Harvard Brain Medicine: Integrating the Clinical Neurosciences 2025 (Videos with subtitles + Slides)

2025 Course Overview

Information for the 2026 course is not yet available.
The concept of brain medicine aims to integrate clinical and neuroscientific perspectives across the various non-surgical specialties (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, neurorehabilitation) that care for and conduct research in people with brain disorders. This one-day CE activity accredited by Harvard Medical School will include pre-recorded lectures with a virtual live Q&A format. Speakers will include experts in behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry, consultation liaison psychiatry, geriatric neurology and geriatric psychiatry, brain medicine, brain health, and neurorehabilitation, speaking on a broad array of assessment and management principles for individuals with complex brain disorders that negatively impact cognition, behavior, emotion, perception, social cognition, and sensorimotor functions. Content will include topics such as: brain medicine and brain heath, the importance of the biopsychosocial formulation, and how to build integrative and collaborative care models within clinical neuroscience programs.

Who Should Attend

Specialty Physicians
Primary Care Physicians
Psychologists
Nurse Practitioners
Physician Assistants
Nurses
Social Workers

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Apply the biopsychosocial formulation to patients with complex brain disorders to work towards a precision medicine (patient-centered) clinical approach.
Develop integrated and collaborative care models across the clinical neurosciences.
Apply integrated brain medicine principles in various complex brain disorders.

2025 Agenda

All agenda sessions are in Eastern Time.

Friday, February 7, 2025

8:00-8:40 AM

Brain Medicine: Addressing Biopsychosocial Complexity
David L. Perez,  MD, MMSc

8:40-9:20 AM

Brain Health and Alzheimer’s Disease: State of the Science
Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD

9:20-9:30 AM

Q&A
David L. Perez, MD, MMSc; Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD

9:30-9:45 AM

BREAK

9:45-10:25 AM

How to Build Integrative and Collaborative Care Programs
Jeffrey Huffman, MD

10:25-11:05 AM

Disorders of Gut-Brain Interactions: Integrating Care
Elizabeth Madva, MD

11:05-11:45 AM

Embedding Psychiatric Care within Neurology
Caitlin Adams, MD

11:45 AM-12:10 PM

Q&A
Jeffrey Huffman, MD; Elizabeth Madva, MD; Caitlin Adams, MD

12:10-1:10 PM

LUNCH

1:10-1:50 PM

The Neural Circuitry of Chronic Pain
Tor Wager, PhD

1:50-2:30 PM

Psychosocial Interventions for Chronic Pain – What’s the Evidence
Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD

2:30-3:10 PM

Functional Restoration: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Enhance Function and Manage Pain
Eve Kennedy, OTR/L

3:10-3:25 PM

Q&A
Tor Wager, PhD; Ana-Maria Vranceanu, PhD; Eve Kennedy, OTR/L
Moderated by David L. Perez, MD, MMSc

3:25-3:40 PM

Break

3:40-4:20 PM

Frontotemporal Dementia: Translating Neuroscience to the Clinic
Bradford Dickerson, MD, MMSc

4:20-5:00 PM

Cerebellar Cognitive-Affective Syndrome: Translating Neuroscience to the Clinic
Jeremy Schmahmann, MD

5:00-5:10 PM

Q&A
Bradford Dickerson, MD, MMSc; Jeremy Schmahmann, MD
Moderated by Caitlin Adams, MD