A lot of interesting things were discussed with Daniel Amen, MD on the webinar last night. Including the differences between the male and female brain, how balancing your hormones can strengthen your nervous system, and why some anxiety may actually be good for your brain.
There were 8,774 viewers and it was exciting to see how much of the globe tuned in. Many countries were involved, including:
| Canada | 1,081 |
| United Kingdom | 429 |
| Australia | 412 |
| Germany | 58 |
| Mexico | 52 |
| Israel | 25 |
| South Africa | 23 |
| Argentina | 21 |
| Malaysia | 11 |
| Japan | 8 |
| Turkey | 8 |
| Belgium | 7 |
| Croatia | 5 |
| Poland | 4 |
| Isle of Man | 2 |
| Libya | 1 |
The comment board is buzzing with 116 (at the time of this writing) insightful takes on my webinar with Daniel, and I just wanted to highlight a few that stuck out to me.
“Glad to hear some confirmation that thyroid functions, Vitamin D, and hormones all play such a vital role in our mental health. For me the concept of the ‘Dinosaur Brain’ made a lot of sense. First thing this morning, I decided to cut down my sugar consumption radically. Refreshing to hear, unashamedly, the spiritual aspect brought into this academic discussion. Daniel, keep up the Good work!”
– Gene Kol, Psychotherapist & Lifestyle Consultant, UK
“I found the information from Dr. Amen to be fascinating! How the brain responds to our diets, hormone levels, and stress was very good information. While we often hear about the negative effects of sugar I’m not sure that most of us are aware of the prevalence. I also thought the information on consuming ‘healthy fats.’ while not new, directed us to cause and effect insights. Thank you for this great series. I look forward to the next presentations.”
– Donna Holz, Social Work, Pewaukee, WI
“I was most impressed with today’s presentation and consider it a gold mine to have access to the quality of presenters. So much valuable information. I particularly liked the debrief at the end with Ronald Seigel and Kelly McGonigal. Some very different perspectives. Ruth you also did an excellent job. I look forward to next week. Thank you”
– Melinda, Spry Transitions Coach
“As a psychotherapist, I think this information will help depersonalize highly charged couples in my office.”
– Stacy Korfist, Branches Center for Counseling, Redondo Beach & Temecula, California
“Thank you for this presentation. It was very interesting to hear how hormonal changes may affect the brain as well as male/female differences. I think that it was important that Ron and Kelly tempered the ultimate course as how to manage hormonal brain changes.”
– Robert Haile, MD, Costa Rica
It’s amazing how much these online webinars allow us the opportunity to interact with fellow learners from all over the world. You’ll hear voices and perspectives from people you would never have encountered otherwise, and
I always look forward to seeing what you have to say to each other.
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What struck you most about the webinar? Please let us know in the comments below.
About talk back ,finding balance with Dr Siegel.Once a person learned me the following (i think it is approximately what dr. siegel said).
If you have a problem (fear,worry….),you can deal with it in different ways!
He suggested : imagine you draw a horiziontal line and you put 3 points on it ,1 in the middle ,1 extreme right,1 extreme left.
On the extreme right point ,are the people who are totaly drowning in their problems ( extreme worry,rerunning thoughts..)
On the lextreme left point,are the people who are totaly denying that there is any problem at all.
And between those 2 points are all the other degrees of dealing with a problem ,the art is to become in the middle and be ome so more balanced to deal with problems.
We can always look at that imaginary line and try to see where am I now and try to become more balanced.
Meditation is one of those techniques to become more balanced.We learn to stop and stay with everything .
I am so glad that person learned me that,it has already been so so helpfull many times.
I do not know but it seems a bit the same dr, Siegel wanted to say.
Ruth, thank you for offering these free webinars on the brain. There is so very much useful, valuable information in such a short time. It might help if your questions were shorter and took less time, so the speaker would have more time to provide even more of the important information each one has to offer. I treasure each word Dr. Amen spoke, except when he mentioned omitting rice from our diet. Most rice eaters in other parts of the world are not and have not been obese or overweight even though some of them eat rice 3 times a day in some cultures. Rice seems to be a major staple in their diets, so I do not understand how that particular food, though a complex carbohydrate, is detrimental to our health.
Looking forward to the next webinar. Thank you again for offering these free.
I am looking forward to more of this.!
I now have explanations for certain periods in my life and i understand “WHY” the doctor prescribed certain medicine!
Klamath County, OR is involved in the Merrill OR. water Crisis.The only city water well quit wikorng, leaving the town of about 1000 people with out water. Th Incident Management Team was activated. They are using printed maps with yellow markers. In the after action period I am going to show how this incident could have used Depiction.One thing I would like to do is draw a line down a street, as with a yellow marker. How can I do that
Thank you so much for the opportunity to watch him!
Brazil was particpating also! : )
I signed up but I don’t know how to access the webinar. I’m a great fan of Dr. Amen’s and 3 in my family have been through his Reston and NYC clinics. Can you tell me about the webinar?
Hello Bev,
I do see you are signed up for the webinar series, I’m excited you are taking part!
Each Wednesday during the series you will be sent an email to remind you about the webinar that will be occurring that week. In that email we will have a link to the page where you can watch the webinar.
In addition to that, I just sent you an email with a link to the page that contains the schedule of the series. The webinar with Dr. Amen aired on Wednesday the 22nd.
This Wednesday we will be talking with Dr. Rick Hanson.
I hope you’ll join us.
Brandon
Thank you for an interesting and provocative broadcast. As an executive coach I was particularly intrigues with the ohysiological differences between the male and female brain which cause the profound differences in cognitive and behavioral styles. Dr. Amend’s research findings add another component of insight to personality and temperament style differences. It adds significant value to the importance of inclusiveness and to the positive role the female executive can play in the Board Room.
I’m looking forward to receiving the transcripts and tools as well as to the next broadcast!
!excellent ideas that can be implemented today!
The session with Dr. Amen was very informative. Even though as a physician I was familiar with most of what he shared, I would say that his approach put my info into a new perspective. I loved the phrase he coined; the ” Dinosaur Syndrome”… I liked how he compared the male vs. female brain. I also loved the fact that he was not bashful about his faith and how he shared what he had in heart about the epidemic of obesity.
I do many lectures and presentations for college students as well as community organizations about mental health, emotional trauma and the brain. I will definitely use what I learned from him.
When can we get the transcripts?
I have registered for Gold membership with CME points. I am getting extra material for CME?
Ruth, You did an excellent job hosting the program.
I relish these webinars every time. The only times I have missed them have been when I was in some sort of brain fog! Sounds like a lot of folks are foggy to me!
One detail that stands out from Daniel Amen’s observations was this one…Single women tend to live longer than married women, while married men tend to live longer than single men. Makes sense does it not…men are not motivated to be care-taking and relational. They tend to be testosterone driven- *taking*, not giving.
Dr. Amen also pointed out that the male prefrontal cortex is larger in men (the whole brain is) but he did not mention that women have more neurons in that smaller mass of tissue. This I got from reading Dr. Louanne Brizandine. There was no mention too, of glial matter, and I believe glial matter is crucial to the brain’s process.
How we women are wired for leadership is not helpful…when men are wired to suppress her from leading.
I stayed up late after midnight and watched as long as my computer was willing to show to me. Unfortunately it stopped willing right after dr Amens interwiev. Thank you very much, I got new information and ideas how to take care of my brains. I immediately stopped eating chocolate …
I’m willing to hear and learn more!
With gratitude
Anne from cold but beautiful Finland
I agree with many people who commented here. This is the “go-to” place, for my money, to access timely info delivered by the best brains in the business.
Sad to say I lost internet service from 4:30 to 7:30 that evening. Sorry to have missed the webinar. Looking forward to the next one, hopefully with out technical glitches.
Sorry, I missed this section because I was not well to stay up till midnight but enjoyed reading the comments. Hopefully shall stay up to the next presentation.
I have read the comments and would love to get the transcripts. My schedule does not always place me at a computer to listen to the webinair. Obviously there is much to learn from this series, as from all your excellent presentations.
So sorry the timing didnt work for me! I am in Ireland at the moment and just love every opportunity to hear these most informative talks . Recently Ive mentioned Dr Daniel Amens name to friends —- his talks are amazing noticed that he is on TED again thanks so much the best ann
Dear Ruth Buczynski.
Just wanted to add that Denmark was represented too 🙂
I enjoy the webinars very much, but agree with Ineke Rienks from Holland: It would be wonderful to have the opportunity to listen just a little bit earlier. It goes past my midnight the way it is now. Would it be possible to widen the listening opportunities with 12 or more hours, then people all over the world could fit it into daytime, or at least ‘awake-time’.
Thank you for sharing this great work with us!
Best regards
Susanne
Very informative, helpful in dealing with abusive men as to why women notice problems and remember details more than men.So often men personalize comments and have no idea that women are wired differently
It always surprises me that when I offer something for free, people complain about how it is not convenient for them. I have consumed all of these webinars in the past and I would purchase the program if the schedule weren’t right for me and if it were really important to me to get it and I weren’t willing to invest the money, I would stay up late, set my alarm or get up early.
I have learned to invest not only time but money in things that matter and things that will help me evolve in new directions and become a better clinician and have a deeper understanding of the world and human experience.
These sessions are incredible to me. The latest knowledge delivered right to my home. The web is incredible.
The web is incredible in many ways.When I forget….google,facebook,amazon…they will remember.
By coincidence I found this book DELETE .Viktor mayer – schonberger.The virtue of forgetting in the digital age.The importance to forget…funny..some are searching how to remember and others to forget.!
Maybe for another webinar ” the importance to forget….”
Bill ,
I forgive you because after this course I now understand that men have less empathy (people with sleeping problems,less monney…)and they should have a problem with seeing/feeling their is a problem and admitting there is a problem.
But as women we should take care of those men so that they live longer.So,that is whiy I forgive you !
Doctor Amen,
What as women can we do when men have less empathy and they don’t see the problem at once?
And we also want that they do not disappear from our earth to quick?
Please,not just a normal solution ,but one that optimises them on a high level?!!!!!!!! Urgent!
I share the same idea, the time conflicts with the hours working in the office, 24 hours replay will be beneficial and helpful, I wish this could be done !
I have always appreciated Dr Amen’s talks and I thought this new information on the gender differences, as well as hormonal issues, was another very valuable lesson. I also applaud you for the Talk Back session. I think that part was almost as valuable as the presentation and other webinars like this should use this as well. People can both accept or reject new information too quickly, depending on how well they know the speaker. Getting other professional’s views allows us to put the speaker’s comments in perspective.
I also wanted to echo the comments from others in different time zones about the very limited listening times. Every similar type of free webinar class I have seen has a 24 hr window to listen. This is very important info and everyone should have a chance to hear it if at all possible. I would suggest a re-broadcast of this first session with a 24 hr timetable prior to the 2nd session.
There should be a 24 hour replay window as there is for many webinars. I am unable to listen (or remember) during the time frames given. Too bad, seems there are some good speakers and topics covered.
The timing is not working for me.i,too,wish there were a window of 24 hours…….it makes me think the free is just a teaser?… Not quite up to the level of integrity I expect from this community.too bad…
It is reaffirming what I have always known about diet and exercise.
The differences in the male and female brain, very interesting. I have dabbled in Hormone therapy,
both natural and man made, also PAXIL. Had great response to natural harmones, progesterone cream and mega vitamins for four years. I will be sixty soon and am no longer having hot flashes or mood swings.
Diet and exersize is always a work in progress.
I wonder similarly, why the rebroadcast at 6:30pm EST was not available free. This was not clear from your invitations and I missed Dr. Amen’s presentation unnecessarily, not being aware of this aspect of the Rules.
It was so fantastic to hear all the wonderful
Information on the brain and vitamins .Dr Amen
Makes information so interesting.
Great to see people all over the world doing
Psychotherapy and interested in the same
Information . Looking forward to the next webinar .
I’m wondering why there has been no reply to the many requests to make a replay of the webinars available for 24 hours, so that people like me, who live halfway across the globe, can benefit from them. I thought I could stay up to listen at midnight, but my body told me otherwise…
Think about it: there’s also a good chance that more people will purchase the package after hearing one or two speakers.
Hope you will consider this and will let us know.
The first webinar with Daniel Amen stopped about 20 minutes in! Wasn’t able to view at a later time. A twenty-four hour replay would sure be nice!
The program conflicted with a emergency staffing. I was not able to listen to the program and the repeat was not within the time frame where I had access to the web. Would like to listen to the program. Will there be a repeat at other times? Thank you, James
Again a very good talk; a promising start of the new series. It would be wonderful if your second broadcast could be in the morning your time – my afternoon! Now I am struggling to stay awake at midnight, and suffer for a few days due to lack of sleep. I regularly buy a gold membership, but can not afford do do so every course.
Thanks Ruth for your good work!
Timing of the webinar conflicts with my work. Often replays available for 24 hours post. It doesn’t seem to apply in this case? Please correct me if wrong as I’d love to catch the remaining speakers. Thank you. julie
Unfortunately owing to the lateness of the broadcast here in the Uk, I was not able to listen in – why don’t you have a repeat of the broadcast at a different time that would allow those from the other side of the world to benefit alongside those of you in the Americas?
Yes indeed it would be lovely to have a 24 hour window opportunity to access The stellarly informative webinars! The “Psychotherapy Networker” seminars have such a window.
If there was this longer window of opportunity then I would not have to choose between you and my patients!
I hope you’re able to consider this suggestion given the many requests that you have received.
There may be a reason you’re unable to do it.
With great appreciation for all the deeply insightful
learnings that have benefited me and my patients over these many years,
Rozlind X Kramer, PhD
Yes a 24 hour window would be outstanding !
Then I wouldn’t have to choose between
You or my patients!
The “psychotherapy networker” webinars
Fortunately provide that beautiful benefit !
Thank you for considering the possibility
especially when you receive so many
requests.
Yet perhaps you have your reasons.
With such great gratitude for the learnings
That have benefited me and my patients
Over The past many years,
Rozlind X Kramer, Ph.D.
So so angry that the internet goes off right wen its time for webinar. I was sure I. Could catch the 6:30pm session,but no internet.Wish I could afford the pkg. but Next week,I am hopping in car and going to library if internet at home goes on blink again.
Thank you for these wonderful educational opportunities.
Gilda
I also would be grateful for 24 hour access.
Namaste.
Thank you!
Wish I could have listened in! Unfortunately, due to the presentation time, as I live and work in Los Angeles and am 3 hours ahead, I was unable to!
Given the above, wish you could have at least made available for 24 hours an audio of the webinar for those of us who were unable to tune in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A plsnaiegly rational answer. Good to hear from you.
Ooops here is the whole KJV, with the brackets: [There is] therfeore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, [who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit]. Ro 8:1Now, my previous post makes a bit more sense .(laughing at my error) Caryn
If you were on at 5.00 p.m. EST should I not be able to get it in the UK at 10.–pm? I tried at that time and failed. It would be great to have it available longer.
Ruth what a wonderful webinar, yet again. Dr. Amen presents a perspective that is interesting and offers new insights to the mind body perspective. I’ve decided to get his book and take a deeper dive into his work. This series, and your work, offers clinicians valuable access. Thank you so much for the work that you do!
As a psychotherapist, I think this information will help many clients
Thank you for that presentation!
I am yet another South African who would love to listen to the audio at a more appropriate time and second the request that it be available for at least 24 hours. Other teleseminars such as Manifesteverythingnow does that. This is such valuable information and we are keen listeners. Many thanks.
Could you please make it available for us for atleast 24-48 hrs as I missed it while stuck in traffic coming back from DC. Thanks.
I’m wondering why the United States is not participating in this event?
Carmel, just to let you know that the United States is definitely participating in this event. I think Ruth was mentioning countries outside of the United States in her above list.
I wondered the same thing. Canada being far above the rest in participation seemed odd – even if iwe have more time online because it’s so darn cold.
Good day dr. Ruth,
I also missed the first Wednesday (Dr. Amen)’s webinar. Want to second the requests that it stays live (especially the audio) so we can listen to it during our day light time. Very frustrating when you had a long day, to wake up at/stay awake till midnight. Not in the freshest state of mind then. Please open it ONLY for us Southern Hemisphere eager beavers… Will be much appreciated!
These calls are at midnight my time – if they were open for 24 hours then I would know if i want to buy the series or not.
Yes it’s very difficult to get to these webinars the time zone in Perth Australia is 6am I’m getting ready for work then.
I’m signed up to listen to the webinars but it’s too
late for me to do so. Is it possible to keep them open for 24hours as I’d love to listen, especially after reading such positive comments from others.
Thanks, Kate
I´m so sorry I couldn´t listen to the webinar. I had to work that night and from now on , I´ll be working every wednesday.
Would it be posible to listen to it another day? Instead of 2 times on wednesday, I suggest one time that day and one time another day…not being saturday…
I suggest this because I agree with the song..”you can get it if you really want..but you must try..”
I appreciate so much all the information you are giving. Thank you very much!!!!
Hi Ruth,
What is your respose to the many requests
that the webinars stay up for 24 hours ?
Mrs.Ruth Buczynsky.
I am working here i Paraguay,in Functional Medicine,unique in Paraguay.Uruguay and Argentina,I am one of your viewer,you forgot Paraguay in your list.The session with Dr Amen was fantastic.
Is it perhaps possible to make recordings available for people on the other side of the globe? That would be so great.