Volumetric abnormalities of basal ganglia have been associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) especially in boys. ADHD is a prevalent neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by excessive difficulty with focusing attention, sitting still and controlling impulses. Before the era of neuroimaging, neurologists reported motor impairments and cognitive anomalies that implicated the frontal lobe. Among these subcortical [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Comment: Basal Ganglia Volume & Shape in Children with ADHD
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged ADD, ADHD, attention deficity disorder, basal ganglia volume & shape, children with ADHD, large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping, LDDMM on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Comment: Effective Preventive Supplementation with Ready-to-Use Therapeutic food
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged children under 5 years, culture, harvest season, HAZ, height, Niger, rain fed agriculture, ready-to-use-therapeutic-food, RUTF, stunting, thoughts, Travel, villages, wasting, weight, WHO, WHZ, World Health Organization on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wasting affects approximately 10% of the world’s children younger than 5 years, and is an important contributor to the population-attributable risk of child mortality and overall burden of disease. In Niger, a country of 14 million people, household food production is linked to rain fed agriculture. Staple crops such as millet and sorghum are harvested [...]
History of the American Medical Writer’s Association Part 5
Posted in Medical Writing Business, tagged chronic illness, computer games, dry up, medical writing, reading, senior citizens, visual and interactive, young people on April 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: This is Part 5 of a 5-part piece. Click here for Part 1. Click here for Part 2. Click here for Part 3. Click here for Part 4.
Today I’m going to muse about what could happen to suddenly cause medical writing to dry up. No one likes to think about negative things like [...]
