Doppler technology gives doctors new view of the brain

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.... 8-year-old Danish noticed something odd. He was tilting to the

right and losing sensation in his right hand. " When I put my right hand

into hot water, I said it was cold. When I put my left hand into it, I said

it was hot, " Danish says. An MRI found two problems ­ scoliosis and chiari

malformation, a condition in which the skull is too small and brain tissue

³tonsils² slip into the spinal canal disrupting cerebral-spinal fluid. " The

tonsils are blocking the traffic of this fluid which otherwise would go back

and forth, " Dr. Paolo Bolognese says. ...