Misdiagnosis of Mental Retardation
| About misdiagnosis: When checking for a misdiagnosis of Mental Retardation or confirming a diagnosis of Mental Retardation, it is useful to consider what other medical conditions might be possible misdiagnoses or other alternative conditions relevant to diagnosis. These alternate diagnoses of Mental Retardation may already have been considered by your doctor or may need to be considered as possible alternative diagnoses or candidates for misdiagnosis of Mental Retardation. For a general overview of misdiagnosis issues for all diseases, see Overview of Misdiagnosis. |
Alternative diagnoses list for Mental Retardation: For a diagnosis of Mental Retardation, the following list of conditions have been mentioned in sources as possible alternative diagnoses to consider during the diagnostic process for Mental Retardation:
- Learning disorders (type of Mental illness)
- Reading disorder
- Communication disorder
- Pervasive developmental disorder
- Dementia
Mental Retardation as an alternative diagnosis: The other diseases for which Mental Retardation is listed as a possible alternative diagnosis in their lists include:
- Autism
- Communication disorders
- Dementia
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
- Learning disabilities
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Pyromania
Medical news summaries about misdiagnosis of Mental Retardation: The following medical news items are relevant to misdiagnosis of Mental Retardation:
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