Article archive / December 1, 2015
Originally published: . Volume 6, No. 12. Source pages: 16.
Dr. Lisa Settles to Speak Tulane’s Brain and Behavior 2015: Neuropsychiatry Across the Lifespan on Dec 11 – 12 in N.O.
The Tulane University School of Medicine will hold its 2015 Brain & Behavior conference with this year’s theme, “Neuropsychiatry Across the Lifespan.” The two-day conference is on December 11 – 12 at Westin Canal Place in New Orleans.
Among this year’s presenters is Dr. Lisa Settles, who will present on “The Complexities and Controversies of Autism” and also offer a workshop, “Autism through the Lifespan.”
Dr. Settles is Clinical Psychologist, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine. She is Director of the Tulane Center for Autism and Related Disorders (TCARD).
For her presentations, Dr. Settles will present on “Complexities and Controversies of Autism,” focusing on the history of Autism and authors Steve Siberman, Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger. She will describe how different theorists may have affected our understanding of autism and contributed to many of the controversies that surround the diagnosis. Settles will look at some of the issues, “Refrigerator mothers, biological interventions, and vaccines,” for example, that have impacted the course of understanding autism, and where we go from here.
In the afternoon session, she will present, “Autism Through the Lifespan.” Examining Kanner’s work with the first cases of autism in the 40s, Dr. Settles will review how diagnostic criteria have focused on early childhood, and only in recent times begun to address the behavioral characteristics of autism in infancy. She will review the new area of exploration, that of autism diagnosis in adulthood, and symptom expression across all major developmental levels.
The conference will also feature topics on “Concussion in Sports,” “Spirituality and Hypnosis in Mind Medicine,” with Dabney Ewin, MD, and “The STEP Program” by Vinod Srihari, MD.
Josepha Cheong, MD, will present, “Subcortical vs. Cortical Dementia: Clinical Diagnosis and Management.”
Stacy Drury, MD, PhD, will present, “The Importance of Being a Monther: Transgenerational Effects of Early Life Adversity from Biology, to Behavior, to Policy.”
And Heather Van Mater, MD, will present on “Autoimmune Encephalopathy: How an Antibody Changed It All.”
Dr. Settles received her PsyD from the University of Indianapolis in 2003 and used her experiences of working in a multidisciplinary developmental clinic from her postdoctoral work at Tulane, to help guide the development of TCARD, linking the Tulane system, Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast areas. Dr. Settles has trained many of the state employed therapists in the Early Childhood Supports and Services program clinics on the Parent Child Interaction Therapy model.
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