Evaluation of patients who present to hospitals or physicians with altered behavior and/or mentation can be time-consuming and difficult and may lead to symptoms being quickly and prematurely dismissed as psychiatric in nature. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), the psychiatric presentation of a medical illness is classified as "the presence of mental symptoms that are judged to be the direct physiological consequences of a general medical condition." Therefore, understanding common psychiatric symptoms and the medical diseases that may cause or mimic them is of utmost importance. Failure to identify these underlying causal medical conditions can be potentially dangerous because serious and frequently reversible conditions can be overlooked. Proper diagnosis of a psychiatric illness necessitates investigation of all appropriate medical causes of the symptoms. – More at:
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