Daniel Amen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Daniel Amen
Occupation	Psychiatrist
Date Of Birth	Jul 19, 1954(1954-07-19)
Age	70
Birthplace	Encino
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Daniel Amen Biography

Daniel Amen is one of the most popular and richest Psychiatrist who was born on July 19, 1954 in Encino, California, United States. Daniel Amen was born in Encino, California, in 1954 to Lebanese parents who immigrated to the United States.

in 2008 Tufts faculty member and author Daniel Carlat published an article about the use of SPECT by Amen imaging. When he visited Amen’s hospitals Carlat criticised Amen’s interpretations for these scans “spectacularly meaningless.”

Amen has produced television programs about his theories. One of them, “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life,” was aired by PBS affiliates 1,300 times in 2008 during fund-raising drives. Another, “Magnificent Mind at Any Age with Dr. Daniel Amen,” was aired before January 1, 2009. Neurologist Michael Greicius, director of the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders and principal investigator of the Functional Imaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Laboratory at Stanford stated, “The PBS airing of Amen’s program provides a stamp of scientific validity to work which has no scientific validity.” These programs have been described as infomercials for Amen’s clinics. The program’s depiction of the “wonders of ginkgo and other ‘natural’ products such as St. John’s wort.” was also criticized. Alternative-medicine skeptic and physician Harriet A. Hall and neurologist Robert A. Burton criticized PBS for the airing of these programs. Michael Getler, the PBS ombudsman, replied that “PBS had nothing to do with the ‘Brain’ program’s content and did not vet the program in any way.” Local PBS affiliates “make their own editorial decisions based on their own guidelines about what to air,” he wrote.

Amen’s practices use single-photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, scans of brain activity in an attempt to compare the activity of a person’s brain to a known healthy model. Amen prescribes both medication and non- medicative courses of treatment, depending on the case. He also performs before-and-after SPECT scans, which claim to assess the effectiveness of treatment. Amen’s clinics claim to have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans for neuropsychiatry. As of 2009, Amen said he had scanned 50,000 people at an estimated cost of $170 million.

Amen’s debut book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life It was released in 1999 and suddenly made it to The New York Times best bestseller list, after having sold many thousands of copies within its first month. Publishers Weekly noted that the book “apparently struck a nerve with readers who love a ‘scientific’ hook.”

Daniel Amen Net Worth

Daniel Amen is one of the richest Psychiatrist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Daniel Amen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Daniel Gregory Amen (born July 19th 1954) is an American famous doctor who works as psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist in Amen Clinics. Amen Clinics. Amen is a five-time New York Times best-selling author in 2012.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology in biology from Southern California College in 1978 and his medical degree from Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in 1982. Amen completed his general psychiatric residency within the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., as well as his child and adolescent psychiatrist training was at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. Amen holds a dual board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Healing the Hardware of the Soul, written by Amen in 2008, was reviewed in the American Journal of Psychiatry by Andrew Leuchter. “Dr. Amen makes a good case for the use of brain imaging to explain and medicalize mental disorders,” Leuchter said. “However, the reader who has any degree of familiarity with mental illness and brain science is left unconvinced that his [Amen’s] highly commercialized use of scanning is justified.” Leuchter concluded that Amen “has not subjected his treatment approaches to the level of systematic scientific scrutiny expected for scientifically based medical practice.”

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John Seibyl of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging has stated that it is settled that SPECT is of no value for diagnosing psychological disorders. A 2012 review by the American Psychiatric Association found that neuroimaging studies “have yet to impact significantly the diagnosis or treatment of individual patients.” The review also states that neuroimaging studies “do not provide sufficient specificity and sensitivity to accurately classify individual cases with respect to the presence of a psychiatric illness.” The American Psychiatric Association has concluded that “the available evidence does not support the use of brain imaging for clinical diagnosis or treatment of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents.” According to cognitive neuroscience researcher Martha Farah and psychologist S. J. Gillihan, “[t]he lack of empirical validation has led to widespread condemnation of diagnostic SPECT as premature and unproven.”

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In 2013 Amen co-authored with pastor Rick Warren The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life, on “how to lead a healthy life”. Amen was one of the people— others included Mark Hyman and Mehmet Oz—that Warren recruited to help devise the program . Warren encouraged adoption of the plan by all member churches in his network of Saddleback churches. According to Janice Norris, “The Daniel Plan is … more than a diet. It is a lifestyle program based on Biblical principles and five essential components: food, fitness, focus, faith, and friends.” Amen, Warren, and Hyman appeared on the television show The View to discuss the Daniel Plan, and 3,000 people came to a rally at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, to hear the three talk about the plan.

Are Spect scans legitimate?

And, third, SPECT is among the least expensive neuroimaging tools and has had insurance reimbursement codes for greater than 20 years. SPECT’s prolific use in peer-reviewed research supports that it is a well-established and reliable measure of brain function (regional cerebral blood flow—rCBF) [4].

How much is an amen brain scan?

The brain activity he says he sees in these scans — areas of high and low activity — allows him to target those areas with specific treatments and medication, he says. A full initial session, including two scans, costs about $3,500.

What is the Amen method?

The Amen Clinics Method is a multi-modal approach to treatment that uncovers the root cause of your issues or challenges that are not discovered by traditional psychiatry.

What kind of doctor is Daniel Amen?

Daniel G. Amen, MD, is a double board-certified psychiatrist , teacher, and nine-time New York Times best-selling author. Amen is the founder and medical director of Amen Clinics in Newport Beach and San Francisco, CA, Bellevue, WA, Reston, VA, Atlanta and New York City.

Is it worth getting a brain scan?

While many brain conditions can be serious or life-threatening, it’s important to realize that an MRI of the brain isn’t something that should be scary. It’s a beneficial process that can help your medical team spot potential problems and offer treatment before the issues develop into something more severe.