Daniel G. Amen
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Daniel G. Amen, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist, self-help guru, bestselling author and medical director of the Amen Clinic.[1]
Amen is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach, California and Fairfield, California, Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia. Amen Clinics, Inc have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans relating to psychiatric medicine, totaling now more than 40,000 scans, and the clinics have seen patients from 62 countries.
Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, an untenured volunteer position. Amen received his undergraduate degree from Southern California College (now Vanguard University) and his MD degree from the now-closed program at Oral Roberts University.[2]
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Amen is the author of 22 books and a number of audio and video programs. Amen, together with The United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, produced a show called The Truth About Drinking, on alcohol education for teenagers, which won an Emmy Award for the Best Educational Television Show. In 1999, Random House published Amen’s book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list and is translated into 13 languages. He is also the author of Healing ADD, Healing The Hardware of the Soul, Making A Good Brain Great and the co-author of Healing Anxiety and Depression and Preventing Alzheimer’s. The audiobook for Making A Good Brain Great received Audiofile Magazine’s Earphone Award, the audiobook industry equivalent to the Grammy Awards. In January 2007, Harmony Books published Amen’s latest book, Sex On The Brain.
The Amen classification is a new guideline for classifying psychiatric patients into particular groups of ADHD created by Amen.
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The Amen classification system defines six different subtypes of ADHD.[3] [4] [5]
These subtypes were created using SPECT imaging on patients who were known to have ADHD. Amen argues that differences seen in the imaging for sufferers of ADHD correspond to the new classification system he has created. A patient can have a range from none to all subtypes of ADHD under the Amen system.
The Amen classification consists of the following ADHD subtypes:
- Type I - Classic ADD (ADHD)
- Type II - Inattentive ADD
- Type III - Over-Focused ADD
- Type IV - Temporal Lobe ADD
- Type V - Limbic ADD
- Type VI - "Ring of fire" ADD
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- ^ Engber, Daniel (2007-12-07). Return of the Neuropundits! Should presidential candidates have their brains scanned?. Slate.
- ^ Burton, Robert (2008-05-12). Brain Scam: Why is PBS airing Dr. Daniel Amen's self-produced infomercial for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease?. Salon. Retrieved on 2008-05-12.
- ^ Functional neuroimaging in clinical practice (co-author with Joseph C. Wu and H. Stefan Bracha) in The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry Edited by Kaplan and Sadock 2000
- ^ Brain SPECT Imaging and ADD in Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating AD/HD in Children and Adolescents: An Integrative Approach. Eds Incorvaia, JA, Mark-Goldstein BS, and Tessmer D. Jason Aronson, Inc, Northvale, New Jersey, 1999, 183-196.
- ^ Brain SPECT Imaging: Encyclopedia entry. Encyclopedia of Special Education edited by Cecil Reynolds and Elaine Fletcher-Janzen to be published by Wiley in the winter of 2006.
