RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 When psychiatric symptoms reflect medical conditions
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 80
OP 87
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.18-1-80
VO 18
IS 1
A1 Killian A Welch
A1 Alan J Carson
YR 2018
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/18/1/80.abstract
AB The brain dysfunction associated with certain medical and neurological conditions can produce essentially any psychiatric symptom. This means there is always a chance that presentations thought to be ‘psychiatric’ are actually explained by unidentified medical pathology. This paper aims to outline an approach to minimise these missed diagnoses.