BEGIN YOUR
JOURNEY TO
MENTAL WELLNESS
“I prefer clarity to agreement”
– Dennis Prager
Welcome Dennis Prager Fans
When your brain works right, you work right. When your brain is troubled, you have trouble in your life. Symptoms of depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, memory loss, and other mental health issues are signs of a troubled brain.
But psychiatry is the only medical field that does NOT look at the organ they treat. Think about it, if you have crushing heart pain, your doctor will scan your heart. But if you have crushing depression, no one will ever look at your brain.
How Brain Scans Help You Get the Right Diagnosis and Most Effective Treatment
Brain scans can give psychiatrists more information to help their patients more effectively. At Amen Clinics, we use leading-edge brain imaging technology called SPECT to help identify patterns in the brain that are associated with mental health conditions.
For example, brain imaging has helped us identify:
- 7 types of anxiety and depression
- 7 types of ADD/ADHD
- 6 types of addiction
Knowing your type is so critical because each type requires individualized treatment. With the world’s largest database of functional brain scans — 200,000 and growing — from patients from all 50 states and 155 countries, our physicians are able to more accurately diagnose conditions like depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, OCD, memory loss, PTSD and related conditions than any other healthcare professionals.
How Brain Imaging Helps You Get a Personalized Treatment Plan with Proven Results
Since 1989, Amen Clinics has used brain imaging to help thousands of people overcome mental disorders with targeted solutions that are proven to produce higher than average success rates. We use a brain imaging technology called SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) that evaluates blood flow and activity in the brain.
Basically, SPECT brain scans show three things: healthy activity, too little activity, or too much activity. Then based on what we see, our job is to balance your brain—to calm it down if it is working too hard or stimulate it if it is underactive.
Dennis Prager in the brain SPECT scanner HEALTHY SPECT Brain Scans
On SPECT brain scans, the surface of a healthy brain looks smooth with full and symmetrical blood flow and activity. This tells us that the brain is working the way it is supposed to.
UNHEALTHY SPECT Brain Scans
This SPECT brain scan of an unhealthy brain reveals many “holes” on the surface, which represents areas of low blood flow and poor activity because of damage from substance and alcohol abuse.
MENTAL ILLNESS. IT’S NOT YOU. IT’S YOUR BRAIN.
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