Dr. Amen is a physician, psychiatrist, teacher, and multiple New York Times bestselling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to clinical psychiatric practice. He is a board certified child and adult psychiatrist and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc., in Newport Beach and San Francisco, California; Bellevue, Washington; Reston, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and New York, New York. Amen Clinics have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans, totaling nearly eighty-five thousand scans on patients from ninety-three countries.
Dr. Amen is widely regarded as a gifted teacher, taking complex concepts in neuropsychiatry, neuroimaging, and brain health to make them easily accessible to other professionals and the general public. Dr. Amen is the lead researcher on the world’s largest brain imaging/brain rehabilitation study on professional football players, which not only demonstrated significant brain damage in a high percentage of retired players, but also the possibility for rehabilitation in many with the principles that underlie his work. Under the direction of Pastor Rick Warren, Dr. Amen together with Drs. Mark Hyman and Mehmet Oz, is one of the chief architects on Saddleback Church’s “Daniel Plan,” a fifty-two-week program to get churches healthy, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Dr. Amen is the author of fifty-five professional articles, the co-author of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry’s chapter on Functional Imaging in Clinical Practice, thirty books, including: Change Your Brain, Change Your Life; Magnificent Mind at Any Age; Change Your Brain, Change Your Body; Use Your Brain to Change Your Age; and Unleash the Power of the Female Brain. He is also the author of Making a Good Brain Great; Healing the Hardware of the Soul, and coauthor of Unchain Your Brain; Healing Anxiety and Depression; and Preventing Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Amen is the producer of eight highly popular shows about the brain, which have raised more than fifty million dollars for public television.
A small sample of the organizations Dr. Amen has spoken for include: the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Harvard’s Learning and the Brain Conference, Franklin Covey, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio, and Wyoming. Dr. Amen’s work has been featured in Newsweek, Parade Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Time, Washington Post, Men’s Health, and Cosmopolitan.
Dr. Amen is married to Tana, is the father of four children, and is grandfather to Elias, Julian, Angelina, Emmy, and Liam. He is an avid table tennis player.
Amen Clinics, Inc., (ACI) was established in 1989 by Daniel G. Amen, M.D. It specializes in innovative diagnosis and treatment planning for a wide variety of behavioral, learning, emotional, cognitive, and weight problems for children, teenagers, and adults. ACI has an international reputation for evaluating brain-behavior problems, such as ADD, depression, anxiety, school failure, brain trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorders, aggressiveness, marital conflict, cognitive decline, brain toxicity from drugs or alcohol, and obesity.
Brain SPECT imaging is performed in the clinics. ACI has the world’s largest database of brain scans for emotional, cognitive, and behavioral problems. ACI welcomes referrals from physicians, psychologists, social workers, marriage and family therapists, drug and alcohol counselors, and individual patients.
Amen Clinics Southern California
3150 Bristol St., Suite 400
(888) 564- 2700
Amen Clinics, Inc., San Francisco
1000 Marina Blvd., Suite 100
Brisbane, CA 94005
(888) 564- 2700
Amen Clinics, Inc., Northwest
616 120th Ave. NE, Suite C100
Bellevue, WA 98005
(888) 564-2700
Amen Clinics, Inc., DC
1875 Campus Commons Dr.
Reston, VA 20191
(888) 564- 2700
Amen Clinics New York
16 East 40th St., 9th Floor
New York, NY 10016
(888) 564- 2700
Amen Clinics Atlanta
5901-C Peachtree Dunwoody Road, N.E., Suite 65
Atlanta, GA 30328
(888) 564-2700
Amenclinics.com is an educational, interactive website geared toward mental health and medical professionals, educators, students, and the general public. It contains a wealth of information and resources to help you learn about and optimize your brain. The site contains more than three hundred color brain SPECT images, thousands of scientific abstracts on brain SPECT imaging for psychiatry, a free brain healthy audit, and much, much more.
Based on Dr. Amen’s thirty years as a clinical psychiatrist he has developed a sophisticated online community to hold your hand to get thinner, smarter and happier, and younger. It includes: