American psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics — whose SPECT brain imaging approach to psychiatric diagnosis has been both influential and controversial — popularizing the idea that psychiatric conditions have visible neurological correlates.
Brought brain imaging into popular psychiatric discourse — arguing that visible brain patterns should inform psychiatric diagnosis and treatment — and built the largest network of brain imaging clinics in the US, though his SPECT-for-routine-psychiatry approach is contested by mainstream psychiatry.
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