Dr. Daniel Amen

Take your medical license?

Yeah.

Because they'll do anything to try to shut me up.

But it's like, how do you not talk about the truth?

And it's like, well, how do you know?

It's like, well, I look at the brain.

And if your brain is not right, well, you're not right.

Yeah.

yeah so interesting um so spec the study we do gives you this really beautiful 3d look at activity and a healthy scan shows full even symmetrical activity with most of the activity being in the cerebellum so the cerebellum is the back bottom part

of the brain.

Cerebellum is Latin for little brain.

It's 10% of the brain's volume, but has 50% of the brain's neurons.

And alcohol is directly toxic to the cerebellum.

Well, so is marijuana.

And that's why you shouldn't drive

when you're high and so what is this what happens in the cerebellum so so many interesting things it's sort of the rodney dangerfield part of the brain it gets no respect this would be the lower brain we refer to not the higher brain well it's so important because it's connected to the rest of the brain and it used to be thought that the cerebellum was involved in coordination physical

Well, now we know it's also involved in thought coordination, how quickly you can integrate new information.

And marijuana slows the function of the cerebellum, so your thoughts become slower.

And you're less coordinated, which is why you shouldn't drive if you're high.

Because it slows your brain down.