So we paid a substantial fee and drove to an appointment at Dr. Amen claimed he could cure ADHD by looking inside the brain with a single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scan using gamma rays and with injected radioactive dye and tailoring treatment to 7 different types of ADD: Classic, Inattentive, Overfocused, Temporal Lobe, Limbic, Ring of Fire, and Anxious.Īs my 2e son wasn’t responding to anything else we tried, the idea that he might have a specific subtype of ADHD that required a targeted treatment was appealing. Neuroimaging was on the uptick and being heralded as a huge scientific breakthrough. Amen’s book: Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD when it came out in 2002. Claiming to be an expert at everything is usually overreaching.īut let me zero in on how they “treat” ADHD. That claim alone should be enough to make anyone skeptical. They claim to treat pretty much anything, from ADHD, addiction, anxiety and depression, autism, bipolar disorder, concussions, Lyme disease, marital conflict, dementia, and sleep disorders to weight loss. He has 8 clinics in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, and Washington State. show aired on PBS (or rather, infomercial) about his theories, paid motivational speaker, and master salesman promoting proprietary nutritional supplements.
A media star, best-selling author of 30 books (5 New York Times bestsellers), producer of a t.v.
Daniel Amen’s Brain Clinics and how they purport to diagnose and cure ADHD.ĭr. The last blog (Part 1) was on vision therapy as a cure for dyslexia.
DANIEL G.AMEN ADD TEST SERIES
I’ve decided this series on alternative therapies will first tackle the mistakes I made myself as a parent.
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