Can a Mental Health Diagnosis Be Just a Symptom of Another Bigger Issue in the Body?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
After over 150,000 functional SPECT brain scans, Dr. Daniel Amen knows the brain. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Amen and Tana discuss one of the main lessons learned from all these scans, which is how a mental health condition may merely be a symptom of a different, larger issue in the brain or body.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Tanna Aeman. Here we teach you how to win the fight for your brain to defeat anxiety, depression, memory loss, ADHD, and addictions. |
| 0:17.0 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aaman Clinics, |
| 0:21.0 | where we've transformed lives for three decades using brain |
| 0:24.8 | spect imaging to better target treatment and natural ways to heal the brain. |
| 0:29.8 | For more information, visit Aaman Clinics. |
| 0:33.3 | The Brain Warriors Way podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD, |
| 0:38.6 | where we produce the highest quality nutraceutical products |
| 0:41.6 | to support the health of your brain and body. |
| 0:44.8 | For more information, visit brainMDhealth.com. |
| 0:49.6 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:54.0 | We're talking about the X Factor, the big lessons I've learned from imaging, |
| 0:58.0 | and we stopped with all psychiatric disorders |
| 1:01.0 | or not one thing. |
| 1:03.6 | And in the book I actually tell a story of two 15-year-old murderers, |
| 1:09.6 | Kip Kinkle, who murdered his mom and dad, |
| 1:12.0 | and then he went to his high school in Springfield, Oregon and shot 25 people. |
| 1:16.0 | And based on my work, they scanned him at Oregon Health Sciences University and they presented the scans of part of his trial. |
| 1:27.6 | Not to get him off, but to try to just understand why he did what he did. |
| 1:33.0 | And then I compare his scan, which was severely damaged. |
| 1:39.0 | I mean, it's horrifying how low in activity it was for a 15 year old. It would have been bad if he was 100. |
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