What have been your experiences with brain scans and Asperger's?



Worth the cost or throwing money down the drain?

If you can get a medical doctor to prescribe an MRI or CAT or PET scan, it can

be covered by insurance.  If you get it done, have a written analysis of the

images taken and then, meet with a neurologist or brain-specialist doctor to

"translate" it to "layman's terms."  It won't specifically diagnose Asperger's. 

But it could give physiological justification for Asperger's or Autism-like

behaviors, and you can SEE just where the "deficiencies" or overabundances are

in the brain that could explain one's Asperger's tendencies.



- Peter







   ----- Original Message -----

   From: charles_w_2000

   To: aspergers_syndrome@yahoogroups.com

   Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:16 PM

   Subject: [aspergers_syndrome] Can Asperger's show up on a CAT-scan or MRI?





   What have been your experiences with brain scans and Asperger's?



   Worth the cost or throwing money down the drain?









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Supposedly our amygdalas are supposed to be smaller and that is supposed to

explain our problems with interpreting and handling emotions. But I wonder if

that is a statistical thing that is noticeable over  many, many scans of

different people. Or would it really be noticeable in one individual blessed and

cursed with this?



Consider the other side of this. A smaller amygdala means something else is

going to be larger.



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   ----- Original Message -----

   From: Peter Friedman

   To: aspergers_syndrome@yahoogroups.com

   Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:53 PM

   Subject: Re: [aspergers_syndrome] Can Asperger's show up on a CAT-scan or MRI?











   If you can get a medical doctor to prescribe an MRI or CAT or PET scan, it can

be covered by insurance. If you get it done, have a written analysis of the

images taken and then, meet with a neurologist or brain-specialist doctor to

"translate" it to "layman's terms." It won't specifically diagnose Asperger's.

But it could give physiological justification for Asperger's or Autism-like

behaviors, and you can SEE just where the "deficiencies" or overabundances are

in the brain that could explain one's Asperger's tendencies.



   - Peter



   ----- Original Message -----

   From: charles_w_2000

   To: aspergers_syndrome@yahoogroups.com

   Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:16 PM

   Subject: [aspergers_syndrome] Can Asperger's show up on a CAT-scan or MRI?



   What have been your experiences with brain scans and Asperger's?



   Worth the cost or throwing money down the drain?



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