"brain scans of the default network could be used to diagnose schizophrenia before its symptoms appear"
How about mass-murdering war criminals? Got anything to detect that sickness?
"Study may cast light on mental illnesses; 'Default system' of brain measured" by Carey Goldberg, Globe Staff | January 20, 2009
You're sitting at a dull meeting and your attention drifts. You're waiting in a check-out line, thinking of nothing in particular. You're lying in bed, having just turned off the television. At such times, your conscious mind is on "idle," but your brain is not.
In such situations, the brain's "default system" takes over, a pattern of spontaneous activity that is fast becoming one of the hottest areas in neuroscience research, one that may cast light on mental illness. Yesterday, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and elsewhere reported that the brain's default functions look strikingly hyperactive in people with schizophrenia and their relatives. And the more overactive the default system is, they found, the worse the symptoms tend to be.
The findings are so strong that they raise hopes that brain scans of the default network could be used to diagnose schizophrenia before its symptoms appear, or predict how patients will respond to various treatments, researchers John Gabrieli and Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli said....
Researchers say a great deal of work on the default network remains to be done, but fortunately, many studies are available for data-mining....--more--"
I think the RESEARCHERS are the SICK ONES!!!
