HealthMaker Daniel Amen, MD, psychiatrist and brain imaging expert, expects doctors to begin looking at brain health when they are children and possibly when they are in the womb. In this video, he peeks into the future of brain health.
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What I see into the future, of course they'll have better scanners and they won't have the radiations but is a nuclear [xx] so you got a little bit of radiation, they'll have better scanners and we will be routinely looking at the brain function of children. In fact we may actually be doing it inside mother's womb.
We're also, epigenetics is going to explode and so we're going to be looking at her health even before she is pregnant. That's exciting cause if you really want to prevent Alzheimer's disease, you can't wait till somebody is 70 to start, you need to start even before she's pregnant.
Psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD, is a brain imaging expert and the founder of Amen Clinics. He explains how 3D brain imaging is an important tool to help understand, diagnose and treat mental illness, behavior problems and brain injuries.
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