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Autism Brain Scan Tests or Just High Functioning Autism Brain Scan Tests? by Harold L D. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 05 Dec 2010 10:05am MSNBC has an article by Amanda Chan on the recent "autism" brain scans Brain scan '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 Brain Scan for Autism Meredith Melnick of TIME Read on »

Brain Scans Could Spot Developmental Problems in Kids by Medline Plus Posted Thu 09 Sep 2010 11:00am (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that a quick MRI scan could tell doctors if a child's brain is maturing properly, potentially providing an early warning sign that mental problems are developing. Researchers say the strategy could turn an ordinary brain scan into a tool similar to the age-old growth charts that tell pediatricians if kids are growing Read on »

Brain Scan Might Someday Spot Autism by HealthFinder Posted Thu 02 Dec 2010 12:00pm with high-functioning autism and 30 males without autism. Males with autism showed differences in the white matter circuitry in two regions of the brain's temporal lobe...," Mostofsky said. Also unknown is how old a child has to be for the deviations in brain circuitry to show up on the MRI. At birth, the brain's gray and white matter is largely Read on »

Brain Scans Accurate at Spotting Autism by Medline Plus Posted Thu 02 Dec 2010 12:20am interview. The team did scans of this type on the brains of 30 people with autism and 30 people without. They found.... And, he said, they might also lead to better management and treatment of people with autism, a complex and mysterious brain disorder usually first diagnosed in early childhood Read on »

Blog Glob: New brain scan reveals nothing at all by Stephanie Allen Posted Wed 16 Feb 2011 12:00am much better the old black and white pictures. They were rubbish.’ The scans were also welcomed by neurologist Professor Oliver Sacks, best-selling author of The Man Who Mistook his Brain Scan 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 Read on »

Brain scan skepticism by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 14 Oct 2008 5:00am I've had a gnawing fear that the brain scan 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 Read on »

New brain scanning method detects signs of awareness in patients presumed to be in a vegetative state. by Kathy J. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 04 Feb 2010 7:25am Source: BBC Read on »

Brain Scan by Dominique Posted Mon 13 Dec 2010 1:00am Just wanted to let you know that not only do I have Dekker’s appointment today(you can read about it here ) but I will be getting a brain scan at 12 pm. So…if you could, please, be keeping me in your thoughts and prayers today, I would greatly appreciate it. Determined to continue forward, © 2010, 4Walls and AView . All rights Read on »

Brain Scans Show Children With ADHD Have Faulty Off-Switch For Mind-Wandering by Jeff H. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 08 Jan 2011 10:08am “Brain scans 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 Read on »

Interior Traces: A play about brain scans by Stephanie Allen Posted Mon 26 Apr 2010 12:00am Learn more about this play dedicated to the topic of brain scans 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 brain scans not just to diagnose disease but also to read our minds and predict our Read on »