Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace
by wu-ikkyu on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:38PM
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>some psychiatric conditions have lab tests of the same sort available.
Which ones?
"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances
Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace
by dragonwriter on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:58PM
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Schizophrenia had one on the market briefly, and there is one for bipolar disorder that is (or was, as of last year) in clinical trials.
See, e.g., http://www.thedailybeast.com/can-a-blood-test-diagnose-menta...
Re:Mental health is still an issue in the workplace
by wu-ikkyu on Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:04PM
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Do you have a source for these claims? Because the DSM-5 says otherwise
>Diagnosis is based on observed behavior, the person's reported experiences, and reports of others familiar with the person...As of 2013 there is no objective test. [5]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
Edit: the source you edited in simply states the corollary to what I've been saying all along: that scientists are still searching for a biological test for mental illness but as yet still do not have one
Not all “physical” (the term is not really the correct distinction, since all illness, including mental illness, is physical) illness is diagnosed directly in that manner (not all physical illness can be, because not all is understood well enough to have definitive tests, and it's not always clinical practice to do so even when it is possible in principle.) And, on the other side, some psychiatric conditions have lab tests of the same sort available.