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Metabolism for Mental Health: Breaking New Ground in Psychiatry

Improving Metabolism to Create Mental Health: A New Frontier in Psychiatry

Matthew Bernstein, MD

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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Review the evidence for the bidirectional correlation between metabolic health and mental health.

  • Understand the results of some of the scientific evidence for metabolic interventions for severe mental illness.

  • Determine the approach to clinical implementation of metabolic interventions in a psychiatric setting.

Description

There are multiple lines of evidence supporting the idea that mental health disorders are at least partly manifestations of metabolic dysfunction of the brain. In addition, many of the current psychiatric medications have profound metabolic side effects, leading to significantly reduced life and health spans among those with severe mental illnesses. Metabolic interventions such as ketogenic diets, exercise and mindfulness practices have a growing evidence base as successful interventions for mental health disorders and overall brain health. This session will review some of the evidence for utilizing a metabolic approach to mental health and how to institute such an approach in clinical practice.

Presenters

Matthew Bernstein, MD

In addition to being a respected clinical psychiatrist for more than 20 years, Dr. Matt Bernstein is Accord’s chief executive officer and one of the leading voices in the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry. After graduating summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York, N.Y., with a bachelor’s degree in English literature, he received his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Bernstein then trained at the MGH McLean Psychiatry Residency Program in Belmont, Mass., where he served as chief resident. He remained at McLean Hospital after residency as a psychiatrist-in-charge and later served as assistant medical director of its schizophrenia and bipolar inpatient program. Dr. Bernstein has developed his passion for community-based care as the chief medical officer at Ellenhorn, a sister program of Accord, where he has pursued alternative ways (such as a focus on metabolism, nutrition, circadian-rhythm biology and exercise in brain function) to help individuals achieve their best levels of functioning without relying solely on traditional psychiatric approaches. In addition to serving on the clinical advisory board at Metabolic Mind, Dr. Bernstein is known for organizing the first-ever public conference on metabolic psychiatry in 2023.

Financially Sponsored By

  • Accord