Brain functions as an integrated component of psychiatric diagnostics
Instructor: Andreas Muller, Ph.D.
Assisted by: Diana Huerta-Martinez, M.D., Ph.D., LPC, BCN;
Leon Morales-Huerta, M.D., Ph.D., ___; Angelika Sadar, MA., BCN, BCB-HRV; Mitchell Sadar, Ph.D., BCN, BCB-HRV
Social neuroscience combines approaches from cognitive neuroscience and social psychology and highlights a multilevel approach to emotional, social, and cognitive phenomena, making it one of the newer, more promising fields of cognitive neuroscience.
There is no question about it; experience supported by peer reviewed research confirms this: The additional consideration of evoked potentials in the diagnostic process as a complementary component leads to precise diagnostics and thus to a neurobiologically based, personalized treatment. Further, a comprehensive report is enhanced with an analysis of the patient’s self-assessment that extends beyond the clinical interview and includes an analysis of the self-report which is transcribed into areas of the brain that might be relatively deficient.
HBImed, in cooperation with the Brain and Trauma Foundation Grisons, has developed an evaluation system that allows complex processes to be handled easily and depicted in a report.
The recording of the EEG within a framework of neurological-psychiatric diagnostics as well as the recording of evoked potentials has been standardized. Once the data has been collected, and compared with a FDA approved database, the clinician is ready to analyze the information to develop an assessment and subsequent comprehensive treatment plan. This data can now be analyzed in a mostly automated way and presented in a Word document. This is simple and requires no specific skills. It is the art of interpretation of the data and ultimately the combination of the individual elements which create a holistic process and description of a person’s brain functioning.
Methodological limitations and theoretical implications for the understanding of social cognition as contextual, multilevel, and situated phenomena are discussed.
Theoretical and practical exercises are alternated so that a balance between learning, clinical diagnostics and treatment is found which become insightful and applicable. During the course, the participants are given access to the report generator, so that the application of knowledge and regular practice of what they have learnt becomes feasible.
Course attendees will meet in a small group with Dr. Muller and will be joined by participants from a different workshop during meals and social times.
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Andreas Muller: Director of the Research Clinic, Chur, Switzerland, CEO Brain and Trauma Foundation, Switzerland, President of the board of directors of HBImed AG, founder of BrainARC Clinics in Zürich and Chur. Dr. Muller has been in clinical practice for over 35 years. He has published a book on ADHD and several book chapters and numerous peer reviewed articles regarding EEG/ERP correlates to ADHD and other mental disorders. He did the primary data collection for the HBImed databases for qEEG and ERP analyses. He has spoken internationally regarding his research and his approach to qEEG/ERP analysis and interpretation. Dr. Muller is the ultimate expert in the processing of EEG data with the HBImed database using the HBImed report generator which includes ERPs and numerous indexes. The final analysis helps determine treatment protocols that include lifestyle modifications, based on empirical data.
- Be able to describe and understand the raw EEG
- Describe the steps of linking the raw data to neurologically significant curves.
- Be able to analyze the data terms of amplitude and frequencies
- Be able to analyze the date in terms of evoked potentials
- Demonstrate the required steps to submit data to the HBImed server
- Discuss how to interpret the data with regard to deviations from the HBImed database.
- Discuss the various meaningful indices, which have been scientifically processed (Arousal Index, Central Sensory Index, Theta/Beta – Ratio, ADHD Index, Emotional Regulation Index, etc.), as a component of the neurobiological processes.
- Analyze and demonstrate how process of how individual elements become a whole
- Design medication recommendations on the basis of neuromarkers
- Identify ADHD subtypes on the basis of neuromarkers
- Design treatment plans on the basis of the results obtained
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