diagnosis

I've been increasingly ill for the past year and a half and I've travelled to a major medical center hoping to finally get a diagnosis. A neurologist has just diagnosed me with psychogenic seizures. "Psychogenic" means that there is no organic or physical cause for my symptoms, that instead my...

Just came across this at Ars Technica, I guess we kind of knew this though. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/autism-epidemic-more-likely-were-just-better-at-diagnosis.ars

After reading "On Being Sane In Insane Places" by David L. Rosenhan, I have some questions: How permanent are psychiatric diagnoses? Are most patients considered to be 'in remission' and rarely if ever 'healed'? Is an initial diagnosis questioned after it has been made, or is it merely...

School criteria vs other means of tracking the prevalence of autism. I would doubt at this time there is a "definitive" number until the diagnostic criteria is more universal, so to speak. It doesn't seem as cut and dry the way the numbers for other disorders are. So what is the most...

Medical aspects of the world is not my thing. I'm down right squimish when things, that ought to be in the body, aren't, so I've spent my life avoiding learning about such things. However, now my father has taken a flip off his bicycle and landed on his head. I need help and/or resources for...

There has been a lot of discussion about homeopathic vets lately, which got me thinking. Doesn't a homoeopath have to take detailed notes of a patient's entire clinical history before they could reach a decision as to what treatment to prescribe (the holistic approach). How does this approach...

...what the heck is a "nonallopathic lesion of the back"?