Autism BrainScan Tests or Just High Functioning Autism BrainScan Tests?
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Harold L D.Posted
Sun 05 Dec 2010 10:05am
MSNBC has an article by Amanda Chan on the recent "autism" brainscansBrainscan 'best thing so far' for detecting autism . The article cautions that the fMRI tests used... autistic persons as being representative of autism generally are inaccurate and potentially misleading.
In Study: More Hope for a BrainScan for Autism Meredith Melnick of TIME
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Brainscan skepticism
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Jason Schwartz, LMSWPosted
Tue 14 Oct 2008 5:00am
I've had a gnawing fear that the brainscan research of the last two decades that has been used to support the disease model will be discredited by some new innovation in technology, or the realization that everything lights up the brain like the scans we're frequently shown. (I don't believe this, but I worry about it from time to time.)
Good news
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Blog Glob: New brainscan reveals nothing at all
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Stephanie AllenPosted
Wed 16 Feb 2011 12:00am
his BrainScan for a News Story. ‘These images provide us with the best picture yet of nothing much going on inside the human head. I particularly like the way different regions of the brain light up for no apparent reason. It’s so cool.’
Click to read the rest of New brainscan reveals nothing at all (NewsBiscuit).
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BrainScans Show Children With ADHD Have Faulty Off-Switch For Mind-Wandering
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Jeff H.Posted
Sat 08 Jan 2011 10:08am
“Brainscans of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have shown for the first time why people affected by the condition sometimes have such difficulty in concentrating. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, may explain why parents often say that their child can maintain concentration when they are doing something
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BrainScan and Neurosurgical Evaluation
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Julie S.Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:25pmBrainScan
Monday morning May 27, 1974 at the BaptistHospital, I was given a CT (computerized tomography) BrainScan to determine whether I did, indeed, have a tumor. The scan showed I did… a large frontal lobe tumor on the left side of my head. The shock treatments had been so unnecessary! So unneeded!
Neurosurgical
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New BrainScan Better Detects Earliest Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease in Healthy People
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Kathy J.Posted
Sat 09 Jan 2010 4:27am
A new type of brainscan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), appears to be better at detecting whether a person with memory loss might have brain changes of Alzheimer..., 76 healthy people in Rome aged 20 to 80 underwent DTI-MRI brainscanning, which is more sensitive than traditional MRI for detecting changes in brain chemistry, thereby mapping
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Interior Traces: A play about brainscans
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Stephanie AllenPosted
Mon 26 Apr 2010 12:00am
Learn more about this play dedicated to the topic of brainscans by listening to the Science Weekly podcast (Guardian). From the Web page:
With the help of a neuroscientist, writers Louise Whiteley and James Wilkes have written a play about the growing power of brainscans not just to diagnose disease but also to read our minds and predict our
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