1. Daniel Gregory Amen was born on July 19,1954 and is an American celebrity doctor who practices as a psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist.
21 Facts About Daniel Amen
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Daniel Amen is the founder and chief executive officer of the Amen Clinics.
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Daniel Amen is the founder of Change Your Brain Foundation, BrainMD, and Amen University.
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Daniel Amen is a twelve-time New York Times best-selling author as of 2023.
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Daniel Amen has built a profitable business around the use of SPECT imaging for diagnostic purposes.
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Daniel Amen has studied brain injuries affecting professional athletes and has consulted on post-concussion issues for the National Football League.
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Daniel Amen was born in Encino, California, in July 1954 to American-born Lebanese parents.
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Daniel Amen subsequently obtained a BA degree in biology from Southern California College in 1978, and an MD degree from Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in 1982.
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Daniel Amen did his general psychiatric training at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and his child and adolescent psychiatry training at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
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Daniel Amen is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, with a subspecialty in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Daniel Amen is the chief executive officer and medical director of the twelve Daniel Amen Clinics.
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Daniel Amen prescribes both medication and non-medicative courses of treatment, depending on the case.
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In 2008, Tufts professor and writer Daniel Carlat published an article on Amen's use of SPECT imaging.
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One of Daniel Amen's clinics provides brain scans for current and former National Football League players.
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Daniel Amen made the initial diagnosis of brain damage in NFL kicker Tom Dempsey.
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Daniel Amen has provided diagnosis and therapy for hockey player Paul Kariya, related to his concussion issues; Amen advised Kariya to retire as a professional, which he did.
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In 2013, Daniel Amen released an updated version of Healing ADD from the Inside Out: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the Seven Types of Attention Deficit Disorder.
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Daniel Amen is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
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Daniel Amen has been an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California, Irvine, College of Medicine.
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Daniel Amen is the author of more than 30 books, with combined sales of about one million copies.
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In 2015, Amen's The Daniel Plan received the Christian Book of the Year Award.