[Title 20 CFR 404.1528]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - April 1, 1996 Edition]
[Title 20 - EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS]
[Chapter III - SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION]
[Part 404 - FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )]
[Subpart P - Determining Disability and Blindness]
[Sec. 404.1528 - Symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings.]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




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  404.1528
  Sec. 404.1528
  
    EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
    SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
    FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )
    Determining Disability and Blindness
  


Sec. 404.1528  Symptoms, signs, and laboratory findings.

    Medical findings consist of symptoms, signs, and laboratory 
findings:
    (a) Symptoms are your own description of your physical or mental 
impairment. Your statements alone are not enough to establish that there 
is a physical or mental impairment.
    (b) Signs are anatomical, physiological, or psychological 
abnormalities which can be observed, apart from your statements 
(symptoms). Signs must be shown by medically acceptable clinical 
diagnostic techniques. Pyschiatric signs are medically demonstrable 
phenomena which indicate specific abnormalities of behavior, affect, 
thought, memory, orientation and contact with reality. They must also be 
shown by observable facts that can be medically described and evaluated.
    (c) Laboratory findings are anatomical, physiological, or 
psychological phenomena which can be shown by the use of medically 
acceptable laboratory diagnostic techniques. Some of these diagnostic 
techniques include chemical tests, electrophysiological studies 
(electrocardiogram, electroencephalogram, etc.), roentgenological 
studies (X-rays), and psychological tests.