Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 , Look in the library. I don't remember the name of the book, but knowing his last name, you'll be able to find it. > Can anyone tell me who Dr Amen is and what his specialist field is? I understand he carries out SPECT examinations on lotos of autistic children and that he has an ADD checklist.I'd really like to know more about this but am not sure where to look! > With many thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 www.amenclinic.com--- In , " catherine devereux " <catherine.devereux@t...> wrote: > Can anyone tell me who Dr Amen is and what his specialist field is? I understand he carries out SPECT examinations on lotos of autistic children and that he has an ADD checklist.I'd really like to know more about this but am not sure where to look! > With many thanks > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Dr. Amen is a psychiatrist who is " relatively " mainstream in belief though in the regular medical world he is considered scandalous for daring to write books with real content for laymen, and for actually thinking about what he was seeing on SPECT scans. He has a very limited understanding and appreciation of nutritional supplements, mostly " beleives " in Rx drugs, and doesn't seem to realize heavy metals cause most of what he sees on the SPECT scans. Definitely head and shoulders above the rest of his colleagues. If you go to his clinic you pay a ton of money for a spect scan, even though his books point out you can figure it out with the checklists just as accurately. There are lots of interventions based on those checklists that aren't in his books or prescribed at his clinics, but which work really well though. Andy . . . .. . . . . > www.amenclinic.com > > Can anyone tell me who Dr Amen is and what his specialist field is? > I understand he carries out SPECT examinations on lotos of autistic > children and that he has an ADD checklist.I'd really like to know > more about this but am not sure where to look! > > With many thanks > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 He has two books: Healing ADD and Change your Brain, Change your Life. They're both available at and Noble physical bookstores, as well as online at bn.com and amazon.com. Andy . . . . . . . > , > Look in the library. I don't remember the name of the book, but > knowing his last name, you'll be able to find it. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 You can read more about Dr. Amen at www.brainplace.com. He is a doctor who has done quite a bit of research correlating brain SPECT scans and various functional challenges. He's written several books which our local library carries so you might find them at your library as well. The one I read (sorry can't recall the title right now, it wasn't the one on ADD but I think the one on depression) had a several page check list for behaviors/challenges related to certain brain areas. In hindsight though, I'm not sure how accurate these checklists can be used for medicinal or supplement choice. My son hit almost every point on the checklist for frontal lobe problems and only a few scattered ones on others. When I brought this up to Dr. Goldberg, who also uses SPECT scans, he said that he's seen many cases where stress in the temporal lobe area spills over (my words, not his, can't recall his exact words) into the frontal lobe and other areas and that a viral problem (for which my son was seeing him for) most often impacts the temporal lobe. Interestingly, I believe this was confirmed since most of the " frontal lobe " problems my son was having have disappeared or greatly subsided since he started on a SSRI, which affects seratonin and is usually directed more at the temporal lobe. Although he responded well to DMAE, which impacts acetylcholine and is known as the " natural Ritalin " because it is often helpful in frontal lobe issues, he did very poorly on other things directed at the frontal lobe. Gaylen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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