# Not stuck with the brain you have?  (Dr Daniel Amen)

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**Created:** [October 19, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/not-stuck-with-the-brain-you-have-dr-daniel-amen/3876 "2014-10-19T02:23:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![yosemitesam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7feea3/32.png) [@yosemitesam](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/yosemitesam)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/not-stuck-with-the-brain-you-have-dr-daniel-amen/3876/1 "2014-10-19T02:23:50Z")

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Along with making a good argument, Dr Daniel Amen asks a good question:  
Why doesn’t psychiatry employ and incorporate brain imagining technology in their diagnosis and treatment of brain issues?  
Quite the interesting review of how far brain imaging has come in the past decades.

> **The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans** | DANIEL G. AMEN M.D. Physician: Child/Adolescent/Adult Psychiatry, Nuclear Brain Imaging CEO: Amen Clinics, Inc. | TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPRsT-lmw8

PS. about Dr. Daniel Amen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel\_Amen http://www.amenclinics.com/dr-amen/

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**Author:** ![yosemitesam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7feea3/32.png) [@yosemitesam](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/u/yosemitesam)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/not-stuck-with-the-brain-you-have-dr-daniel-amen/3876/2 "2014-10-19T02:34:12Z")

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I’ll admit he can sound like quite the salesman, and I don’t claim to know anything about him or his claims,  
and there is this [Vitamins and Supplements Rooted in Science - Life Extension](http://www.lef.org/magazine/2010/10/integrated-medicine-optimizes-brain-function/page-01)  
which doesn’t do much to impress me.  
But the concept of incorporating brain imaging  
_- since the understanding of what those images are telling medical experts must be increasing -_  
into diagnosis makes all the sense in the world to me.