What tests do hospitals do for anxiety disorders?

After patients with anxiety disorder see a doctor, the examination mainly includes the following aspects:

1. Doctor’s mental examination, that is, consultation. Whether it is anxiety or depression, the most important examination is through doctor’s consultation. Careful questioning of symptoms is more important.；

2. Psychological tests and psychological measurements, including questionnaires to investigate anxiety levels, performance, and under what circumstances symptoms occur. In addition, objective assessment will be done. With the gradual development of medicine, examination items are becoming more and more sophisticated, such as mental stress analysis and autonomic nerve function test to determine whether anxiety is neurasthenia, neurological hyperfunction or neurological disorder. It mainly detects mental stress analysis, sympathetic nerve, and parasympathetic nerve excitability. In addition, it also includes detection of new brain neurotransmitters and near-infrared spectroscopy detection.

To sum up, the examination mainly includes subjective tests, scale assessments and objective auxiliary examinations.