Conditions
ADHD/ADD
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with ADHD/ADD
- With clinical history, SPECT scans can help decide if you have ADHD
- Help determine your type of ADHD to direct treatment
- See if the treatment is working at an optimal level
- See if there are other co-occurring conditions that need to be treated
- Decrease the emotional pain of stigma and increase compliance
- Help families see the biological nature of ADHD to understand the illness
Anxiety and Depression
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Anxiety and Depression
- Help determine your type of anxiety and depression to direct treatment
- Can be performed after you are on treatment to see if it is working correctly
- Can help see if there are co-occurring conditions that need to be treated
- Helps to decrease the pain of stigma and increase compliance
- Helps families see the biological nature of anxiety and depression to better understand the illness.
Brain Trauma
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Brain Trauma
- Identify if brain trauma was present
- Shows deficits often not seen by anatomical studies
- Identify which systems may be affected
- Help to direct treatment
- Help with special services or legal issues
- SPECT cannot date a trauma
Substance Abuse
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Substance Abuse and addictions
- Identify toxic exposure
- Help break denial
- Motivate treatment
- Help identify comorbid conditions
- Follow progress
- Use scans in prevention education
Alzheimers and Memory Loss
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Other Forms of Memory Problems
- Identify vulnerability to dementia
- Used as an early screening tool, early Rx
- Help direct treatment
- Follow up scans to see if treatment is helping
- Evaluate amnesia
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Help differentiate types of dementia — each with own pattern
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Vascular Dementia
- Frontal Temporal Lobe Dementia
- HIV Dementia
- Dementia from depression
- Brain trauma
- Alcoholic or drug dementia
Marital Problems
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Marital Problems
Whenever There Is Relationship Trouble Think About the Brain
- Chronic arguing or fighting
- Someone always says no
- Impulsivity, addictions, bad behavior
- Anxiety, depression, oppositional behavior
- Changes in behavior
- Failed couples counseling
- Abuse - verbal, physical, sexual
- Prevention
- Pre-screening couples
Aggression
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Aggression
- Help determine the type of aggression to direct treatment
- Identify systems involved with violence and direct treatment
- Prefrontal impulsive, poor forethought and judgment
- Temporal Lobes dark, violent thoughts
- Anterior Cingulate get stuck on thoughts, rigid, inflexible
- Follow up scans to see if the treatment is working at an optimal level
- Help families see the biological nature of aggression to help understand and encourage help
- Optimize brain function before other forms of treatment, such as anger management
- Help motivate treatment
- Help understand difficult behavior
- See if there are other co-occurring conditions that need to be treated such as ADHD or bipolar disorder
Autism
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorders are not single or simple disorders
- Help identify the specific brain system or system that are not working properly
- Help direct autism treatments
- See if the medications or alternative treatments are working correctly
- See if there are other co-occurring conditions that need to be treated, such as ADHD
- Help families see the biological nature of Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Show deficits often not seen by anatomical studies
- Help with special services or legal issues<
Legal Issues
How Brain SPECT Imaging Can Help with Legal Issues
- Defendants, lawyers, judges and juries are entitled to relevant information (the brain is relevant to behavioral problems)
- Imaging may help mitigate a sentence, lead to better treatment, give greater understanding
- Substantial imaging research on violence, toxic exposure, and brain injury
- Additional information to clinical and paper and pencil testing
- Help juries understand difficult behavior
- Use in civil litigation, such as brain injury or toxic exposure
- Helps everyone ask better questions
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