Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Daniel Gregory Amen (born 1954) is an American psychiatrist, a brain disorder specialist, director of the Amen Clinics, and a New York Times bestselling author. He was born in Encino, California. He received his undergraduate degree from Southern California College in 1978 and his doctorate from Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in 1982. While Amen is highly successful commercially, some of his methods are controversial.Amen's clinics sell medical services to people who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other disorders: He uses single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) as a purported diagnostic tool to identify what he says are sub-categories of these disorders, as devised by Amen himself. Although highly profitable, Amen's use of SPECT scans to aid in psychiatric and neurological clinical diagnosis is based on unproven claims, and has been widely criticized.He has done studies on brain injuries affecting professional athletes, and he is one of the National Football Leagues post-concussion experts.. }
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- Daniel_Amen abstract "Daniel Gregory Amen (born 1954) is an American psychiatrist, a brain disorder specialist, director of the Amen Clinics, and a New York Times bestselling author. He was born in Encino, California. He received his undergraduate degree from Southern California College in 1978 and his doctorate from Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in 1982. While Amen is highly successful commercially, some of his methods are controversial.Amen's clinics sell medical services to people who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other disorders: He uses single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) as a purported diagnostic tool to identify what he says are sub-categories of these disorders, as devised by Amen himself. Although highly profitable, Amen's use of SPECT scans to aid in psychiatric and neurological clinical diagnosis is based on unproven claims, and has been widely criticized.He has done studies on brain injuries affecting professional athletes, and he is one of the National Football Leagues post-concussion experts.".