Dr. Daniel Amen

It's your brain is involved in how you think, how you feel, how you act, how you get along with other people. And when your brain works right, you work right. And when it doesn't, you'll never live up to your potential. So now you go, drugs damage the brain. And why would you ever damage your potential unless you are self-defeating?

Well, one of the big lessons I learned from imaging is mild traumatic brain injury is a major cause of psychiatric illness that nobody knows about because psychiatrists never look. So your suicidal ideation, your depression, your panic attacks, your ADD or learning disabilities could have been from the car accident your family was in when you were four. or I have one patient depressed.

Well, one of the big lessons I learned from imaging is mild traumatic brain injury is a major cause of psychiatric illness that nobody knows about because psychiatrists never look. So your suicidal ideation, your depression, your panic attacks, your ADD or learning disabilities could have been from the car accident your family was in when you were four. or I have one patient depressed.

Well, one of the big lessons I learned from imaging is mild traumatic brain injury is a major cause of psychiatric illness that nobody knows about because psychiatrists never look. So your suicidal ideation, your depression, your panic attacks, your ADD or learning disabilities could have been from the car accident your family was in when you were four. or I have one patient depressed.

His whole life fell off the hood of a minivan when he was 18 months old, unconscious for a day. They thought it was a minor injury. Years later, I could still see it. We can see evidence of toxicity from substance abuse, but we also see evidence of toxicity from mold exposure or from Lyme disease.

His whole life fell off the hood of a minivan when he was 18 months old, unconscious for a day. They thought it was a minor injury. Years later, I could still see it. We can see evidence of toxicity from substance abuse, but we also see evidence of toxicity from mold exposure or from Lyme disease.

His whole life fell off the hood of a minivan when he was 18 months old, unconscious for a day. They thought it was a minor injury. Years later, I could still see it. We can see evidence of toxicity from substance abuse, but we also see evidence of toxicity from mold exposure or from Lyme disease.

And so I think in the future, there's going to be a whole subcategory of psychiatrists that just focus on infectious disease. Like I have hundreds of COVID scans and COVID causes an inflammatory bomb. that just goes off in your brain. Depression is like chest pain, right? Nobody gets a diagnosis of chest pain because it doesn't tell you what causes it and it doesn't tell you what to do for it.

And so I think in the future, there's going to be a whole subcategory of psychiatrists that just focus on infectious disease. Like I have hundreds of COVID scans and COVID causes an inflammatory bomb. that just goes off in your brain. Depression is like chest pain, right? Nobody gets a diagnosis of chest pain because it doesn't tell you what causes it and it doesn't tell you what to do for it.

And so I think in the future, there's going to be a whole subcategory of psychiatrists that just focus on infectious disease. Like I have hundreds of COVID scans and COVID causes an inflammatory bomb. that just goes off in your brain. Depression is like chest pain, right? Nobody gets a diagnosis of chest pain because it doesn't tell you what causes it and it doesn't tell you what to do for it.

Depression's the same way. Is your brain low in activity so I have to stimulate it? Is it high in activity and I have to calm it? We can also see, I've published another study this year on childhood trauma. Childhood trauma, emotional trauma leaves a lasting signature in the brain. And treatments like EMDR, a specific psychological treatment for trauma, help reset it, help calm things.

Depression's the same way. Is your brain low in activity so I have to stimulate it? Is it high in activity and I have to calm it? We can also see, I've published another study this year on childhood trauma. Childhood trauma, emotional trauma leaves a lasting signature in the brain. And treatments like EMDR, a specific psychological treatment for trauma, help reset it, help calm things.

Depression's the same way. Is your brain low in activity so I have to stimulate it? Is it high in activity and I have to calm it? We can also see, I've published another study this year on childhood trauma. Childhood trauma, emotional trauma leaves a lasting signature in the brain. And treatments like EMDR, a specific psychological treatment for trauma, help reset it, help calm things.

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Tapping could be part of it. I like the eye movement part of it.

Tapping could be part of it. I like the eye movement part of it.

Tapping could be part of it. I like the eye movement part of it.

Absolutely not. And so in my NFL work, 80% of our players got better when we put them on a rehabilitation program. And these are damaged brains, right? Some of our players, like Dick Butkus... You know, he played for decades and had tens of thousands of hits to his head. He called me his brain savior because on the right treatment, his brain just a couple of months later was much better.