Posted by SLS on January 12, 2011, at 4:53:35
In reply to Re: SPECT Scans - Amen Clinic, posted by pragmatic-attack on January 12, 2011, at 3:17:39
> from my experience spect scans haven't helped me diagnostically but I've never been to the amen clinic.I have however had pet scans, functional mri's and a slew of other brain imaging hoohaw from some of the major intitutions in the country.
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> The Amen Clinic is known (for better or worse) but it seems like the best treatment is more dependent on finding the right medication then somebody telling you what you already know-that you are depressed, and here is the brain scan to prove it, or whatever your respective condition is.
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> Just from personal experience would suggest spending that money on a really top diagnostician and not make brain scanning the criteria. But if you have the money to do both there certainly is no harm in it.I think PET scans could be used in such a way as to administer different substances (drugs and probes) to see how any one individual reacts to them as seen on the images. Even better, perhaps, would be a combined PET/MRI image to detail structure. I would even offer the idea to genotype these same people. I think more research is necessary before these imaging techniques will yield results clinically, particularly since I conceived the idea to do such things independently over a decade ago. My writings are buried in a mountain of ASD posts from 2000. I'm sure others have thought to do this, but the associative data just isn't there yet. Things should move along much more quickly once we have more understanding of the brain itself and don't have to rely on trial-and-error. Predictions should be made possible based upon accumulating knowledge of the physiology and circuitry of the brain in health and disease.
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I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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