I can't believe this took place 10 years ago and in plain 2023 I've heard absolutely nothing about such methods for psychiatric treatment. This is extremely important and relevant, not to mention groundbreaking.
He didn't mention anything about 'treatment '...ie if one is bipolar you try this if they think its depression, you try this. A cyst is relatively easy to treat once diagnosed...the previous 2, not...
I've never even heard of anything like this... I've been really interested in psychology and psychiatry the last few years and no one has ever mentioned spect or brain scans or anything! Kind of maddening...
Because he never put his work through review process, as it doesn't work as he claims. He only gave examples of the successful cases, not the failed ones which is a high number. As of now he is more of a businessman than a doctor, doesn't publish research results, so no other medical professional uses this
Behavior is part of the problem tho, if you want to be precise you must use every tools. That's why health and mental health professionals should know their limits and collaborate more !
I hope & pray that people can get the help that they need for their social-behaviour difficulties while choosing to work on & improve on their self-control, peacefulness, patience, gentleness, kindness, goodness, lovingness & joyfulness Amen 🐹🌻🐥🌿😇💫
@@fetilu0975 Yeah, I agree that behavior is the expression of the problem, but why he opposes Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy confuses me. Psychotherapy is pretty much always beneficial in treating or helping treat mental issues regardless of their cause. Meanwhile, he makes CBT sound like some scary Pavlonian mind-control program. "Isn't it cruel?" lol
Wow it’s amazing how this snake oil salesman has you all fooled. Ask any educated physician in the U.S about Dr. Amen and they’ll laugh. Firstly, there is no evidence showing that mental disorders can be solely diagnosed from a spect scan. Also, insurance doesn’t even cover this scan, because they have no proof it can be used for these types of diagnoses. Also, this scumbag will literally peddle a bunch of bs supplements that his wife sells on their website. No psychiatrist who genuinely cares about their patients would charge them 3500 out of pocket for unnecessary radiation and offer them their own supplement line
Uh, yeah, but he's not saying exactly how he proposes to change your brain! He took a golfball tumor out of his nephew's brain but what about the old lady with Alzheimers, or the young girl with ADHD? Lobotomy or what? He doesn't say. My guess is he uses the standard drugs that everyone else uses. I call BS.
@@opentrunk you can change your own brain through meditation. Accessing higher states of awareness. Think, feel and act in accordance with the way you want the new you to be . Easier said than done but that's the way
@@opentrunkknowing the brain and cells could be changed is what's most important. what if someone could do it for her . Energy flows where attention goes . Remember that .
1. i’m in love with this man’s mind 2. we absolutely NEED this approach in every country, for every case. i’m taking antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti anxiety pills - so a handful of pills every day; and i also had a head trauma, and I WISH i could scan my brain activity like that and know for sure what the problem really is and what i really need to do
Are u okay ?? Be patience give sometime u have come a great way and I know you r more than all this. You will definitely conquer thiss😊😊😊lots of love from India
See if you can get evaluated at one of Dan Amen’s clinics. There may be one within a reasonable distance. It is an extremely thorough process. With the complexity of your profile you may be able to get your health insurance to cover at least some of it. (Streamlining your meds regimen could be a cost savings for them, for example, while also being more effective for you :-). Hang in there, and good luck.
I am interested in knowing more. I have been seen by many doctors at the VA and still haven't found what is wrong with my thoughts words and actions. How do we get more information on how to get a brain scan to see how things are going?
@Waterlec I am assuming that you are an American? My MRI was free in Ontario. Not sure about SPECT but I'd assume it's also covered if you're referred by a neurologist.
True, and generally you should do a full body scan every 4-5 years, after the age of 40. I've done it a while back and in a way it was amazing, not only seeing inside of your body as such, but also the brain and whole scull, sliced and diced in every possible way. I think I'm going to repeat it soon, but it is definitely worth it and doesn't cost a lot at all (you can use public health service or go private if you want; I think around 2019-2020, it did cost me about 1700 British pounds, for a fully body MRI scan, CT scan, full top level boood test and so on. I had doctors talking to me 20 minutes after the scans, and decribing everything that was seen on the monitors, few hundred slides to go through (pure pros). I only did it because I wanted the results to be done on the same day, otherwide the public health service is good enough too (you just have to wait longer for the results and consultation).
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He doesn’t cover that because, while he may be mesmerizing to the TED audience, he hasn’t convinced the scientific community of the efficacy of his work. Do a search for his name + “quackwatch” for a second opinion.
He sounds like many in the alternative health field, who say that stopping symptoms is like turning off the little light that starts blinking when your car is low on oil. And then think you have 'fixed it'.
I have a feeling that part is right. Consequences needn't have to be tightly linked to the cause. And what one thinks as cause could be just a consequence with even deeper cause.
He only said this in the context of someone with a traumatic brain injury, though. That idea is not applicable to people with improper behavior without physiological problems.
when you have the privilege of changing someone's brain you are not only change their life, but you have the opportunity to change generations to come. Best quot ever ❤❤❤
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🧠 Daniel Amen and his colleagues have analyzed 83,000 brain scans, leading to valuable insights into brain health and disorders. 01:24 🧠 Psychiatry has the potential to change generations of people by improving mental health, happiness, and stability. 05:11 🧠 Psychiatrists rarely use brain imaging, missing a valuable tool for diagnosis and personalized treatment. 08:08 🧠 Undiagnosed brain injuries can lead to a range of psychiatric issues and contribute to homelessness, drug abuse, and suicide. 09:08 🧠 Evaluating and treating troubled brains could be more effective and cost-saving than simply punishing criminals. 11:14 🧠 Brain damage can be reversed and improved through brain-smart programs, offering hope for many neurological conditions. 12:13 🧠 Brain rehabilitation can significantly improve academic performance, emotional stability, and memory in individuals with conditions like ADHD and dementia. 13:14 🧠 Brain imaging can lead to better understanding and more effective treatment for individuals with behavioral issues caused by brain abnormalities. Made with HARPA AI 👍 Upvote to improve video surfing
He makes such a logical case for brain scans it’s hard to rationalise why this hasn’t been implemented as part of normal mental health treatment. As usual it will come down to cost. Money. The rich will insist on it and get it, the poor will go undiagnosed or worse untreated. Great talk.
My daughter is studying rehabilitation psychology in Germany, and I send her this important Ted talk / Knowledge of Dr.Daniel Amen. So I hope, the Therapie in future will be more successful! Not only pharmalobby orientation, poisons pills drugs.
I'm so glad to have come across this one. I lost my brother 6 months ago to suicide and I knew in my heart that something had to be different in his brain. A person with a healthy brain does not end their own life only someone with an unhealthy brain can do something like my brother did. I'm so disappointed and saddened with our mental health system. We need change and it needs to be this! Scan the brain of those who struggle with any type of mental illness.
@@rebeccahuelskamp8928 you're so welcome. Do you have any practices that help you with wellbeing? Asking for myself and researching at the moment online..
Better yet, end poverty. Lack of money for basic needs puts people in situations where they have to make a difficult decisions such as: to work, or not to work; to rob or not to rob; to hoe, or not to hoe; to kill, or not to kill; Most of these situations contribute heavily to stress, and stress leads to... abuse.
@@b.b.4831 It's not just poverty but knowing that the system is rigged against anyone without wealth and systemic racism. Sure, some can pull themselves up but 40% live in poverty in this country and know their options are so limited as to cause understandable despair.
@Ironcore You make your own opportunities, and determination will get you through the rest. What Ronald addressed has nothing to do with wealth, and getting things laid on for you. I know, I ended my poverty by the same hard route. Too many people want things laid on for them or else they claim they "can't" do it.
You wouldn't believe me,but in Germany, psychiatrists and psychotherapists think the behaviour is the problem that has to be fixed,not the problem that caused it. I went to a psychotherapist in Germany and said I had to change my behaviour towards the problem if I wanted to be happy. Crazy,uh?,😅 she also said psychologists can't fix your life problems but only you. They want a world where everybody smiles at problems and feels good,instead of solving them. This "therapy" is used by all psychoanalysta in Germany and it's got a name but I don't remember
@@silviadoria7062 I thought it was generally accepted that it IS you who works on your problem and not the psychologist. They work with you, but although you cannot 'fix' yourself it is always you doing all the work internally
And as a social worker, you're not exactly qualified to determine what's "pure facts." Lol. There are reasons why his method hasn't been adopted by the psychiatric community. He's not the pioneer you think he is.
Literally going to share this with all the people I know! I’m a survivor of childhood abuse and at 33 still not feeling whole. My grandma has dementia and barely recognizes us most of the time. My grandpa committed suicide in adulthood as he was himself abused and molested as a child by catholic priests in Europe. If only these treatments would become mainstream! I pray it does one day! Thank you Daniel for sharing such important information about the brain and its effects on behaviours. The story about Andrew at the end also made me tear up! Please governments make these treatments accessible to all and society would thrive from it!! ❤
Pls check the information first. It could be a complete manipulation or misconception. There is a reason probably why everyone in the psychiatry doesn’t do that
“The following information may contain suicide or self harm topics” - RU-vid Still puzzled for getting the warning, I truly believe this is a very outstanding and informative talk.
Yea i got the warning too. But when did he do anything but mention suicide along with a bunch of other symptoms the warning focused on suicide more than he did.
@@RachelCrabtree The problem is that without the symptoms (and the symptom clusters as a way of explaining them) - we have no recognizable disorder. The scan by itself can't tell us anything about the patients symptoms or what disorder they have. His own examples show that patients with different disorders can show different levels of brain activity. The issue is that brain activity does not translate one to one with a particular disorder the way, for example, an ulcer that can be imaged in the stomach, does. It is not surprising that people with various disorders also show an anomaly in brain activity - I don't decry the work, but brain scans at best should be an additional tool to better specify treatment, but can in no way replace symptom based diagnosis and treatment.
@@rahiljogani4825 I believed that was the whole point of his talk. It should considered as another tool to better diagnose, not the only tool. Without the symptoms, you have no idea there is a problem. Using the symptoms and a scan together can discern the physical versus the mental.
For anyone wondering the cost is $5600 without insurance. Most insurances do not cover mental health. I just got my second scan this morning I’ll update in a few weeks. I’m bipolar, and I have had at least six traumatic brain injuries through my life. I really struggled to want to stay alive for my family. So here’s my last hope. Thank you Dr. Daniel Amen
I believed I was destined for something different growing up. I was smarter than kids my age, I was more determined, I had potential but no one saw it but me. I didn’t feel like the main character, I didn’t enjoy putting my peers down, it’s when I realized I wanted to help people but nobody wanted to help me. Everything changed when we moved to Colorado. I was behind, I was bullied, I was overlooked more than ever before, I felt worthless. It’s when I developed depression and anxiety and ever since I kinda just sit in a room and keep to myself while higher education seems out of the question. Too expensive and never rewarding. I don’t feel sorry for myself anymore though, I feel sorry for the rest of you. The Gods gave you Fire and you did nothing with it, you overlooked it. Humans love making disasters
This is what happens when someone cares so much about people. The passion is real. His heart is genuine. This Doctor has a testimony. We need to listen.
@@alexd42dani the scans he uses are 50 year old outdated technology. MRI scans are much more advanced. But you cannot actually see the things he says you can, and he definitely doesn't have the treatments he says he does. 95% treatment rates for alzheimer's? And brain trauma in NFL players? He does none of these things. See a real doctor and psychiatrist.
@@nicholasvanlierde2546 There's a difference between "better" and "healed." It's likely that, like many doctors, he sees his specialty as the one that rules all... When coordinated care between multiple specialists usually results in more balanced care and care that looks at at the systems NM it just the one he's trained in. However, he does have a point about Psychiatrists being a specialty that doesn't look at the organ they treat. (Endocrinologists also don't, I guess, but that's kind of difficult?) He makes some interesting points that would be interesting to discuss with other health Care providers.
40 years I have suffered from a brain injury. The brain does heal. I also suffer from Chronic Pain and PTSD. Each have some of the same symptoms. No treatments at all. Had to study to find out my condition.
@@jimscanoe Untrue, "I and my colleagues" is completely grammatical. All that matters is that the two nouns joined by the conjunction are in the proper case (nominative, which only changes "I" from "me" or "my'). Their order doesn't matter. In the same way, "Sarah and he love to play", though it has the pronoun second, still sounds ungrammatical. But "he and Sarah love to play" doesn't. Either way, all four are grammatical.
I can’t believe how before this research, treating was done without any basis. Diagnosis on the most complex organ, most complex thing in the world, was done by listening to what the patient TELLS you what they feel. Absolutely insane. Thank you for your work.
All that he said is relatable . No person is born bad. Families and society should take responsibility in identifying the problem of our fellow beings. Treatments to be done based on proper investigation rather than providing band-aid solutions. A visit to a nearby mental hospital will clearly explain the need of such studies. Thanks doctor. People like u are most needed in our society.
You all seem to put way too much on nature rather than nurture. I’m a therapist and most mentally ill people have had trauma or negative experiences. Their illness wasn’t brain related.
@@PowersBenzoCoaching at a certain point it becomes semantic. My genetic and birth environment verses my birth process, my parents and my neighbors etc. it’s all environmental. Either way we are the products of our environment.
Societal rot in America really starts with its wars. Soldiers driven mad by war go home to their families as alcoholics and addicts and thus begins the cycle of dysfunction, traumatized kids, and intergenerational trauma. Stop being such a bully country and maybe your society would stop being the madhouse it is today.
@@ayeshak6822 I understand what you mean but you can't just say to a person from a certain country to not do the wrong things their country does. She doesn't represent the u.s ofc and you don't even know if she's American
Rajmund Csombordi Your country may have a lot of mentally ill people, but are they mentally ill to the point of shooting random strangers in shops and schools? Do you have a relatively large number of serial killers (compared to the rest of the world) with no motive aside from satisfaction in killing?
I'm a medical student currently and have a bachelors in Psychology but will be taking Psychiatry in specialization. I graduated at a time where stigma was craaaazy. I am in awe how this ted talk explained it intricately and so beautifully... the whole i'm WOWED.
33 years ago at the age of 17, I was in a car accident, where I was ejected from the car... 13 broken ribs on right side, both lungs ruptured, jaw broken in 2 places and hit my head so hard that it left me blind in my right eye as well! 28 days in ICU and 21 of those on a respirator... ruined everything I had planned after high-school... couldn't do any career I had planned on! Been treated with every single drug from depression to bi-polar... nothing worked! 50 years old now and given Ritalin for ADHD... I hate it! I tried to raise money to go see Dr Amen after I 1st seen this around 7 years ago and was unsuccessful sadly! I would give anything to find out the answer to the problems I deal with and he seems to be the only way. However I csnt afford to get there, for several reasons. I'm surprised and kind of upset I've made it this long honestly. Happy to hear there is someone out there helping others in the right way though.
And it will sure take a while.. Medication is a billion $ biz - they will do everything possible to keep the sales stable. Just imagine we could "heal" people just by training their brain. Pfizer & others would be done in just a few years and I guess they know it.
"When you have the privilege of changing someone's brain you not only change his or her life you have the opportunity to change generations to come" DEAR GOD this sentence is so powerful. I will never forget that.
A whole new meaning to the expression: "When you heal yourself, you heal the world..." OR "When you heal within yourself, you heal your family line." This last one is a true statement!
Don't you think it sounds a little bit eugenically? Do our laws and ethic are ready to fulfil these ideas truly and correctly without any damage and voluntarism?
Societal rot in America really starts with its wars. Soldiers driven mad by war go home to their families as alcoholics and addicts and thus begins the cycle of dysfunction, traumatized kids, and intergenerational trauma. Stop being such a bully country and maybe your society would stop being the madhouse it is today.
I can't believe this video was uploaded ten years ago, when I was 16, and now I have finally know the existence of this video at my 26.. The point is why has anybody never told me about this, and why the society of my country do not ever think about his theory.
“Treatments need to be tailored to each individual brain, not clusters of symptoms.” Very well said! And i am so touched after listening to Andrew’s story. I really hope more psychiatrists would use brain scan for patient analysis and heal more brains. Thank you so much!
I hope the opposite. It seems criminal to me to charge desperate patients $3500+ for brain scans with practically no scientific validity for diagnosing/treating mental illness...
@@serpentines6356 Amen's work lacks evidence that it's more effective than the currently accepted methods for psychiatric diagnosis/treatment (much of which is based on patients' symptoms). He doesn't have randomized, controlled, peer-reviewed studies backing his treatments. He can say, "Oh yeah, we treat loads of people!" and maybe they do, but it's meaningless if he can't actually say that it's better than the traditional way. The traditional way, by the way, doesn't cost nearly as much and is usually paid for by insurance, unlike the treatments that Amen Clinics offers. From what I've gathered, this is why his work isn't generally accepted by (and receives criticism from) the rest of the psychiatric community. There are plenty of websites where you can read about the criticisms of Daniel Amen/Amen Clinics. I'm not a doctor; I'm not the best person to explain it.
15 years ago I had a car accident that resulted in serious brain damage, i was paralyzed and was told i was not gonna read and function again, ten years later i got distinctions in my majors at uni and i have no set backs (physically and mentally). I saw my neuropsychologist last week for the first time in 15 years and when i was speaking to him and he noticed how functioning i am he looked at me like hes seen a ghost. It is very very very very very real how the mind is capable of changing the brain and anything is possible as long as you put in the hard work and believe in your self (fk the haters). the brain is forever reinventing itself and renewing itself and the saying you cant teach an old dog new tricks and becoming slaves to your habits is wrong. I think what society has become is a shame in relation to how much of a lack of an understanding how powerful the brain is and what is possible through hard work because everything is instant and reality has been put into Hollywood movies making us believe these things are not possible in 'real' life.
Hi.Brian.I really believe in you. My brother has same problems.Having brain tumours.Nt cancers though. You are the great hope how did you manage to get better ？ I am the only reliable family but Totally exhausted to repair him. Please do not say you have wonderful family members and surrounded by lovely friends. I did have friends but drifted away as too busy worrying about bro. So any books whatever help me.Regards.
I'm with you brother. I used to have a horrible problem with depression. No longer. I learned how to think in self-helping ways rather than self-defeating ways. Here's to level-headed thought.
@@mickberry164 positive psychology (its hard work maintaining it) i am bipolar and its hard work i have to do and at times my head plays tricks on me and my god, but i know what i have to do to keep sane and make sure i do it and its work
I've watched too-many-to-count tedTALKS and none of them comes close relative to this in terms of impact. I've had goosebumps from the beginning up to the end. I'll tell you what, I haven't had my brain scanned yet but just simply knowing this, my life is changing by the second. This is brilliant. Thank you so much.
We need to spread the good news! Why am I getting all this fantastic information just now? We need to support this work. Oh my gosh! How many lives can his findings help? 🙏🏼
Just use Dianetics man. I've cured PTSD with it, Tourettes, chronic pains, depression. Thought regulates structure. Thought is boss and thought is energy, not chemicals.
@@codyjamessingleton5098 i think this comes from the other side but i remember that line, "its just chemicals" and you're saying "its not chemicals" the best approach to this, is to say "its more than chemicals" i'd like to use the computer analogy, or even smartphone one software, pictures are and are not electrons without the electronics on the lower hardware layer, there wont be any computing and no software nor memory that stores images but images and softwares arnt' electrons so love isnt purely chemicals, thoughts arnt purely chemicals, you cant reduce something to something basic that constitutes it a brick house isnt just a pile of sand and gravel, a plane and a car isnt just rocks either
Truth! The statement around those who committed crime is so important and profound and relevant to me. I wish the justice system would listen to this...I could use it for someone very close and important to me right now. I am the victim and I don't want him to do hard time; I want him to get treatment for the MH issue he has that underlies the hurtful actions he uses against me.. 😢
“When you have the privilege of changing someone’s brain, you are not only changing his or her life, but you have the opportunity to change generations to come” - Amazing and Inspiring!! 🙌😮 👏
@@butteredarmy9129 Thank you so much❤️. The incident was happened when I was a kid, my motoric is better few years later, now I can make sure I'm fully recovered from it. I hope you're the best also❤️
Omg. What an amazing salesman . He tells truth but in the same time his tonality, face expression, body language all of it amazing . He sells his program and himself so good. Real salesman real NLP Master. 👏🏼 🙌
This man don't tell how you can change a damaged brain. It's the principal thing I would like to know. I wonder who you give your brain when you expect a result? The power of someone that can control all American's brains, can be out of control. CIA would like that so much.
E: I agree. No mention of the actual treatments for the various brain 'dysfunctions'. There currently exists a tool called 'social engineering' AKA 'brain-washing'. I just hope and pray that this new development will not be used to dupe the general public even more.
Psychiatry never proved any real diagnosis. They can' t prove with a blood test that someone is "bipolar" and yet they claim it is a "chemical" imbalance, and they drug you to death, literally. They can' t cure any thing. They use drugs, electro shock and lobotomies as a " treatment" and then they just let you rot.. Psychiatry is the bigest fraud in human history .
@@lorenachaweles.5849 I don't know if I'd go that far... I know a few people who have found lots of very real and very good help in psychiatry. It's people like this guy that's the problem. Or the gullibility of the populace, whichever.
☹️ Many doctors are moving through their day too quickly and don’t listen. After almost a decade of seeing doctors, I finally diagnosed my rare condition by myself. I then went to go see a geneticist and she confirmed my diagnosis. Sometimes, we have to take our health into our own hands because the doctors just don’t know what they’re doing. I’m so sorry to hear about your brother.
Manju Devi , a rare tumour that was vascular and one of the veins ruptured and put pressure on his brain stem. He ended up a ventilator for two months before dying. He went to his doctor about the headaches and was told to take Advil.
wow just amazing!! this needs to be broadcasted everywhere !! thank you doctor for your passin in helping save lives and generations to come! im in tears
Just revived an old memory. I first watched this in my teens and found some type of healing through it. Now, years later, with the help of my mother, am now signed up for brain scans with Amen in two weeks. I've been without mental stability and support so long and so often, that I've forgotten what it feels like to be whole of mind, and body. Thank you, Amen and Daniel. Looking forward to this experience and will reply to this after my results come in! God bless this video for planting the seed of change in my mind those years ago! 🙏
Hi. Here's my update. Went to Amen clinic and got my scans. Anxiety peaked right before the follow up where they show my results. I got to see my brains blood flow while relaxed and focused. It was interesting to the eyes but more interesting to the mind. Like looking at a mirror, only seeing my brain. Hard to describe or even think about. They diagnosed me with ADHD. I agreed.. for the first time probably I can see and feel my diagnosis. No more "anxious" or "depressed" or "bipolar". I have attention issues. I'm just me. Which is a relief. I was given an extensive treatment plan and copies of my scans! Following through with it is my job now!! Thanks for following my little journey here.
After being a psychiatric nurse for 15 years I was horrified by what a failure the psychiatric field was in treating or curing sick people. Neuropsychiatry is a brilliant field that will save lives.
Dealing with depression and anxiety for over 40 years (symptoms began at age 8), I can't believe that mental health professionals don't do brain scans on everyone who suffers ANY kind of mental illness. He's so on point when he says every other organ or skeletal problem is looked at internally. It's so simple it's almost laughable - but it's so sad. I wonder what he thinks about inheriting mental illness (thanks Dad!)? Why does medication work on some people, but not others?
Brain scans are not cheap. Nor are they something 90% (probably more) of mental health professionals are trained in or have access to the tools to do. That is why they aren't done all the time for everyone. It's just not that easy. It's expensive and requires a doctor who's actually trained in it. As far as medication goes, like he explained in his talk, people can have the exact same symptoms or problems meanwhile what's going on in their brains can be completely different or even opposite of each other. So what one person needs, like a specific medication for example, is not always the same thing that another person needs even if they have the same symptoms.
@@bestieswithtesties - if what you say is true, then it's time they get on the ball and train more mental health doctors to read these scans. Make more machines, and therefore, hopefully make it cheaper. It's just so incredible to me that the most important organ in the body is least looked at.
MRIs for reading brains are now a lot more common than you think, and most insurances will cover MRIs. There are trained radiologists that read said brain scans and maybe in more rural areas it’s less common but for most cities there is at least 1 facility that can do a brain scan. The real problem is that this knowledge needs to be made more widespread to other psychologists or those in training. Another problem is the US’s health care system being highly flawed and insurance companies constantly denying payment of care to pts who really need it…
@@a.o.9199 - thank you for explaining! I really don't know all about this stuff, I just know how it is to be the patient! I guess we have a ways to go yet, but hopefully, we will get there. I am watching 2 school shooting trials on youtube and I think had these shooters been looked at much more closely in their childhood & teen years (like an MRI brain scan), "maybe" things would have turned out differently? It's impossible to know, but I think it could only help.
@Frank from Iowa listen my friend who died was not athletic and never worked out in this life and started working out in his mid-70s. And I'm not saying that contributed to his Hemorrhage and stroke but when you're in your seventies and working out for the first time that is dangerous territory. Be careful that's all I'm saying pretty much reality sucks but it's the truth
I also work in radiology and I agree that we need to promote more diagnostic imaging in terms of psychology and mental health. I’m an administrator and I’m hoping to push the rehabilitation hospital that I work at onto this path. We treat all types of brain injuries, stroke aliments, neurological issues.
Yes ! Treatment should be all encompassing for a precise mental health diagnosis: PET scan, therapy, possible psychoptropic medication (only when applicable), exercise, nutrition plan, and monitoring other lifestyle/environmental aspects !
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The most important take away- this approach will change generations to come and quell generational trauma more so than anything now available. Utterly grateful I found Amen 🙏🏻
All I have to say is AMEN!! Not only is the truth is in the pudding, his name says it all… He’s quiet frankly, concise, precise and factual, he’s brought a whole new dimension to the art of medical imagery. Kudos to him 🎉
I am a retired Pediatrician who had a 5 year old patient who vomited in class. Teacher called saying was concerned that he was drawing patterns in the vomitus. I admitted him to hospital where a nurse aid was concerned that he was playing with the intercom in a set ritual! Days before Spect the scan revealed a 1 cm blood clot over the middle cerebral artery. Removed successfully. The clinical skills of teachers of young grade school children is an under utilized asset. Enjoyed the talk.
I don’t have any physical brain injuries, but, I have practiced and lived with the idea that my thoughts, feelings & emotions, like my actions, are optional & my choice, that I can choose to experience or not & in doing so is why I no longer have the anxiety, depression or meds I used to experience or take, 25 years ago.
"Psychiatrists are the only medical specialists that never look at the organ they treat." Imagine going to a knee specialist and she tells you that you have a torn ACL and starts treating you for that, without scanning your knee first!
Poor psychiatrists are in such a pickle - they are trained doctors but their area of specialty are "mental illnesses" that are not organic problems like other medical problems. Looking at a brain will not tell you if a person has a major depressive disorder because major depression is not caused by a brain dysfunction. A tumour in the brain, which can be seen in a SPECT scan, can be the cause of personality changes and behavioral difficulties, but they account for a very small percentage of people with mental illnesses. If every person who turns up in a mental health unit gets scanned, it would be a waste of funds as most mental disorder presentations are not caused by brain tumours.
@@Tamarahope77 you sound like you know more about this than I do. I just always thought that it's weird that you don't physically look at an organ and just start prescribing meds for a solution, meds that I've seen personally can have very dangerous side effects. It made sense to me when he mentioned that.
@@bencabrera9394 Exactly! The meds are in fact not as effective a solution as they make them out to be. SSRIs (antidepressants) are generally effective for 50% remission rate in one out of every 6 or 7 people they are given to. Just under half of those taking SSRIs will be in remission after 6 months. Psychotherapy is on the whole effective for one out of three and has better relapse prevention, but some therapies are even more effective than that (e.g. EMDR for trauma). What about other conditions? Psychotherapy for panic disorder is shown across studies to be more effective than antidepressants or benzodiazepines. Yet if you go to a psychiatrist or an emergency department complaining of panic, you'll be offered medication as the first option.
Shaowolf247 The whole video is very interesting in my opinion. One never knows what he/she needs to hear in order to make a radical positive change in his/her life.
Dr John Pollard Dr John Pollard But... He said it very clearly and his speech look staged: "The single most important lesson my colleagues and I have learnt [...]".
My sister (who has frontal temporal dementia) was misdiagnosed initially by a Dr on Zoom. She was described Parkinson's meds and went off her trolly, virtually overnight. It took her saying she knew it was the meds and for her family to believe her, to finally wean her off the bloody toxic things, for her to return to her new normal. Talk about that original Dr throwing darts in the dark. I'll say. He was simply going on symptoms & not taking into account her as an individual. She may have had several similar symptoms to Parkinson's. But in fact she didnt have the disease & those meds exacerbated her condition, and she very nearly had to be institutionalized. It was awful to see her rapid decline and mental confusion. She was terrified at what was happening to her. Her husband & kids stepped in and stopped it, but it should never had happened in the first place. Never!! If only they'd done a scan eh? And this Dr is right. Why don't psychiatrist scan all their patients? It's utterly negligent that they don't.
Doctors, researchers from each discipline all can make the audience awe. Hope a generalist can show up in the future to integrate all those field-specific data into a holistic set of data so that the audience can understand their body in a comprehensive way instead of the fragmented way.
' When you have the privilege of changing someone's brain, you are not only changing his or her life, you have the opportunity to change generations to come ' What an inspiring and thoughtful speech it was! His every word was worthwhile and insightful. Thanks for your precious lesson.
also such a small momentum of what the talk is actually about.. but i mean i get it. some people could be really triggered by this one word when it happend not too long ago.
@@SciFiGirl007 Surgeons do take time looking at the reports, diagnosing, discussing options with their colleagues, and the patient, during which time they may consult people from other discipline. Never meant during the surgery, which you seem to understand.
Daniel said - "When you have the PRIVILEGE to change someone's brain"....is Key to why this isn't available to ALL People with issues. MEDICAL IS STILL BIG BUSINESS - and until it's made available to all peoples....many will suffer, die or do Crazy things.
The US over invested in CT scanners and underinvested in MRIs. CTs expose you to a lot of radiation, so you can only get them every few years. MRIs in the US are marketed as expensive and reserved for the top consumers, "VIP Patients", as they are called in hospitals. There's also an aspect of the US medical system which bends over backwards to avoid confirming the endemic abuse culture via medical technology. In the US, doctors are class warriors and gatekeepers to people's health and well being; they are a kind of informal judge, jury, and executioner that decide who "deserves" care and who "deserves" to die slow and painful deaths.
Thats merely an excuse. the pros outway the cons. one succesful scan could lead to alot more preventative measures than the damage it would cause. otherwise we wouldnt use this method at all. the real reason is weve got ourselves into a systemic nightmare, where profit is more favourable than truly saving lives.
Impressive lecture, but I would have loved to hear about how they go about rehabilitating someone's brain once they discover these issues (although the removal of the cyst was obvious).
Based on dr Amen’s books the main thing is to give supplements ( or medication when the supplements doesn’t give the effect ) after doing a brain scan + other things such as neurofeedback, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, meditation... What dr Amen work is different is that other psychiatrist never look at the brain before giving medication, so for example adderall would make a person A work great while it can make a person B become angry, rigid and commit suicide, while both of them have ADHD. The explanation of this is that when you do brain imaging there’s 7 different causes and different areas that can be responsible for the symptoms of ADHD and thus different types of ADHD. This makes looking at the brain a must to cible the malfunctioning area in the brain because when you don’t see you can take it to a worse situation and unwanted sequels.
I worked for someone who worked with and does the same thing Dr Amen does. One of the “brain rehabilitation programs” he’s referring to is called neurofeedback. It is extremely powerful and uses the principle of operant conditioning (similar to Pavlov’s dogs but a bit different) in order to train the brain to heal itself while having a baseline EEG to determine which brain waves are overactive or under active. The training can be paired with nutritional counseling and biofeedback. It’s real and my sister had it done over a period of time and it corrected non-epileptic seizures she was having daily to the point of being seizure-free for 4 years now. Neurofeedback training is getting more popular but is not covered by insurance yet because the government wants to treat symptoms instead of heal. We need lobbying to get the treatment legitimized in the government’s eyes so we can address the insane mental health crisis
Unfortunately, this "doctor" is a hoax. He claims he did research in Philadelphia. Their hospital research department there denied this. Careful, the brain does not get restored as he claims. Read comments from two prestigious Journals: of nuclear medicine and radiology who commented they asked him to send his work for peer review, but he refused claiming it was proprietary ( because it isn't science, just hoax) mixed with some truths, so this is dangerous. Stay away form him
Really? I honestly couldn’t understand what point he was trying to make. We (the affected) should all do the brain rehabilitation? But what is it consisting of? So much talk but no concrete guide
At age 7 I had my first traumatic brain injury. a horse stepped on my face blacked out for only a few seconds but I woke up with epilepsy a week later. At 12 I had a radical to right temporal lobectomy to correct the partial seizures. (They took out around one cubic centimeter of temporal tissue nicking the occipital lobe). within about 12 hours of waking up from the medically induced coma after surgery I realized a few things I have a little bit of blindness in the left front corner of my eyes, my head feels funny, and I can't remember anything. I knew who my mother was, I knew how to ride a bike, I could walk (well save the jelly legs from two weeks in a coma). But I didn't know why I liked my mother. I didn't know why I was supposed to be proud of a trophy in my room. I had memory but I didn't have any memories. over the years I found the best way to describe it is like I was watching a movie or reading a book those things happened sure I knew they happened but I didn't feel them they weren't my experiences. fast-forward through 8 years of Messi adolescence where you can't make human connection cuz you don't remember what love was. I was diagnosed with ADHD impulse issues and ODD. I lift up my life with the weird combination of two traumatic brain injuries as well as at least three minor brain injuries or concussions that knocked me out that I'm aware of over the span of about 5 years between ages 15 and 20. but something miraculous happened around age 20/21 I started being able to remember things. Somebody put their finger to their forehead and bow down like a unicorn which was exactly what my elementary school nurse did and all of a sudden after 10 years of no Memories the name Kelly Bamford came to my head all of a sudden I remembered what the nurse's office look like in my elementary school I remember all the funny goofy jokes you used to tell me I remember her being effectively my best friend in elementary school cuz nobody likes the kid with seizures. all the sudden it came flooding back to me and I remember thinking shock and awe that I could remember something I thought all my memories have been physically removed from my skull with that brain surgery my recall was broken not my memories. Fast forward about a year after that and I have another incidents very similar the city-wide parade came around and all of a sudden I remember what middle school me in Middle School best friend did at the fair. I got these flashes of experiences and they felt like they were mine and not just reading from a book. After 10 years with Advanced retrograde amnesia never feeling human and complete because I had zero memories accept 9/11/01 before the age of 12 (and very broken memories from 12-15). My brain healed itself through will and time decent psychotherapy and will I started remembering things that I thought were lost forever. Your brain can and will fix itself if you teach it to and you care for it properly. Edit: I'm 25 now the count is those two major brain injuries and 8 concussions that have knocked me out where I felt symptoms of one example a guy slammed into me with his elbow and a bar and I remained conscious but the left arm from my neck down went numb for 30 minutes and then came back online. I have now been diagnosed with p n e s or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. basically whenever I get too stressed or too tired or varying degrees of exhausted my brain will just reboot shut down and I'll wakup. Sometimes I can feel them coming on and I can suppress them for up to 5 minutes. other times they happen suddenly and I'm just conscious but on the floor at work and able to move my limbs. The symptom of the seizure is never the same. I'm starting to notice that when I wake up from a reboot something new is happening. A sensory overload button just vanished after the one where I couldn't move my arm. I felt myself grow up emotionally. Like I felt myself catching up to the rest of the class internally, put all that happened in the span of about 15 minutes instead of 5 years. This most recent episode landed me in the ER but I think it also was the last really big bit of emotional healing I needed to be the physical age I'm at now. I'm working on my third language fluency. Also i realize now i have a superpower. I can tell you what part of my brain is lighting up when i focus on thinking. Im a walking spec (assuming its as accurate as it appeaars to be). Typing this infeel it about 2cm above my right ear; inwards about 3cm; forwards 1cm from center line of the ear. Its also feeling right behind my right eyeball but the upper third of thebprbital socket only. Which formulating languageband memory recal is a temporal thing and ptocessing information is a frontal thing so fhat seems to line up. I n ed to memorize the spec scan regions fo thw brain (like broccas region is specific to languages).
Hey I have very similar stories and the timing and the how tos of my journey bit different. However the ending the experianceces the remembering I am having that. My question to you if I may, how did you heal? How did you reach that lost version of yourself and pull it out? How did you know that this was the truth, your real you?
I'm not sure what made me start remembering. I think it was a combination of time and positive progression with my PTSD. I finished puberty around that time so hormone changes may have been some part.
I wish we had more doctors like him!!! I've been saying this for a while and I come across this video ! Watching this makes me realize even more how much the mental healthcare system is failing us. they just throw medication at you (eventually just worsening the problem) instead of actually treating the problem, but knowing that there are doctors out there just like him warms my heart & gives me so much hope ♥️
BRAVO! Now scan the brains of the politicians who want to run for president and we have an epic show. So many of them tax evade so not sure that is some virtue to recover from.
I am a retired MRI tdchnologist…..and, usually, if a person was having mental issues, their physician would order an MRI of the brain to look for any physical signs, pathology, that might cause their mental problems…..such as the cyst that this Doc says Andrew had. An MRI scan of the brain should always be part of a psychiatric workup when trying to diagnose mental illness. As should a nutritional workup and questioning of the patient’s physical environment to see if any chemical toxins present that may have caused the mental problem (if it is a fairly sudden onset)
I have suffered from mental illness all my life. Not until I figured out I'm a empath did I start to heal. I didn't realize I took on other people's energy. I'm learning to block it but it's hard to find a happy medium. I was diagnosed bipolar. I can see my highs and lows now and I evaluate whether I want certain energy in my area. I also TRY to wake up grateful, helps too. Through the years meds never helped, I have seen meds help some people but they just use us like guinea pigs in my opinion. There have been some great breakthroughs, I will admit, it does help to seek help! Even if it's the wrong help. Trail and error, type thing.☹️ It's exhausting.
Wouldn't you be biased though? If you're a tech, you're not meeting the patients who aren't offered a scan. I've never heard of anyone getting an mri for mental health problems.
@@KateLate____ it is done in order for the attending physician to rule out any physical reason that a person may be havng mental issues, such as a brain tumor of some type….which, depending on its location in the brain, could be the cause of some mental changes. it is not done in every case, but I don’t think it is a bad idea, especially in the case of someone who has been mentally/emotionally stable in the past.I don’t see why you would think any bias is in play at all in my statement. what sort of bias are you thinking of?
I love hearing someone who is passionate about one of the more maligned fields - e.g. psychiatry, criminal defense, news media, etc. Doing it for the right reasons and passionate about it.
So brilliant! "Behavior is an expression of the problem, not the problem". "Psychiatrists are the only professionals in the medical field that don't take a look at the source of their study (the brain)... Therefore they can only guess" This TedTalk was amazing.👏🏼
I feel like most health professionals in our country do that, although not all, but we are a socialist country, and don't have the set up like America do. We don't pay anything, and doctors are paid by the government.
