The SIG has successfully met every two months, and continues to work on the development and expansion of three task forces, reflective of the SIG’s mission.
We have expanded our efforts for membership engagement by offering a social hour successfully held at CLP 2023 in addition to the regularly scheduled November in-person SIG meeting.
Our task groups are busily working on designated projects and being diligent about maintaining deadlines for scholarly products. CLP 2023 also rolled out a new format in which groups were divided based on content area of interest including traumatic brain injury, functional neurologic disorders, movement disorders, autoimmune encephalitis, catatonia, and epilepsy.
Here are updates from each task group:
Scholarship task force has successfully produced three papers in the past six months, the most recent being an article on the history and success of the ACLP Neuropsychiatry SIG. They are:
- Burke M, Han KJ, Bal K, Foley AJ, Hekmatjah N, Wagas KA, Kalra I, Roy D. Under the Radar: Addressing the Sequelae of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Han J, Pontikes TK, Zabinski J, Gilbert C, Hicks C, Fayez R, Walterfang M, Mahdanian A, Nanavati J, Lobner K, Leppla I, Roy D. First-Onset Psychosis After COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
SIG-sponsored symposia task group has expanded its participants and continues to prepare abstracts for informative workshops, symposia, and skills courses for the ACLP 2024 annual meeting. The group continues to meet independently outside of the regularly scheduled SIG meetings.
We submitted and had three abstracts accepted for presentation at CLP 2023.
SIG symposia and workshops at CLP 2023 included:
- Sherlock Holmes-ing: C-L Psychiatrists as Neuropsychiatric Detectives Across the Lifespan.
- Neurological Illnesses Manifesting as Catatonia Across the Lifespan.
- N-acetyl Cysteine in the Treatment of Psychiatric Symptoms Across the Lifespan.
The task group continues to transmit completed presentations into manuscripts for publication.
Education task force members continue to organize a multitude of educational activities within and outside the ACLP.
In collaboration with the Online Education Subcommittee, during CLP 2023 we started plans to have a newly launched website of video lectures, literature references, and neuropsychiatry-focused websites among other educational resources for Academy member to access.
We were invited to give an ACLP Education Committee-sponsored case conference in 2022 on traumatic brain injury and we continue with our inter-institutional neuropsychiatry case conferences, the most recent one being on pediatric catatonia. Robust monthly member case discussions via the listserv continue amongst our very active members.
DEI task force has proposed exploration of treatment guidelines for women veterans with traumatic brain injury and is working on a paper related to migraines in trans individuals. Future initiatives are:
- Enhancing member engagement through social activities, first launched through our inaugural SIG Happy Hour at the Austin meeting.
- Due to the rapid expansion of our SIG, we will be streamlining our meetings by grouping members with content areas of interests. A survey was sent to make this process more efficient and the clinical content areas (shown above) reflect the groupings.
- Mentorship continues to flourish as many of our junior members have been awarded Webb Fellowships and are mentored by Academy experts in neuropsychiatry.
- Inter-organizational activities with the American Neuropsychiatric Association continue to flourish.
Visit the Neuropsychiatry SIG page on the Academy website here.
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