Obama's New BRAIN Initiative

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Chapter 1 - "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness"

      The first chapter of the book is called “For Those Who Have Eyes, Let Them See: Images into the Mind.” The beginning of the chapter goes into detail on Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), which is used to make a comprehensive image of the brain. Essentially, a radioactive isotope is bound to a substance that is attracted to brain cells. This substance is injected into the person’s vein where it runs through the...

An Introduction - "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness"

            I will be covering this book throughout the next month and beyond. I am privileged to be reading such a unique piece of work that sheds a new light on what we already know (and don’t know) about the brain and the way it functions in our everyday behavior. The book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life is a New York Times bestseller, and the author, Dr. Daniel G. Amen, owns many clinics which operate...