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flyingkiwi44today at 3:17 AM1 replyview on HN

Amen Clinics have been covered on sciencebasedmedicine.org a few times (2008 and 2013) from the look of it.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/spect-scans-at-the-amen-cli...

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dr-amens-love-affair-with-s...

Both https://sciencebasedmedicine.org and https://theness.com/neurologicablog/ are good resources for detailed research into science and medicine. With Neurologica having some good deep dives into Neuroscience topics https://theness.com/neurologicablog/category/neuroscience/ as the author is a recently retired academic clinical neurologist


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j45today at 11:42 AM

Insightful, thanks. I typically separate the personality from the assertions and look at the assertions individually in present time due to the incredible lag time between knowledge and it becoming practiced in the clinic. Professionals can best practice 5-10-15 year old information because they haven't caught up, there's a lot to stay on top of.

The first link is from 2008 and claims EMDR doesn't work (I believe it emerged in the 90's and new things are generally resisted in health until they're not), and that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy doesn't help the brain, both are understood to be helpful in ways beyond this article in 2026. Unrelated to Amen, fMRI is helpful with TBI imaging.