105| Clinical Case 13 (Young Adult; Type 1 Diabetes, Mental Health, and ADHD) – A Conversation With Dr. Caroline Fisher
Navigating Neuropsychology
The Grey Zone Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes
Working memory is one of the most prominent difficulties that come up on cognitive testing for type 1 diabetes. A lot of these issues are related to type 1 diabetes and unfortunately in this young woman I just don't think it's possible to to tease that out. She also has depression and anxiety and a number of those features when someone is experiencing a lot of symptoms of depression and anxiety can also create issues particularly with information processing and memory. We went through and talked about what this meant for her and certainly a pretty extensive feedback sheet with all really focusing on her strengthsWhat the areas of difficulty were and some compensator strategies. And whether we make the diagnosis conclusively one way or another she's still likely
