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.