The 3 Main Things Dr. Daniel Amen Would Tell His 23-Year-Old Self
In some ways, we’re all graduates in the class of 2018. We may not be getting a degree or wearing a cap and gown, but as life-long learners about health, we have reflections, revelations, and insights...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Family Feuds During the Holidays
This blog has been updated from it’s original publish date. In an ideal world, the holidays would only be filled with good times and happy memories. Unfortunately, most families don’t live in that...
View ArticleDo You Have An Abusive Relationship With Sugar?
The Standard American Diet (SAD) is saturated with sugar, high omega-6 fatty acids, excessive calories, trans fats, processed and pesticide-laden foods. People who have a simple, carbohydrate-based...
View ArticleHow Neurofeedback Can Help You
Joey, age 9, struggled with hyperactivity, restlessness, impulse control problems, inattention, and distractibility. His pediatrician had suggested trying a couple of different medications but Joey’s...
View Article5 Crucial Health Numbers You Should Know
If you want to decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, you must: Get a baseline assessment of your brain’s health and function. Develop brain envy, or fall in love with...
View ArticleInsider’s Guide to Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
In my lectures, I often ask the audience, “How many of you want to live until age 85 or beyond?” Most of the audience raises their hands. Then I ask, “Did you know that 50 percent of people 85 or...
View ArticleDo You Remember If You’ve Had A Traumatic Brain Injury?
At Amen Clinics, we’ve successfully treated patients with head trauma for decades. In many cases, we’ve observed a type of amnesia when it comes to patients recalling earlier concussions, traumatic...
View ArticleLyme Disease: The Great Masquerader
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by the bite of an infected black-legged tick, also known as a deer tick. Lyme and its numerous co-infections can mimic or cause virtually any medical,...
View ArticleChemotherapy: Can It Negatively Affect Your Brain?
Even though medical doctors haven’t been able to link ‘chemo brain’ to just one cause, it doesn’t make this condition any less real or frustrating. Regardless of the type of cancer a person has been...
View ArticleCan Ostracism Cause Lingering Pain in Your Brain?
It’s often been noted that rejection is among the most painful of human emotions. Anyone who has felt the sting of rejection, ostracism or shunning knows how deeply these experiences sting. According...
View ArticleThe Best Way to Get the Nutrients You Need
As a leader in the field of mental health, Amen Clinics has treated an array of psychiatric conditions over the past 30 years and has amassed the world’s largest database of brain scans at 150,000 and...
View ArticleHow Bud Lost 30 lbs. and Rescued His Memory
Need more motivation to shed a few pounds? New research suggests that when you lose weight, your memory can actually get stronger. In another study, researcher Andreas Stomby, MD shows that losing...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Memory Back – Now
Maybe you’re finding it more and more difficult to hold your train of thought in conversations… or you can’t make your favorite chicken dish anymore because the recipe is too hard to follow… or your...
View ArticleHow Being Grateful Year Round Can Impact Your Mood
The holiday season can be an exciting and wondrous time of the year. It also can be a time filled with hassles and disappointments. Many things can steal your joy during the holidays…if you let them....
View Article3 Ways to Cope With Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is the fear of social situations and the interaction with other people that can automatically bring on feelings of self-consciousness, judgment, and inferiority. Social anxiety is more...
View ArticleMenopause Can Change Your Brain
As women age, their ovaries stop producing regular amounts of estrogen and progesterone. The age at which this happens varies, but can start as early as the late-30’s or until late-50’s. Typically,...
View ArticleWhy Should I Care About My Brain?
The war for your health is won or lost between your ears, in the moment-by-moment decisions your brain makes every day. When your brain works right your decisions tend to be effective and add joy and...
View ArticleWhy Are We So Negative?
Content updated from previous publish date. Are you too negative? Do you see the glass as half empty rather than half full? You may be surprised to learn that negativity is the brain’s default mode,...
View Article5 Ways to Break Your Addiction to Carbs and Feel Great
Refined carbohydrates and sugar hit you right where it counts- in the pleasure centers in your basal ganglia. This is the part of your brain that releases the neurotransmitter dopamine, and it’s the...
View ArticleWhat Is the Connection Between Your Brain & Skin?
Did you know your skin’s condition may tell you the condition of your brain? Skin, just like the brain, changes dramatically as we age. People age at different rates, according to: • Inherited genes •...
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