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
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.
@@matusguga3997 Actually, that's accurate. It's possible to improve your encoding and retrieval processes. Another learning expert, Justin Sung, with 10 years of experience in the field has studied research papers about the processes of learning and whatnot Look him up in YT
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
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.
“The following information may contain suicide or self harm topics” - UA-cam 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@Alex Gonzalez 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.
Nicholas Vanlierde , thank you! Spot on! Scientists are money wh*res. Once in awhile they get something good, and then we get sucked into paying for extra, bizarre, and often unethical, inhumane 'studies'. So much fraud. Dr Mengele is alive and THRIVING in the bodies of heartless sadist 'scientists'. And Epstein/Maxwell, global paedo pimps LOVE the scientists. With his master race baby factory in New Mexico, and his tripa to his paedo island for MIT scientists. Seriously, paedos must be sent back to the aether.
"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.
@@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'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..
But think, why is their brain wasnt function normally? Let’s also included maybe the reason for that is psychological, the environment the kind of life they have. also try to look at this perspective where do this people get that abnormal brain like Depression, PTSD but because also of their environment and experience wherein psychiatrist also looking for this perspective
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.
@@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.
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.
“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.
I AM A PATIENT OF DR.AMEN AND HE SAVED MY LIFE AND HELP ME BE A BETTER FATHER AND HUSBAND! I had a football Injury and got hit in the head with a baseball bat I suffered from Addiction depression ,anxiety ,and ADHD! He saved my life.
@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
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).
Never give up about being dull, forgetful, or slow learner, etc. According to Dr Amen, there are still ways to improve or revive an ailing brain. This is portal of hope for many of us people. GLORY to GOD for the revival.
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 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.
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 !
I googled his research and I found out this: phisical activity first and then 5.6 grams of fish oil a day, containing 1720mg of EPA and 1160mg of DHA, high-potency multiple vitamin, ginkgo, vinpocetine, phosphatidylserine, acetyl-l-carnitine, huperzine A, alpha-lipoic acid, n-acetyl-cysteine. So buy fish oil, multivitaminic and Nature's Plus Brainceutix Boost 90
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.
“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!! 🙌😮 👏
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.
Damn. This seems revolutionary. He makes it sound so easy though. Just pop along and get a brain scan and we can tell you whats wrong with you and how to fix you. Unfortunately cost will always be a barrier for many. They can't simply do this kind of work for free. I adore this mans passion. To me, he seems so genuine and passionate about changing lives so people can become functional members of our society.
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 [...]".
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
' 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.
I received treatment from him. Seeing my brain was incredible, and they told me things about my current lifestyle that I never could have known. Definitely changed my life. Smart man.
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
Retired R.N. here... Specialized in psychiatric/ mental health nursing. I subscribe to this same philosophy. Mental/behavioral problems are "brain disease" that requires neurologic investigation and science based treatment/rehabilitation. This video was a refreshing reminder of why I loved mental health nursing. I, too, witnessed miracles!
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.
That was amazing. Someone finally got the idea to look at the physical evidence of mental illness instead of the behavioral evidence. Treatment is so different and the outcome is more realistic and patient centric.
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
@@butteredarmyot7 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❤️
I am in LOVE with this Ted talk. It makes me want to pursue my love for psychiatry. I love when you said that psychiatry is the medicine that has the ability to change generations. I pray these scans become more common and am thankful for people like you
This guy is right. People with mental illness should be treated according to their individual brains, and not their symptoms. Psychiatric symptoms can be misunderstood by the doctors or even be misdescribed by the patient, thus potentially leading to a misdiagnosis. Also, psychiatric medications affect the brain chemistry, therefore the mind (mood, behavior, etc), but they don't affect the mind directly. See the patient's brain, and you can know which medication is needed, and not by just assuming, which psychiatry is all about at the moment.
Artist Neuroleptic medication is fundamentally flawed because they don't take into the fact how complex the brain is and how mood and well-being is never a simple chemical issue in the brain. The brain is a complex organ that gives rise to consciousness.
The slowing down of dementia is revolutionary. I always thought there would never be any hope for someone after that diagnosis. Thankyou to Daniel and his team for all of their hard work.
I found out by accident CBD oil restores brain function in Alzheimer's in about 5 minutes. Thoughts don't stay clear but it works as if my car quit running and not the engine, just needs fuel. No side effects. Inexpensive. I have slowed decline by using CBD and THC oil. I was part of a global research project and they were not interested.
🎯 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
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.
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?
@@waltervega7798 you only mentioned knowledge in your first comment, though. And many people care only about knowledge and not about being open-minded, objective, and generally having the values that will make them use knowledge right, for the greater good, and with balance. So, his reply was perfect. Too bad few ppl who only value knowledge will ever read it...
@@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.
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.
It took my educators nearly a decade to figure out I had a learning disability. After 9 years of school I had just made it to the 7th grade. A teacher was beating me with a paddle to motivate me and self start me. You know the BS they give when they can't see past there own education. So after a year of a nightmare I couldn't wake up from, a principal seen me getting beat in the hallway by a very strong farmer slash teacher. He had me tested and guess what DIALECTIC. I'LL never forget my LD teacher she had a master's in special education. She graduated five times in her life and although I didn't make it all the way to cap and gown day she changed my life for the better. Thank you Susan Lynch
Thank you UA-cam it's very hard to tell people still about what happened to me. I'm 53 and I still use the tools that amazing teacher gave me. Thank you Susan Lynch
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
There is no knowledge the be gained when it comes to SPECT and the brain. There are safer, better tools available for literally decades. Dr Amen is a quack, not a pioneer.
This is the single most important video I've ever watched on this platform, and it infuriates me how brain scans are not the instantaneous first step in treating mental illness, coupled with the cost preventing so many from starting down the road to actual answers.
Because lifetimes of costly medication is so much more profitable. Healthcare becomes more like healthcare when you regulate it and make sure money flows through where it's supposed to.
How soon then that we will have mass murderers acquitted fie a brain scan...there is a lot more to it than meet the eye,what about a 'healthy ' brains doing crime?
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This was extremely enlightening. I'm studying psychology at university this year, and this motivated me a bunch. Im ready to change the world and people lives. Thank you
I was on the brink of killing myself but a psychologist saved my life. So I just wanna say you really have the potential to do a lot of good. So good luck!
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.
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 ❤❤❤
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.
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've followed dr amen for decades. Brilliant doctor. His work encouraged me to get off antidepressants, to eat right and to exercise. 100% improvement in quality of my life
☹️ 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.
Dr. Daniel Amen has a book written called “Healing Anxiety and Depression” where he talks about 7 different types of anxiety and depression and brain scans and treatment. I read this book several years ago. So glad to see his TEDTALK.
This has to change! Someone very close to me had a severe breakdown due to a culmination of a combination of things - extremely stressful and hurtful occurrences, extreme self neglect, etc...and the first thing that the place did was start her on a multitude of medications...not prescribed by a doctor with any explanations as to what or why administered. The assumptions were many (depressed, suicidal, drug addicted, etc), none of which were the case...simply very frustrated and very confused, severely dehydrated, constipated and sleep deprived. Why is it that these medical facilities always assume the worst, and go straight for the medications (the most expensive too), keep people as long as they're legally allowed to, and then charge nearly as much as a new car? It's opportunistic and exploitatve and quite frankly disgraceful!
Hi. I’d like to know more and seek Dr Amens treatment for my nephews “diagnosed Autistic” & medicated :( Please - if you have any info you could send my way to learn more I’d greatly appreciate it 🙏
@@lpnyc5317 To get your nephew treated, you have to have him under go a spect scan and comprehensive analysis . The scan is needed because it shows his specific blood flow patterns . That is the key to treatment . Certain parts of the brain are overactive and under active depending on the spectrum of symptoms ,and treatment is specific to each patient depending on what is happening . It will cost quite a bit , but it has changed my son’s life . I know a lot of people say this is a scam but it’s not at all. What you have to consider is that they use physical medicine to help neurodivergence, not always just medication . That is the difference. Hope you can find a way to a scan . Best wishes ! Mental health is not regarded with current treatments including physical medicine and its emerging science , and it can be attuned specifically to him and each patient differently. Saying do x or y is an injustice because it undermines the specific treatment plan they will create
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?
My father in law slipped on ice and cracked his head on pavement last year. For a few weeks, in the hospital, he was a different person, a terrible person. After whatever healing took place, he eventually came back to normal. It’s amazing - we ARE our brains. There’s nothing more than what’s going on in that mush inside the skull and it determines who you are and how you act.
Could not be said any better. What a teachable moment for the human race. The state of the world is a result of human behavior and being that the brain is the organ of behavior it would make sense if make the human brain healthier you change the world for the better.
That happened to me. I got in a wreck and had severe head trauma. My dad said I was the meanest person on Earth. Luckily my personality came back although it took almost 18 months.
Σεβασμός σε αυτόν τον άνθρωπο!!!!Πόση αλήθεια μέσα μια τόσο σύντομη χρονικά ομιλία!!!!Έθιξε πολλά ζητήματα και ουσιαστικά πρόσφερε λύσεις ανατρίχιασα με τις ιστορίες ειδικά με την τελευταία ❤
The biggest issue here is that this isn’t available for everyone. I actually called the place and it’s over 5 grand just for an initial meeting. I find it interesting that even though this person is dedicated to helping people, he only helps people who can afford it.
i mean good stuff is epensive, especially in a country with a dogshit healthcare system, much easier for them to make 20k pills for 2$ and sell at 1000% profit margin because it still be a cheap solution
@@yomega8336 Even in countries with socialized medicine, these types of treatments aren't necessarily available, or if they are, there's a waiting list/proof needed before the treatment can be approved. In Canada, lots of alternative medicines (ones that are prescribed by doctors) aren't covered by the national insurance, so patients pay out of pocket. My guess is the machines/specialists needed to do his analysis and treatment plan aren't cheap, making the process expensive. In order for a government or private insurance to cover a procedure or treatment, someone has to repeatedly prove that the system works (for example, proved drug trials), otherwise they won't cover it. Insurances (private and government) also don't like to pay any more than they have to to get the job done.
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.
This is really fascinating for me, I had a tumour removed from my frontal left lobe in 1991, not only did I have to relearn lots of things I also started swearing something I had never done. For years this was always a struggle to not swear. Last year I fell off a ladder and hit the back of my head requiring five stitches. Within five minutes of speaking to my husband to go to the hospital I realized that I no longer swore, and still don't. Whatever that fall did, it changed damage from the tumour removal.
Now that is a very interesting story. Maybe related to coprolalia or tourettes. I bet some scientist would like to study you.... you should check around. Your brain might hold the answer to who knows what.
I have a friend who banged her head as a child and as a consequence had blurred vision. Once at the park she banged her head again and her vision went back to normal. I have no reason not to believe her.
This is beautiful. I'm currently studying to become a therapist myself, and I don't know why we aren't performing this every time a client comes in. All of this is factual, and all of this is proven. Why are we throwing darts? We could innovate mental health help and create a more stable society. I wish more people in the world viewed this as a necessity; not as a privilege.
Same, I’m writing my extended essay on how we can help students with ADHD academically and I’m absolutely just blown away at this whole talk. Why aren’t we doing this? Why are we still guessing and shoving medication down people’s throats when this seems so much more beneficial?
The field would have been revolutionized already... if Amen's work had any scientific validity. The only thing it's proven to be is way more expensive than conventional treatments.
I have been listening to Dr. Amen for 20 years. I was in a severe accident and had a traumatic brain injury. I became familiar with Doc by watching a PBS special and have followed ever since. Doc and Dr. Dispenza, neuroscienetist, have done so so much good for me just by listening to them. Thank you!!
hi Scott- An article by Neurologist Dr. Perlmutter/ The Gift of Neuroplasticity” which Perlmutter wrote about the work of Dr. Andrew Newberg/ renowned neuro scientific researchers/ literally saved my life! After conventional interventions for a very rare brain tumor- finding out that through meditation- the brain can indeed build new pathways around the injured brain tissue- has led med to my life’s work! I am humbled to share with you- 5 years later- my brain mri shows no evidence of the rare “ incurable tumor” !!
@@arceepee All due respect, Mr. Robert, but PBS stations across the nation aren't generally in the habit of running infomercials. That's why they're PBS. What exactly is your criticism? I'm just curious. I stumbled upon this...I don't really have enough info to say one way or other. But I'm an imaging professional so I'm looking forward to some research. Also helpful in research (though certainly not academic or citable) are anecdotal references and stories. So...dish. Why the negativity?
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.
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...
@@pennyannvincent8831 who said it would be easy? Its important that it works
@@blacdiamond2334What evidence did he give that it works again? His claim that "we made brains better"? 😂
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
Having more doctors like him would diminish so much suffering in this world.
And unfortunately they have put a warning on this video. It needs to be seen!
@tech fx youtube is censoring it, I had to enter incognito to watch it
Yeah, absolutely, if doctors were concerned about patient's health as this magnificent psychiatrist is, the world would be a better place!
they would have to do it for something other than the money
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
“You are not stuck with the brain you have, you can make it better.” That hit me so hard
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.
@corey bkguy Maybe, but you know that's not his plan. And the old lady with Alzheimers can't do that anyway.
Hope you didn't get a concussion when that quote hit you so hard : )
It made your brain change.
@corey bkguy agreed
"If you are feeling unintelligent, don't worry, you have the ability to become smart," because this study proves it.
Not sure if you're exaggerating the point of this talk to include another aspect of the brain, or you're accidentally trashing a point nobody made.
@@matusguga3997 Actually, that's accurate. It's possible to improve your encoding and retrieval processes. Another learning expert, Justin Sung, with 10 years of experience in the field has studied research papers about the processes of learning and whatnot
Look him up in YT
"Behavior is the expression of the problem, not the problem". Daniel Amen.
Amen to that.
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 🐹🌻🐥🌿😇💫
But healthy people an choose to have bad behaviour also... It's not always a matter of life or healthy problems
I too appreciate Egyptian gods.. The great Amen ra was pretty cool.
@@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
This outstanding presentation is over ten years old, has more than 20 million views but yet it feels like no change has happened whatsoever
exactly
In what way? In the mental health community? I’m sure their are doctors that do have brain scanners if you want
Maybe proof that it’s fake news?
Maybe you’re the person we need to get and see change😁
Seems to just be getting worse!
Behaviour is not the problem, behaviour is an expression of the problem. Love this one
Real Mike Clements ikr
That's not what my boss thought when I asked him for promotion and he refused so I smacked his face!
Real Mike Clements So true
YES!!!!! I'm so glad someone FINALLY said it!!!!
you expressed that HE/SHE was the problem lmao
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.
@@MA-ip4gw thanks for the reply, i’ll keep it in mind.
It is costy that is why the gov dont generalize it
I do a brain scan, and it shows little brain atrophy,i have now to take steps to exercise my brain a little bit
“The following information may contain suicide or self harm topics” - UA-cam
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.
Yeah it through me for a loop also
Because it involves truth and the machine hates when you get educated.
Any mention of suicide is enough to trigger that warning. Just hearing about it could upset some people.
@@cosumel them ppl are obviously to soft to live in this world
"Behavior is an expression of the problem, behavior isn't not the problem."
Well said Dr Amen
"Don't look the symptoms, but look the brain (scan)."
Amen
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.
Absolutely 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Isint not? Im confused
As a social worker, this video is pure facts. Treat the problem, not the behavior.
"The behavior is an EXPRESSION of the problem, NOT the problem"
👍🏼Thank god someone is finally pioneering this.
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
No, it’s literally not facts, this guy isn’t a real scientist, snake oil salesman
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.
This is so important. Why on earth was I subjected to a warning posted by you tube before I could watch it? Why? !?!??
because it spoke about suicide and self harm.
@@poojashekhar-ms4zw Yes he did
Because the government doesn’t want us seeing the truth lol
The answer was in the warning mesage...
Because the most valuable thing to any platform is in fact our minds …
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.
A patient cured is a customer lost....
@@mvdeano sad but true.
My thoughts exactly, kept waiting for him to bring up policy.
Because his scans aren’t recognized as effective by the scientific community.
A patient cured is a customer lost. 😢
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.
He's a fraud
@Alex Gonzalez 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.
Nicholas Vanlierde , thank you! Spot on! Scientists are money wh*res. Once in awhile they get something good, and then we get sucked into paying for extra, bizarre, and often unethical, inhumane 'studies'. So much fraud. Dr Mengele is alive and THRIVING in the bodies of heartless sadist 'scientists'. And Epstein/Maxwell, global paedo pimps LOVE the scientists. With his master race baby factory in New Mexico, and his tripa to his paedo island for MIT scientists.
Seriously, paedos must be sent back to the aether.
"behavior is an *expression of the problem* , not the *problem itself* "
wow, that made me think
@Charles Martel - GDL showing symptoms
onlyheretowatch failcompilations
That’s just a simple truth.
Hey now, aren't you supposed to be watching fail compilations?
onlyheretowatch failcompilations he is right lol
That’s pretty obvious
Literally, from past 2 year UA-cam is continuously recommending me this video
This is the best TED talk I have ever heard. Every word is clear, no wasted time, no waffling - and so inspiring.
He is a very good speaker.
I agree... I haven't watched a lot of talks but among the ones I watched this one is the best.
When the video ended I thought wow what a nice performance. I was so immersed and interested in the topic I realized he was just talking lol
AMEIN.
Maybe a good speaker but read all the comments and you will know more!
"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.
DEAR GOD, that sounds like eugenics.
Who should or why is he granted that" privilege" is the question ⁉️
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 like how he says "I and my colleagues" instead of "I", "me" , "only me" and so on. He has a team spirit attitude for sure.
Scientist know I & me is not in the will of the creator. Science and spirituality are not opposite but complimentary!!!!
Grammatically, it should be "... my colleagues and I ...."
His military background probably had some part to play in that.
Humility 101
@@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'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.
I pray you're well love. ❤❤❤❤ Definitely and it is making me rethink everything about the world as we know it ❤❤❤
Thank you so much
@@rebeccahuelskamp8928 you're so welcome. Do you have any practices that help you with wellbeing? Asking for myself and researching at the moment online..
I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing someone to suicide is... so hard. I pray you and your family are finding the support you need to grieve well. 🙏🏽
But think, why is their brain wasnt function normally? Let’s also included maybe the reason for that is psychological, the environment the kind of life they have. also try to look at this perspective where do this people get that abnormal brain like Depression, PTSD but because also of their environment and experience wherein psychiatrist also looking for this perspective
“Behavior is an expression of the problem, not the problem.” WOAH
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'.
Duh
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.
It's like with a heart disease..
Cholesterol is not a problem but manifestation of the disease triggered by inflammation
I know! That really hit me too. Such a realisation!
This guy screams passion in his voice and demeanor. I like this dude.
He wrote a great book called
'This is your brain on joy'
Hes a cancer they can speak with much passion and emotion
Daniel Amen has always been a class act. He gets better every year!
I agree with you he can scream lol
Me toooo!!! If he's right about what he's saying he is a modern-day genius
"treatment needs to be tailored to individual brains, not clusters of symptoms"
I caught that sentence as well. Could an entire documentary series be created from that one sentence? I think so.
@@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.
David Barnes i concur.
@@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.
Rachel Crabtree nice 👍 video
5:28 “Throwing Darts in the Dark” that’s the best description of psychiatric care without imagining tests that I’ve ever heard.
You want to drop the crime rate drastically? Do everything possible to stop child abuse.
This comment is so accurate
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.
@@jasont8022 I ended my own poverty by staying sober and studying hard.
@@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.
“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...
@@ryanwogget Huh? How can this have no scientific basis?
@@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.
Sadly, they’re very expensive though.
Psychiatrists are, unfortunately, incapable of healing ANY brains.
I AM A PATIENT OF DR.AMEN AND HE SAVED MY LIFE AND HELP ME BE A BETTER FATHER AND HUSBAND! I had a football Injury and got hit in the head with a baseball bat I suffered from Addiction depression ,anxiety ,and ADHD! He saved my life.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
May your path be blessed with Joy!
Whered you get scanned? Did insurance pay? How much does it cost
That's great! What was the procedure? How did they do it?
How do u get an appointment with this dr
How did he help, what treatment was administered?
it’s crazy that this is 11 years ago and I never heard about it, why this is not common? i don’t understand why society is like this, it’s frustrating
Because then the insurance companies would have to approve scans and treatment for all of these patients.
I love when medical experts, care heart and soul, for humanity.
and makes 20 M$ a year in the process... nothing suspicious there, except the fact that he is peddling pseudoscience.
Marie-Louise Gariépy can you show me a doctor who makes $20M a year?
You don’t need commas b/t experts and care and b/t also soul and for. 😉
@@videoqualia watch videos of nanak naam 🙏
yeah, you can take their drugs... not me!
Started to work out at gym first time at 77years, gradually ramped up over time, brain function improving all the time.
Worth a try...
My friend had a massive brain hemorrhage at 78. Died.
Awesome!
@@eaumartineau7890 lmfao u finny
@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
Great job, keep going, keep growing!
I wish everyone had access to such medical facilities and doctors who'd genuinely help people improve
I wish insurance will cover one day
😢same..
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).
Never give up about being dull, forgetful, or slow learner, etc. According to Dr Amen, there are still ways to improve or revive an ailing brain. This is portal of hope for many of us people. GLORY to GOD for the revival.
KEEP LEARNING ❤❤
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.
SORRY meant Byron.thats how exhausted i am
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.
@RealestRealist many many thanks....very much appreciated.
You are much kinder than FB friends.whom i call fakebook.
@@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
Whom so ever watching this video, I wish you health, wealth and lot of happiness to you from the bottom of my heart.
Right back at you
Same to you as well, buddy
With great love, respect and admiration, may you walk with grace all the days of your life. Thank you so much.
Thank you. And much love to you! You are kind!❤
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Who else is now curious to have a brain scan to see how their brain health and activity holds up?
Totally!
Yep with my depression and anxiety and medication not doing much i'm very curious
@Waterlec excellent point, it should be taken by school children, that are not performing at average level, and brain training provide at schools.
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.
This is the most powerful ted talk i’ve ever heard, just wow.
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.
This sounds like a doctoral dissertation needs to get behind your effort, Elise. Great idea to keep pushing!
Good luck
Elise look into immunocal. It's phenomenal!
Thank you Elise. People will benefit much from this. Couldn't understand why doctors condem this beneficial thing. It is a real jealousy.
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 !
This made me emotional knowing there’s hope. We need more doctors like this.
You probably got emotional because of your gender but yes, it was a fascinating talk. Keep it up ted
Prayers for you to find the blessings Our Heavenly Father has for you Darla.
@@dogwoodtree7682
Stop. Just stop. Please. You folks are overwhelmingly toxic.
The hope is that your mind is stable enough to maintain regular employment. If not, good luck with that disability that won't get taken care of!
Yep so did I! Hard not to get emotional with that last story..
Every politicians should undergo regular scan before and after they elected.
Very true !!
So that a team of politically appointed doctors can decide who we are governed by? What a bizarre and flawed statement!
@@SimonSverige dude you also need a brain scan and pls. find sarcasm in your brain.
Brilliant 🤣🤣
@Waterlec they wudn't hav to b,but they will b..n you'll never knw that's d prolm!
I would have liked for him to cover his brain recovery program in more detail. How exactly is he using scans to inform treatment would be nice to see.
I googled his research and I found out this: phisical activity first and then 5.6 grams of fish oil a day, containing 1720mg of EPA and 1160mg of DHA, high-potency multiple vitamin, ginkgo, vinpocetine, phosphatidylserine, acetyl-l-carnitine, huperzine A, alpha-lipoic acid, n-acetyl-cysteine. So buy fish oil, multivitaminic and Nature's Plus Brainceutix Boost 90
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.
True. I'm sure he still has an office email
That’s where the money is lol
You’d be asking to have his proprietary treatment and while it should be for all, $$$ changes that
“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!! 🙌😮 👏
And where is the world headed ma’am?
Wish I could take you to dinner and explain so many things
Who cares about generations to come we will be dead
@@Factology spiritually yes, but what makes you think literally too?
@@poisonedchrist7802 literally? Like how everyone who has ever lived has died? Yeah like that 🤦🏼♂️
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.
Is neurofeedback in the same field as neuropsychiatry?
I'm clapping and I'm not even there. This wise man deserves way more than that, really.
This was an amazing speech. Truly inspiring and gives me hope.
@@tanksareback5146 case was
Thank you Maverick for being for because of you there is hope for us as humans . Sending gratitude and love ❤️🙏🏻
If I'm being honest, he deserves a Nobel prize fr.
Me too sister, me too
Damn. This seems revolutionary. He makes it sound so easy though. Just pop along and get a brain scan and we can tell you whats wrong with you and how to fix you. Unfortunately cost will always be a barrier for many. They can't simply do this kind of work for free.
I adore this mans passion. To me, he seems so genuine and passionate about changing lives so people can become functional members of our society.
For people who don't want to see the whole video: 10:00 is the moment where he tells the most important lesson.
Thanks
Shaowolf247 then don't bother with that because he doesn't say anything there either.
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.
In this video it wasn't the case
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 [...]".
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
Where did you go to get the scan??? I have no brain injuries I know of, but also bipolar and only keep myself alive for my parents sake.
I hope it will help you!
Must be terrible trying to get medical treatment in the US
Any updates?
Any updates on your brain scans? Would love to hear how it went.
' 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.
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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.
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Covalent c…..".
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Co. Ag 😊😊😊😊😊
I don't want my brain to be scanned thanks
Terrific video. We need more doctors like this.
“Treatment needs to be tailored to individual brains, NOT CLUSTERS of symptoms.”
Same with Covid, rather tha a universal vaccine for most people who don't need it
Your comparison is very questionable. A Virus vs disease.
@@kenjones5645 right let's make individual vaccines for each of 8 billion people, or only for just a couple of billion people who need it
I received treatment from him. Seeing my brain was incredible, and they told me things about my current lifestyle that I never could have known. Definitely changed my life. Smart man.
Hey. How did u receive a treatment from him and where?
yes, please, any article, review about your experience?
Can you share your story or the things that he said, that impacted you?
What kind of a scan is this?
"Treatment needs to be tailored to individual brains, not clusters of symptoms."
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
That should mandatory..
@@codyjamessingleton5098 Your thoughts are electro-chemical.
@@SuperNewf1 no there not. They are energy. Which exists outside this universe. And you already know that.
Retired R.N. here... Specialized in psychiatric/ mental health nursing. I subscribe to this same philosophy. Mental/behavioral problems are "brain disease" that requires neurologic investigation and science based treatment/rehabilitation.
This video was a refreshing reminder of why I loved mental health nursing. I, too, witnessed miracles!
Would really have liked to hear some on how they rehabilitate the brain.
same
Just what I was thinking throughout the latter section of this vid, expecting that the eminent doctor would get around to that part...but nope!
Same here. It’s like a joke with no punchline.
@@heracliox Well said...perfect!
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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.
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Bala Naidoo. Fantastic investigative and follow thru work. You are amazing!
That was amazing. Someone finally got the idea to look at the physical evidence of mental illness instead of the behavioral evidence. Treatment is so different and the outcome is more realistic and patient centric.
Ray Beaulieu it’s still not as obvious the way this doctor is telling us
Kate Anderson you're right .. and this is Not the first time this theory has been used as a technique ..
@Geoffrey Harris I agree
I started listening to Dr. Amen and I can’t stop now ❤
Wow. One of the best TEDx talk Ive watched. PASSION. Education. Experience.
Commands attention.
Tonitot hi
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
@@lifewatchgroup1587 gotta watch out for these charismatic types.
Agree...one of the best for sure...
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
Gives a whole new meaning to the question "were you dropped on your head as a child?" doesn't it.
@Elishanda It was pretty immediate 🤷♀️
Well, I came to think of how my head banged to an object when I was met with a motor accident, possibly brought some changes in brain
@@user-pl7tf9gv8e dont worry ,if you have any pain and such visit a doctor friend❤
@@butteredarmyot7 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❤️
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I am in LOVE with this Ted talk. It makes me want to pursue my love for psychiatry. I love when you said that psychiatry is the medicine that has the ability to change generations. I pray these scans become more common and am thankful for people like you
Behavior is an expression of a problem-NOT the problem 👏 so true
This guy is right. People with mental illness should be treated according to their individual brains, and not their symptoms. Psychiatric symptoms can be misunderstood by the doctors or even be misdescribed by the patient, thus potentially leading to a misdiagnosis. Also, psychiatric medications affect the brain chemistry, therefore the mind (mood, behavior, etc), but they don't affect the mind directly. See the patient's brain, and you can know which medication is needed, and not by just assuming, which psychiatry is all about at the moment.
Artist Neuroleptic medication is fundamentally flawed because they don't take into the fact how complex the brain is and how mood and well-being is never a simple chemical issue in the brain. The brain is a complex organ that gives rise to consciousness.
The slowing down of dementia is revolutionary. I always thought there would never be any hope for someone after that diagnosis. Thankyou to Daniel and his team for all of their hard work.
I found out by accident CBD oil restores brain function in Alzheimer's in about 5 minutes. Thoughts don't stay clear but it works as if my car quit running and not the engine, just needs fuel. No side effects. Inexpensive. I have slowed decline by using CBD and THC oil. I was part of a global research project and they were not interested.
Yeah that scan from "Nancy" proves that story true. 💯
🎯 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.
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Thanks HarPA! Was looking for this.
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.
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)
Oh only if we lived in a perfect world?😳
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.
@@human-qp1mf MRI is useless because it does not show brain activity.
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?
You can rebuild your brain - Blood flow, Memory, and Mood : all with love, empathy, and peace.
I appreciate that I am alive to witness this. Knowledge is powerful.
Yes, knowledge is the most powerful thing!
that's so true
@@waltervega7798 Knowledge is useless without wisdom and understanding.
@@afour9618 Do you think that the one can exist without the other? they are always together
@@waltervega7798 you only mentioned knowledge in your first comment, though. And many people care only about knowledge and not about being open-minded, objective, and generally having the values that will make them use knowledge right, for the greater good, and with balance.
So, his reply was perfect. Too bad few ppl who only value knowledge will ever read it...
Wow 👏🏽 we need more medical professionals like him in this world. I swear
This is shocking .. absolutely. We must bring psychiatrists and neurosurgeons to work together like cardiac physicians and surgeons.
That's absolutely correct sir.
Clearly your not in health care.... Surgeons working alongside other professionals? Herding Cats
Add psychiatric nurse practitioners
@@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.
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.
@@yepitsme3336 exactly. Thank you for using common sense. People like the guy you’re replying to can’t seem to think outside of the box smh.
It took my educators nearly a decade to figure out I had a learning disability. After 9 years of school I had just made it to the 7th grade. A teacher was beating me with a paddle to motivate me and self start me. You know the BS they give when they can't see past there own education. So after a year of a nightmare I couldn't wake up from, a principal seen me getting beat in the hallway by a very strong farmer slash teacher. He had me tested and guess what DIALECTIC. I'LL never forget my LD teacher she had a master's in special education. She graduated five times in her life and although I didn't make it all the way to cap and gown day she changed my life for the better. Thank you Susan Lynch
Thank you UA-cam it's very hard to tell people still about what happened to me. I'm 53 and I still use the tools that amazing teacher gave me. Thank you Susan Lynch
what do you mean dialectic?
@@StevenWillmy I'm guessing he meant Dyslexic.
Dyslexic? You mean, instead of dialectic? Doesn't really matter about the actual word, at least you got insight into what was going wrong for you.
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!! ❤
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Yes yes I think and hope it will one day
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
Same im also 23 and a survivor of childhood abuse:( even with therapy I'm not managing to process it@@nagodio
People who gain and use knowledge like this are the heroes humanity needs.
True
and its always the guy who everyone hates at first
There is no knowledge the be gained when it comes to SPECT and the brain. There are safer, better tools available for literally decades. Dr Amen is a quack, not a pioneer.
Sham Wise ?? Like what? References? Sources?
Well, well said!
This is the single most important video I've ever watched on this platform, and it infuriates me how brain scans are not the instantaneous first step in treating mental illness, coupled with the cost preventing so many from starting down the road to actual answers.
Because lifetimes of costly medication is so much more profitable. Healthcare becomes more like healthcare when you regulate it and make sure money flows through where it's supposed to.
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Ok look at Medicare for all per Sanders
How soon then that we will have mass murderers acquitted fie a brain scan...there is a lot more to it than meet the eye,what about a 'healthy ' brains doing crime?
Well yes one would think so,you break your leg there's an X-ray,you break your brain, there's a scan...not rocket science really, or is it?😉
I liked the way he gave credits to his colleagues and didn't take whole credit.
@Amit Ojha because he has a healthy brain
No.
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This dudes speaking style is great! Inspiring me to try and improve the way I deliver presentations!
This was extremely enlightening. I'm studying psychology at university this year, and this motivated me a bunch. Im ready to change the world and people lives. Thank you
I was on the brink of killing myself but a psychologist saved my life. So I just wanna say you really have the potential to do a lot of good. So good luck!
@@jind0sh thank you so much man. Be strong and lots of success and joy to you!
Remember, the mind is the stronghest medicine, mind over matter
Good luck! Please save a lot of people's lives. We need you.
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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).
Meditation
@@seeker6088 really?
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.
Cognitive remediation
Caroline Leaf teaches how to retrain your brain
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 ❤❤❤
I also love “expression of the problem NOT the problem”.
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.
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?
Answers man...!!
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.
You're incredible. Thanks for sharing.
Dank Tank Drag Kings I am so happy for you!!!!
I've followed dr amen for decades. Brilliant doctor. His work encouraged me to get off antidepressants, to eat right and to exercise. 100% improvement in quality of my life
yess, it's refreshing seeing a psychiatrist to look for alternatives to cure people rather than just pills.
Amen!
Amen!
I'm very glad that it worked for you, but for some to be off of medications is downright dangerous. No amount of healthy living will do it.
Hi do you know what his brain-smart program requires you to do? I cannot afford it but would love to learn what they do in the program.
If someone had looked at my brothers brain when he complained to his doctor about bad headaches, he might still be alive today.
What did he have?
☹️ 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.
@@manjudevi3352 bad headaches.
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.
Friendly Bone , thank you. ❤️
Dr Daniel Amen and this video deserve a lot more recognition.
How refreshing to hear an experienced professional admit to the flaws in the system and standard practice of mental health 👌
Dr. Daniel Amen has a book written called “Healing Anxiety and Depression” where he talks about 7 different types of anxiety and depression and brain scans and treatment. I read this book several years ago. So glad to see his TEDTALK.
Thanks for referencing this book. Does it give details of the treatment? That's what's missing from this talk.
Thank you ! I shall have to check that out now
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@@JamesEis guess he wants people to join his program
Every psychiatric student needs to see this.
Everybody needs to see this.
Nobody needs to see this liar.
@@geraltvonriva9873 what makes you say he is a liar?
@@geraltvonriva9873 why is he a liar? I have been trying to find answers.
@@tahaqtr7439 cause all those companies that thrive on profit selling pills for this and that must preserve the status quo.
This has to change! Someone very close to me had a severe breakdown due to a culmination of a combination of things - extremely stressful and hurtful occurrences, extreme self neglect, etc...and the first thing that the place did was start her on a multitude of medications...not prescribed by a doctor with any explanations as to what or why administered. The assumptions were many (depressed, suicidal, drug addicted, etc), none of which were the case...simply very frustrated and very confused, severely dehydrated, constipated and sleep deprived. Why is it that these medical facilities always assume the worst, and go straight for the medications (the most expensive too), keep people as long as they're legally allowed to, and then charge nearly as much as a new car? It's opportunistic and exploitatve and quite frankly disgraceful!
Dr Amens team is treating my son . They are great.
Hi. I’d like to know more and seek Dr Amens treatment for my nephews “diagnosed Autistic” & medicated :(
Please - if you have any info you could send my way to learn more I’d greatly appreciate it 🙏
@@lpnyc5317 To get your nephew treated, you have to have him under go a spect scan and comprehensive analysis . The scan is needed because it shows his specific blood flow patterns .
That is the key to treatment .
Certain parts of the brain are overactive and under active depending on the spectrum of symptoms ,and treatment is specific to each patient depending on what is happening .
It will cost quite a bit , but it has changed my son’s life .
I know a lot of people say this is a scam but it’s not at all.
What you have to consider is that they use physical medicine to help neurodivergence, not always just medication .
That is the difference.
Hope you can find a way to a scan . Best wishes !
Mental health is not regarded with current treatments including physical medicine and its emerging science , and it can be attuned specifically to him and each patient differently.
Saying do x or y is an injustice because it undermines the specific treatment plan they will create
This talk was given 8 years ago! Sadly we are still throwing darts.
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
@@ayeshak6822 Well said Aysha.
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?
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My father in law slipped on ice and cracked his head on pavement last year. For a few weeks, in the hospital, he was a different person, a terrible person. After whatever healing took place, he eventually came back to normal. It’s amazing - we ARE our brains. There’s nothing more than what’s going on in that mush inside the skull and it determines who you are and how you act.
Could not be said any better. What a teachable moment for the human race. The state of the world is a result of human behavior and being that the brain is the organ of behavior it would make sense if make the human brain healthier you change the world for the better.
He’s doing ok now?
That happened to me. I got in a wreck and had severe head trauma. My dad said I was the meanest person on Earth. Luckily my personality came back although it took almost 18 months.
Σεβασμός σε αυτόν τον άνθρωπο!!!!Πόση αλήθεια μέσα μια τόσο σύντομη χρονικά ομιλία!!!!Έθιξε πολλά ζητήματα και ουσιαστικά πρόσφερε λύσεις ανατρίχιασα με τις ιστορίες ειδικά με την τελευταία ❤
The biggest issue here is that this isn’t available for everyone. I actually called the place and it’s over 5 grand just for an initial meeting. I find it interesting that even though this person is dedicated to helping people, he only helps people who can afford it.
Not at his Orange County California clinics. It's 4K without insurance. And that's for the WHOLE PROGRAM, multiple appointments.
i mean good stuff is epensive, especially in a country with a dogshit healthcare system, much easier for them to make 20k pills for 2$ and sell at 1000% profit margin because it still be a cheap solution
U can tell somethings off the way he speaks... Like hes selling to fools...
@@yomega8336 Even in countries with socialized medicine, these types of treatments aren't necessarily available, or if they are, there's a waiting list/proof needed before the treatment can be approved. In Canada, lots of alternative medicines (ones that are prescribed by doctors) aren't covered by the national insurance, so patients pay out of pocket. My guess is the machines/specialists needed to do his analysis and treatment plan aren't cheap, making the process expensive. In order for a government or private insurance to cover a procedure or treatment, someone has to repeatedly prove that the system works (for example, proved drug trials), otherwise they won't cover it. Insurances (private and government) also don't like to pay any more than they have to to get the job done.
@@em3361 I agree - something is not right
9:59 is where he says what the most important lesson is, but I'd recommend watching the full video, it's interesting
You are the MVP
bless you!
Hmdndmb
Isaac G.
When you realize it is your Mind not your brain in control it becomes much clearer. The brain scan is but a result of the Mind. :-)
His Passion gave me goosebumps...
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.
This is really fascinating for me, I had a tumour removed from my frontal left lobe in 1991, not only did I have to relearn lots of things I also started swearing something I had never done. For years this was always a struggle to not swear. Last year I fell off a ladder and hit the back of my head requiring five stitches. Within five minutes of speaking to my husband to go to the hospital I realized that I no longer swore, and still don't. Whatever that fall did, it changed damage from the tumour removal.
Amazing! Good for you Lynn :)
Now that is a very interesting story. Maybe related to coprolalia or tourettes. I bet some scientist would like to study you.... you should check around. Your brain might hold the answer to who knows what.
That's where we get the term "KNOCKED THE SENSE BACK INTO YOUR HEAD " U just got lucky .🍀PEACE ✌☮
I have a friend who banged her head as a child and as a consequence had blurred vision. Once at the park she banged her head again and her vision went back to normal. I have no reason not to believe her.
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This is beautiful. I'm currently studying to become a therapist myself, and I don't know why we aren't performing this every time a client comes in. All of this is factual, and all of this is proven. Why are we throwing darts? We could innovate mental health help and create a more stable society. I wish more people in the world viewed this as a necessity; not as a privilege.
i hope you. an bring change to this field
I'm rooting for you and your future :)) go and make the world a better place :))
Jy is honderd persent reg! Ek stem saam.
Same, I’m writing my extended essay on how we can help students with ADHD academically and I’m absolutely just blown away at this whole talk. Why aren’t we doing this? Why are we still guessing and shoving medication down people’s throats when this seems so much more beneficial?
The field would have been revolutionized already... if Amen's work had any scientific validity. The only thing it's proven to be is way more expensive than conventional treatments.
I have been listening to Dr. Amen for 20 years. I was in a severe accident and had a traumatic brain injury. I became familiar with Doc by watching a PBS special and have followed ever since. Doc and Dr. Dispenza, neuroscienetist, have done so so much good for me just by listening to them. Thank you!!
"PBS" special? Infomercial is more accurate
Can you share how it helped?
hi Scott- An article by Neurologist Dr. Perlmutter/ The Gift of Neuroplasticity” which Perlmutter wrote about the work of Dr. Andrew Newberg/ renowned neuro scientific researchers/ literally saved my life! After conventional interventions for a very rare brain tumor- finding out that through meditation- the brain can indeed build new pathways around the injured brain tissue- has led med to my life’s work! I am humbled to share with you- 5 years later- my brain mri shows no evidence of the rare “ incurable tumor” !!
@@arceepee All due respect, Mr. Robert, but PBS stations across the nation aren't generally in the habit of running infomercials. That's why they're PBS. What exactly is your criticism? I'm just curious. I stumbled upon this...I don't really have enough info to say one way or other. But I'm an imaging professional so I'm looking forward to some research. Also helpful in research (though certainly not academic or citable) are anecdotal references and stories. So...dish. Why the negativity?
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.