An Integrative Approach to Psychiatry and Mental Health - Webcast

Chronic Procrastination and Time Blindness – May Have Undiagnosed Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• 1. Identify individuals showing impairment in executive functioning with inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, and emotional lability/dysregulation inconsistent with developmental age or intelligence.
• 2. Understand that failure to recognize ADHD in individuals can lead to substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and increased mortality, including suicide.
• 3. Provide resources and recommend appropriate support/workplace accommodations for physicians diagnosed with ADHD, and/or showing symptoms of time blindness/chronic procrastination, so as to improve their mental health

 

Low-dose lithium as a clinical tool in psychiatry

• 1. Describe the application of low-dose lithium for different mental health conditions
• 2. Explain the lithium dose-response curve and different dosing regimens for nutritional lithium
• 3. Understand what research shows us about the potential of lithium to combat suicide and prevent Alzheimer’s

 

Cannabis and driving: Dangers and detection

• 1. Explore the published literature on cannabis and driving
• 2. Review some recent findings on the relationship between cannabis-impaired driving and blood THC levels
• 3. Discuss the relationship between cannabis-induced driving changes to subjective experience and cognition.

 

Understanding and Treating Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders

• 1. Diagnosis and Differential Diagnoses (what is and What is not OCD)
• 2. Etiology of OCD (how do you get OCD)
• 3. Treatment of OCD (psychotherapy, pharmacology)

 

Why do we overeat? Understanding the neural mechanisms driving eating beyond energy needs

• 1. To understand how highly palatable foods and eating behavior contribute to obesity
• 2. To understand the different types of disordered overeating and current gaps in the DSM-V diagnostic criteria
• 3. To understand how highly palatable foods interact with the brain
• 4. To understand how brain reward systems can be dysregulated in obesity and disordered overeating such as binge eating
• 5. To understand drivers of overeating behavior e.g stress and emotion and how this can differ between men and women

 

Amplified Emotions: Understanding Emotional Dysregulation as a core symptom of ADHD

• 1. Describe how and why those ADHD can be quickly swept away by a single emotion.
• 2. Understand how emotions are the motivation for those with ADHD.
• 3. Explain why and how those with ADHD use emotions.
• 4. Determine better treatment for your clients and patients

 

Energy Alterations in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and How Can We Treat This Condition Without Using Psychotropic Medications?

• 1. To demonstrate that all Psychiatry symptoms have energy alterations inside the patient's body.
• 2. Treatment of this condition is paramount to treat the cause of Psychiatry manifestations and not just the symptoms!
  
  This activity is jointly provided by Your CE Source and eMedEd.

3.5 CME | 3.5 Contact Hours