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Daniel Amen: “Most psychiatric problems are functional problems.”

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

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

If you took an MRI of the brain or a CT scan of the brain, that's looking at the structure. We do a study called SPECT that looks at function, looks at how it works, and Most psychiatric problems are functional problems. Right. The hardware sort, the structure looks fine, but it's not functioning right. Can you give an example? So SPEC basically tells us three things. Good activity, too little or too much. (04:00–04:06)

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Asserts that psychiatric issues are primarily related to brain function rather than structure.

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