IMMH Integrative Medicine for Mental Health taking place in person at the beautiful Gaylord National Harbour Resort in Washington, DC as well as online, is the leading global conference on integrative mental health and functional medicine psychiatry. It showcases the latest scientific research and best clinical practice from the top integrative mental health and functional medicine psychiatry experts practicing precision, personalised, root-cause approaches to mental health care for better patient outcomes.

Come join us for 4 days (October 10th-13th 2024) of fascinating talks from the leading pioneers in their field and find out more about how toxins and pathogens can impact mental health and about the interaction of the immune system, brain and nervous system in talks on psychoneuroimmunology; hear the latest research on the gut-brain connection and learn about the importance of metabolic and mitochondrial health for mental wellbeing; find out more about nutritional psychiatry including the latest research on ketogenic diets for psychiatric and neurological disorders, and about integrative approaches to addiction and substance use disorders; hear about incredible breakthroughs in genomics, and learn more about the importance of hormones for mental health, among many other topics.

Thursday 10th October 2024:

Dr. Daniel Amen: The End of Mental Illness
Dr. Patrick Hanaway: How We Feel: The Gut/ Brain/ Microbiome Axis
Dr. Pejman Katiraei: The Role of Mast Cells, Microglia, and Histamine in Autism and Mental Health Disorders
Dr. James Greenblatt: Functional Medicine for Antidepressant Withdrawal and Deprescribing Protocols
Dr. Aimie Apigian: The Biology of Trauma: How The Body Experiences, Holds & Repairs Trauma
Dr. Aly Cohen: Environmental Chemicals And Mental Health: What We Can Do To Reduce Exposures
Dr. Emily Gutierrez: The Foundations of Integrative and Functional Medicine in Mental Health
Sharon Hausman-Cohen: Beyond Pharmacogenomics - Addressing Root Causes of Depression and Anxiety
Dr. Martin Teicher: Childhood Abuse, Brain Development, and Psychopathology
Dr. Scott Shannon: Psychedelics and the Future of Mental Healthcare
Dr. Daniel Amen: Surprising Lessons from 250,000 Brain SPECT Scans

Friday 11th October 2024:

Dr. Robert Lustig: Technology Addiction in Children
Sharon Hausman-Cohen: If it is not Alzheimer's, What is it?
Dr. James Greenblatt: Suicide Prevention Redefined: The Tragic Consequences of Ignoring Functional Medicine
Dr. Arwen Podesta: Integrative and Functional Medicine Approaches to Substance Use Disorder
Dr. Debby Hamilton: Treating the Causes of Mood, Cognitive and Behavioral Issues in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Dr. Nancy O’Hara: Demystifying PANS/PANDAS: A Functional Medicine Guide to Basal Ganglia Encephalitis
Dr. Peter Bongiorno: Mitochondria and Mood
Dr. Josh Friedman: Functional Nutrition for Psychotherapists
Dr. Ken Sharlin: Integrative Medicine Solutions for Parkinson's disease
Dr. Georgia Ede: Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry: The Science of Hope
Dr. William Shaw: Toxin-driven dysbiosis as a major cause of psychiatric disease and the current autism epidemic

Saturday 12th October 2024:

Dr. Christopher Palmer: Brain Energy: The Metabolic Theory of Mental Disorders and New Treatment Strategies
Dr. Leslie Korn: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma Part 1
Dr. Jill Crista: Mold Brain — It’s more than just fog
Dr. William Shaw: Iron overload: the single most overlooked cause of all neuropsychiatric disorders
Linda Thai: Stuck in Survival: Why Incorporating the Body is Imperative to the Healing of Trauma
Dr. Dale Bredesen: Precision Medicine for Alzheimer’s: Sustained Improvement
Dr. Kat Toups: Dementia Demystified: Insights on Reversing Cognitive Decline and Dementia with Precision Medicine
Dr. Felice Gersh: Linking Estrogen, the Vagus Nerve, and the Gut Microbiome with Female Mood

Sunday 13th October 2024:

Dr. Stephen Porges, Anthony Gorry and Seth Porges: The Transformative Power of Music Scientifically Composed to Signal Safety to the Nervous System
Dr. Leslie Korn: Integrative Medicine for PTSD and Complex Trauma Part 2
Dr. Angela Mazza: Navigating the Thyroid-Adrenal Connection and Its Effects on Mental Health
Dr. Robert Lustig: "Amygdala Unchained": Ground Zero for the Syndemic and the Meta-Crisis

Summary

Join us at the IMMH Integrative Medicine for Mental Health conference, the global leader in integrative mental health and functional medicine psychiatry. This event, happening from October 10-13, 2024, at the Gaylord National Harbour Resort in Washington, DC, or online, showcases cutting-edge research and best clinical practice from top experts. Topics include the impact of toxins and pathogens on mental health, psychoneuroimmunology, the gut-brain connection, nutritional and metabolic psychiatry, genomics, and more. Explore new insights with pioneers such as Dr. Daniel Amen, discussing "The End of Mental Illness", Dr. Patrick Hanaway on the gut/brain/microbiome axis, Dr. Chris Palmer on metabolic psychiatry, Dr. Dale Bredesen on preventing Alzheimer's, Dr. Georgia Ede on nutritional psychiatry, and Dr. Robert Lustig on technology addiction in children among many others. Discover the future of mental healthcare, and learn how to provide the best patient outcomes. Registration is open now at www.immh.org.

Learning objectives

1. By the end of the conference, attendees will be able to understand the concept and significance of integrative and functional medicine within the scope of mental health care. 2. Participants should be able to identify how different factors such as pathogens, toxins, the immune system, nutrition, metabolism, genomics, mitochondrial function, hormones and the gut-brain connection can impact mental health. 3. Attendees will gain knowledge on the use of precision, personalised, root-cause approaches in improving patient outcomes in mental health care. 4. Participants will be familiar with the latest scientific research and best clinical practice concerning functional medicine psychiatry and be able to integrate them in their practice. 5. By the end of the teaching session, attendees will be able to comprehend and implement integrative approaches to substance use disorders, anxiety, depression, ADHD, autism, suicidality, OCD, cognitive decline and other psychiatric and neurological disorders.

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