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Dr. Amen has written a very readable, almost-500 pages long, book explaining his research and methodologies for helping ordinary people with brain related health issues. By training he is an MD with a specialty in psychiatry. However, he makes it very clear that, in most cases, historically psychiatrists have been prescribing medication often based on pure guess-work up till now.
He has developed a novel approach to scanning a patient's brain to determine which particular areas appear to be receiving either too much input, or too little.
Currently he has five clinics across America (Costa Mesa, Ca, Brisbane, Ca, Bellevue, Was, Reston, Va and Atlanta, GA). With over twenty years of using his approach to guide teams of medical doctors, psychiatrists and nutritionists they have thousands of brain scans illustrating almost all types of challenging brain-related issues.
Dr. Amen has also collaborated with Faith groups, Rick Warren's Saddleback Church, to create The Daniel Plan to use Faith, Food, Fitness and Friends to help the world get healthier, in collaboration with well-known health advocate, Dr. Mark Hyman (p. xv).
His brain scan, SPECT, is a nuclear medicine study that looks at blood flow and activity of areas in the brain. It will also show whether a person has had injuries from accidents or sports.
The methodology and the treatments that have evolved have helped an increasing number of people, among them parents with children who suffer from learning disorders related to ADD/ADHD, children who have had head injuries and subsequent notable changes in behavior, couples who have been brought to the brink of divorce due to behavior and perception struggles, and people with severe depression challenges (p. 23).
Dr. Amen cautions that, as in all cutting edge research, not all scientists agree with his findings, but notes that their evolving treatments are based on more than two decades of clinical data and observations. He states that a follow-up study with patients suffering from a combination of ADD, depression, anxiety and addiction, 84% reported that they functioned better after the Amen treatment (p.43).
From an Education Profession perspective of watching an increasing number of our students appearing with attention-deficits disorders and autism spectrum issues most educational professionals would probably agree that, for many such parents, a consult and a brain scan might be preferable to watching their child face a life with diminishing skills and joy.
For an increasing number of elderly people who are facing diminishing lives due to escalating incidents of Alzheimer brain incapacity, a consult and a brain scan might be worth an ounce of prevention.
For people with a life history of taking responsibility for their own health, a consult and a brain scan may also become as useful as an annual heart and blood pressure exam.
Dr. Amen and his teams have developed a well balanced paradigm and treatment protocol that includes both traditional medication as well as health based remedies such as 5-HTP, inositol, green tea, rhodiola, L-tyrosine, DHEA, SAMe, vitamin D, GABA, B6, magnesium, huperzine A, acetyl-L-carnitine, vinpocentine, and ginko biloba for issues related to addiction, depression, cravings, impulsivity and learning disabilities (p.292).
The book was made endearing to readers by the inclusion of many case-narratives; it's not an intimidating 500-page medical research paper. The book may become a comforting go-to encyclopedic reference tool that is further extended by back-up website materials for many struggling parents, individuals and couples who have failed to find practical medical help for themselves, their family or their children.
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This book is a life changer for me. I have been buying so many self help books I basically have a library now.But they weren’t working. I love them so much but I have to start at the cause and not work on the symptoms (as they were strongly fighting back.)I had two massive brain injuries (one at 7 years old where I blacked out after sledding head first into a brick wall). I woke up and remember little that the only thing they were willing to do for me was “sew my mouth shut because there was a huge hole there and it might scar”. No scan was done but I was confused and slept for a long period of time after this. I developed anti social behavior and was “zoned out” I was put on prescription of Ritalin, which only made me feel like I was going crazy. My hand writing was a mess and never improved over the years.My second concussion was at 17 when I fell on concrete tile floor (my boss saw my head bounce off it like a ping pong ball). There was about a foot of water in the back off my work place and I slipped while running. This would end up being the “worst” thing that ever happened to me. I went from being depressive to clinical depression, panic, paranoia, sweating I could list a million other things. I did not go to the hospital, one week later I was having grand mal seizures. Nothing was done for me, again. Medication for the seizures but not the cause. This was my life for the next years and years just getting worse.I prayed often for help from God this last year, I couldn’t take it anymore. I need help I’m not ashamed to say I still do because not asking for help got me here.I needed to learn about this from adding the symptoms to the cause. My brain has been effectived massively. I need to know about the brain, doctors will only treat your symptoms. If you get a good doctor you’re lucky, but I learned I have to figure a lot out of it out on my own and walk them through it. It could be all the trauma has effectively taken away my ability to fully express myself.(I learned this the hard way going probably a year with a bleeding ulcer. I begged my doctor for help, and he kept pushing anti depressants. When I expressed the pain gotten so bad I couldn’t walk anymore and eating was becoming a fear. I lost 10 pounds because eating was so painful I couldn’t walk after eating small handfuls of food. Yes, take care of yourself be your own advocate! Find out as much as you can! Do your research find books on everything that you can and look for the root causes.I am not hating on doctors, no. I know they are overwhelmed often and it becomes normal to see a patient and think it’s not super complex situation. But I also know we know our own bodies and have to do our best to get the correct treatment.This book is my next step, after praying I found this at a bookstore for $5 brand new. I feel so blessed because despite mixing up my neurologist appointment for another one (I was extremely upset because I wanted to talk to him about my problems). Well, now I know why I missed that appointment. I really would have not been able to explain my problems as well as I can now that I found this book. I am definitely looking forward to my appointment and reading this amazing book.Thank you doctor Daniel AmenYou are a blessing to us with brain injuries and much much more!!!
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Must read for mental and physical health
Reviewed in India on September 21, 2017