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Daniel G. Amen

Nacido: July 19, 1954 – Encino, California, United States

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Daniel G. Amen is an American psychiatrist and author whose work focuses on brain health, mental wellness, ADHD, and behavioral medicine. He is best known for Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and related self-help books, and for founding Amen Clinics; several of his titles became New York Times bestsellers.

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Daniel G. Amen has built a public career around the idea that psychiatry should pay closer attention to the organ it treats. After studying at the University of Maryland’s West Germany campus, Orange Coast College, and Southern California College, now Vanguard University, he earned his M.D. from Oral Roberts University, then completed internship and psychiatric training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. A key turning point came even earlier, during his years as an infantry medic and X-ray technician, when he adopted the practical habit of asking what could be learned by actually looking. After later serving as Chief of Mental Health at Fort Irwin, he opened the first Amen Clinic in Northern California in 1989 and began building a brain-centered psychiatric practice around SPECT imaging. ((https://danielamenmd.com/about/))

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Your brain is involved in everything you do, including how you think, how you feel, how you act and how you get along with other people
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When your brain works right, you work right
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The good news is, you can change your brain and change your life
-About Your Brain
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You are not stuck with the brain you have. You can make it better, even if you have been bad to it, and I can prove it
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Your brain controls everything you do and everything you are
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How do you know unless you look?
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Mental health is really brain health
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