The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast

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Recommends scns · 2020-05 · on “Surviving Depression”

You can show via SPECT brainscans that the over- or underactivity in certain parts of the brain correlates strongly with psychological symptoms. For example you can show that people suffering from ADD have a lowered activity in their prefrontal cortex. Or that people with an overactive deep limbic system suffer from depression. Check out Dr Daniel Amen's work. He did over 83000 brainscans. [this video] edit: added count and link to video

Recommends jlokier · 2021-09 · on “Zoom court hearing postponed after accused found in same location as witness”

I think this talk is relevant. It's not specifically about convicts but includes them. "The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOrangeCoast" [this video] My summary of the thesis of the talk: Brain injury is far more common than is generally realised, contributes to many kinds of behavioural issues far more than is realised, is visible on scans, and is to some extent treatable, but it's usually not considered or examined.

Cites darethas · 2017-11 · on “Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?”

Most of the recent psychologists who study expert performers all tend to agree that "genius level" just like "innate talent" is a cognitive distortion and discredits the amount of actual effort, practice, and honing of their craft these individuals put into it. We are all born with the same brain* (edit: see the ted talk on the "After 83,000 brain scans"). Some of us just aren't born in the right environment to curate it and never learn the best ways to use it ("learning how to learn") given the current dominant socio-economic factors. It gets harder as you get older not because of age but because your anxieties, fears, and distortions become more reinforced, so breaking down those thought p