Wow, amazing! Our first scan should be in high school or even younger! It would prevent so many atrocities and give people a more happy life and keep more people out of prisons. Mental Health needs to be talked about and treated, this would be a fabulous start!
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Love your books Dr Amen, just found them a couple weeks ago. Starting to think I might need to come have a scan done. Lots of addiction and other issues over the years. Bad concussion at 9 yrs old. Got me thinking about correlation btwn TBI and addiction.... Thanks for dedicating your life to helping others.
Me too with the head injuries (lots of them), addiction, Type 1 juvenile diabetes since age 3, bipolar type 2 (supposedly you can't diagnose bipolar accurately without these types of scans), and addiction like nobody's business. 26 years and the doctors WILL not pay for a SPECT scan through insurance. Did you get the scan?
@@ASFARASICANTELL No, I never followed up on the scan. Been looking into microdosing though, seeing a lot of promising info where people are doing that.
It's a pity you won't accept state and federal insurance. Of course you'd be really busy. Just think of the money that could eventually be saved because lots of people would be able to work again or function at a much higher less needy level.
If they take that type of insurance they have to operate as the government wants. Since the government doesn’t want to admit that the brain can be injured like the spect scans show so it’s better for people’s health that Amen is keeping the government out of their clinics.
Maybe your perspective would evolve if you considered the western medicine business model limitations as it relates to what “health” insurance will and will not cover.
I need to find out what kind of spect for add/depression/head injuries etc Which one of these? PET-CT (Radiotracers required) 18F-FDG 18F-NaF 18F-FET 68Ga-PSMA 68Ga-DOTATATE
My daughter aged 14 has frequented a house with major damp issues.She recently started hallucinations, hearing voices,self harms and hasn't eaten for a month.Doctors and hospital won't do a brain scan ( we live in Scotland) and I'm quite angry that toxicity is not being searched for her in her brain.What tests would pick this up as well as brain scan urine blood hair?
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Going to my psych in 2 days gonna have to find a neurologist to get the spect scan tho. I hope I can find enough info to know specifically what to get and how to analyse it.
I am intrigued by this brain mapping/imaging, but I have loads of questions and information and studies are greatly limited. What determines a "healthy" or "unhealthy" brain? Throughout the video you show "Healthy versus unhealthy", and I'm not sure how that is determined. I would assume each individual, to at least some degree, has their own level of "healthy" brain. How do you determine the individual's healthy brain? What do the colors represent? What do the shapes represent? Thank you and I wish to learn more about this soon.
Thank you for reaching out. Here's more information for you: www.amenclinics.com/approach/why-spect/ ; www.amenclinics.com/approach/spect-research/ ; www.amenclinics.com/peer-review/
Watching Dr. Daniel Amen here, really wanna know how they work. And what they show both the Dr. & the person involved. Would really like to have one done on me!
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If they'd integrate SPECT into national health systems to make it affordable and accessible to the average person, then we'd be going somewhere. We will never have a wealthy majority, so unless this becomes accessible, the majority will not have what I consider basic health care... This to me is basic health. Most of us likely just cannot afford it but if I'm gonna save up for anything in life, it'd be this.
Thank you for reaching out. Here is the information you've requested, and you can find more frequently asked questions on our website: www.amenclinics.com/faq/: The radiotracer that we use for SPECT is called Technetium 99m. Its signal is detected by the scanner. Combining Tc99m with other molecules (like HMPAO - “Ceretec”) allows Tc99m to enter specific/desired tissues. The average radiation exposure for one SPECT scan is 0.7 rem. Two of our SPECT scans are roughly equivalent to, or a bit less than, one CT scan of the abdomen or pelvis (about 0.7, depending on protocol). This amount of exposure is well below the cut-off level (10.0 rem) for any known potential or observable health risks. About 5% of the total dose goes to the brain. About 40% of the tracer is excreted within minutes by the kidneys and the remainder by the gallbladder over about 24 hours. Tc99m has a half-life of just over 6 hours. We always encourage patients to drink plenty of water.
@@veronicasarabia3821 I had a Medicaid plan. They approved the pre authorization as they were familiar with Dr Paul Harch’s work in NOLA. I think it was AmeriHealth Caritas back then. But that was in 2015.
Gary Simone it’s just a version of Positron Emitted Tomography (PET). It is researched, and it is also less advanced than modern (functional) MRI scans. And there are studies and they tend to not be very favorable to much of what Dr Amen says. Not that it doesn’t have any validity but he is basically writing his own science in some ways and doesn’t seem to care about scientific consensus when it’s clearly not the time to be the outlier. I heard him in a video say that autism may be caused by vaccines. When you hear a doctor say that being that you are in the same general field you immediately are clued into something being off. I was clued in - something was indeed off.
@@topxsoulyou right do Not let the facts get in the way of making Money Notice he never ever shows a scan of a patient before and after he chargés you 1000s just because he has looked at 1000s of scans does not mean they are scientific correct SCAM
Gary Simone he has some base knowledge of a psychiatrist but what he makes his money from is largely not validated. He sounds good enough to anyone who is not an expert in the field (or at the minimum, very scientific literate) for the most part but the aspects that are unique to his method are largely not just bogus but potentially endangering others mental and physical health. The Hippocratic oath that doctors take says do no harm. Maybe his had the clause of: Do no harm, unless you’re making bank, bro.
Reduce how much you charge doctors to license your scan if you think it’s actually helpful for patients. Insurance companies don’t like to cover it and it’s really expensive. Unclear what this does apart from tell you your brain is messed up.
@@priusa8113 cost ya 5k Also spec scans have no proof that they can be used in mental illness ....wish it was that easy ooooo and he sells you vit and suppléments to balance your brian He has never ever tran studios etc. So bewate
@@AmenClinic are there study backing your claim on spec scans i cant find any in fact just the opposire And why does the Dr not show before and after scans of peuple he treated ??
i just had a stroke at 24 with no blood clots.... i believe it may be from sumatriptan migraine medication or triolamarzia birth control, any direction or input? please anyone i was perfectly healthy before
Dr. Amen, have you ever tried to test your methodology in using brain scanning methodology to diagnose and treat (neuro)psychological disorders. As a researcher I can think of a methodology to test your methods off of the top of my head, roughy speaking. You make some claims that seem unusual but I can’t say whether it’s been validated one way or the other with some data. And yes I did look at your prior publications. I’m saying to conduct research where you have a team using your methods for example, blindly differentiate between different types of delusional disorders for example and see how well it does based on a set standard.
