psychodiagnostic test?

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disability determination services has made me an appointment for psychodiagnostic on the 19 of this month.... what the heck is it? :paperbag:
 
angel said:
disability determination services has made me an appointment for psychodiagnostic on the 19 of this month.... what the heck is it? :paperbag:
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people with bi polar have to take this test i think or learning disabilitys..... I think my son took one in school .....

ok haha im starting to feel like Britney spears :soap: :roflmao::banana:
 
Psychodiagnostic testing enhances diagnostic accuracy by controlling for subjective opinion because it uses highly reliable, standardized tests that have been validated in clinical trials. For example: the reliability of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, which measures cognitive abilities and determines intelligence quotients, ranges from impressive .93 to .97. Because it is able to provide both accurate diagnostics and to grade the severity of impairment, psychodiagnostic testing helps the physician or psychiatrist to make pharmacological or psychotherapeutic treatment recommendations that have the highest likelihood of success. "Differential therapeutics", the prescription of effective treatments and proscription of ineffective ones, is the standard of care in contemporary medicine. Psychodiagnostic testing, because of its standardized and objective qualities, aids the practitioner in developing differential treatment recommendations.
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Patients sometimes present confusing clinical pictures. They require sophisticated and extensive work-ups to distinguish the psychological contributions that confound accurate diagnoses and/or treatment of their conditions. Referral for psychodiagnostic testing is a cost-effective and valuable tool in the diagnostic decision-tree.
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http://www.bapta.com/pd_testing.htm
 
I am sure there are other sites that might be easier to read, but when I read that it "aids the practitioner in developing differential treatment recommendations."
Basically they don't want to spend a lot of money doing trial and error. They want to pinpoint what they are dealing with from the beginning.

You confuse them...
I am going to disagree with you Angel... you are no comparison to Britney. You are seeking help, she is refusing it. I am not sure she would even know how to make the appointment. So sad....
 
I found this site it makes it more clear to me .....

http://www.cfids-me.org/socsec.html

at the very end it shows about the testing..... I think its because kidneys dystonia
& epilepsy as was in my neuro's letter to ssi... and i was on the ssi forms bitching about being tired all the time from keppra ... they test cognitive abilities iq stuff like that for social skills etc...

love
angel
 
talked to a counsler

today i talked to a person at welfare office on the phone they sent me a letter about medical insurance they work with social security ..... anyways she wants to see me at 10:30 tomorrow she says its really hard to get ssi ssdi i told her about the other appointment on the 19th she wants to see me first she says she can help and that doctors notes to ssi for some reason are not really considered.... what a pain in the you know what..... I just need help with medical what a process...... so im going to sign another form again
giving her the access to my medical records.....

at this point hey im ready to sit in a psychologist office and do some major venting:rock:
 
I had think I had that test, it was confusing, I had to do puzzles, and flash careds and standerdized tests and an IQ test. everything just showed my Nuero that between the sezires, bangs to the head, and meds I just wasn't the same as I used to be and probably never would be. Don't be freaked out-SSDI wants you to get freaked out, all the less people they have todeal with, and If you get durned down once always apply again, my Dr. says they usually turn you down the first time, hoping you won't come back. Don't give up!
 
That sounds like the testing they like to do for all brain surgery candidates to get a before and after picture of cognitive function.
 
Bernard said:
That sounds like the testing they like to do for all brain surgery candidates to get a before and after picture of cognitive function.
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It could be Bernard, I had it done before they put in the VNS, But They also did it because I couldn't remember things (everyday things), and I kept walking into things, stuff like that.
 
I go on the 19th of this month so ill let ya know what it was for:)

love angel
 
Is psychodiagnostic testing the same as the neuropsychology test I talked about so much while ago? The tests I took three times?
 
Neuropsych tests can include the
Psychodiagnostic tests too as well as
other Psychological and Neurological
and sometimes Psychiatric tests.

It is possible for one individual to have a
full scaled work-up. I have had this
performed multiple times and this
takes several weeks to complete
and at least 5-8 hours a day, but
usually the Neuropsychologist or
Psychologist or Neuropsychiatrist
or Psychiatrist - whoever is performing
these tests would give you a break
like a day off - during the week,
so it would be something like,
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday with Wednesday being
your "off day". It can be long winded
and very tiring as well as BORING!
 
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when i called his office to confirm the appointment the secretary said it should only take an hour... so i dont think its the same thing... eather way it sounds like its going to be boring...:)

love
angel
 
angel said:
when i called his office to confirm the appointment the secretary said it should only take an hour... so i dont think its the same thing... eather way it sounds like its going to be boring...:)

love
angel
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ok here it comes i have to let this out! my neuro said im having psychomotor seizures as he put it to my husband because my husband thinks im psychic( and actually would rather me be a psychic than have E) ....mainly because one of his moms friends is a supposedly clairvoyant psychic she i think is quite different but she keeps telling the family im psychic and its not seizures they are all confused personally I feel they are seizures because they stop with the meds..... my neuro told my husband that sps & complex partial seizures are causing this which are showing up on the eegs..... for myself i have fear anxiety panic aura deja vu visions sweating ...during cps I become motionless and stare if walking sometimes just moan or smack my lips lol..... on the pc i do things without remembering them like making folders ect....... Ive never been aggressive while having one and the cps dont happen often its the sps that happen a lot...... & auras...... how confusing for my family who is extreamly christian...... its hard to explain but i think that psychologist really are interested in the psychic seizures because they dont fully understand them.... NOR DO I!!! :ponder: thats why the appointment ...... I guess?

Psychomotor seizure

Psychomotor seizure

(Science: neurology) seizures with elaborate and multiple sensory, motor, and/or psychic components.

A common feature is the clouding of consciousness and amnesia for the event. Some clinical manifestations may include more complex behaviours like burst of anger, emotional outbursts, fear or automatisms. The eEG often reveals spike discharges in the temporal lobe during sleep.

http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Psychomotor_seizure

love angel
this is just like my seizures:

emporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), now more commonly called complex partial seizure disorder so as to include seizures that originate in the frontal foci, straddles the borderland between psychiatry and neurology. Since the condition may involve gross disorders of thought and emotion, patients with temporal lobe epilepsy frequently come to the attention of psychiatrists. But since symptoms may occur in the absence of generalized grand mal seizures, physicians may often fail to recognize the epileptic origin of the disorder. Indeed, misdiagnosis and failures of diagnosis are common in TLE. Fortunately, the illness is marked by certain "signature" symptoms that can aid in its identification.

John Hughlings Jackson observed in the late 1800s that seizures originating in the medial temporal lobe often result in a "dreamy state" involving vivid memory-like hallucinations sometimes accompanied by déjà vu or jamais vu (interpreting frequently encountered people, places or events as unfamiliar). Jackson wrote of "highly elaborated mental states, sometimes called intellectual aura," involving "dreams mixing up with present thoughts," a "double consciousness" and a "feeling of being somewhere else." While the "dreamy state" can occur in isolation, it is often accompanied by fear and a peculiar form of abdominal discomfort associated with loss of contact with surroundings, and automatisms involving the mouth and GI tract (licking, lip-smacking, grunting and other sounds). http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p950927.html
 
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Summary: Purpose: The possibility that a recent seizure or a recent change in antiepileptic medication might produce an occult change in neuropsychological performance is of interest, and especially so in the context of evaluation for epilepsy surgery. Such an evaluation is often done in a setting of video-EEG monitoring where a strong effort is made to produce seizures as quickly as possible with abrupt changes in medication, alterations in sleep, etc., which could impact the validity of neuropsychological findings.

Methods: A total of 126 adults were studied who had seizures of strictly temporal origin (47 right, 79 left) and whose recent medication history and seizure occurrence prior to testing was as clear as possible. All were tested with an extensive neuropsychological battery with great attention to giving tests only when the patients appeared clinically not to be suffering from recent seizures (seizures occurring on the day of testing or on the day prior to testing) or medication change effects. The cognitive correlates of side of seizures were also evaluated in order to provide a strength-of-effect comparison with recency of AED changes and seizures.

Results: Findings from three-way ANOVA showed a possible slight adverse effect of recent AED change, no effects of recent seizures, and a sizeable relationship with side of seizures. A simultaneous consideration of all three of these variables did not provide additional findings of interest.

Conclusions: Although it is not possible to completely rule out some subtle cognitive effects of recent changes in medication or recent seizures, this investigation does not provide evidence for such effects when the neuropsychological evaluation is conducted carefully with no testing during any questionable or definite postictal periods.
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01140.x
 
I have them.Thank the Lord for a strong immune system. I swear, I have every kind of seizure but I don't get sick much.
 
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