ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel G. Amen, M.D., is a clinical neuroscientist, psychiatrist, author, and CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc., in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California; Tacoma, Washington; and Reston, Virginia. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California–Irvine School of Medicine. Dr. Amen lectures to thousands of mental health professionals and laypeople each year. His clinics have the world’s largest database of brain images related to behavior.

Dr. Amen did his psychiatric training at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and his child psychiatry training in Hawaii. He has won writing and research awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Army, and the Baltimore-D.C. Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Amen has been published around the world. He is the author of numerous professional and popular articles, twenty-two books, and a number of audio and video programs. His books have been translated into seventeen languages and include Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, a New York Times bestseller; Healing ADD; Healing the Hardware of the Soul, Healing Anxiety and Depression (with Dr. Lisa Routh); Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease (with Dr. Rod Shankle); and Making a Good Brain Great, which was chosen as one of the best books in 2005 by Amazon.com and which also won the prestigious Earphones Award for the audiobook; and Sex on the Brain.

Dr. Amen has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, The View, The Early Show, CNN, HBO, and many other national television and radio programs. In 2008 he wrote and produced the popular PBS special Change Your Brain, Change Your Life.