Friday, July 13, 2007

Study of kids hopes to answer: What is normal?

In other words, they have been drugging and shocking and punishing and having a merry old time, and they didn't even have an idea what is Normal? As seen in this press release

This summer, brain experts funded by the National Institutes of Health are finishing the largest systematic clinical study ever of the neurobiology of youth. In a $30 million project, researchers in six cities have been combining brain scans, psychological profiles, medical exams and intelligence tests gathered from hundreds of healthy children to answer a fundamental question about brain development that nags parents and pediatric practitioners alike: What is normal?

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Not only is every new brain different from any other, but the variations within each one as it adapts, swells and contracts confound analysis. "A developing brain looks weird," said pediatric neurologist Katrina Gwinn at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who directs the NIH project. "Something that might be normal in an adult might look abnormal in a child."
All of which prompts the question, did they ever know what they were doing?

But then again, psychiatrists are notorious for never looking at the brain when they diagnose the mind, even while they are busy claiming that the mind is all what the brain does.

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