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The Willing and Able: Understanding the Adolescent Brain in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Wednesday, March 21, 2012: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
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Yellow Topaz (The Charleston Marriott)
This presentation is an indepth overview of the development of the brain through childhood and adolescent phases, with specific focus on how this applies to the treatment of eating disorders and its implications for how we address the specific needs of children and adolescents in a developmentally sound fashion.
  1. Understanding the Adolescent Brain
    1. Main Components of The Brain
    2. Brain Imagine Technologies
  2. Growth and Development of the Brain
    1. Childhood (In Utero, Birth to 6 years, 6-12 years)
    2. Adolescent
  3. The Brain
    1. Development
    2. Hormonal and Environmental Influences
    3. Reading Facial Expressions
    4. Group Effect on behavior and Risk Taking
    5. Treatment of Eating Disorders
    6. Clinical Considerations in Teens
    7. Developmentally Sound Treatment Approches
This presentation is an in depth overview of the development of the brain through the childhood and adolescent phases, with specific focus on how this applies to the treatment of eating disorders and its implications for how we address the specific needs of children and adolescents in a developmentally sound fashion. The development of the brain will be examined including proliferation and pruning, sequential maturation, and hormonal and environment influences on brain development. The presentation will conclude with practical techniques and developmentally sensitive approaches to working with the eating disorder patient population at this critical phase of brain development.
Primary Presenter:
Ovidio Bermudez, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, FAED, CEDS

Ovidio Bermudez, MD, FAAP, FSAHM, FAED, CEDS, Board Certified in Pediatrics/Adolescent Medicine is the Medical Director of Child & Adolescent Services at Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado. With academic appointments as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry/Pediatrics at University Of Oklahoma College Of Medicine, he co-founded both the Eating Disorders Coalition of Tennessee & the Oklahoma Eating Disorders Association and is a founding member of Houston Eating Disorders Specialists. A Fellow of AED, the Society for Adolescent Medicine & the American Academy of Pediatrics, he is Past Chairman of NEDA’s Board of Directors and Co-Chairs AED’s Hispano-Latino-American Chapter.



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