🏆 Neuroscience and Medicine: In Research and Practice (Part 2)
​🔤 Description
Neuroscience understanding of stuttering.
🎤 Presenter
Gerald Maguire, MD is Professor and Founding Chief of Psychiatry, American University of Health Sciences School of Medicine—Signal Hill, CA USA and Principal Investigator—CenExel CIT research. He is the former Chair of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the UCR School of Medicine until recently he retired from the UC system. Dr. Maguire provides comprehensive, personalized, and compassionate psychiatric care for his patients.
He is board certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and serves as the Co-Chair of the Society for the Neuroscience of Stuttering. Dr. Maguire has been named as one of the Best Doctors in America every year since 2009 and is recognized as the world’s authority on the medical treatment of stuttering.
Dr. Maguire has published his research in several leading journals and has delivered hundreds of invited presentations nationally and internationally on the topics of stuttering, bipolar disorder, depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions.
Dr. Maguire is also an Advisory Team member at Transcending Stuttering.
đź’Ş Attendee Take-Aways:
Describe what is known of the neurodevelopment differences in those who stutter
Summarize how biologic therapies for stuttering may augment speech and psychotherapy
Identify potential future models of stuttering therapy
đź“š Additional Resources:
Stuttering Neuroscience 101 with Dr. Gerald Maguire, Transcending Stuttering Podcast, Episode #22
The New Neuroscience of Stuttering, Knowable, September 2020
The Pharmacologic Treatment of Stuttering and Its Neuropharmacologic Basis, Frontiers in Neuroscience, March 2020
The Stuttering Mind, Scientific American, August 2021
Investigation of Risperidone Treatment Associated With Enhanced Brain Activity in Patients Who Stutter, Frontiers in Neuroscience, February 2021
*SLPs receive a certificate of attendance eligible for 1CMH credit.
For now, check out the podcast episode #22.
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