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Daniel Amen: “Prozac calms down the cingulate gyrus.”

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

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And so I put him on Ritalin, her on Prozac. And just by random chance, if you believe in random chance, the night before, I read an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The Prozac calms down the cingulate gyrus. jars. And so I put her on Prozac, him on Ritalin. I said, let's try this. I don't want to see you for a month. Let's just see how they met. (1:29:49–1:29:52)

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Asserts that Prozac can help calm an overactive anterior cingulate gyrus.

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