Our 2023 Event Recap
In collaboration with PESI, leaders in mental health education, IMMH hosted a dynamic online conference in 2023 featuring the following expert speakers.
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- Biochemical factors underlying mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
- Mind-body strategies to improve health outcomes.
- Evidence linking the gut, mind, and body to mental wellbeing.
- Nutrition-based treatments and personalised care plans.
- The impact of toxins, such as mould and pesticides, on mental health.
- Novel treatments for adult mental health using hbot, laser, and for adolescents using tms and psychedelics.
- Integrative approaches for addiction.
- Sex hormones and mental health.
IMMH 2023 Agenda
Thursday, 2nd November 2023
- Dr. Stephen Porges: The impact of trauma on mental and physical health through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory: predictable consequences of a dysregulated nervous system
- Dr. Mary Ackerley: A review of integrative psychiatry including the serotonin hypothesis: what works and what doesn’t in treating depression and anxiety
- Dr. William Shaw (part 1): The end of autism: exciting new research into the main cause of autism and how to treat it
- Dr. Achina Stein: An overview of functional medicine psychiatry for depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders
- Dr. William Shaw (part 2): The end of autism: exciting new research into the main cause of autism and how to treat it
- Dr. Izabella Wentz: Adrenal and thyroid hormones and their impact on mental health
- Dr. Anna Lembke: Dopamine Fasting: An Early Intervention for Compulsive Overconsumption in the Digital Age
Friday 3rd, November 2023
- Dr. Robert Lustig: Mental health is metabolic health of the brain
- Dr. Robert Hedaya: The next frontier: healing the brain beyond functional medicine
- Dr. James Greenblatt: Awareness Is Not Enough: Reflections on The Staggering Statistics for Adolescent Mental Health
- Dr. Arwen Podesta and Dr. Joe Mather: Addiction, mental health and root cause medicine – a team approach
- Dr. Scott Antoine: PANS/PANDAS: the role of infection and toxin-mediated neuroinflammation in mental health disorders in children and teens (and some adults!)
- Dr. Felice Gersh: Sex hormones and their impact on mental health
- Dr. Kat Toups: Dementia demystified: preventing and reversing cognitive decline with functional medicine
Saturday, 4th November 2023
- Dr. Uma Naidoo: The new science of calming your mind, improving mood and increasing focus with food
- Dr. Erin Amato: Ketamine, TMS, and psychedelics and how these fit in the landscape of integrative treatments for mental health disorders in adolescents and adults
- Dr. Jill Carnahan: The gut-brain connection
- Dr. Joe Pizzorno: The effects of toxins such as moulds, heavy metals and pesticides on mental health
