Daniel G. Amen

Daniel G. Amen, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia. Amen Clinics, Inc have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans relating to psychiatric medicine, totaling now more than 40,000 scans, and the clinics have seen patients from 62 countries.

Dr. Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine where he teaches seminars on brain imaging, brain injury, behavioral neuroanatomy, Adult ADD, hypnosis, biofeedback, and the use of supplements in psychiatry.

A small sample of the organizations Dr. Amen has spoken for include: the National Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, Harvard’s Learning and the Brain Conference, and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio and Wyoming. Dr. Amen has been featured in Parade Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, and Cosmopolitan. He writes a regular feature for Men’s Health Magazine. In addition, Dr. Amen has appeared on the Today Show, 48 Hours, the Discovery Channel, The View, and HBO’s show America Undercover.

Amen Clinics
Amen Clinics operates under Amen's belief that brain imaging stands to help mental health professionals treat their patients more effectively. Amen has said that "Psychiatrists remain the only medical specialists that never look at the organ they treat."

Amen Clinics have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans used in psychiatric medicine, now totaling over 40,000 scans collected over more than two decades. It has locations in Newport Beach, California; Fairfield, California; Tacoma, Washington, and Reston, Virginia.

Publications
Dr. Amen is the author of 22 books and a number of audio and video programs. Dr. Amen, together with The United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, produced a show called The Truth About Drinking, on alcohol education for teenagers, which won an Emmy Award for the Best Educational Television Show. In 1999, Random House published Dr. Amen’s book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list and is translated into 13 languages. He is also the author of Healing ADD, Healing The Hardware of the Soul, Making A Good Brain Great and the co-author of Healing Anxiety and Depression and Preventing Alzheimer’s. The audiobook for Making A Good Brain Great received Audiofile Magazine’s Earphone Award, the audiobook industry equivalent to the Grammy Awards. In January 2007, Harmony Books published Dr. Amen’s latest book, Sex On The Brain.