SPECT

May 25, 2008

Amen, Carlat, SPECT and Psych Evidence for ADD/ADHD: Don’t look, don’t tell?

Carlat says we shouldn't use SPECT for diagnosis? We shouldn't use SPECT tools that we know work to help discover the many missed diagnoses often found under the large umbrella of ADD/ADHD? This question regarding the use of SPECT is more than a simple ADD diagnostic tool.
March 3, 2008

Amen on PBS: The Visionary Finds His Larger Audience

Let's face it, he has been beat up for years on these matters, and still walks out with a smile, great science and provocative true stories. He is in that phase of science wherein many are claiming it was their idea, ...they figured it out at the same time.
February 18, 2008

Psychiatric Diagnosis: Brain Function Changes our Perspectives

When I began training in psychiatry, almost 40 years ago, much of the diagnostic psychiatric world evolved from affect thinking: depression and anxiety, euphoria, and misperceptions of reality. That world is rapidly changing.
January 29, 2008

SPECT Imaging Notes: More On “Celiac Brain” Hypofunction

Brain changes do appear on SPECT imaging with immune dysfunction: think gluten sensitivity and celiac. Seeing real pathological evidence, bottom to top, does help with believing.