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Amen Clinics

Disciplines:
psychiatry
neuroscience/brain imaging
neuroscience/spect scanning
psychiatry/integrative mental health

Summary

American network of psychiatric clinics founded by Dr. Daniel Amen — using SPECT brain imaging as a primary diagnostic tool — the largest brain imaging clinic network in the US.

Core Contribution

Built the first clinical network using brain SPECT imaging as a routine psychiatric diagnostic tool — making neurological correlates of psychiatric conditions visible to patients — while operating outside the mainstream psychiatric consensus on SPECT's diagnostic utility.

Historical Influences

Daniel Amen

Intellectual Lineage

Integrative Psychiatry Brain Imaging TechnologyAmen Clinics Brand

Contemporaries & Peers

Cleveland ClinicMayo ClinicFunctional medicine clinics

Minds Influenced

Brain health consumer marketIntegrative psychiatry

Intellectual Posterity

Brain SPECT psychiatric imaging

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