Lab tests for schizophrenia: the medical evaluation of psychotic illness

[@summer7529]

Great list for differential diagnosis. You can also include acute intermittent poryphyria. That also mimics schizophrenia like symptoms. Also love mention of how the insurance companies change when their own family member has the disease.

[@BB-wu6fg]

Urinary tract infections should be high on the list!

[@vickymasterson3003]

Thank you for this video I’m in the UK I’ll be taking this to my doctors all they did was a full blood count I’ve ended up going to a private doctor and loading up my credit cards to get to the bottom of my sons psychosis. They have picked up infections such as Lyme and autoimmune issues .

[@summer7529]

Can u suggest which doctor ? My son has same story and we are struggling

[@joed8724]

Fantastic video.

[@aethelyfel7573]

We need to get some genetic screening involved in this too, an obvious place to start is The disrupted in shizofrenia 1 gene, and the CLOCK gene.

[@summer7529]

Yes . I don't understand ,why can't they get all patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia and do full genome testing? They will find out some similar genetic pattern?

[@Sunflower-vp8bc]

Great video! Can u do a medical evaluation of depression, anxiety, ptsd?

[@aethelyfel7573]

Most of the time psychiatrists never test for anything, other than just winging it by seeing what drugs work via impericism. In practice I think I good approach, is standard illicit substances and alcohol test, followed by epilepsy, the. STD type disease that have neurological symptoms. followed by anti nmda receptor encephalitis, the more treatment resistant the disease the more new test are needed to be done. If a successful treatment is not found this disease can be fatal. The disease strikes the fairly young and pretty much ruins someone’s life entirely. The schizophrenic mubmling word salad to themselves on the streets should be a testament to the Shameful failures of modern medicine.

[@aethelyfel7573]

That’s pretty much what you said though: I typed this before I saw the whole thing.

[@summer7529]

I agree 100%