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DATE: October 6, 2005
TOPIC: ADD & BRAIN STRUCTURE
PRESENTER: Manzar Ashtari, PhD, medical engineer and
physicist;
associate professor of radiology, Albert
Einstein College
of Medicine / Long Island Jewish Medical
Center; associate
professor of psychiatry, Zucker Hillside
Hospital
Manzar Ashtari, PhD
ADD-linked traits -- distractibility, disinhibition -- were
long considered character flaws. More recently, they've
been rethought as possible issues in medicine and biology. But
-- given the complexity of the human brain -- the what and
the where and the why have been hard to pin down.
One tactic in this search: the use of scanning
equipment to look inside the brains of children and adults
diagnosed with ADD. Over time, the technology has become more
varied, and more precise. Scientists have studied
how these brains seem to work -- or how they're put
together. In this presentation, we'll hear about this from the
leader of an ongoing effort to investigate the latter.
Dr. Manzar Ashtari (www.yu.edu/aecomdb/facultydir2/facultypage4.asp?id=354&O=1)
earned a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and trained further at the University of Kentucky.
She now holds positions at several New York City positions,
where she continues to study ADD and other conditions.
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