Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
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Pandemic Recovery: Overcoming Anxiety, Trauma & Grief
Pandemic Recovery: Overcoming Anxiety, Trauma & Grief
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Virtual Therapy + Telehealth at Amen Clinics - We're Open - #COVID19
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Some people with ADD/ADHD have a tendency to hyperfocus on certain things. At Amen Clinics, which has identified 7 types of based on more than…
Some people with ADD/ADHD have a tendency to hyperfocus on certain things. At Amen Clinics, which has identified 7 types of based on more than…
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These Three Steps Can Help You To Immediately Alleviate Anxiety Symptoms 😱 Read More: https://yhoo.it/445hPSp
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Individuals with affective disorders may experience moods that are persistently low or that swing drastically—beyond the normal highs and lows that…
Individuals with affective disorders may experience moods that are persistently low or that swing drastically—beyond the normal highs and lows that…
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Raising Mentally Strong Kids: How to Combine the Power of Neuroscience with Love and Logic to Grow Confident, Kind, Responsible, and Resilient Children and Young Adults
Tyndale
Parenting is about to get easier—and a whole lot more effective….
In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like they’re falling short.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen and child psychologist Dr. Charles Fay have…Parenting is about to get easier—and a whole lot more effective….
In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like they’re falling short.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen and child psychologist Dr. Charles Fay have teamed up to reveal what’s missing from most parenting books. It’s the fact that you need to address both the brain and the mind of your child (and yourself) in order to effectively raise good and strong humans.
In this groundbreaking book where neuroscience meets love and logic, parents are given practical tools to help children of all ages go from behavioral problems like defiance, meltdowns, and power struggles to being:
Responsible, confident, kind, and resilient
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Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits, and Relationships
Tyndale
In Change Your Brain Every Day psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years’ clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love.
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You, Happier: The 7 Neuroscience Secrets of Feeling Good Based on Your Brain Type
Tyndale Refresh
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen reveals the seven neuroscience secrets to becoming more than 30 percent happier in just 30 days—regardless of your age, upbringing, genetics, or current situation.
Happiness is a brain function. With a healthier brain always comes a happier life.
After studying more than 200,000 brain scans of people from 155 countries, Dr. Amen has discovered five primary brain types and seven neuroscience secrets that influence happiness. In…#1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen reveals the seven neuroscience secrets to becoming more than 30 percent happier in just 30 days—regardless of your age, upbringing, genetics, or current situation.
Happiness is a brain function. With a healthier brain always comes a happier life.
After studying more than 200,000 brain scans of people from 155 countries, Dr. Amen has discovered five primary brain types and seven neuroscience secrets that influence happiness. In You, Happier, he explains them and offers practical, science-based strategies for optimizing your happiness. Dr. Amen will teach you how to
discover your brain type based on your personality and create happiness strategies best suited to you;
improve your overall brain health to consistently enhance your mood;
protect your happiness by distancing yourself from the “noise” in your head; and
make seven simple decisions and ask seven daily questions to enhance your happiness.
Creating consistent happiness is a daily journey. In You, Happier, Dr. Amen walks you through neuroscience-based habits, rituals, and choices that will boost your mood and help you live each day with clearly defined values, purpose, and goals. -
Your Brain Is Always Listening: Tame the Hidden Dragons That Control Your Happiness, Habits, and Hang-Ups
Tyndale Momentum
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD, equips you with powerful weapons to battle the unseen dragons that are breathing fire on your emotional brain, driving unhealthy thoughts and behaviors, and robbing you of joy and contentment.
Your brain is always listening and responding to hidden influences, many of them harmful. Unless you recognize and deal with them, they can steal your happiness, spoil your relationships, and sabotage your health.
Dr…The #1 New York Times bestselling author and psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, MD, equips you with powerful weapons to battle the unseen dragons that are breathing fire on your emotional brain, driving unhealthy thoughts and behaviors, and robbing you of joy and contentment.
Your brain is always listening and responding to hidden influences, many of them harmful. Unless you recognize and deal with them, they can steal your happiness, spoil your relationships, and sabotage your health.
Dr. Amen shows you how to recognize the hidden dragons and gives you strategies to train them to help rather than hurt you. Your Brain Is Always Listening will enable you to:
Overcome pain from your past
Break bad habits
Shut down self-defeating thoughts
Shore up your capacity to cope with stress and uncertainty
Reduce your vulnerability to people and practices that are hurting you
Heal addictions
You can stop feeling sad, mad, nervous, or out of control and start being happier, calmer, and more in charge of your own destiny. Let one of the world’s most renowned brain doctors show you how. --This text refers to the paperback edition. -
The End of Mental Illness: How Neuroscience Is Transforming Psychiatry and Helping Prevent Or Reverse Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Adhd, Addiction
Tyndale Momentum
PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more.
Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label--damaging and devastating on its own--can often prevent sufferers from getting the help…PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
New hope for those suffering from conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, addictions, PTSD, ADHD and more.
Though incidence of these conditions is skyrocketing, for the past four decades standard treatment hasn't much changed, and success rates in treating them have barely improved, either. Meanwhile, the stigma of the "mental illness" label--damaging and devastating on its own--can often prevent sufferers from getting the help they need.
Brain specialist and bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen is on the forefront of a new movement within medicine and related disciplines that aims to change all that. In The End of Mental Illness, Dr. Amen draws on the latest findings of neuroscience to challenge an outdated psychiatric paradigm and help readers take control and improve the health of their own brain, minimizing or reversing conditions that may be preventing them from living a full and emotionally healthy life.
The End of Mental Illness will help you discover:
Why labeling someone as having a "mental illness" is not only inaccurate but harmful
Why standard treatment may not have helped you or a loved one--and why diagnosing and treating you based on your symptoms alone so often misses the true cause of those symptoms and results in poor outcomes
At least 100 simple things you can do yourself to heal your brain and prevent or reverse the problems that are making you feel sad, mad, or bad
How to identify your "brain type" and what you can do to optimize your particular type
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Feel Better Fast and Make It Last: Unlock Your Brain’s Healing Potential to Overcome Negativity, Anxiety, Anger, Stress, and Trauma
Tyndale Momentum
If you want to feel happier, more optimistic, more joyful, and resilient, Dr. Amen’s groundbreaking new book is for you.
We’ve all felt anxious, sad, traumatized, grief-stricken, stressed, angry, or hopeless at some point in life. It’s perfectly normal to go through emotional crises or have periods when you feel panicked or out of sorts. It is how you respond to these challenges that will make all the difference in how you feel—not just immediately, but also in the long run. Unfortunately…If you want to feel happier, more optimistic, more joyful, and resilient, Dr. Amen’s groundbreaking new book is for you.
We’ve all felt anxious, sad, traumatized, grief-stricken, stressed, angry, or hopeless at some point in life. It’s perfectly normal to go through emotional crises or have periods when you feel panicked or out of sorts. It is how you respond to these challenges that will make all the difference in how you feel—not just immediately, but also in the long run. Unfortunately, many people turn to self-medicating behaviors, such as overeating, drugs, alcohol, risky sexual behavior, anger, or wasting time on mindless TV, video games, Internet surfing, or shopping. And even though these behaviors may give temporary relief from feeling bad, they usually only prolong and exacerbate the problems—or cause other, more serious ones.
Is it possible to feel better—and make it last?
Renowned physician, psychiatrist, brain-imaging researcher, and founder of Amen Clinics Dr. Daniel Amen understands how critical it is for you to know what will help you feel better fast, now and later. In Feel Better Fast and Make It Last, you’ll discover new, powerful brain-based strategies to quickly gain control over anxiety, worry, sadness, stress and anger, strengthening your resilience and giving you joy and purpose for a lifetime. -
Memory Rescue
Tyndale House
Brain imaging research demonstrates that memory loss actually starts in the brain decades before you have any symptoms. Learn the actions you can take to help not just prevent memory loss later in life . . . but to begin restoring the memory you may have already lost.
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Captain Snout and the Super Power Questions
Zondervan
Captain Snout and the Super Power Questions; Don’t Let the Ants Steal Your Happiness, written by board certified child psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen, playfully encourages children to correct their negative thinking patterns in order to live happier and healthier lives. Comical illustrations bring the story alive as our main character, Captain Snout, reveals the super power questions that can rid us of our automatic negative thoughts (ANTs) and lead to accurate and truthful thinking.
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The Brain Warrior's Way
Penguin Random House
Your brain runs your life. When it works right, your body works right, and your decisions tend to be thoughtful and goal directed. Bad choices, however, can lead to a myriad of problems in your body. Studies have shown that your habits turn on or off certain genes that make illness and early death more or less likely. But you can master your brain and body for the rest of your life with a scientifically-designed program: the Brain Warrior’s Way.
The Brain Warrior’s Way is your arsenal…Your brain runs your life. When it works right, your body works right, and your decisions tend to be thoughtful and goal directed. Bad choices, however, can lead to a myriad of problems in your body. Studies have shown that your habits turn on or off certain genes that make illness and early death more or less likely. But you can master your brain and body for the rest of your life with a scientifically-designed program: the Brain Warrior’s Way.
The Brain Warrior’s Way is your arsenal to win the fight to live a better life. The Amens will guide you through the process, and give you the tools to take control. So if you’re serious about your health, either out of desire or necessity, it’s time to arm yourself and head into battle.
Master your brain and body for the rest of your life. This is not a program to lose 10 pounds, even though you will do that—and lose much more if needed. You can also prevent Alzheimer’s, reverse aging, and improve your:
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The Brain Warrior's Way Cookbook
Penguin Random House
In The Brain Warrior’s Way, New York Times bestselling authors Tana and Daniel Amen share how to develop mastery over brain and body to combat disease, depression, and obesity. In this companion cookbook, not only will you find more than a hundred simple, delicious recipes that support the principles of The Brain Warrior’s Way to heal and optimize your brain, but you will also learn how to:
· Purge your pantry of toxins and processed foods.
· Stock up on inexpensive, whole-food…In The Brain Warrior’s Way, New York Times bestselling authors Tana and Daniel Amen share how to develop mastery over brain and body to combat disease, depression, and obesity. In this companion cookbook, not only will you find more than a hundred simple, delicious recipes that support the principles of The Brain Warrior’s Way to heal and optimize your brain, but you will also learn how to:
· Purge your pantry of toxins and processed foods.
· Stock up on inexpensive, whole-food Brain Warrior Basics that you can find at your local grocery store.
· Cook with techniques that ensure the maximum nutrition and best taste from each recipe.
· Plan holiday meals so you don’t have to “cheat” on your diet to enjoy bountiful family dinners on special occasions.
· Use spices to improve your health in simple, tasty ways.
· Pack grab-and-go snacks for healthy eating on the run.
· Teach your kids—even the picky eaters and moody teens—how to have fun being a Junior Brain Warrior.
An essential resource for Brain Warriors who want to fuel their bodies with foods that boost energy, focus, memory, and quality of life, this cookbook is the ultimate tool for winning the fight in the war for your health.Other authorsSee publication -
Time For Bed Sleepyhead
Zonderkidz
Written by New York Times bestselling author and renowned psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen, this cozy bedtime book uses visualization techniques in the storytelling to encourage a child to stretch and even exhaust their imaginations to help them drift off into peaceful sleep.
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Healing ADD Revised Edition
Berkley Trade
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow—yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Amen, M.D. was one of the first to identify that there are multiple types beyond just purely hyperactive or inattentive ADD, each requiring a different treatment. Now, in this all-new, revised edition, Dr. Amen again employs the latest medical advances in the field, including the largest brain imaging…
Attention deficit disorder (ADD) is a national health crisis that continues to grow—yet it remains one of the most misunderstood and incorrectly treated illnesses today. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Amen, M.D. was one of the first to identify that there are multiple types beyond just purely hyperactive or inattentive ADD, each requiring a different treatment. Now, in this all-new, revised edition, Dr. Amen again employs the latest medical advances in the field, including the largest brain imaging study ever completed on patients with ADD, to identify, examine, and demystify the 7 distinct types of ADD and their specific treatments.
With updated recommendations for nutraceuticals and/or medications targeted to brain type, diet, exercise, lifestyle interventions, cognitive reprogramming, parenting and educational strategies, neurofeedback, and more, Dr. Amen’s revolutionary approach provides a treatment program that can lead sufferers of ADD to a normal, peaceful, and fully functional life. -
The Daniel Plan Study Guide: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
Zondervan
Feast on Something Bigger than a Fad This six-session video-based, small group study from Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen, and Dr. Mark Hyman is centered on five essentials that will launch your journey to health: faith, food, fitness, focus, and friends. With support from medical and fitness experts, Pastor Rick Warren and thousands of people from his congregation started on a journey to transform their own lives. It’s called The Daniel Plan and it works for on simple reason: God designed your…
Feast on Something Bigger than a Fad This six-session video-based, small group study from Rick Warren, Dr. Daniel Amen, and Dr. Mark Hyman is centered on five essentials that will launch your journey to health: faith, food, fitness, focus, and friends. With support from medical and fitness experts, Pastor Rick Warren and thousands of people from his congregation started on a journey to transform their own lives. It’s called The Daniel Plan and it works for on simple reason: God designed your body to be healthy and He provided everything you need to thrive and live an abundant life. This small group study is a vital component of The Daniel Plan because it emphasizes the powerful community component of the program. As Dr. Mark Hyman says, “community is the cure” for healthy living. The Daniel Plan small group study teaches simple ways to incorporate healthy choices into your daily lifestyle. This study guide includes biblical inspiration from Pastor Rick, instruction from our doctors and wellness experts, practical food and fitness tips, and much more. Sessions include: Faith: Nurturing Your Soul Food: Enjoying God's Abundance Fitness: Strengthening Your Body Focus: Renewing Your Mind Friends: Encouraging Each Other Living the Lifestyle This study guide is designed for use with The Daniel Plan: A DVD Study.
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The Daniel Plan: 40 Days to a Healthier Life
Zondervan
During an afternoon of baptizing over 800 people, Pastor Rick Warren realized it was time for change. He told his congregation he needed to lose weight and asked if anyone wanted to join him. He thought maybe 200 people would sign up, instead he witnessed a movement unfold as 15,000 people lost over 260,000 pounds in the first year. With assistance from medical and fitness experts, Pastor Rick and thousands of people began a journey to transform their lives. Welcome to The Daniel Plan. Here’s…
During an afternoon of baptizing over 800 people, Pastor Rick Warren realized it was time for change. He told his congregation he needed to lose weight and asked if anyone wanted to join him. He thought maybe 200 people would sign up, instead he witnessed a movement unfold as 15,000 people lost over 260,000 pounds in the first year. With assistance from medical and fitness experts, Pastor Rick and thousands of people began a journey to transform their lives. Welcome to The Daniel Plan. Here’s the secret sauce: The Daniel Plan is designed to be done in a supportive community relying on God’s instruction for living. When it comes to getting healthy, two are always better than one. Our research has revealed that people getting healthy together lose twice as much weight as those who do it alone. God never meant for you to go through life alone and that includes the journey to health. Unlike the thousands of other books on the market, this book is not about a new diet, guilt-driven gym sessions, or shame-driven fasts.
The Daniel Plan shows you how the powerful combination of faith, fitness, food, focus, and friends will change your health forever, transforming you in the most head-turning way imaginably---from the inside out.Other authors -
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Unleash The Power Of The Female Brain (February 12, 2013)
From one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, a step-by-step, practical program for women to achieve greater health, energy, and lasting happiness by harnessing the power of the female brain.
For the first time, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen offers insight on the unique characteristics and needs of the female brain and a practical, prescriptive program targeted specifically for women to help them thrive. In this breakthrough guide based on…From one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, a step-by-step, practical program for women to achieve greater health, energy, and lasting happiness by harnessing the power of the female brain.
For the first time, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen offers insight on the unique characteristics and needs of the female brain and a practical, prescriptive program targeted specifically for women to help them thrive. In this breakthrough guide based on research from his clinical practice, Dr. Amen addresses the issues women ask about the most including fertility, pregnancy, menopause, weight, stress, anxiety, insomnia, and relationships.
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End Emotional Overeating NOW
A Breakthrough Program to Take Control Over Food and Your Life
Daniel G. Amen, M.D. and Larry Momaya, M.D.
Many of us turn to food when we feel stressed, frustrated, mad, sad, fearful, anxious, or even happy. For many of us, emotional eating has been encoded in our brains since we were small children.
Overeating can also be tied to a traumatic event or series of events, such as physical or emotional abuse, an accident, or witnessing a disaster. The brain’s memory centers shift…A Breakthrough Program to Take Control Over Food and Your Life
Daniel G. Amen, M.D. and Larry Momaya, M.D.
Many of us turn to food when we feel stressed, frustrated, mad, sad, fearful, anxious, or even happy. For many of us, emotional eating has been encoded in our brains since we were small children.
Overeating can also be tied to a traumatic event or series of events, such as physical or emotional abuse, an accident, or witnessing a disaster. The brain’s memory centers shift into overdrive and the events, the emotions, and the way you ate to soothe yourself become etched into your Unconscious. This can create a pattern of emotional overeating that you will repeat over and over again.
That’s part of why losing weight can be so hard. Your Conscious mind knows what you need to do to lose weight—eat right and exercise, for example—but your Unconscious mind fights back. It resists rewriting that code that has been laid down over years and years. Your Conscious mind rationally tells you, “Don’t eat the cheesecake because it is loaded with fat and calories.” But your Unconscious mind urges you to replay your habitual scenario, “Eat the cheesecake! It will make you feel better.”
What if I told you that you could get your Unconscious mind to stop fighting you and start helping you instead? You can!
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The Amen Solution: The Secret To Being Thinner, Smarter, Happier
Crown Publishing
A simple step-by-step program to boost your brain in order to lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime.
Your brain and your weight are intricately connected. If you want to lose weight—and keep it off—you need to have a healthy brain. In The Amen Solution bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen shares his LIFETIME weight loss program based on healthy brain habits that has been followed successfully by hundreds of people at his clinics.
IF YOU WANT TO BE THINNER…A simple step-by-step program to boost your brain in order to lose weight and keep it off for a lifetime.
Your brain and your weight are intricately connected. If you want to lose weight—and keep it off—you need to have a healthy brain. In The Amen Solution bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel Amen shares his LIFETIME weight loss program based on healthy brain habits that has been followed successfully by hundreds of people at his clinics.
IF YOU WANT TO BE THINNER, SMARTER AND HAPPIER THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU.
Based on the most up-to-date research, Dr. Amen shows you how to:
Determine your specific brain type and the diet plan that’s right for you
Say goodbye to emotional overeating and shed pounds
Curb your cravings and boost willpower
Improve your cognition, memory, and mood
Make small lifestyle changes that have a huge impact on weight loss
Prepare easy, delicious brain-healthy meals
Get control of your brain and body for the rest of your life
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
Harmony Books
In this book, Dr. Amen reveals his breakthrough approach that will allow you to harness your brain’s power to improve your body’s overall appearance and function. As his studies show, a healthy brain is the key to a better body and a better life. Your brain is the command and control center for your body, and your brain function is directly related to how your body looks, feels, and functions. If you want to lose the love handles, you have to get better frontal lobes. You want to say goodbye to…
In this book, Dr. Amen reveals his breakthrough approach that will allow you to harness your brain’s power to improve your body’s overall appearance and function. As his studies show, a healthy brain is the key to a better body and a better life. Your brain is the command and control center for your body, and your brain function is directly related to how your body looks, feels, and functions. If you want to lose the love handles, you have to get better frontal lobes. You want to say goodbye to all those headaches? You have to calm your brain. Turn back the clock and get rid of those wrinkles? You have to start by rejuvenating your brain.
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Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Cookbook
MindWorks Press
In this special cookbook, health specialist and nurse Tana Amen shows you how to eat right to think right. She offers simple strategies to make brain healthy eating easier than ever and even gives you 10 tips to help you stay on track… anywhere… anytime!
Based on the Amen Clinics 7 Rules for Brain Healthy Eating, developed by Dr. Amen, Tana shares wonderful recipes that she uses at home to take care of the Amen Family. You will even find kid-friendly recipes that have passed the taste…In this special cookbook, health specialist and nurse Tana Amen shows you how to eat right to think right. She offers simple strategies to make brain healthy eating easier than ever and even gives you 10 tips to help you stay on track… anywhere… anytime!
Based on the Amen Clinics 7 Rules for Brain Healthy Eating, developed by Dr. Amen, Tana shares wonderful recipes that she uses at home to take care of the Amen Family. You will even find kid-friendly recipes that have passed the taste test with their seven-year-old daughter.
Some of Dr. Amen’s favorite recipes include:
Spaghetti squash pasta with tomato and mushroom sauce
Sweet potato soup
Vegetable soup
Salmon curry chowder soup
Southwestern tacos
Ahi tuna with avocado sauce
Shrimp Stir fry
Veggie burgers
Pomegranate walnut salad
Veggie wraps with hummus or avocados
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Daily Journal - Change Your Brain, Change Your Body
Dr. Amen created a wonderful daily journal to help you keep track of your important numbers and your daily progress. This journal is an invaluable part of the program to help keep you on track toward your goals of having a better brain and a better body.
The CYB CYB Daily Journal Includes:
A detailed list of “Your Important Numbers”
10 Summary Lessons
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Unchain Your Brain
Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions that Steal Your Life is a practical, easy-to-follow, step-by-step program that shows you how to boost your brain so you can kick your bad habits.
In this book, you will discover:
How addictions get stuck in your brain, how to get them unstuck, and how to find lasting motivation to change
Why brain imaging changes everything, even if you never get a scan
How to get the right evaluation to ensure that you can heal from…Unchain Your Brain: 10 Steps to Breaking the Addictions that Steal Your Life is a practical, easy-to-follow, step-by-step program that shows you how to boost your brain so you can kick your bad habits.
In this book, you will discover:
How addictions get stuck in your brain, how to get them unstuck, and how to find lasting motivation to change
Why brain imaging changes everything, even if you never get a scan
How to get the right evaluation to ensure that you can heal from your addictions
The six different types of addiction based on brain types: why all addicts are NOT the same and how to find the best treatment solutions for you based on your brain type
Strategies to boost your brain to get control
Ways to lock up the craving monster that steals your life
Tips to eat right to think right and heal from your addiction
How to kill the addiction ANTs that infest your brain and keep you in chains
Ways to prevent relapse by following H-A-L-T plus brain science
How hypnosis and meditation can help you unchain your brain, including a 12-minute meditation and a real hypnosis session done by Dr. Amen -
Use Your Brain To Change Your Age
Crown Publishing
A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time, and in Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen shares ten simple steps to boost your brain to help you live longer, look younger, and dramatically decrease your risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Over the last twenty years at Amen Clinics, Dr. Amen has performed more than 70,000 brain scans on patients from ninety different countries. His brain imaging work has taught him…A healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time, and in Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen shares ten simple steps to boost your brain to help you live longer, look younger, and dramatically decrease your risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Over the last twenty years at Amen Clinics, Dr. Amen has performed more than 70,000 brain scans on patients from ninety different countries. His brain imaging work has taught him that our brains typically become less active with age and we become more vulnerable to memory problems and depression. Yet, one of the most exciting lessons he has learned is that with a little forethought and a brain-smart plan, you can slow, or even reverse, the aging process in the brain. -
Wired For Success: 12 Steps to Creating a Brain Healthy Life and Enhancing Everything You Do
In Wired for Success, Dr. Daniel Amen shows you how taking care of your brain can lead to a better life, including more financial success, stronger relationships, improved health and a better body. The 12 steps in this program are easy-to-follow, simple skills that anyone can master at any age. Adapting the steps to your individual needs based on your results from Dr. Amen's Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Questionnaire is the key to getting the most out this program. After following this…
In Wired for Success, Dr. Daniel Amen shows you how taking care of your brain can lead to a better life, including more financial success, stronger relationships, improved health and a better body. The 12 steps in this program are easy-to-follow, simple skills that anyone can master at any age. Adapting the steps to your individual needs based on your results from Dr. Amen's Change Your Brain, Change Your Body Questionnaire is the key to getting the most out this program. After following this program for just 12 weeks, you will begin to see improvements in every area of your life. Making better brain health a priority will enhance everything you do.
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Magnificent Mind At Any Age
Harmony Books / New York Times Best Seller
Best-selling author and Medical Director of the world famous Amen Clinics Daniel G. Amen, M.D., has developed a revolutionary way to achieve your personal and professional goals. Unlike most self-help books, which focus on challenging people to change their attitudes, Dr. Amen argues that the real key to maximizing success is a healthy, balanced brain. He shares the most up-to-date research to show you ten ways to boost your ability to bounce back from adversity, how to think more independently…
Best-selling author and Medical Director of the world famous Amen Clinics Daniel G. Amen, M.D., has developed a revolutionary way to achieve your personal and professional goals. Unlike most self-help books, which focus on challenging people to change their attitudes, Dr. Amen argues that the real key to maximizing success is a healthy, balanced brain. He shares the most up-to-date research to show you ten ways to boost your ability to bounce back from adversity, how to think more independently and creatively, and much more. He also shows how diet, exercise, and supplements can treat such brain-related illnesses as depression, bipolar disorder, ADD, and anxiety. For readers looking for all-natural ways to overcome these mental challenges, those looking to improve their personal and professional lives, or anyone interested in what the latest data tells us about the brain, Magnificent Mind At Any Age is an eye-opening account that can help people take charge of their success.
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The Brain In Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life
Crown Publishing
What is the most important sex organ in the human body? The brain! And in this case, size does matter: A healthy brain increases your chances for intimacy and great sex. Daniel G. Amen, M.D., the bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Magnificent Mind At Any Age, helps us understand our most intimate relationships with The Brain In Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life (Harmony Books; 2009).
With the most up-to-date information available, Dr. Daniel Amen…What is the most important sex organ in the human body? The brain! And in this case, size does matter: A healthy brain increases your chances for intimacy and great sex. Daniel G. Amen, M.D., the bestselling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Magnificent Mind At Any Age, helps us understand our most intimate relationships with The Brain In Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life (Harmony Books; 2009).
With the most up-to-date information available, Dr. Daniel Amen reveals everything there is to know about the brain in love and lust, including:
-How sex can prevent heart disease, improve memory, stave off cancer, and boost the immune system.
-Advice for men and women on how to successfully navigate the differences between the male and female brains
-How the chemistry of attraction, attachment, commitment, and detachment influences ”brain-smart” or “brain dumb” relationships
-Techniques to fix common brain problems that hinder our sexual satisfaction
-How to make ourselves unforgettable to our partners
-Behaviors that help the brain and increase your chances for more passion
-An internationally recognized expert on the brain (he is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist by training), Amen outlines in an accessible and clear format exactly how the average person can enhance his or her love life, based on 12 lessons gleaned from modern brain science.
The Brain In Love will prove to be an important contribution in helping Americans achieve optimum satisfaction in their sex lives. -
Images of Human Behavior - A Brain SPECT Atlas
This book – a revolutionary look at the brain – contains over 300 brain SPECT images and 26 pages of detailed scientific references.
Purchase the book for use with your patients. The CD version of the book will allow you to easily import SPECT images into your public and professional lectures. -
Healing Anxiety and Depression
Putnam
Anxiety and depression are not the result of bad character or weak will. When either are diagnosed and treated correctly, the quality of life for millions of suffers, and their families, can change.
A detailed questionnaire enables readers to identify which type of disorder they (or someone they know) may have. A proven treatment protocol is described for each of seven major categories. Those who suffer from anxiety and depression will find this ground-breaking resource a powerful tool…Anxiety and depression are not the result of bad character or weak will. When either are diagnosed and treated correctly, the quality of life for millions of suffers, and their families, can change.
A detailed questionnaire enables readers to identify which type of disorder they (or someone they know) may have. A proven treatment protocol is described for each of seven major categories. Those who suffer from anxiety and depression will find this ground-breaking resource a powerful tool that will provide help and hope today. -
Healing ADD
Putnam
The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD
Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Information is power. Here's a simple, easy to understand explanation of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Discover the biological basis of this disorder. Learn about the broad range of strategies and prescriptions for overcoming the associated problems. Use the proprietary Amen Clinic checklists included in this publication to help identify when ADD is present.
Based on 18…The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD
Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
Information is power. Here's a simple, easy to understand explanation of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). Discover the biological basis of this disorder. Learn about the broad range of strategies and prescriptions for overcoming the associated problems. Use the proprietary Amen Clinic checklists included in this publication to help identify when ADD is present.
Based on 18 years of clinical experience with more than 6,000 ADD patients, Dr. Amen's brain enhancement program offers advice on how to treat each of the six types of ADD.
Type 1—Classic ADD
Type 2—Inattentive ADD
Type 3—Overfocused ADD
Type 4—Temporal Lobe ADD
Type 5—Limbic ADD
Type 6—Ring of Fire ADD
Effective treatments include diet, exercise, medications, supplements, and behavioral interventions. Parenting, family and school strategies are also included, along with sleeping and thinking-style disorder-management.
This practical book brings a new level of understanding to this often difficult-to-diagnose and frequently misunderstood disorder. Aside from his clinical perspective, as the parent of 3 children who have ADD, Dr. Amen knows this disorder inside and out.
He has used the principles in this book to guide the treatment of his patients and to help his own family. This information will help you, too! -
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life
Three Rivers Press / New York Times Best Seller
A breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness. Research shows that these problems are related to the physiology of the brain. And the good news is there’s compelling proof that you can fix what’s wrong for many problems!
This book can teach all about the brain systems and what mental disorder correlate with each different part of your brain, for a more individualized treatment plan. Follow Dr. Amen as he takes you through each case…A breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness. Research shows that these problems are related to the physiology of the brain. And the good news is there’s compelling proof that you can fix what’s wrong for many problems!
This book can teach all about the brain systems and what mental disorder correlate with each different part of your brain, for a more individualized treatment plan. Follow Dr. Amen as he takes you through each case study and shows you how each disorder can affect each person differently. -
A Teenager's Guide to ADD
MindWorks Press
The Healing ADD Power Program is a comprehensive guide to ADD from childhood through adulthood. This comprehensive program will help you understand every aspect of ADD whether it’s for yourself, a friend or your child. To optimize your teenagers understanding of this disorder, A Teenager’s Guide to ADD was written by two teens who share their own stories and how they’ve struggled and dealt with ADD. This book will help them realize that they are not alone and can overcome it!
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Change Your Brain Every Day: Simple Daily Practices to Strengthen Your Mind, Memory, Moods, Focus, Energy, Habits, and Relationships
Tyndale Refresh
In Change Your Brain Every Day psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years’ clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love.
Incorporating Dr. Amen’s tiny habits and practices over the course of a year will help you:
Manage your mind to…In Change Your Brain Every Day psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years’ clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love.
Incorporating Dr. Amen’s tiny habits and practices over the course of a year will help you:
Manage your mind to support your happiness, inner peace, and success
Develop lifelong strategies for dealing with whatever stresses come your way
Create an ongoing sense of purpose in a way that informs your daily actions
Learn major life lessons Dr. Amen has gleaned from studying hundreds of thousands of brain scans
Imagine what you could learn by spending every day for a year on a psychiatrist’s couch. In the pages of Change Your Brain Every Day, you’ll get a year’s worth of life-changing daily wisdom from Dr. Amen, one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists.
Today is the day to start changing the trajectory of your life, one tiny step at a time.
Honors & Awards
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John C. Maxwell Transformational Leadership Award
John C. Maxwell Group
Each year the John Maxwell Team looks to discover standout leaders making an impact in the lives of others on a transformational scale. This year John Maxwell and his team identified an amazing group of leaders who are making a difference and recognized Dr. Amen as a high impact leader who has been impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands.
According to Maxwell, an internationally recognized leadership expert and New York Times bestselling author, "A Transformational Leader is someone…Each year the John Maxwell Team looks to discover standout leaders making an impact in the lives of others on a transformational scale. This year John Maxwell and his team identified an amazing group of leaders who are making a difference and recognized Dr. Amen as a high impact leader who has been impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands.
According to Maxwell, an internationally recognized leadership expert and New York Times bestselling author, "A Transformational Leader is someone who influences people to think, to speak and to act in such a way that it makes a positive impact in their lives AND the lives of others." -
Lifetime Global Achievement Award
Oral Roberts University
This prestigious award given during Oral Robert's 50th anniversary recognizes individuals that have made a significant impact in the history of ORU and in the world in positive ways as an extension of the University and/or its mission.
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The Daniel Plan, 2015 Christian Book of the Year
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Distinguished Fellow
American Psychiatric Association
Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association, 2005
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Marie H. Eldridge Award
American Psychiatric Association
Marie H. Eldridge Award by the American Psychiatric Association 1987 for research.
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General William C. Menninger Memorial Award
General William C. Menninger
Awarded the General William C. Menninger Memorial Award for the best paper presented by a
psychiatric resident at the annual General William C. Menninger Military Psychiatry Course
1985. The award was presented by Karl Menninger, M.D
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First prize winner 1984 Baltimore-District of Columbia Institute for Psychoanalysis essay
Baltimore-District of Columbia Institute for Psychoanalysis
First prize winner, 1984 Baltimore-District of Columbia Institute for Psychoanalysis essay
contest on "Psychodynamic Principles in the Treatment of Medical or Psychiatric Patients."
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California State Champion
Persuasive Oratory
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Emmy Awards
United Paramount Network
United Paramount Network -Appearance in Emmy Award Show- The Truth About Drinking
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Prism Award Nomination
Prism
Prism Award Nomination for America Undercover, Small Town Ecstasy
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Founder and CEO
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