using brain connectivity growth charting in youth to identify attention problems /

Published at 2016-04-14 03:21:14

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Pediatricians routinely exhaust growth charts to measure patients’ height,weight and head circumference to see for abnormalities. What about using growth charting to examine maturation of functional networks in the brain to see for neurocognitive abnormalities such as attention impairment? That’s what Chandra Sripada, M.
D., or Ph.
D.,of the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and coauthors [...]

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