Mental Health and Telehealth
Organizations and Professional Events
NB- through NEUZ

• Behavioral sciences (psychology)
• Business communication
• Personnel and organization (or human resources management)

Nefesh:

• Provides international and regional leadership addressing mental health issues in the Orthodox community and Jewish community at large
• Conducts international, regional, and local training, and symposia
• Integrates clinical, spiritual, and religious practice

The Network Eating Disorders has set itself objectives ranging from using public relations to enhance public understanding of eating disorders through advising and motivation work for sufferers and their relatives to prevention and health promotion.

The Network Eating Disorders provides and interdisciplinary curriculum for specialization in treatment of eating disorders, internship positions and other training for profesisonals. It holds international conferences for sufferers, their relatives and experts in the field.

Objectives:

• Improve the psychosocial situation of sufferers and their relatives
• Break down individual and social prejudices against sufferers from Eating Disorders
• Enhance public understanding of eating disorders and identify those socio-cultural factors that may contribute to the onset of an eating disorder and to help to change these factors
• Achieve a more adequate treatment for sufferers
• Increase quantity and improve quality of treatment and of available self-help

1. Essential Psychopharmacology Masters Course: "Semester Three - Special Topics--Anxiety, Drug Abuse, Sleep/Wake, ADHD and Dementia" (January 15-17, 2010: Carlsbad, CA)

Essential Psychopharmacology Masters Course
"Semester Three - Special Topics--Anxiety, Drug Abuse, Sleep/Wake, ADHD and Dementia"

(Please refer to the meeting's Web pages.)

Sponsored by: Neuroscience Education Institute [NEI]

January 15-17, 2010
Carlsbad, CA

This is the last of three "semesters" of this course, which are conducted about 3 months apart.

The overall course will cover 7 major neurotransmitter systems, 7 major drug classes, and 10 critical concepts of psychopharmacology, including review of dozens of specific psychopharmacologic agents. It is intended to help participants develop new strategies for treatment resistance across psychopharmacology by becoming more familiar with older drugs as well as new drug combinations for difficult patients. The theoretical presentations will be adapted in case-based workshops that include treatments and outcomes of patients.

Objectives:

• Link malfunctioning and inefficient information processing in critical brain circuits to symptoms of psychiatric illnesses
• Apply new strategies for patients with difficult-to-treat and treatment-resistant anxiety disorders
• Implement individualized treatment strategies for patients with anxiety disorders
• Provide support and treatment options to individuals with drug abuse/dependence and psychiatric comorbidities
• Identify and manage sleep/wake disorders in psychiatric patients
• Recognize and manage the evolution of ADHD symptoms
• Recognize symptoms of early-stage dementia and implement appropriate treatment

Instructor: Stephen M Stahl, MD, PhD.

There are as many as 15 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians
  -nurses

(As a courtesy: when inquiring about this event, won't you please be kind and refer to this Web resource as your source?)

Objectives:

• Reduce institutional barriers to schizophrenia research
• Provide a focal point for scientists and clinicians conducting scientific research into schizophrenia
• Support scientific exchange using the latest communications technology
• Function as a think tank for generating new ideas, techniques, and areas of investigation for schizophrenia research
• Develop quality control procedures, training manuals, and disseminate applicable information to clinicians and affiliated researchers state wide
• Recruit New South Wales neuroscientists and clinicians into schizophrenia research