What Your Brain Can Tell You!

 Listen to YOUR HEALTH SOLUTION RADIO this Saturday, October 13th on WNTP 990AM at 8AM to find out! Our guest Dr. Joseph Annibali, Chief Psychiatrist at The Amen Clinics in Washington, DC,  discusses SPECT and Lyme Disease. He has particular interest in ADD, developmental difficulties,the integration of psychotherapy and neuroscience, Lyme Disease, and in complementary and alternative treatment approaches. You can listen to our show beginning Monday, October 15th at www.soundcloud.com/yourhealthsolutionradio or on our website at www.yourhealthsolution.com.

What is SPECT? It is an acronym for Single Photon Emission Computerized Tomography. SPECT is a sophisticated nuclear medicine study that looks directly at cerebral blood flow and indirectly at brain activity (or metabolism). The brain SPECT study can see into the deeper areas of the brain with far greater clarity and show what CAT scans and MRIs cannot – how the brain actually functions.

SPECT helps provide answers to mental health problems and helps clinicians ask better and more targeted questions, such as about ADHD/ADD, addictions, head injuries, alzheimer's, depression, violence, anxiety, toxic exposure and past emotional traumas. Imaging plus detailed histories help us better understand your brain, so treatment can be individually tailored, rather than just diagnosing and treating vague diagnostic categories such as depression or ADHD. More information prevents clinicians from prescribing the wrong treatments, such as unnecessarily stimulating an already overactive brain or calming one that is underactive.

The Washington Post recently did an in-depth piece on The Amen Clinics and SPECT and ABC World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer called Dr. Amen, Dr. Annibali's colleague, a modern day Freud. Learn more about The Amen Clinics and brain SPECT at www.amenclinics.com.