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Addressing Patient Behavior by Brain Lesion Site from Jerome Quellier

Addressing Patient Behavior by Brain Lesion Site Clinical Tools & Strategies Specific to Patient Deficits from Jerome Quellier

Faculty:Jerome Quellier

Duration:5 Hours 52 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

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Outline:

NEUROANATOMY AND THE IMPACT ON COGNITIVE PROCESSING (CASE STUDY ICON)

Basic neuronal anatomy
Brain wiring: Association, projection, and commissural fiber tracts
Brain lobes locations and ties to cognitive processes
Cerebellum and impact upon cognition
Case Study 1: Jacob’s anxiety and how pacing the halls became therapeutic

OPTIC SYSTEM AND VISUAL PERCEPTION (CASE STUDY ICON)

Optic constructs, anterior-posterior fiber tracts
Visual cortices and unique roles in visual processing
Effect of tumors, shear injuries, CVA lesions upon visual perception
Case study 1: Why can’t my patient just see the whole worksheet like I do?
Group Exercise: Review of vision diagnostics by discipline (PT/OT/SLP)

HOW NEUROTRANSMITTERS DRIVE THE BUS

Internal communication systems within the brain
Dopamine pathways and effects on cognition and reward systems
Serotonin pathways and mood modulations

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE FRONTAL LOBE

The Cognitive Pyramid and moving patients upward
Skull anatomy and effects of shear injury
- Shear injury as it affects anxiety and behavioral health

Therapy implications for PT/OT/SLP
Group Exercise: Review of executive function diagnostics by discipline (PT/OT/SLP)

COMMUNICATION AND THE LEFT HEMISPHERIC FUNCTIONS

Broca’s vs. Wernike’s areas
Function of the arcuate fasciculus upon communication

SPATIAL PROCESSING AND THE RIGHT HEMISPHERIC FUNCTIONS

Neurophysiology vs neuropathology, understanding patients’ nonverbal challenges
Inferential language and social cognition
A sense of time and spatial organization revealed

THE HIDDEN PROCESSORS-THALAMIC INFLUENCES

Auditory pathways and neuroanatomy
Thalamic engagement on sensory information
Modulation of sleep and vigilance

MEMORY: HOW THE HIPPOCAMPUS AND THE AMYGDALA PARTNER (CASE STUDY ICON)

Memory processes
Memory types: Right vs Left hippocampal functions
Hypoxia and anoxia upon memory function
Sleep and memory consolidation, effect of exercise on memory structures
Amygdala’s influence upon fear-based learning and hijacking executive control
Case study 3: Nile’s hypoxia and long tern rehab outcomes

RECOVERY FROM ACCELERATION/DECELERATION INJURIES: DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY (DAI)

Microanatomical features of DAI
CTE: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Where medications have failed

AGITATION MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

Review how working knowledge of the Rancho Los Amigos levels and Practitioner tips can avoid confrontation
Learn trick of the trade for avoiding escalation
Confabulation and denial—addressing the elephant in the room

ENRICHING PATIENT AND CLINICIAN RELATIONSHIPS

The science behind mediations and mindfulness
Reigning in the runaway situation

Description:

Neuroanatomy is admittedly complex and overwhelming. Clinicians working in rehabilitation are faced with growing caseloads, diminished resources/reimbursement, and increasingly medically complex patients with the expectation of improving outcomes and reducing length of stay. Honing one’s knowledge of clinically-relevant neuroanatomy and neuropathology can predict dysfunction and intuitively create a scaffold for assessment and treatment even before meeting the patient. Predetermining potential deficits leads to a more tightly defined diagnostic battery and expedites treatment formulation. By deducing the patient’s experience, the clinician can also prepare for behavioral barriers to engagement and understand the healing process with greater compassion.

In this recording, you will learn intermediate level neurophysiology as it relates to cognitive-linguistic skills and behavioral control, as well as explore mindfulness techniques for stress reduction. The overlying foci of the recording are to arm treating professionals with an improved clinical eye, predicting dysfunction, and expedite the pathway to treatment. Recording content will also include patient focused educational materials for stroke and traumatic brain injury ready to be utilized by treating practitioners.

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