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Daniel Amen: “He had really low frontal lobes.”

Featuring: Daniel Amen, Founder and CEO of Amen Clinics | National

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The 11 Risk Factors That Are Destroying Your Brain - Dr Daniel Amen

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And when it works too hard, people get stuck. They go into loops. Loops. Things don't go their way, they get upset. It goes with an OCD like brain. And He had really low frontal lobes. which, as A child psychiatrist. I should have figured out the ADD and the kids came from him. And so I put him on Ritalin, her on Prozac. (1:29:30–1:29:34)

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Asserts that low frontal lobe activity can be associated with ADD and impulsivity.

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