<b>*Additional fees apply and pre-registration is required.*</b><br><br>This year’s Integrative Psychiatry Intensive is designed as a clinically grounded primer for the modern psychiatric clinician, focusing on evidence-based integrative strategies that complement and enhance contemporary psychopharmacologic care. As psychiatric treatment increasingly moves toward whole-person models, clinicians must understand not only how medications work, but how nutrition, metabolism, sleep, and physiologic regulation can be strategically integrated to optimize mental health outcomes.<br><br>Through four focused, expert-led sessions, this intensive will review foundational mechanisms, emerging evidence, and practical clinical considerations across core domains of integrative psychiatry. Sessions will examine nutritional psychiatry, metabolic approaches to mood and energy regulation, sleep optimization as a foundational treatment target, and temperature-based interventions that influence stress physiology and emotional resilience. Emphasis will be placed on translating integrative science into real-world clinical decision-making, helping attendees build a cohesive framework that aligns with and strengthens standard psychiatric treatment.<br><br>Each session will include time for interactive discussion and clinical Q&A, ensuring attendees leave confident and prepared to thoughtfully incorporate integrative strategies into patient care.<br><br><b>Topics to Be Covered</b><br>1. Temperature-Based Interventions: Thermoregulatory Influences on Mood and Mental Health - Charles L. Raison, MD<br> An introduction of temperature-based approaches and their relevance to psychiatric care. This session will examine how controlled heat and cold exposures influence stress physiology, mood regulation, and emotional resilience, along with emerging evidence and practical considerations for integrating thermoregulatory strategies into integrative psychiatric treatment.<br><br>2. Sleep Optimization in Psychiatry: Mechanisms, Health Impact, and Clinical Integration - Ashley E. Mason, PhD <br>This presentation will review common sleep myths, the definition of clinical insomnia, and provide an overview of four high-impact, evidence-based, low- and no-cost, rapid strategies that can be integrated within psychiatric care to improve sleep. <br><br>3. Nutritional Influences in Psychiatry: Biological Mechanisms and Clinical Implications - James Greenblatt, MD <br>A summary of how nutrition and micronutrient status influence brain function, mood regulation, and psychiatric outcomes. This session will explore the role of specific nutrients and dietary patterns in supporting neurotransmitter synthesis, neuronal resilience, and emotional well-being, along with evidence-based guidance for integrating nutritional strategies into comprehensive psychiatric care.<br> <br>4. Metabolic Regulation and Brain Function: Pathways Linking Energy Balance and Mood - James Greenblatt, MD<br>A focused overview of how metabolic processes and diet patterns influence brain function and psychiatric outcomes. This session will explore mechanisms linking energy metabolism, nutritional states such as ketosis, neuronal resilience, and mood regulation, along with emerging clinical evidence and considerations for integrating metabolic strategies into comprehensive psychiatric care.
