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Faith
Food
Fitness
FOCUS
Friends
“God gave you a big brain for a reason.”
Maverick
1972…
How do you know unless you look?
1979 …
Fell in love with psychiatry because it has
potential to change generations
1991 …
Brain SPECT Imaging
Healthy Brain SPECT Scans
Surface View
Active View
Healthy vs 2 Strokes
Healthy
Stroke
Healthy vs Alzheimer’s Disease
Healthy
Alzheimer’s
Healthy vs Traumatic Brain Injury
Healthy
TBI
Healthy vs Drug Abuse
Healthy
Drug Affected
Healthy vs OCD
Healthy
OCD
Healthy vs Bipolar Disorder
Healthy
Bipolar Disorder
1992 …
All Day Conference on
SPECT in Psychiatry
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Without Imaging
Psychiatrists only medical specialists who
rarely looks at organ they treat
 Cardiologists
 Neurologists
 Orthopedists
 All
look
look
look
other specialties look
 Psychiatrists
guess
There is a reason most psychiatric
medications have “Black Box” warnings
Before Imaging
It’s Not Working Very Well! Psychiatric
Outcomes Have Not Improved in Decades
 Insel,
NIMH, “The unfortunate reality is that current
medications help too few people to get better and very
few people to get well.”
 Antidepressants
effect similar to placebo, except
for severely depressed
 Antipsychotics
and stimulants no more effective
than in 1954
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Not Looking at the Brain Hurts
Patients and Families
 Symptom based
ways to depression
diagnoses are misleading – many
 Lead to one-size-fits-all treatments – no
understanding of illness subtypes
 Often completely miss TBI, toxicity or
often the primary cause of psychiatric symptoms
 Misses
infections –
that some psychiatric medications are
toxic to brain function
Not Looking at the Brain Hurts
Patients and Families
a huge opportunity to K stigma, J
compliance
 Miss
 What
If Mental Health Was Really Brain Health?
Not Looking at the Brain
Hurts Society
 Organizations
like NFL/NHL remained in denial
for decades about long term effects of TBI
 Military
personnel with TBI are often left
without appropriate help and hope – 700,000
veterans are incarcerated and suicidal leads the way for
premature death
 Costly
illness
dementias are not diagnosed until late in
Ineffectively Treated Brain Problems
Are Expensive & Painful!
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Underachievement

School failure

Job failure

Relationship problems
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Legal problems
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Failed therapy attempts
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Multiple failed med trials
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Residential treatment can
cost ~$100,000 a year for
troubled teens
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28 day drug treatment is
~ $20-80,000/month
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Psychiatric hospital stays
often > $2,000 a day
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Permanent disability is
extremely costly
Imaging Showed Connection Between
Physical and Mental Health
Dinosaur Syndrome
Attending Religious Services
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Associated with obesity
 Church
 52
healthcare initiative
week program
 Content
delivered weekly
through web
 Meet
in small groups
 15,000
people in project
 Results
are spectacular!!
At Saddleback Everything Is Changing
 After
12 months church
has lost 250,000 lbs.
 People
report improved
energy, focus, creativity,
sleep, and mood.
 Reductions
in stress,
blood pressure, blood
sugar, sexual dysfunction
and many medications!!
Your Brain’s INVOLVED
In Everything You Do!!
 How
you:

think

feel

act

interact
When your brain
works right –
You work right
When your brain
has trouble, you have
trouble in your life
Healthy Brain
Unhealthy Brain
Happier
Sadder
Physically healthier
Sicker
Wealthier
Poorer
More successful
Less successful
God gave you a big brain for a reason!
4 Steps to Achieve FOCUS
Brain Envy
Clear Focus
Kill the ANTs
Get Your Mind Right
1. Develop Brain Envy
My Brain
Age 37
Age 57
Brain Health Requires
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1. Brain envy – you have to care
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2. Avoid anything that hurts it – brain injuries,
drugs, overweight, poor diet, being inactive,
hypertension, diabetes, inactivity, etc.
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3. Engage in regular brain healthy habits – DP
diet, exercise, new learning, sleep, and stress
management
2. Clear Focus and Purpose
“Do you not know that your bodies are
temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,
whom you have received from God?
(1 Cor 6:19)
What is your motivation to be healthy?
 Honor
 Keep
 Live
 Be
God’s gift of your body
your brain healthy
longer, look younger
a better role model for your children?
 Write
 Use
it down and look at it everyday!
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3. Kill the ANTs
Be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. (Romans 12:2)
Be Transformed, Renew Your Mind
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Whenever you feel sad, mad, nervous or out of
control write down what you’re thinking and
talk back to yourself.
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This plan won’t work.
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I always relapse.
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It’s hopeless.
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I am too far gone.
This technique found to treat depression,
anxiety disorders, and help people lose weight.
4. Focus Your Attention
It’s not just about you.
It’s about generations of you.
Epigenetics
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Habits turn on and off genes
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Make illnesses more or less likely
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Choices affect generations
Get it
Give it away
Keep it forever
Marianne
Marianne