Amen Clinic Or The Spect Scan???

[eve123]

Is anyone a Pt at Dr Amen's Clinic ?

Anyone had a SPECT Scan of their brain done?

Thank's; eve

[Trace]

Is anyone a Pt at Dr Amen's Clinic ?

Anyone had a SPECT Scan of their brain done?

Thank's; eve

Hi Eve

I am unfortunately not from the States, so I do not know much about the Amen Clinic. I hope someone comes along that can help you. I have not had a SPECT scan either. I hope you get the info that you need.

Trace

[eve123]

Is anyone a Pt at Dr Amen's Clinic ?

Anyone had a SPECT Scan of their brain done?

Thank's; eve

Hi Eve

I am unfortunately not from the States, so I do not know much about the Amen Clinic. I hope someone comes along that can help you. I have not had a SPECT scan either. I hope you get the info that you need.

Trace

Thank's for your reply Trace. I wish you well!

eve

[crashtst]

Hi Eve,

I've been looking into SPECT scans recently, and they're super interesting. As are all the studies being done with fMRI, etc.

At the Amen Clinics, they run you through a huge diagnostic evaluation, take 2 scans, etc. etc. Unfortunately, the bill comes to more the $3,000. And unfortunately, it's probably not covered by your insurance.

I just wrote them today, however, to see if they evaluate scans done outside of their clinic, ala have a scan done at my local hospital - which is covered by insurance - and then have it evaluated by the money grubbers at Amen.

In his book, he categorizes depression into 7 different types depending on the functionality of your brain, you can find the "types" online after searching for a bit.

Personally, I'm pretty interested in getting a scan, so I can see what my brain looks like, and what 13+ years of depression has done to it. Is the cost worth it? I don't know, because we already know that depressed brains have low activity (cerebral blood flow) in the frontal cortex, and hippocampus. So a scan is probably just going to show this...