Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences
- Continuing Education
Explore cutting-edge advances in brain medicine with this interdisciplinary course designed to equip clinicians with integrated tools for assessing and managing complex brain disorders, featuring expert insights on neuromodulation, digital phenotyping, social networks, and psychotic spectrum conditions
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This course is taught online in real time.
On-demand viewing of all talks available for 30 days.
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Continuing Education
Earn up to:
8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Overview
The concept of brain medicine aims to integrate clinical and neuroscientific perspectives across the various non-surgical specialties (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, neurorehabilitation, allied medical and mental health services) that care for and conduct research in people with biopsychosocially-complex brain disorders.
This one-day CE activity accredited by Harvard Medical School will include pre-recorded lectures with a virtual live Q&A format. Speakers will include experts in behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry, consultation liaison psychiatry, biological psychiatry, cognitive-affective neuroscience, brain medicine, and brain health, speaking on a broad array of assessment and management principles for individuals with brain disorders that negatively impact cognition, behavior, emotion, perception, social cognition, and sensorimotor functions. Content for this 3rd annual course will include topics such as: brain medicine in 2027, digital speech markers, ketamine and psychedelics as treatment, brain health and super aging, dual neurology-psychiatry education, revisiting basic assumptions in brain-behavior relationships, and the intersection of geriatric psychiatry-neuropsychiatry among other topics.
*Generative AI was used to draft this overview. HMS faculty course directors then reviewed and edited it to ensure factual and clinical accuracy.
Learning Objectives
- Apply clinical assessments and longitudinal care using a brain medicine perspective.
- Apply integrated brain medicine principles in various complex brain disorders.
- Analyze the emerging utility of digital speech markers.
- Analyze clinical and neuroscience principles related to super aging.
Developed and Offered By:
Continuing Education courses are developed by faculty from Harvard Medical School's teaching hospitals and accredited by Harvard Medical School. This course is offered by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Who Should Participate
Specialty Physicians, Primary Care Physicians, Psychologists, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Nurses, and Other Allied Health Professionals.
Schedule
All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.
Friday, February 5, 2027
Brain Medicine, Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry: Putting Principles into Practice
8:00-8:30 am
Developing an Integrated Neurology-Psychiatry Consultation Service: Lessons Learned
8:30-9:00 am
Making the Case for Combined Neurology-Psychiatry Training: Program Development Considerations
9:00-9:30 am
Q&A
9:30-9:55 am
Break
9:55-10:05 am
Depression, Cognition, and Neuropsychology: A Life Span Perspective
10:05-10:35 am
Digital Speech Markers in Neurocognitive & Neuropsychiatric Disorders
10:35-11:05 am
Revisiting Basic Assumptions in Brain-Behavior Relationships
11:05-11:35 am
Q & A
11:35 am-12:00 pm
Lunch
12:00-1:00 pm
Psychopharmacological Management of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms
1:00-1:30 pm
Psychedelics as Treatment for Select Brain Disorders: State of the Science
1:30-2:00 pm
Ketamine as Treatment of Select Brain Disorders: State of the Science
2:00-2:30 pm
Q&A
2:30-2:55 pm
Break
2:55-3:05 pm
The Neuroscience of Cognitive Super Agers
3:05-3:35 pm
Brain Health Clinical Care – State of the Evidence
3:35-4:05 pm
Geriatric Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry: Points of Intersection
4:05-4:35 pm
Q&A
4:35-5:00 pm
Faculty
Harvard Medical School Continuing Education attracts the best and brightest faculty from all around the world. As a student in this course, you’ll have access to outstanding course directors and faculty.
Course Directors
David L. Perez
MD, MMSc | Course Director
- Associate Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Chief, Mass General Brigham Division of Behavioral Neurology
Caitlin Adams
MD | Course Director
- Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
- Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Kirk Daffner, MD
Vonetta Dotson, PhD
Benjamin Fuchs, MD
Franklin King, MD
Michael Kritzer-Cheren, MD
Kathy Niu, MD
Neguine Rezaii, MD
Alexandra Touroutoglou, PhD
Juan Carlos Urizar, MD
Christiana Westlin, MD, MPH
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Course Fees
Registration Details
You may register through our secure online environment and will receive an email confirmation upon receipt of your payment. Prices include CME credit, electronic syllabus and access to select recordings for 30 days after the course. At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration.
For the Physician (MD/DO – NO CME REQUESTED) discount code please contact Antonette Jarvis (ajarvis2@mgb.org)
Accreditation
The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
For the purpose of recertification, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board and American Nurses Credentialing Center accept AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education). We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) states that AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ are acceptable for continuing medical education requirements for recertification. We would also suggest that learners check with their state licensing board to ensure they accept reciprocity with AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for re-licensure.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the Union of European Medical Specialists website.
The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.