John-Gabrieli

Can brain scans identify ADHD and help predict treatment response?

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AdultADHDBrain—

Inside the adult ADHD brain (MIT News):

“About 11 per­cent of school-age chil­dren in the Unit­ed States have been diag­nosed with atten­tion deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der (ADHD). While many of these chil­dren even­tu­al­ly “out­grow” the dis­or­der, some [Read more…] about Can brain scans iden­ti­fy ADHD and help pre­dict treat­ment response?

Major grant to study brain basis of autism and dyslexia

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Quick note: Recent announce­ment that adds hope to the under­stand­ing and future treat­ment of autism and dyslex­ia: MIT’s McGov­ern Insti­tute researchers award­ed $8.5m to study brain basis of autism and dyslex­ia. Quote:

- “Two researchers at MIT’s McGov­ern Insti­tute for Brain Research will head an ambi­tious new project to study the ori­gins of autism and dyslex­ia, sup­port­ed by a $8.5m grant from the Elli­son Med­ical Foun­da­tion. The project lead­ers, Nan­cy Kan­wish­er and John Gabrieli, are promi­nent experts in neu­roimag­ing and human brain development.”

Link: McGov­ern Insti­tute for Brain Research at MIT

Bill Clinton on health care and wellness

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We read a good arti­cle on med­ical salaries recent­ly, and are hap­py to see an increased empha­sis pre­ven­tion and well­ness rather than on sickness.

Along these lines, we were for­tu­nate to attend Heal­thetc yes­ter­day, a day-long health event in San Fran­cis­co co-orga­nized by KCBS and CPMC that had Bill Clin­ton as keynote speak­er. You can read an arti­cle on his great inter­ven­tion here.

Some of the speech highlights:

1) Clin­ton’s great overview of key data:

  • 16 vs 10–11: % GDP spent on health care in the US vs. oth­er indus­tri­al­ized coun­tries. This per­cent­age dif­fer­ence equals around $800 bil­lion annually
  • 84 vs 100: % pop­u­la­tion with some form of health insur­ance in the US vs. oth­er countries
  • 34 and 37: rank­ing of the US sys­tem as mea­sured by health out­comes and life expectan­cy, respectively
  • 34 vs 19: % health care costs spent on admin­is­tra­tion in the US vs. oth­er countries

2) He out­lined the 3 main prob­lems with US Health­care as fol­lows-and empathized that any seri­ous, long-term solu­tion needs to [Read more…] about Bill Clin­ton on health care and wellness