Daniel Amen

Cast · Writer

Born

July 19, 1954 · Encino, California, USA

Dr. Amen is a physician, psychiatrist, teacher, and multiple New York Times best-selling 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 relating, totaling nearly 90,000 scans on patients from 93 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 52 week program to get churches healthy, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Dr. Amen is the author of 55 professional articles, the co-author of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry's chapter on Functional Imaging in Clinical Practice, 30 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 co-author of Unchain Your Brain, Healing Anxiety and Depression and Preventing Alzheimer's. Dr. Amen is the producer of 8 highly popular shows about the brain, which have raised more than 50 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 Amen, the father of four children, and grandfather to Elias, Julian, Angelina, Emmy and Liam. He is an avid table tennis player.