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:APA's "Disorder"

[drinkypoo]

Our school system was designed to produce obedient factory workers and soldiers. It was not designed to produce well-educated individuals. The USA has always had to attract the majority of its star scientific talent from other countries (and has always successfully done so, until recently.)

Re:get rid of shitty teachers

[d3ac0n]

just posting to strip an erroneous mod.

Incidentally, I would have loved to have been "paddled" by my 11th grade math teacher. She was right off of her assistant teaching stint after college. The last day of school she wore this leather miniskirt... Wow. Just wow.