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A study announced this week and a doctor profiled are worthy of note:
Titles here link to the full articles and they are listed on Boonzee News.
Doctor Uses Brain Imaging to Diagnose and Treat Kids' Cognitive Disorders
(Profiled on ABC's Good Morning America) By CLAIRE SHIPMAN and ARIANE NALTY May 20, 2008
Dr. Fernando Miranda, a neurologist at the Bright Minds Institute in San Francisco, says diagnosing children with behavioral disorders like ADHD and autism without looking at their brains is like trying to diagnose heart problems without actually looking at the heart.
[BOONZEE EXCERPT: One non-verbal nine-year-old was originally thought to have autism. "Now on ADHD medication and specific therapy for his decoding problem, Danny has a lot to say." The article goes on to discuss concerns with diagnosis by scans and EEGs.]
Julie Steenhuysen Tue May 20, 6:53 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Being deprived of sleep even for one night makes the brain unstable and prone to sudden shutdowns akin to a power failure -- brief lapses that hover between sleep and wakefulness, researchers said on Tuesday....
"Imagine you are sitting in a room watching a movie with the lights on. In a stable brain, the lights stay on all the time. In a sleepy brain, the lights suddenly go off," Dinges said in a telephone interview.
The findings suggest that people who are sleep-deprived alternate between periods of near-normal brain function and dramatic lapses in attention and visual processing.
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