Listen to Amen on PBS: The Visionary Finds His Larger Audience

Brain Function, SPECT Imaging, evolved Psychiatric Treatment goes Public

No matter how you slice the SPECT landscape tomographically, Daniel Amen is the primary person who began the leap from brain evidence to application using isotopes in brain imaging. Even now at large national meetings in the imaging industry the imaging folks are still far away from discussing the clinical applications. They simply don't have the experience/numbers! And they didn't have the psychiatric background to ask the right questions.

So it's fun for me to see my past mentor achieve the victory that any pioneer longs for in the context of repeated professional retributions and "quacklike" criticism.

Let's face it, he has been beat up for years on these matters, and still walks out with a smile, great brain information, and provocative true stories. He is in that phase of science [see Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions] wherein many are claiming it was their idea, ...they figured it out at the same time.

If you haven't heard the Master speak, he is one of the absolutely best medical speakers on any level, and fun, entertaining, with great stories, and .... remarkable science.

These are the links for your review as soon as possible: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life on PBS

http://amenclinics.com/server1
Intro by his friend Bill Cosby : 7 Principles to Change your Brain

http://amenclinics.com/server2
Less Emotional Instability and Secrets to Deal with Difficult People

http://amenclinics.com/server3
Healthy Brain Prescriptions for a Lifetime

If you like brain science, you will enjoy Amen.

Comments

[Stacie]

I met Dr. Amen at a lecture he gave and then participated in his brain study of injured and uninjured brains. I learned a lot about the damage that can occur even from normal children's bangs to the head - the kind that happen to most kids who engage in sports.

If you are interested in the brain and how it works, I highly recommend reading ""My Stroke of Insight"" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. It's on the NY Times Bestseller list and it's a wonderful book. Dr. Taylor's talk at TED dot com is also AMAZING! Oprah interviewed Dr. Taylor and you can check that out on Oprah.com. And Time Magazine named Dr. T one of the 100 Most Influential people in the world. Having read her book, I can see why all the attention.

Dr. Amen's book is brain science and it's great at that. Dr. Taylor is a Harvard Brain Scientist, but what she writes about is the science and much more. She really cracks the code to understand how our brains (right and left hemispheres) work and she explains how we can get into our right brain and be happier and more joyful. Aside from any of the science, My Stroke of Insight is also just a great story.

[Dr Charles Parker]

Stacie-
Belated thanks for this note, I have already posted that piece over on my blog site awhile back, and appreciate that others found Dr Taylor so interesting and inspirational.

It's over at this site for those who didn't see it.

http://www.corepsychblog.com/2008/04/watching-your-b.html

Thanks,
cp