2024 Virtual Series:
The Unified Brain: At the Interface of Neurology and Psychiatry
About this Series:
Neurology and Psychiatry focus on different aspects of the nervous system, but the same organ is at the heart of both disciplines: the brain. Join IPS as we explore areas of overlap between neurology and psychiatry. We’ll cover the latest findings and best treatment practices for Conversion Disorder, PANDAS, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Let’s explore the cutting edge of neuropsychiatry together!
This is a 4-part series with sessions falling on the last Thursday of the month between January and April 2024. (1/25, 2/29, 3/28, 4/25) Sessions will run from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Session 3:
A New Era in Dementia Research and Care
March 28, 2024 | 6:30-7:30 PM (CST)
Guest Speaker: Zoe Arvanitakis, MD, MS, EMBA, Cognitive Neurologist and Professor at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Recent scientific discoveries are advancing knowledge about mechanisms leading to dementia and hold promise for improved diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this common and devastating condition in aging. Clinical care options now include the newly-approved disease modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, but optimal care continues to depend on a comprehensive and adaptive approach to management.
Zoe Arvanitakis, MD, MS, EMBA, is a board-certified neurologist and subspecialist in cognitive neurology, who provides clinical care to families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
She is a Professor, Medical Director at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, academic physician leader at Rush University Medical Center, and past chair of the Geriatric Neurology Section of the American Academy of Neurology.
Dr. Arvanitakis is recognized as an award-winning educator and NIH- funded clinician-scientist.
As Principal Investigator of several NIH grants, she has authored more than 100 publications, including of original research in peer-reviewed medical journals in the field of neurodegenerative, vascular, and metabolic cognitive impairment and dementia, with a focus on mechanisms underlying dementia.
Her collaborative research leverages clinical, laboratory, neuroimaging. –omics, and other data, as well as human biospecimens and postmortem brain data, from several large, epidemiologic, longitudinal, clinical-pathologic cohort studies of aging.
Dr. Arvanitakis is the Specialty Chief Editor for “Aging and Risk Factors for Dementia” for the international journal Frontiers in Dementia, and serves on numerous national and international funding agency review panels such as on NIH study sections, as well as on scientific journal and meeting abstract review panels.
Upcoming Sessions:
Session 4: Whole Brain Recovery: Traumatic Brain Injury & Behavioral Health
April 25, 2024 | 6:30-7:30 PM (CST)
Guest Speaker: Jennifer M Erickson, DO FAPA FACLP, Assistant Professor
Past Sessions:
