Autism- you'll never see it the same way again - Brain Spect Imaging

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Autism- you'll never see it the same way again " - Brain Spect Imaging

Medical Director of the Nuclear Medicine Department at Saint 's Heath Center

to present at USAAA conference

Dr. J. Uszler, MD, is the Medical Director of the Nuclear Medicine

Department at Saint 's Heath Center in Santa , CA, the Medical

Director at Santa Imaging & Therapy Associates, Inc., and Assistant

Clinical Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA. Dr. Uszler has

been actively involved in SPECT imaging of all body areas for 20 years, with a

particular focus on the brain since 1992. His expertise includes quantitative

regional brain imaging for normal and abnormal comparisons, for evaluation of

both anatomic and functional brain disorders, and for the effects of therapeutic

interventions as part of the healing process. Dr. Uszler's most recent emphasis

is on " Autism- you'll never see it the same way again " , i.e. using SPECT imaging

to look at brain regional function patterns in autistic individuals. His work

also includes cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, ADHD, stroke and dementia,

and in using SPECT brain

function imaging to follow the course of various therapies, including

medications and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Dr. Uszler received the U.S. Army

Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service. He also received the Hofmeister

Award for Excellence in Study and Clinical Performance in Obstetrics and

Gynecology, Graduating Senior Award, Marquette School of Medicine.

" We look directly inside the brain and combine the information from both

internal and external methods. This evaluation helps you to decide the

appropriate therapy path. "

Autism is an actual brain cell function disorder, not a psychiatric disorder. As

such it is a medical condition, which has areas of the brain under function or

over function. You can see this for yourself on a brain SPECT scan. This way we

look inside of the “world of autism.†As a metaphorical example, if you were

standing outside of a house from which a lot of noise is coming, would you stay

outside the house and guess what the noise is about or would you walk inside to

directly observe what the cause of the noise is? Our medical imaging tools look

inside at how the parts of the brain are working in autistic individuals. Rather

than “guesstimating†only from behavioral observation, we look directly

inside the brain and combine the information from both internal and external

methods. This evaluation helps you to decide the appropriate therapy path.

Dr. Uszler will be presenting " " Autism- you'll never see it the same way again "

- Brain Spect Imaging at the USAAA 2009 International Conference in Los Angeles,

California, on Saturday, July 11th.

For a complete listing of abstracts and learning objectives, click here.

 

Love, Gabby. :0)

http://stemcellforautism.blogspot.com/

 

" I know of nobody who is purely Autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had

some Autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin. " ~ Jerry Newport