Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @05:22AM from the phrenologists-hadn't-quite-got-the-patter-down dept.

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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Can it identify Jesus-crazy dry-drunks like Hemos? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-26 05:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

No surprise there. Tobacco is legal for sale and it's packed with shit like arsenic and benzene.
Of course, you have folks out there who are banning hemp because marijuana gets people high. But they should go after the malt liquor industry if they want to catch the low-hanging fruit.
There's no way in hell that Old English 800 and Steel reserve are just barley, hops, and yeast. They cause psychotropic effects similar to PCP.