Charles A Simpkins – Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Trauma, Moods and Substance Abuse

Outline

• Tour through the Brain: What clinicians need to know from neurons to structures, to pathways, to networks Tour through the Brain: What clinicians need to know from neurons to structures, to pathways, to networks
  • See brain structures in 3-DSee brain structures in 3-D
  • How the brain processes top-down, bottom-up, and horizontalHow the brain processes top-down, bottom-up, and horizontal
  • The interplay of mental health and key nervous system structures, functions, and pathwaysThe interplay of mental health and key nervous system structures, functions, and pathways
  • Work with implicit and explicit memoriesWork with implicit and explicit memories
  • How key pathways inform clinical interventions: How key pathways inform clinical interventions:
    • Pain PathwayPain Pathway
    • Reward PathwayReward Pathway
    • Fear-Stress PathwayFear-Stress Pathway
• Nervous System Networks and the Social Brain: We are wired for attunement Nervous System Networks and the Social Brain: We are wired for attunement
  • Default Mode (DMN) and Task Mode Networks (TMN)Default Mode (DMN) and Task Mode Networks (TMN)
  • Healing attachmentHealing attachment
  • Activate mirror neurons bottom-upActivate mirror neurons bottom-up
• Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis: How the brain can change Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis: How the brain can change
  • Three timeframes for changeThree timeframes for change
  • Neuroplasticity at the synapseNeuroplasticity at the synapse
  • How to foster neuroplasticity in clientsHow to foster neuroplasticity in clients
  • Neuroplasticity in action: Exercise your brain!Neuroplasticity in action: Exercise your brain!
• Practice Interventions for Healing: Bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal Practice Interventions for Healing: Bottom-up, top-down, and horizontal
  • Sensory AwarenessSensory Awareness
  • Meditation and MindfulnessMeditation and Mindfulness
  • Body WorkBody Work
  • Unconscious and the DMNUnconscious and the DMN
  • The Mind-Body LinkThe Mind-Body Link
• Integrate the Brain into Treatments Integrate the Brain into Treatments
  • Stress Stress
    • How stress alters the nervous systemHow stress alters the nervous system
    • Calm the stress/fear pathwayCalm the stress/fear pathway
    • Develop alert/relaxed attention for better copingDevelop alert/relaxed attention for better coping
  • Trauma Trauma
    • Foster confidence with yogaFoster confidence with yoga
    • Malleability of memories and clinical implications for treating traumaMalleability of memories and clinical implications for treating trauma
    • Reconsolidate implicit memoriesReconsolidate implicit memories
  • Anxiety Anxiety
    • The anxious brain reactionThe anxious brain reaction
    • Work top down/ bottom up/ horizontallyWork top down/ bottom up/ horizontally
    • Calm the limbic system bottom up with movementCalm the limbic system bottom up with movement
    • Soothe the insula through meditative sensory awarenessSoothe the insula through meditative sensory awareness
    • Deconstruct sensations mindfullyDeconstruct sensations mindfully
  • Substance Abuse Substance Abuse
    • Brain areas involved in addictionsBrain areas involved in addictions
    • Rewire the reward pathwayRewire the reward pathway
    • Detach from pleasure and painDetach from pleasure and pain
    • Prefrontal connections and judgmentPrefrontal connections and judgment
  • DepressionDepression
  • The depressed brain patternThe depressed brain pattern
  • Effects of yoga and meditation on the nervous systemEffects of yoga and meditation on the nervous system
  • Regulate the limbic system: the prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus and mindfulnessRegulate the limbic system: the prefrontal cortex, cingulate gyrus and mindfulness
  • Unify real and idealUnify real and ideal
  • Foster joyful relationship through mirror neuronsFoster joyful relationship through mirror neurons
  • Develop compassion and gratitudeDevelop compassion and gratitude

• 6 Principles for Incorporating the Brain into your Therapy6 Principles for Incorporating the Brain into your Therapy