CBS Health Watch — New Test May Help Diagnose ADD/ADHD in Adults
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but in a local company has developed a test that could eventually help millions
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of kids with attention disorders as politicians as it doesn’t just diagnose
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the disease but helps determine how kids are doing
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who already have
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thirteen-year-old jillian kodi’s sometimes struggles to stay focused in
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school because she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder eighty-eight
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shitty
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from both at the kennedy thank that hussey
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precedent harder for me
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that’s right hillians month brought into the new england center for mental health
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in middle tennessee undergo the new function to be d_h_ detest
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the device which was recently approved by the f_d_a_ uses motion sensors to
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analyze how much is subject moves their impulsivity an irresponsible because
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it’s an chemical regulation
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if you can see there frontal lobe activity not eat that not being there
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full-fledged and so they cannot regulate their body with aideed she everything is
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so can be so subjective and it’s nice to have to have this objective test doctors
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say the new test is not only helpful in diagnosing a d_h_ date
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but monitoring patients who take medication to treat the condition there
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is no cure for it but it is treatable so when you are able to
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correct a commission its words improving their quality of life jillian has been
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on medication for a_t_t_ said she was in second grade and she is a student that
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really can’t function without it
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bandanas allowing him walk so this is greatly notices held whether is it time
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to adjust your medication the tests which only takes fifteen to twenty
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minutes costs a hundred and fifty dollars but it is covered by some
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insurance companies
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on-call adan seventies univ fourth-graders in braintree will soon be
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taking another test
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fitness test
