them done on both our kids several years ago, out of desperation. no psychiatrists we trusted or knew about in 200 miles, Adhd and depression were the diagnosis offered and medications offered, but weren't working, etc. So we went for the scans as much for the psychiatrist medication expertise, which was terrific, as well as trying to understand better what we were up against. What we got out of it was a a medication plan, try a, then b, etc in a very orderly way, and got things dialed in relatively quickly. I was interested to know as well whether there was observable brain damage from prenatal alcohol issues. The scan showed that there was not major damage--which doesn't mean that there wasn't damage, but at least there was not horrific revealed by scans. I must say that I have trotted out the the diagnosis along with the brain scans at my kids' IEP qualifying meeting and got an OHI classification without any question. My kids were clearly not on the autistic spectrum. I guess one question to ask would be if yours were how would that show up in the brain scans, if at all, would it be distinguishable from bipolar diagnosis etc. I also think that in the next five years or so the use of some form of brain image, EEG type stuff correlated with large scale medication response data bases will be much more common. There is much research going on in this area. If you go for the scans, make sure that your consultation is with a psychiatrist that is very very knowledgeable about scans and about medications both. pepperidge [/QUOTE]
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