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V R Adebimpe

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MMPI diagnosis of black psychiatric patients.

Black-white differences in MMPI norms may lead to significant misclassification of black psychiatric patients, which can compound diagnostic errors from other sources. The authors suggest that clinicians who use MMPI results in evaluations of black patients interpret test reports carefully, keeping in mind the possibility of spuriously elevated scores and paying careful attention to areas of potential "false positives."

Adolescent

Complex partial seizures simulating schizophrenia .

The clinical features that distinguish schizophrenia from the symptomatic psychoses were seen in a patient whose complex partial seizures remained undiagnosed for five years, resulting in 30 psychiatric hospitalizations.

Adult