Metadata was changed externally (in Photoshop)

I am working with mostly DNG (converted from RAW) files in Lightroom, and I frequently go from within Lightroom into Photoshop to make further adjustments, resulting in a PSD file. Within Lightroom these PSD file thumbnails always have an explanation point saying that metadata was changed externally. I am not changing any keywords or similar metadata in Photoshop, so I'm not sure what is being changed.
My option is to "import settings from disk" or "overwrite settings", and I choose "overwrite settings", but I'm not sure what's going on here.
Does anyone know what this is about?
I DO use keywords and other metadata extensively in Lightroom (and export to files), since I think that's the best way to organize photos so they can be found in many different software programs.
Thanks,
Jim Fesler

Espart, checking your statement I see that it is correct. I personally don't feel a need to see that Photoshop CS has created the file (I know PSD's cannot be created directly in Lightroom anyway)so I'll continue to overwrite metadata from Lightroom to the file. Typically I create keywords, creator and address, and other metadata in Lightroom, so that's what I want to have exported to the original files.
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    Unfortunately, LR doesn't tell you which metadata fields have changed, so users are left flying blind.  I believe Rob Cole had a plugin that would tell you metadata differences between the catalog and the disk file, but his Web site has been down for a couple of weeks now.
    ManiacJoe: My guess is that Photoshop is updating some EXIF data fields in the raw file, for example the "edited with software" field. Since Lightroom probably has already set that field, it gives you a warning that something changed.
    Interesting hypothesis.  I just tested that with LR 5.7.1, Photoshop CC 2014, OS X 10.10 and couldn't reproduce the problem.  I exported a TIFF from a cataloged raw file into the same folder as the raw, edited the TIFF and changed some of its metadata in Photoshop, and saved it.  LR didn't report a metadata-has-changed notification.
    In general, I'd be (only moderately) surprised that if you edited x.tif in PS, it would change any metadata in x.cr2 or x.xmp.

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