Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression,...

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, ... | Daniel G. Amen | Informative, provocative and sometimes controversial...

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Change Your Brain,...

	Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, ... Daniel G. Amen Three Rivers Press, 1999 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 100 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Everyone should read this book !!!!!

This is the most important book I have ever read. I feel that if everyone read this book the world would be a much better place. I feel Dr. Amen is a very talented insightful man. I will recommend this book to everyone that will listen. I am even buying another one to share with others !!!!

Informative, provocative and sometimes controversial...

I admire Dr. Amen's ability to explain the complex interworkings and relationships between different parts of the brain. I also appreciate his ability to relate these concepts to practical everyday problems and common psychological pathologies such as anxiety, ADD and depression. He even talks about some case study information on relationship dynamics.

While Amen is a controversial figure in some ways, he still has much to stay about keeping your brain healthy and he has the credentials and clinical experience to go along with fact that he has scanned more brains than anyone else. This does not make him infallible, but it certainly makes him an important player in pushing the frontiers of knowledge forward. On the other hand, he seems to have a bias toward SPECT scans that is not fully warranted based on other scientist and clinician's work. It's difficult to reduce the functioning of the brain to an in the moment scan or even multiple scans over time.

Suprisingly, this book is very readable for the average layman and equally fascinating. It has a number of quizzes and checklists for determining the strength of functioning of various areas of the brain and useful supplement suggestions. While this book is about 10 years old, it certainly contains lots of useful information. If you want an updated version of this, then I recommend his other book Making a Good Brain Great: The Amen Clinic Program for Achieving and Sustaining Optimal Mental Performance. This book is aimed less at pathology and more about what you can do to improve and take care of your brain in general. While not brain specific, Andrew Weil's book Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being is a nice compliment to both of these books and focuses on the health of the entire body.

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Worth Reading

After reading this book, I tried some of the prescriptions which seemed to fit me. They do work if you are serious about doing them. Reading this book has made a difference in my emotional health.

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