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Brain SPECT Imaging: A New Way Of Looking At Mental Illness by Paul Patient Expert

Posted Tue 10 Feb 2009 12:12pm mental illness is based on a cluster of symptoms, but it could one day be based on how your brain functions. Brain SPECT imaging (single photon emission computed tomography... of the technology, "psychiatrists are the only medical specialists who rarely look at the organ they treat". Proponents of the technology like Dr. Amen say that Brain SPECT imaging can help Read on »

Brain School 101: SPECT Brain Imaging Training by Chuck Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 04 Aug 2009 5:32pm SPECT Image Interpretation Requires More Than A Good Read - Coming soon: Brain School 101 is a 1hr 45min training DVD - basic training for what to expect with SPECT imaging for those considering SPECT evaluation, and for professionals who want more answers Read on »

SPECT Imaging Notes: More On "Celiac Brain" Hypofunction by Chuck Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 16 Sep 2008 5:00am Brain changes do appear on SPECT imaging with bowel immune dysfunction: think gluten sensitivity and celiac. Seeing real pathological evidence, bottom to top, does help...: a typical brain image we often see using SPECT imaging for individuals with immune dysregulation. So many articles are coming up regarding brain imaging with SPECT with celiac I Read on »

Why SPECT Brain Imaging: Details Live on CorePsych Radio by Chuck Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 28 Jul 2009 10:09pm SPECT Brain Imaging Is An Indispensable Brain Diagnostic Tool - On Thursday [7-30-09] at CorePsych Radio I'll give you as many basic details about 'how and why' as I can cover in a well-organized hour - see the handout here Read on »

SPECT Brain: NPH-Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus by Chuck Medical Doctor

Posted Sun 28 Sep 2008 5:06pm at this brain sliced through the magic of SPECT imaging, and see if you see what immediately came to my attention: Those blue areas in the center simply shouldn't look like... SPECT:Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography putting the T in SPECT Brain Imaging. The Tomographic View: The operational word for this post is Tomography Read on »

SPECT Functional Brain Imaging Is Not 'Mind Reading' by Chuck Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 07 Jan 2009 2:59pm was thinking whilst in the machine. Good Stuff! With fMRI and SPECT the essential key word here is "functional" brain imaging - this MRI photo >> is simply an example of a static MRI picture, not functioning, not actually thinking in process, just anatomic structure. The ' brain action' is in the ' function.' We have been talking about SPECT Read on »

SPECT Questioned: Brain Function, Medications and ADD/ADHD Interventions by Chuck Medical Doctor

Posted Tue 16 Sep 2008 4:50am SPECT Brain Imaging: SPECT scans can be helpful with many psych diagnoses, even as basic and commonplace as ADD/ADHD - so why write SPECT studies off as *unproven... the parameters of SPECT application"? Brief Report From My Office Chair After 20 years of SPECT scan findings with clear brain evidence associated with clinical ADD/ADHD symptoms, we Read on »

SPECT Scans Showing the Brain Can Change When Substance Abuse is Stopped by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 16 Sep 2009 9:48am During Abuse Courtesy Amen Clinics Bottom-up Surface SPECT 1 Yr. After Abuse Courtesy Amen Clinics My recent post, “ SPECT Scans Showing Impact of Alcohol Abuse on the Brain, ” shared some 3-D Surface SPECTs completed by the Amen Clinics, which specializes in brain health and innovative diagnosis and treatment for a wide variety of neuropsychiatric Read on »

SPECT Scans Showing Impact of Alcohol Abuse on the Brain by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living Professional

Posted Wed 16 Sep 2009 9:48am by Lisa Frederiksen This is a top down SPECT of a healthy brain. Compare it to the bottom, right image in the block of scans below. Courtesy Amen Clinics... in the past 15 years, or so, are allowing neuroscientists and medical professionals to study the live human brain like never before. These technologies include SPECT, PET, fMRI, MRI Read on »

New press release: Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks by Stephanie Allen Posted Fri 21 Jan 2011 12:00am Neuroimaging Research Program, the study's senior author. "This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people.... But those investigations could not document that those differences were actually produced by meditation. For the current study, MR images were take of the brain structure of 16 study Read on »