Can Imaging Lead To Better Diagnoses for Autism?- Part 2 of an interview with Lisa Ackerman

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Braintrauma, Healthtips, Sleep, Obesity, Anxiety, Braininjury, Depression, Ptsd, Mentalhealth, Mood, Brainhealth, Health & Fitness, Energy, Disease, Addiction, Mental Health, Healthadvice, Adhd, Memory, Focus

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🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When you see a kid with autism, you’ve seen ONE kid with autism. Unfortunately, autism is not one thing, and you can’t treat every brain the same. Fortunately, there are ways to scan the brain to determine the type of autism your child has, so you can treat them using appropriate methods. In part two of a series with Lisa Ackerman, founder of TACA (Talk About Curing Autism), hosts Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss the role SPECT imaging plays in autism treatment.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aaman.
0:06.0	And I'm Tanna Aaman. 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.
0:55.8	Welcome back everybody. Tanna and I are blessed to have Lisa Ackerman with us and Lisa is the
1:01.0	founder and the executive director of Taka
1:04.3	talk about curing autism.
1:06.5	You can learn more about it at TakaNow.org.
1:11.3	She has been a warrior in the autism community for many years and it's personal
1:18.1	it came from having her son who was diagnosed with it and she has literally helped tens of thousands of people.
1:30.0	And what we're going to do in this podcast is we're going to talk about something
1:37.0	that's actually really special to me, which is imaging in autism.
1:44.4	Yeah, didn't you come to me five years ago or more
1:47.3	that you said, we need to look at brains of kids with autism
1:50.6	and write a study on it?
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