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.

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Re:get rid of shitty teachers

[dkleinsc]

I used to work extensively with kids, mostly in summer programs. I described the effects of ADHD as follows:

A kid with ADHD will tend to run around like crazy screaming their head off, will have a short attention span, and may not notice when you tell them something. A kid without ADHD, by contrast, will tend to run around like crazy screaming their head off, will have a short attention span, and may not notice when you tell them something.

Re:get rid of shitty teachers

[everett]

I was going to write a well thought out post about how I was also diagnosed with ADHD, but then I went outside to ride bikes instead.

Re:get rid of shitty teachers

[mooingyak]

That doesn't sound like ADD, it's just the results of stress. My wife was diagnosed with stress and those are the *exact* symptoms.. she'd be in the middle of a conversation and forget how it started. She really hated the effect when raiding... she couldn't hold enough information to be able to remember tactics.

The major difference being the the ADD/ADHD folks can focus fantastically well on something that interests them (like raiding for example).