Part 2: How to Read Functional Brain SPECT Scans
Tuesday January 26 2021
8:00 - 9:00 pm ET

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

a) Brief review of the use of Imagery technologies in clinical practice.

b) To demonstrate that 3-D SPECT:

1. technology is user friendly,
2. correlates with clinical presentation
3. can help in choosing treatment.
4. can be used to evaluate treatment.

c) To show that 3-D SPECT can be used to educate patients and therapists about psychiatric disorders and their treatment.

d) To highlight that:

• Physicians can learn to correlate imaging results with clinical presentation.
• Combining the patient’s clinical information with SPECT scanning imagery aids in diagnosis and management
• Imaging specialists (nuclear medicine, radiology) provide anatomical descriptions of blood flow and cannot be expected to provide clinical interpretation or treatment recommendations. 

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

John Thornton , M.D. FRCPC Psychiatrist , currently in private practice in Toronto , previous Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, University of Toronto. His career has focused on coping with chronic impairment. Using holistic, integrative complementary approaches to brain health, his practice incorporates mind, body and spiritual techniques. He is a published author on chronic pain, schizophrenia, working with relatives, spirituality, prayer in psychotherapy, fibromyalgia, and using SPECT in psychiatry, TBI and ADHD. He has been using 3-D SPECT technology in practice since 2005 as an aid to diagnosis and evaluating treatment results for complex psychiatric cases.

Muriel J. van Lierop, MBBS, MDPAC(M) has practiced in Toronto as a General Practitioner, primarily in rehab medicine in Toronton until 1992 where she started to focus her practice on psychotherapy, training in several modalities. In 2008, with Dr. Thornton, Dr. Mary McLean and Dr. Howard Schneider set up the SPECT Scan Study Group, arranging for patients to have SPECT scans of the brain at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, to guide treatment.

Approved for 1 hour of MDPAC Group CE credits for each session (2 hours if you attend both webinars)