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Why arent spect scans done more often to diagnose mental illness and to provide accurate treatment?
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Not a done deal.: Mental Illness is too complex to be diagnosed from SPECT scans or other single use tools. And treatment is very complex as well, depending upon the diagnosis and the symptoms. Mental Health diagnostics are dynamic and evolving processes and not at all definitive. One size does not fit all, and there are some symptoms which are confounding. In other words, it is not as useful as you hope.
Answered 4/24/2018
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