3. ENGAGEEngage in regular brain healthy habits.►► Great decisions ►► Physical health►► Mental workouts ►► Healthy weight►► Physical activity ►► Healthy blood sugar►► Brain healthy diet ►► Positive peer group►► 7-8 hours of sleep ►► Counteract negative thoughts►► Clean environment ►► Stress management►► S upplements, such as multiple vitamins, omega ►► Knowing the health of 3s, Vitamin D and brain your brain nutrients 45
AMEN CLINICSMETHOD HELPS......to see the underlying physiology in individual patients.OVERACTIVE UNDERACTIVE TOXIC TRAUMATIC46
...t o see all psychiatric illnesses have multiple types.UNDERACTIVE OVERACTIVETEMPORAL LOBE ANT. CINGULATEMultiple Types of Depression 47
AMEN CLINICSMETHOD HELPS......t o see traumatic brain injuries, toxins, and infections.TRAUMA CHEMO BRAIN CHRONIC LYME48
...t o prevent mistakes, such as stimulating an overactive brain, calming one that is underactive, missing toxicity, or not finding a space occupying lesion.This 17-year-old violent boy, failed 6 psychiatrists, 6 medicationsand 18 months of residential and drug treatment costing over$130,000. No one looked at his brain and his neurological examwas NORMAL! His brain was wildly abnormal! MRI SPECT Scans showed a large left frontal and temporal lobe cyst. 49
AMEN CLINICSMETHOD HELPS......t o offer hope for alcohol and drug addictions. ►► Breaks denial ►► “Brain Envy” increases compliance ►► Help understand co-morbidity ►► Follow treatment ►► Education and prevention BEFORE AFTER TREATMENT50
...lead to more effective ways of treating the brain by seeing before and after scans.MMA Fighter SPECT scans before treatment and 2.5 hoursafter a group of brain-directed supplements.BEFORE 2.5 HOURS AFTER 51
AMEN CLINICSMETHOD WE HAVE NOTHING ELSE IN PSYCHIATRY THAT IS THIS POWERFUL OR IMMEDIATE. ►► SPECT scans help to decrease stigma ►► Patients and families see the problem as medical not moral ►► Dramatically decreases shame, guilt, self-loathing and anger ►► Increases forgiveness and compassion ►► Increases brain envy and compliance with treatment52
SPECT CHANGED THEDIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENTPLAN 79% OF THE TIME.79% ►► Research demonstrates that SPECT changes clinical management 79% of the time.Improved outcomes. ►► 500 consecutive patients ►► On average our patients have 4.2 diagnoses ►► Failed 3.3 prior providers and 6 medications ►► 77% significantly improved across all measures ►► Quality of Life Inventory significantly increased in 85% 53
GET HELP NOWWould you like Have you (or abetter: loved one): ►► Energy? ►► Seen several doctors ►► Focus? and taken numerous ►► Memory? medications but still ►► Mood? haven’t found relief for ►► Inner peace? your symptoms? ►► Self-control? ►► Overall physical health? ►► Been disappointed with mental health treatmentWe are here to help you and because it was ineffectiveyour loved ones have the for you?best brain function possible. ►► Tried many things to feel healthier and happier, have better focus and increased energy, but can’t seem to get all the way there? ►► Felt like you’re looking through a foggy lens and wished your brain worked better?54
Do you want: When you change someone’s brain, you ►► To see how your brain not only improve his functions to help prevent or her life, you have trouble in the future? the potential to change generations to come. ►► Take advantage of the latest technology to enhance your healing and optimization? ►► Optimal mental performance?If you answered YES to anyof these questions, we arehere for you. Over decadesof work, we have seen thatyou can literally change yourbrain and change your life.Our passion is to help you dojust that.Amen Clinics has helped tens of thousands of people over the last three decades and we would love to help you! Call (888) 516-4946. to speak with a Patient Care Specialist formore information about the Amen Clinics Method, or visit us at www.amenclinics.com.CALL NOW! 888-516-4946 55
DANIEL G. AMEN, M.D. Named the web’s #1 most influential mental health expert and advocate, Daniel G. Amen, MD is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist, and nine-time New York Times bestselling author. He is the founder of the Amen Clinics, which has a database of nearly 100,000 brain SPECT scans on patients from 111 countries. Dr. Amen has dedicated his career to changing the lives of his patients and everyday people through helping them improve brain health. “Dr. Amen is one of the most gifted minds in medicine.” — Mehmet Oz, MD56
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