I've read and heard some accounts of the use of certain scans of
human brains. I think they monitory the amount of oxygen used
by each part of the brain using MRI, but I'm not really sure.
Using this technique, they have been able to determine which
parts of the brain "light up" when certain tasks are performed.
They have also determined differences in the ways the brains of
people suffering from depression work.
What I would like to know is whether these techniques have been
applied to the brains of retarded persons, particularly those
whose retardation was induced by brain damage suffered at birth.
I would be interested in reading the relevant literature.
Allan Adler
ara at altdorf.ai.mit.edu
