Brain Function, SPECT Imaging, evolved Psychiatric Treatment goes Public
No matter how you slice the SPECT landscape tomographically, Daniel Amen is the primary person 
who began the leap from brain evidence to application using isotopes in brain imaging. Even now at large national meetings in the imaging industry the imaging folks are still far away from discussing the clinical brain applications. They simply don't have the experience/numbers! And they didn't have the psychiatric background to ask the right questions.
So it's fun for me to see my past mentor achieve the victory that any pioneer longs for in the context of repeated professional retributions and "quacklike" criticism.
Let's face it, he has been beat up for years on these matters, and still walks out with a smile, great science and provocative, true stories. He now finds himself in that phase of science [see Thomas Kuhn the Structure of Scientific Revolutions ] wherein many are claiming it was their idea, ...they figured it out at the same time.
Friends, it didn't work that way, and everyone on the inside knows he trained almost everyone currently owning their own gamma camera - and he has the data on all levels, and has scanned about 60 murderers as well to see what goes with their brains [more in a later post].
I started talking to Daniel in 2003, and now have many great Brain Function/SPECT applications experiences under my belt - but imagine what he has done from 1991... it's been ugly until recently. And I am here to tell you, his insights and patterns of interventions have proven remarkably helpful.
If you read criticism about Amen, most of it is based on the fact that many treating professionals are limiting themselves to his original insights, and aren't taking scan information to that next level of useful application.
So much more has evolved in the field of brain imaging even in the last 2 years, and we will join Daniel here at the two CorePsych sites to keep the public and professionals trained on those new initiatives.
And now he has entered a different world - a three-part PBS series based on his book: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life - and if you can't catch them on PBS, I have the links posted over at CorePsychPodcast where I keep my audio and video files.
Do pop over there if you can't catch the entire series on PBS - I have links from his newsletter for all three presentations. As usual, does a great job, and even has Bill Cosby as the MC!
Brain Function, SPECT Imaging, evolved Psychiatric Treatment goes Public
No matter how you slice the SPECT landscape tomographically, Daniel Amen is the primary person
who began the leap from brain evidence to application using isotopes in brain imaging. Even now at large national meetings in the imaging industry the imaging folks are still far away from discussing the clinical brain applications. They simply don't have the experience/numbers! And they didn't have the psychiatric background to ask the right questions.
So it's fun for me to see my past mentor achieve the victory that any pioneer longs for in the context of repeated professional retributions and "quacklike" criticism.
Let's face it, he has been beat up for years on these matters, and still walks out with a smile, great science and provocative, true stories. He now finds himself in that phase of science [see Thomas Kuhn the Structure of Scientific Revolutions ] wherein many are claiming it was their idea, ...they figured it out at the same time.
Friends, it didn't work that way, and everyone on the inside knows he trained almost everyone currently owning their own gamma camera - and he has the data on all levels, and has scanned about 60 murderers as well to see what goes with their brains [more in a later post].
I started talking to Daniel in 2003, and now have many great Brain Function/SPECT applications experiences under my belt - but imagine what he has done from 1991... it's been ugly until recently. And I am here to tell you, his insights and patterns of interventions have proven remarkably helpful.
If you read criticism about Amen, most of it is based on the fact that many treating professionals are limiting themselves to his original insights, and aren't taking scan information to that next level of useful application.
So much more has evolved in the field of brain imaging even in the last 2 years, and we will join Daniel here at the two CorePsych sites to keep the public and professionals trained on those new initiatives.
And now he has entered a different world - a three-part PBS series based on his book: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life - and if you can't catch them on PBS, I have the links posted over at CorePsychPodcast where I keep my audio and video files.
Do pop over there if you can't catch the entire series on PBS - I have links from his newsletter for all three presentations. As usual, does a great job, and even has Bill Cosby as the MC!