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| Neuropsychiatry
Services: Screening for Brain Disorders |
Symptoms to Look For:
- Repetitive rage behavior (e.g.; requiring
seclusion or restraints).
- Impulsivity (e.g.; aggressive behavior
that is impulsive rather than planned).
- Poor Planning Skills (e.g.; runaway with
no plan, no money, no where to go).
- Short attention span (e.g.; attention too
short for group therapy).
- Laboratory evidence (e.g.; abnormal CT
scan, MRI, EEG).
- Pathological Aggression (e.g.; violent
behavior with no provocation, no gain).
- History of neurological disease (e.g.;
seizure disorder, encephalitis).
- Neuropsychological tests abnormal (e.g.;
viq-piq > 30 points).
- Toxic exposure in gestation (e.g.;
substance abuse by mother in pregnancy).
- Prior head injury with L.O.C. (e.g.; loss of
consciousness > 1 hour).
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