Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD

Al writes "Technology Review has an article about a company hoping to expand the clinical use of electroencephalography. Thanks to better sensor technologies, data-processing techniques, and more detailed knowledge of the brain, EEG is expanding into completely new areas. A startup called ElMindA, is developing an EEG system to help doctors diagnose attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Scientists have also used ElMindA's system to characterize brain-activity patterns in patients with ADHD, identifying statistical parameters that differ between normal people and those with ADHD." If "normal people" can sit through high-school classes without being distracted and grumpy, count me out.

Comments

Re:getting through high school

[Darkness404]

Realize that eventually you'll have to learn something to get by in the world and you'll be completely unprepared for it.

...And how many high school classes really prepare you for the world and day to day living? Sure, history is nice to know and the basis is almost necessary in order to make political choices, but does that really affect your day to day living unless you are a historian? Math beyond basic geometry is useless to those who aren't in a math based career field (unless you are engineer, programmer, etc. you aren't going to need to know the sine or cosine of anything). Chemistry is useless unless you become a chemist, sure the basis is used for a lot of things, but you don't really have to understand the reactions. Biology beyond basic anatomy is borderline useless unless you go into a science based discipline. Etc. Most high school classes are worthless in retrospect for most students, yet we still keep making them take more classes than ever before. Its no wonder many students don't pay attention in class, they won't use the material being taught.

Re:There is no such thing as ADHD.

[IGnatius T Foobar]

I'm sorry to hear that you have failed as a parent and have bought into the lies Big Pharma has fed to you through their pawns who are your son's teachers.