interesting article, poss. new testThat seems amazing! It could really change the future of these neurological problems. Especially those who are suffering from more than one thing like bipolar and ASD...maybe someday it will be able to tell us which one is affecting the brain more and then we have a better chance at treating it. Mason has a seizure disorder too...but I have never heard of this. I knew there was some research on this - that the brain scan of ASD'ers is different than NT people. Now, hopefully all the questions and wondering will be put to rest with these simple brain images and scans.This should also help to clarify misdxhttp:// www.startribune.com/1244/story/1377928.html It seems like someone has developed a machine (MER?) that can detect neurological differences in a simple test. Seems to be working for alzheimers and schizophrenia so far. Sounds like they are going to test it for autism too. Wouldn't that be nice -one simple test. Hi Micki, it's called a MEG, and it has huge potential. They already use it in some places to find the focal area that's causing seizure activity before surgery. There is a major downside, in that you have to be conscious in order for the testing to be done. A lot of our kids would never be able to tolerate it. It may change in the future though, when they've spent more time understanding just how useful it can be. I believe this is the same machine they're currently researching as a "lie detector". It's supposedly it's very accurate. Thank you! This is really interesting and exciting news.Micki, I'm flat-out flabbergasted by this! To be able to identify 6 VERY different conditions with 90-100% accuracy is amazingly promising! My brother is a doctor in Minneapolis who attended the U of M medical school, and I'm going to see if he's heard anything about this. Here's another article on it, where Georgopolous says "We hope that clinical applications can become a reality in a year or two" (!!) http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/08/23/brain-test.html Thanks so much for sharing this news!
I found another article, where he mentions that the fact that the test only takes 40-60 seconds (plus prep and analysis time, of course) is what makes it feasible to be ready for clinical use so quickly. You can test a large enough number of subjects relatively quickly. http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease &releaseid=522792&ez_search=1 Here's yet another article on it, where he points out that the technique can be eventually helpful in evaluating treatments and new drugs. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/uom-uom082207 .php It looks like the study won't be published online until August 27th. The official study is called: Synchronous neural interactions assessed by magnetoencephalography: a functional biomarker for brain disorders http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/JNE Okay, I'll stop now. LOL |
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