Posted by Elizabeth on June 27, 2001, at 23:02:08
In reply to Amen Clinic, posted by MB on June 26, 2001, at 15:14:28
No experience with them, but I do have a general idea of what they're about: using imaging studies to make predictions about medication response. I like the attitude they have about medication: very practical, use-what-works, with an emphasis on trying to figure out how to predict what that will be.
I'm sort of skeptical about the reliability of functional brain imaging in this area, although I'm open to the possibility that these folks have collected enough data over the years that they can use the technology to predict treatment response.
I had a SPECT scan lately, and to nobody's surprise, it showed some abnormalities that are typical of depression (I was off ADs at the time). I have thought about getting the hospital where I had it done to forward the records to the Amen Clinic or a similar facility for clinical correlation; I wonder if they'd do that.
-elizabeth
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