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Brain and nervesMental healthNeuroscienceDiagnosis and clinical reasoningDepression and anxiety

Daniel Amen explains how SPECT brain imaging can reveal brain injuries and activity patterns to help diagnose and treat psychiatric disorders.

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What people say. Linked to show how brain imaging can correlate with psychological symptoms and help guide treatment for brain injuries.

scnsin Hacker News • Recommends

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You can show via SPECT brainscans that the over- or underactivity in certain parts of the brain correlates strongly with psychological symptoms. For example you can show that people suffering from ADD have a lowered activity in their prefrontal cortex. Or that people with an overactive deep limbic system suffer from depression. Check out Dr Daniel Amen's work. He did over 83000 brainscans. link to this video edit: added count and link to video
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I think this talk is relevant. It's not specifically about convicts but includes them. "The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast" link to this video My summary of the thesis of the talk: Brain injury is far more common than is generally realised, contributes to many kinds of behavioural issues far more than is realised, is visible on scans, and is to some extent treatable, but it's usually not considered or examined.
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u/phd_dudeClinician communityin r/Psychiatry • Mentions

How can we work together to stop Dr. Daniel Amen from exposing thousands of people to unnecessary radiation and unproven treatment methods? What are your opinions of his work? I have a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroimaging and Anatomical Neuroimaging and am training towards Psychiatry. I have recently become aware of Dr. Amen's work, and I am very concerned that his work (very popular on PBS and TED talks) is literally a big scam, supported by these institutions (I am not sure if they are aware how much of scam it is). Worse, he is convincing individuals to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket (because insurance companies simply will not pay for this unsubstantiated methodology) to expose the…
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On “Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?”

Most of the recent psychologists who study expert performers all tend to agree that "genius level" just like "innate talent" is a cognitive distortion and discredits the amount of actual effort, practice, and honing of their craft these individuals put into it. We are all born with the same brain* (edit: see the ted talk on the "After 83,000 brain scans"). Some of us just aren't born in the right environment to curate it and never learn the best ways to use it ("learning how to learn") given the current dominant socio-economic factors. It gets harder as you get older not because of age but because your anxieties, fears, and distortions become more reinforced, so breaking down those thought p…
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