Daniel G. Amen, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics, Inc. in Newport Beach and Fairfield, California, Tacoma, Washington and Reston, Virginia. Amen Clinics, Inc have the world's largest database of functional brain scans relating to psychiatric medicine, totaling now more than 42,000 scans, and the clinics have seen patients from 68 countries. Dr. Amen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.

A small sample of the organizations Dr. Amen has spoken for include: the National Security Agency, the National Science Foundation, Harvard's Learning and the Brain Conference, and the Supreme Courts of Delaware, Ohio and Wyoming. Dr. Amen has been featured in Parade Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, and Cosmopolitan. He writes a regular feature for Men's Health Magazine. In addition, Dr. Amen has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, the Discovery Channel, Regis and Kelly, E, The View, MSNBC and HBO's show America Undercover.

Dr. Amen is the author of 22 books and a number of audio and video programs. Dr. Amen, together with The United Paramount Network and Leeza Gibbons, produced a show called The Truth About Drinking, on alcohol education for teenagers, which won an Emmy Award for the Best Educational Television Show. In 1999, Random House published Dr. Amen's book, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, which has been on the New York Times bestseller list and is translated into 14 languages.

He is also the author of Healing ADD, Healing the Hardware of the Soul, Making A Good Brain Great and the co-author of Healing Anxiety and Depression and Preventing Alzheimer's. The audiobook for Making A Good Brain Great received Audiofile Magazine's Earphone Award, the audiobook industry equivalent to the Grammy Awards. In January 2008, Harmony Books published Dr. Amen's recent book, ,em>Sex On The Brain in paperback. In March 2008 Dr. Amen's new PBS Special "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" debuted to rave reviews, has raised a significant amount of money for PBS and has played repeatedly.

HEALING THE HARDWARE OF THE SOUL
How Making the Brain-Soul Connection Can Optimize Your Life, Love, and Spiritual Growth
Your brain is the hardware of your soul. It is involved with everything you do. How you think, how you feel, how you act, and how well you get along with other people is intimately tied to how your brain functions. When your brain works right you can work right. When your brain doesn't work right, it is very hard for you (or your patients) to act and feel in top form.

Your brain even determines the kind of person. It determines whether you are a firm and loving parent or you raise your children in an erratic, harsh, or rigid manner. Your brain influences whether you are a thoughtful, empathic, effective professional or you are someone who is constantly late, disorganized, and ineffective. You cannot separate your brain's function from your everyday function or from the function of the people you are trying to help. Yet, few mental health professionals get adequate training on how the brain works or how to optimize it in clinical practice.

Utilizing the latest, most sophisticated brain imaging technology in medicine, physician and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen will give you an intimate look into a "working brain." Based on his brain imaging work with over 9,000 patients, Dr. Amen will teach you what specific parts of the brain do, and graphically show what happens when things go wrong, illustrated by many case histories and a number of the actual brain images. He will correlate different brain patterns with specific feelings and behaviors, such as moodiness, irritability, conflict avoidance, worrying, impulsivity, and temper outbursts, along with certain common psychiatric disorders such as depression, attention deficit disorder, anxiety, dementia, and substance abuse. Dr. Amen is among the first physicians in the country to apply the brain imaging information to daily clinical practice. The principles in this lecture go years beyond present knowledge and give us a glimpse of future remedies for these problems.

This workshop shares "cutting edge" information that will be new for many years to come. Opening a new window of understanding into the mind and perhaps even the soul, this lecture challenges our most basic beliefs about free will, good and evil, and why people do what they do.

Stress and trauma change the brain in a negative way. Stress hormones have been shown to have a negative effect on brain development, learning, and memory. Excess stress places us at risk for depression and immune system problems. Effective psychotherapy and medication can change the brain in a positive way. When used appropriately they can optimize brain function. The understanding gained from this research has led Dr. Amen to develop specific prescriptions for healing each part of the brain. These prescriptions include cognitive, behavioral, nutritional, and medicinal strategies. They are practical, immediately applicable and based on solid clinical experience. You will be excited to learn that you can optimize the function of the brain by certain thoughts, actions, and nutritional strategies. You will be able to help modify negative brain patterns and enhance the brain's own biochemistry. This presentation offers new hope for understanding and solving these problems, for individuals, families and our society.

CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Breakthrough information on seeing and healing moods, anxiety, obsessions, temper and distractibility
Do you think you know why people do what they do? Your opinion is likely to change after listening to this presentation. Utilizing the latest, most sophisticated brain imaging technology in medicine, physician and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen will give you an intimate look into a "working brain." Based on his brain imaging work with over 9,000 patients, Dr. Amen will teach you what specific parts of the brain do, and graphically show what happens when things go wrong, illustrated by many case stories and a number of the actual brain images. He will correlate different brain patterns with specific feelings and behaviors, such as moodiness, irritability, conflict avoidance, worrying and temper outbursts, along with certain common psychiatric disorders such as depression, attention deficit disorder, anxiety and substance abuse. Dr. Amen is among the first physicians in the country to apply the brain imaging information to daily clinical practice. The principles in this lecture go years beyond present knowledge and give us a glimpse of future remedies for these problems.

This lecture shares "cutting edge" information that will be new for many years to come. Opening a new window of understanding into the mind and perhaps even the soul, this lecture challenges our most basic beliefs about free will, good and evil, and why people do what they do. The understanding gained from this research has led Dr. Amen to develop specific prescriptions for healing each part of the brain. These prescriptions include cognitive, behavioral, nutritional and medicinal strategies. They are practical, immediately applicable and based on solid clinical experience (from his clinic and other cutting edge clinics from around the world). Participants will be excited to learn that they can actually optimize the function of their own brain by what they think, what they do and what they eat. They will be able to use these prescriptions to modify negative brain patterns and alter the chemical make-up of their own brains. This presentation offers new hope for understanding and solving these problems, for individuals, families and our society. Dr. Amen has over 20 years of clinical experience, as a military physician, hospital program director, and the director of The Amen Clinic for Behavioral Medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area. His clinics have logged more than 50,000 patient visits. His brain imaging work has provided insights that have revolutionized the way he understands and treats patients. It is those insights that provide the foundation of this lecture.

HEALING A.D.D.
The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the Six Types of ADD
ADD is the most common learning and behavioral problem in children. It is also one of the most common problems in adults, leading to job failures, relationship breakups, loneliness, drug abuse and a tremendous sense of underachievement.

Unfortunately, many myths and misconceptions about ADD abound in our society. Many people say that ADD is the designer disease of the nineties, even though it has been described in the medical literature for more than hundred years. Others say that ADD is overdiagnosed, even though ADD affects between 5-8% of the population and only 2-3% of people are being treated. ADD is often said to be only a minor problem, ignoring the facts that 35% never finish high school; 52% of untreated teens and adults have problems with drug abuse; 43% of untreated aggressive hyperactive boys will be arrested for a felony by age 16; and 75% have interpersonal problems.

Why are there so many myths and negative reactions about ADD, when physicians know so much about it? The answer is simple. Until now you couldn't see ADD. Children, teens and adults with ADD look like everyone else. Sure they may be more distractible, more impulsive and more restless, but unless you know the story of an ADD person's life you couldn't see that they have ADD. Until now!

Healing ADD puts to rest the debate over whether or not ADD is real by showing the ADD brain. Through stunning new brain imaging research, conducted by neuropsychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, the ADD brain has been uncovered. ADD is more deeply understood now than at any time in history. Based on his research with more than 6,000 ADD patients using brain SPECT imaging (one of the most sophisticated functional brain imaging studies in the world) Dr. Amen has been able to see where ADD resides in the brain and why it has such a negative impact on behavior. By actually seeing ADD the myths fade away and a new era of understanding and effective treatment unfold.

Healing ADD gives attendees a completely new perspective of ADD based on cutting edge brain imaging research. The workshop will show actual ADD brain images (many before and after treatment), identify six types of ADD recently described by Dr. Amen, discuss a comprehensive questionnaire that will allow clinicians to identify ADD (and which type), and offer promising new solutions.

Through this research Dr. Amen has discovered that there are actually six types of ADD, four just recently discovered. Until now there were thought to be only two types of ADD - ADD with hyperactivity and ADD without hyperactivity. Clearly these types did not describe all people with ADD. The six ADD types described are clear, reproducible and have their own specific signs, symptoms, and treatments. Knowing which ADD type a person has is critical to establishing an effective treatment program. Of the six types, only two should be treated with traditional methods. Treating the other 4 of the ADD types with traditional treatments makes patients worse.

The Amen Clinic ADD Brain Enhancement Program will also be discussed. It is is an individualized combination of strategies geared toward enhancing the brain of each ADD type. The steps include education, emotional and social support, strategies geared toward enhancing brain function (medication, vitamins, herbs, diet, the right type of exercise and targeted brainwave biofeedback) for each of the different types, school and work strategies, social skill strategies, thinking skills and self regulation exercises.

COACHING YOURSELF TO SUCCESS
A Step-by-Step Guide for Identifying and Achieving Your Goals

This program, based on Dr. Amen's book COACHING YOURSELF TO SUCCESS, will teach you how to:

• Have empowering attitudes, every day of your life and avoid the "mind set of the victim"
• Develop your own "One Page Miracle" and have "superfocus in your relationships, work and personal life)
• Stop worrying about what others think you, because they aren't thinking about you anyway
• Learn from every failure you have
• Overcome the thoughts patterns of failure and learn the mind games of success
• Surround yourself with the "right" people for success
• Mold and shape the behaviors of others
• Overcome the fears that hold you back from getting what you want

FIRESTORMS IN THE BRAIN
An Inside Look at Violent Behavior
In the 1990s our understanding of the brain and behavior has taken a giant leap forward. Firestorms In The Brain brings you the latest research on the biology of violent behavior, along with hopeful new treatment protocols. Dr. Amen shares new insights from the brain through case studies from his own forensic psychiatry practice of people who have committed murder, rape, armed robbery, assault and stalking (along with the actual brain images). His brain imaging work with this population has provided new insights that are having an impact on the criminal justice system. There will also be a discussion of the correlation of substance abuse, untreated attention deficit disorders (ADD) and other psychiatric illnesses with criminal behavior.

Objectives:

• Understand the biological vulnerability to violence
• Understand the functions of the anterior cingulate gyrus and it's contribution to violence
• Understand the prefrontal cortex and its contribution to violence
• Understand the functions of the temporal lobes and their contribution to violence