Complementary Integrative Rehabilitation Medicine

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Neuroplasticity (includes neuroscience)

Symposium

(602835) The Use of Brain to Behavior Approach for Diagnosis and Treatment

Presenter(s)

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  Lukasz Konopka, AM, PhD, ECNS, BCN

  Director of Brain to Behavior program; Clinical Psychologist
  Institute for Personal Development
  Romeoville, Illinois

This presentation will describe a specific complementary integrative approach to clinical assessment and treatment of behavioral deficits. The paradigm described focuses on the treatment of patients with behavioral and cognitive difficulties within a multidisciplinary clinical setting using patient assessments guided by brain function and how it drives behavior. The proposed "Brain to Behavior Approach" is person-centered and uses the medical model to give clinicians objective and subjective assessment tools that focus on key brain processes and how they relate to a patient's clinical features. Cases studies illustrate utility of this approach in the light of neuroscientific data..

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the paradigm shift from standard practice to the “Brain to Behavior Approach”.
• List and describe the objective neuroimaging and behavioral tools to inform the diagnostic and therapeutic process that focuses on the individual patient.
• Discuss case studies that illustrate the utility of the “Brain to Behavior Approach” in clinical practice, the data-driven approach