Daniel Amen
Daniel Amen
Amen has studied brain injuries affecting professional athletes and has consulted on post-concussion issues for the National Football League.
Career in business
Amen is the chief executive officer and medical director of the twelve Amen Clinics.
SPECT scanning
Amen's practices use single-photon emission computed tomography, or SPECT, scans of brain activity in an attempt to compare the activity of a person's brain to a known healthy model. Amen prescribes both medication and non-medicative courses of treatment, depending on the case. He also performs before-and-after SPECT scans, which claim to assess the effectiveness of treatment. An initial evaluation with SPECT at Amen's clinics cost about $4,000 in 2020. Amen's clinics claim to have the world's largest database of functional brain scans for neuropsychiatry. As of 2009, Amen said he had scanned 50,000 people at an estimated cost of $170 million.
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