2024 Course Overview
Harvard Neuropsychiatry: A Comprehensive Update 2024 Neuropsychiatry is an exciting and rapidly growing field that promotes an improved understanding of the brain/mind relationship. It seeks to elucidate the brain circuitry involved in primary psychiatric disorders such as mood, anxiety, psychotic, and somatic symptom disorders, and in neurological disorders that present with cognitive, emotional, or behavioral problems. The ultimate goal of neuropsychiatry is to advance diagnostic and treatment options for patients suffering from these disorders.
This course is designed to enhance participants’ knowledge of brain-behavior relationships and their skills for the diagnostic work-up and treatment of patients with neuropsychiatric disorders. Faculty will review cutting-edge clinical research, evidence-based interventions, and practical guidelines for the clinician. The course content will include the functional neuroanatomy of emotions, cognition, and behavior, the fundamentals of the neuropsychiatric exam and relevant ancillary tests, and neuropsychopharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in neuropsychiatric disorders.
We will discuss the neuropsychiatric aspects of traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, neurodegenerative disorders, neuroinflammatory disorder, multiple sclerosis, functional neurological disorders, sleep disorders, Tourette Syndrome and other neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction, pain, and other disorders. Learners will benefit from a variety of educational formats, including lectures, panel discussions, case discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and an electronic syllabus.
Who Should Attend
- Specialty Physicians
- Primary Care Physicians
- Psychologists
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Social Workers
- Pharmacists
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate brain-behavior relationships as they pertain to neuropsychiatric manifestations.
- Generate clinically meaningful differential diagnoses.
- Provide an inter-professional team-based approach to the assessment and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Utilize up-to-date diagnostic criteria and assessment methods to evaluate and monitor patients with neuropsychiatric disorders.
- Implement evidence-based treatment recommendations and monitor patient response.
2024 Agenda
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Welcome & Introductory Remarks
A Neuroanatomy Primer
Jeremy Schmahmann, MD
Functional Neurocircuitry of Affective and Behavioral Processes and Neuropsychiatric Syndromes
David Silbersweig, MD
Break
Functional Neurocircuitry of Cognition and Cognitive Syndromes
Kirk Daffner, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
The Neuropsychiatric Exam and Ancillary Tests
Sheldon Benjamin, MD
Neuroimaging in Clinical Neuropsychiatry
Joshua Klein, MD, PhD
Neuropsychological Evaluation in Neuropsychiatry
Deborah Green, PhD, ABPP
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
Brain Stimulation Therapies in Neuropsychiatry
Michael Fox, MD, PhD
Psychopharmacology: Neuropsychiatric Syndromes
Jane Erb, MD
Psychopharmacology: Drugs That Affect Cognition
Isaiah Kletenik, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
Psychosocial Interventions in Neuropsychiatry
Emma Weizenbaum, PhD; Abby Altman, PhD
Forensic Neuropsychiatry
Jhilam Biswas, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Concluding Remarks
Friday, October 25, 2024
Welcome & Introductory Remarks for Day 2
Acute and Subacute Neurocognitive Impairment
Scott McGinnis, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Alzheimer’s Disease
Nancy Donovan, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders
Stanley Lyndon, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Pain
Ginger Polich, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders
Jessica Harder, MD; Rishab Gupta, MBBS, MD
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Frontotemporal Dementia
Brad Dickerson, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
Neuropsychiatry of Epilepsy
Daniel Weisholtz, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Multiple Sclerosis
Laura T. Safar, MD
Break
Neuropsycho-oncology
Damien Miran, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury
Thomas McAllister, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
Pediatric Neuropsychiatry: Principles and Practice
Aaron Hauptman, MD
Psychopharmacology of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Christopher Keary, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Tourette Syndrome and Related Tic Disorders
Jeremiah Scharf, MD, PhD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Concluding Remarks
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Welcome & Introductory Remarks for Day 3
Optimizing Brain Health: Lifestyle, Aging and Disease Risk Reduction
Seth Gale, MD
Neuropsychiatry of Sleep
Salma Batool-Anwar, MBBS, MPH
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Addiction
Claudia Rodriguez, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Break
Functional Neurological Disorder
Gaston Baslet, MD
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Vascular and Metabolic Disorders
Juan Carlos Urizar, MD
Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Endocrine Disorders
Catherine Gonzalez, MD
Holistic and Sustainable Management of Complex Neuropsychiatric Patients
Barry Fogel, MD
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Concluding Remarks