Jerome Quellier – Addressing Patient Behavior by Brain Lesion Site
”
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
”
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.