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Addressing Patient Behavior by Brain Lesion Site

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You are faced with a growing caseload, diminished resources/reimbursement, and increasingly complex patients with the expectation of improving outcomes and reducing length of stay. On top of it all, when working with patients with brain lesions, the behavioral and cognitive challenges can be taxing.

Jerome Quellier, MS, CCC-SLP will bring decades of acute care experience to the table and arm you with an improved clinical eye to predict dysfunction and expedite the pathway to treatment.

Neuroanatomy is admittedly complex and overwhelming, but this course provides today’s cutting edge neuroscience – in plain English. You’ll tie what you learned (and may have forgotten) about neuroscience to a clear understanding of how you can work around the damage to optimize your patient outcomes!

  • A framework for understanding the recovery pathway for each type of lesion
  • Clinical implications for abrupt visual changes and an in-depth understanding of the difference between visual field cuts and neglect
  • Simple modifications to your interventions that will streamline your treatment time and patient outcomes

Best of all? We’ll explore what we can we learn from each other! OTs, PTs and SLPs all have powerful treatment tools up their sleeves. This training will emphasize the best practices from each that help to overcome specific patient deficits.

Feel confident with your next patient as you unlock the keys to working with behavior barriers and engagement. Watch me for a high-energy, dynamic program filled with interesting case studies, insightful discussions and interactive learning. You will finish this training with practical techniques that you can apply the next day!

Here's What You'll Learn

Neuroanatomy and The Impact on Cognitive Processing
  • Warming-Up: a tour of brain development and amazing facts & functions
  • Basic neuronal anatomy and supportive tissues of brain
  • Brain wiring: association, projection, and commissural fiber tracts
  • Brain lobes by location and specific contribution to cognitive processes
  • Cerebellum and impact upon cognition
  • Case Study 1: Jacob’s anxiety and how pacing the halls become therapeutic
Optic System and Visual Perception
  • Optic constructs, anterior-posterior fiber tracts
  • Visual cortices and unique roles in visual processing
  • Effect of tumors, shear injuries, CVA lesions upon visual processing
  • Karen’s Story: A Speech-Language Pathologist’s personal tumor experience
  • Case study 2: Why can’t my patient just see the whole worksheet like I do?
How Neurotransmitters Drive The Bus
  • Internal communication systems within the brain
  • Dopamine pathways and effects on cognition and reward systems
  • Serotonin pathways and mood modulations
  • The neuroscience of gratitude and a simple brain hack to boost patient engagement
Executive Functions of The Frontal Lobe
  • The Cognitive Pyramid and moving patients upward
  • Skull anatomy and effects of shear injury
  • Shear injury as it affects anxiety and behavioral health
  • Breaking it all down: specific therapy implications for PT/OT/SLP by discipline
  • Understanding metabolic related changes to cognition and impacts on timing rehabilitation
Communication and The Left Hemispheric Functions
  • Broca’s vs. Wernike’s area
  • Function of the accurate fasciculus upon communication
Spatial Processing And The Right Hemispheric Functions
  • Neurophysiology vs neuropathology, understanding patients’ nonverbal challenges
  • Inferential language and social cognition
  • Confabulation and denial – addressing the elephant in the room
  • Anosognosia: how therapists consistently hit the wall and learn to overcome
  • A sense of time and spatial organization revealed
The Hidden Processors-Thalamic Influences
  • Auditory pathways and neuroanatomy
  • Thalamic engagement on sensory information
  • Modulation of sleep and vigilance
Memory: How The Hippocampus and The Amygdala Partner
  • Memory processes
  • Memory types: right vs left hippocampal functions
  • Hypoxia and anoxia upon memory function
  • Sleep and memory consolidation, effect of exercise on memory structures
  • Amygdala’s influence upon fear-based learning and hijacking executive control
  • Case study 3: Nile’s hypoxia and long term rehab outcomes
Recovery From Acceleration/Deceleration Injuries: Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI)
  • Microanatomical features of DAI
  • CTE: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
  • Where medications have failed
Agitation Management Strategies
  • Review how working knowledge of the Rancho Los Amigos levels and practitioner tips can avoid confrontation
  • Learn trick of the trade for avoiding escalation at each stage of recovery from TBI
Enriching Patient And Clinician Relationships
  • The science behind mediations and mindfulness
  • Reigning in the runaway situation

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 5 hours of video content
  • Up to 5.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Jerome Quellier, MS, CCC-SLP

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Mr. Quellier is a retired clinical specialist in traumatic brain injury and communication disorders from a 450+ bed level 1 trauma hospital in Saint Paul, MN with over 28 years of acute, residential, and outpatient rehabilitation experience. Throughout his career, he focused on neuro-based diagnostics and intervention for dysphagia, cognitive-linguistic deficits, head and neck cancer management, patient advocacy, and curriculum development. Mr. Quellier completed advanced training in brain dissection at Marquette University, actively engaged in curriculum creation and staff development training, and collaborated with a neurosurgery team in preserving language function during tumor resections.

Mr. Quellier is excited to bring this topic to the forefront after working with the interdisciplinary team’s challenges in understanding the “what and why” of aberrant cognitive control that places patients at heighten dysphagia risk.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jerome Quellier receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jerome Quellier is a member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Also Available:
DVD
Product Code:
POS064845
Duration:
5 hours, 1 minute
Copyright:
Aug 12, 2021
Format:
Audio and Video

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