Topic: Module 5 – Neuroimmunology, Vestibular Conditions and Neuropsychiatric Conditions
The following topics will be covered in Module 5:- How to Use This Course
- The 4 Neurochemical Priorities (never get lost!)
- The Road map
- How to Work Up a Real Patient
- The 10 Core Principles
- Cases to reinforce previous 4 modules
- Review of Module 4
- New immune system test: The Lymphocyte MAP Immunophenotyping Test
- Analysis and explanation of the 13 Immunophenotype
- Why order a Lymphocyte MAP?
- Review of Modules 1 – 4 using 13 different REAL clinical cases
- Current Topics: Tics and COVID-19, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Neurologic Disease, Vitamin D and SARS Cov-2, Statins and Diabetes progression
- Sleep
- Normal physiology including stages and Melatonin
- Abnormal sleep patterns
- Sleep hygiene
- Sleep Scenarios
- Acute Pain Relief
- Pain—in general and in specific clinical conditions
- The NLRP3 Inflammasome
- Autoimmunity and Pain
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Case Study – 29 year old woman with CRP and two spinal cord stimulators
- Fibromyalgia – short and sweet
- Peripheral Neuropathy – overview (there’s a separate course on PN)
- Case Study – 64 year old woman with REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
- Vestibulo-Cochear System and Disorders
- Labyrinthine physiology including the Blood-Labyrinth Barrier
- Inner Ear Immune System
- Vertigo
- How does the immune system affect the Vestibulocochlear System
- Vertigo in Autoimmune Disorders
- BPPV: causes and treatments
- Vitamin D and BPPV
- Thyroid, BPPV and recurring BPPV
- Recurrent BPPV Treatment
- Meniere’s Disease
- Meniere’s and Autoimmunity
- Gluten and Meniere’s
- Meniere’s Disease Treatment
- Tinnitus: Definition, sources and clinical applications
- Vestibular Migraine
- Otolithic Vertigo
- Mesencephalic Dizziness
- Locus Minoris Resistentiae
- Case Study – 53 year old man with ocular migraines, double vision and pre-syncope and vertigo
- Case Study – 54 year old woman with hearing loss and tinnitus
- Case Study – 62 year old man with vertigo and hearing loss
- Case Study – 38 year old man with feelings of being on a boat and dysequilibrium
- Case Study – 32 year old woman with dizziness, lightheadedness and vertigo
- Case Study – 48 year old man with hearing loss due to bilateral Meniere’s disease
- Case Study – 51 year old woman with dizziness, fatigue, dysequilibrium
- Case Study – 24 year old woman with feeling of being on a boat, anxiety, brain fog
- The Gut and Psychiatry
- Major Depression Disorder:
- inflammation, homocysteine, oxidative stress, Vitamin D, Thyroid autoimmunity, SAMe, Folate, B12, Tryptophan, probiotics, HPA, micronutrients, NAC
- Bipolar Disorder:
- Inflammation, thyroid autoimmunity, homocysteine, oxidative stress
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Autoimmunity
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- Schizophrenia
- homocysteine, EBV, Autoimmunity, gluten-free diet, copper, lithium,
- Schizophrenia
