DANIEL G. AMEN, MD

DANIEL G. AMEN, MD, is a clinical neuroscientist, a psychiatrist, an author, and the 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, judges, and lay audiences 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. He has won writing and research awards from the American Psychiatric Association, the United States Army, and the Baltimore-DC 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 fourteen languages and include Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, a New York Times best seller; Healing ADD, Healing the Hardware of the Soul, Healing Anxiety and Depression (with Dr. Lisa Routh), Preventing Alzheimer’s (with Dr. William R. 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. Dr. Amen, together with the United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, helped produce “The Truth About Drinking,” a show on alcohol education for teenagers that won an Emmy Award for the Best Educational Television Show.

In addition, Dr. Amen has appeared on the Today show, The View, The Early Show, 48 Hours, CNN, HBO, and many other television and radio programs. Dr. Amen writes a monthly column for Men’s Health Magazine titled “Head Check.”