Dr. Daniel Amen to speak on Hyperbarics at upcoming International Hyperbarics Association Conference June 16th -19th in beautiful Carlsbad, California

Daniel G. Amen, M.D. believes that brain health is central to all health and success. “When your brain works right,” he says, “you work right; and when your brain is troubled you are much more likely to have trouble in your life.” His work is dedicated to helping people have better brains and better lives.

The Washington Post called Dr. Amen the most popular psychiatrist in America and Sharecare named him the web’s #1 most influential expert and advocate on mental health.

Dr. Amen is a physician, double board-certified psychiatrist, 10 time New York Times bestselling author and international speaker. He is the founder of Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa and San Francisco, California; Bellevue, Washington; Reston, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York, Chicago, Illinois and soon to be Los Angeles, California. Amen Clinics has the highest published success rates treating complex psychiatric issues, and they have built the world’s largest database of functional brain scans, totaling more than 135,000 scans on patients from 120 countries.

Through his research using the Amen Clinics database Dr. Amen has published over 70 scientific articles on a wide range of topics including autism, resistant depression, suicide, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and others that have appeared in many prestigious journals, including Molecular Psychiatry, PLOS One, Nature’s Translational Psychiatry, Nature’s Obesity, Military Medicine, and Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience.

Dr. Amen is the lead researcher on the world’s largest brain imaging and rehabilitation study on professional football players. His research has not only demonstrated high levels of brain damage in players, it also showed the possibility of significant recovery for many with the principles that underlie his work. His research on posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury was recognized by Discover Magazine in its Year in Science issue as one of the “100 Top 100 Stories of 2015.”

Together with Pastor Rick Warren and Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Amen is also one of the chief architects on Saddleback Church’s ‘Daniel Plan’ which is a program to get the world healthy through religious organizations, which has been taught in thousands of churches around the world.

Dr. Amen is the author of over 30 books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, The Daniel Plan, Unleash the Power of the Female Brain and Healing ADD. In November 2017, Dr. Amen published Memory Rescue, which was an Amazon #1 bestseller.

Dr. Amen has written, produced and hosted 12 popular shows about the brain on public television, his latest being Memory Rescue. He has appeared in movies, including After the Last Round and The Crash Reel, and in Emmy-winning television shows, such as The Truth About Drinking and the Dr. Oz Show. He was a consultant on the movie Concussion, starring Will Smith. He has also spoken for the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), Harvard’s Learning and the Brain Conference, the Department of the Interior, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio and Wyoming. Dr. Amen’s work has been featured in Newsweek, Time Magazine, Huffington Post, BBC, The Guardian, Parade Magazine, New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, LA Times, Men’s Health, and Cosmopolitan.

Dr. Amen is married to Tana, the father of four children and grandfather to Elias, Emmy, Liam and Louie. He resides in Newport Beach, California. He is an avid table tennis player.