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USE YOUR BRAIN TO CHANGE YOUR AGE
Community Lecture
by Dr. Daniel Amen
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
BMU Auditorium at CSU Chico
400 West First Street, Chico CA
Suggested Donation: $8
CEU’s Available for $45 (non-refundable)
Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for MFT/LCSWs and RNs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and Board of Registered Nursing. Pre-registration required. Pay when you check-in the day of the event.
OVERVIEW
Dr. Amen explains how a healthy brain is the key to staying vibrant and alive for a long time. He shares simple steps to boost your brain to help you live longer, look younger, and dramatically decrease your risk for Alzheimer's disease.
DANIEL G. AMEN M.D.
Physician: Child/Adolescent/Adult Psychiatry, Nuclear Brain Imaging
CEO: Amen Clinics, Inc., San Francisco and Newport Beach, CA, Bellevue, WA and Reston, VA
Daniel G. Amen, M.D., is a physician, double-board certified psychiatrist, teacher and eight-time New York Times bestselling author. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on applying brain imaging science to everyday clinical practice. Dr. Amen is the founder of Amen Clinics in Newport Beach and San Francisco, California; Bellevue, Washington; Reston, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; and New York City.
Amen Clinics have the world’s largest database of functional brain scans relating to behavior, totaling 80,000 scans on patients from 90 countries.
Dr. Amen is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and 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, he also showed the possibility of significant recovery for many with the principles that underlie his work.
Together with Pastor Rick Warren and Drs. Mark Hyman and Mehmet Oz, Dr. Amen is also one of the chief architects on Saddleback Church’s “Daniel Plan,” a 52-week program to get the world healthy through religious organizations.
Dr. Amen is also the host of seven popular shows about the brain, which have raised more than $45 million for public television. He is the author of 55 professional articles, five book chapters, and over 30 books, including the co-author of the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry’s chapter on Functional Imaging in Clinical Practice. Dr. Amen’s work has been featured in Newsweek, Parade Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Men’s Health, and Cosmopolitan.
In February 2013, Crown will publish Dr. Amen’s upcoming book, Unleash the Power of the Female Brainwww.unleashthefemalebrain.com.
“The next two decades will see a radical shift in the way substance abuse treatment and psychiatry is practiced, and imaging will play an important role in the change." - Dr. Amen
For more information, visit http://www.amenclinics.com/dr-amen/about-dr-amen.
