This is possibly one of the best, if not the best, book on understanding and improving mental health issues in general (including anxiety and panic). What makes it so is Dr. Daniel Amen’s unique view of mental health as synonymous with brain health (and mental illness with brain illness, or at least unwellness). Dr. Amen is a prolific author of many books on various aspects of mental health, the host of numerous PBS programs and online video courses, and the creator of a line of well-researched and carefully procured mental health supplements (or nutraceuticals) sold at BrainMD.com Much of what Dr. Amen has learned and shared is the result of performing over 200,000 SPECT scans of people’s brains from all over the world. Through the acronym BRIGHT MINDS, the book explains many of the controllable factors that impact brain and mental health and illness. In other words, much of what the book proposes are lifestyle solutions to issues of brain and mental health, although as a psychiatrist, Dr. Amen is not averse to the use of prescription medications. He does, however see them as a last resort to be used only when less toxic methods of addressing mental health issues are not sufficiently effective. I personally use several of the supplements Dr. Amen suggests daily, in addition to practicing many of the lifestyle strategies he recommends.