I finally got this book and finished it.
The PBS show went into more lifestyle changes than the book does. But the book is fascinating none the less.
One would wish that doctors would look at Dr. Amen's work (which is 20yrs now in the making), and make more targeted
choices for treatment bases on brain styles. This would give more success with less experimentation with RX drugs.
The book goes into 5 areas (the TV show did only 3).
Violence/aggression (temporal)
poor focus/concentration (prefrontal cortex)
OCD (cingulate gyrus)
anxiety (basal ganglia)
depression and emotional blunting (limbic system)
There are many examples from his practice and many many pictures of the brain. The chapter on drug abuse is really
a shocker. What too much caffeine and nicotine can do the brain, is not what people would expect!
All in all it was a very interesting read.
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