Dr. Daniel Amen
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Podcast Appearances
Nine years old.
The other one, he's shooting other children.
That's horrifying.
And I'm like...
I want to see him tomorrow because I'd been scanning people for four years and I'd already correlated violence, at least in some people, to the left temporal lobe.
If your left temporal lobe is damaged, you're more likely to have dark, evil, awful thoughts.
And so they brought him up to see me the next day.
They lived eight hours away.
And I'm like, buddy, what's going on?
He said, Uncle Danny, I don't know.
I'm mad all the time.
I'm like, is anybody teasing you?
He said, no.
He says, is anybody hurting you?
No.
Is anybody touching you in places they shouldn't be touching you?
He said, no.
999 child psychiatrists out of a thousand would have put him on medicine and put him in therapy.
And I'm like, I have to look at his brain.
Because how do I know unless I look, right?