Saturday | 18 March, 2023

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM GMT (30 Min)

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

Learning objectives

1. Identify individuals who are 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, 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

Diana Mercado-Marmarosh

MD and ADHD Life Coach

OverAchieve Life Coaching LLC, USA

4:35 PM - 5:05 PM GMT (30 Min)

Low dose lithium as a clinical tool in psychiatry

Learning objectives

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

James Greenblatt

MD and Founder

Psychiatry Redefined, USA

5:10 PM -5:40 PM GMT (30 Min)

Cannabis and driving: Dangers and detection

Learning objectives

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 of cannabis-induced changes in driving to subjective experience and cognition.

Patricia Di Ciano

Assistant Professor

Dept of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, USA

5:45 PM - 6:15 PM GMT (30 Min)

Understanding and Treating Obssessive-Compulsive Disorders

Learning objectives

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)

Amir H. Yassari

Head of Unit

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

6:20 PM - 6:50 PM GMT (30 Min)

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

Learning objectives

1. To understand how highly palatable foods and eating behaviour 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 behaviour e.g stress and emotion and how this can differ between men and women

Robyn Brown

Head

Behavioural Neuropharmacology Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia

6:55 PM - 7:25 PM GMT (30 Min)

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

Learning objectives

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

Tamara Rosier

Founder

ADHD Center of West Michigan, USA

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM GMT (30 Min)

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

Learning objectives

1. To demonstrate that all Psychiatry symptoms have energy alterations inside the patients body.
2. Treatment of this condition is of paramount importance to treat the cause of Psychiatry manifestations and not just treating the symptoms!

Huang Wei Ling

MD

Medical Acupuncture and Pain Management Clinic, Brazil