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Daniel Amen        

Award-Winning Psychiatrist & Best Selling Author

Dr. Daniel Amen’s mission is to end mental illness by creating a revolution in brain health. Dr. Amen is a physician, adult and child psychiatrist, and founder of Amen Clinics with 11 locations across the U.S. Amen Clinics has the world’s largest database of brain scans for psychiatry totaling more than 250,000 SPECT scans on patients from 155 countries. Dr. Amen is one of the most visible and influential experts on brain health and mental health with millions of followers on social media.

In 2020 Dr. Amen launched his digital series "Scan My Brain" featuring high-profile actors, musical artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, and influencers that airs on YouTube and Instagram. Over 150 episodes have aired, turning it into viral social media content with collectively millions of views. He has also produced 18 national public television shows about the brain and his online videos on brain and mental health have been viewed over a billion times. Dr. Amen is a 12-time New York Times bestselling author, including "Change Your Brain," "Change Your Life," "The End of Mental Illness," "Healing ADD," and many more. His newest book "Raising Mentally Strong Kids" was released in March 2024.

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Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

You can change your brain and change your life. Using the latest, most sophisticated brain imaging technology in medicine, physician and scientist Daniel Amen will give you an intimate look into a “working brain.”

Magnificent Mind At Any Age

It’s never too early or too late to start developing a magnificent mind. A balanced brain is the foundation for a life that is happier, healthier, wealthier, and wiser. This program will help people understand how to develop and take care of their brains to ensure their lives will be better, no matter what your age!

Change Your Brain, Change Your Body

You can change your brain and change your life. Using the latest, most sophisticated brain imaging technology in medicine, physician and scientist Daniel Amen will give you an intimate look into a “working brain.”

The Brain in Leadership

In this fun, insightful presentation, Dr. Amen shows how understanding and optimizing the brain is the missing link to creating more effective leaders. From a science based perspective, Dr. Amen will illustrate the common traits of effective leaders and link them to specific brain functions. If you’re a leader in any setting, you’ll benefit from this revealing look at what works and what doesn’t work for leadership success. Your brain affects everything you do, including the way you lead. You’ll discover that building a better brain builds a more effective leader.

Use Your Brain To Change Your Age

Do you want to feel more fit, energized, and mentally sharp? A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time and an unhealthy brain will take your life early. Over the last 20 years at the Amen Clinics Dr. Amen has performed more than 70,000 brain scans on patients from 90 different countries. The brain imaging work he does has taught him that our brains typically become less active with age and we become more vulnerable to memory problems and depression. Yet, one of the most exciting lessons he has learned is that with a little forethought and a brain smart plan you can slow or even reverse the aging process in the brain.

High Performance Brains

In this program learn how to develop a high performance brain and the 7 steps to creating a BrainSmart life.

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