Does "Motion', that is, exercise have a place in our treatment armamentarium? This is a question all clinicians have frequently asked of themselves. The last decade of clinical and animal research has revealed surprising powerful positive effects of exercise on mood disorders. We now know that exercise affects brain volume, inflammatory cytokines, and the autonomic system. Clinical research data also points to exercise's powerful anti-depressant effects. In light of these exciting findings, this seminar is aimed at providing clinicians the research findings, as will as provide attendees with tools on how to "prescribe" exercise to their patients. Clinicians will be provided with tools to assist them in implementing an exercise prescribing program in their practices.

Upon the completion of the this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Develop an scientifically and data based appreciation of the complex neurobiology of exercise's positive effects on  on mood.
Examine the clinical, randomized data of exercise treatment in mood disorder and develop practical skills in applying this information to clinical care of patients.

Although we have grown accustomed to viewing depression as an illness of the mind, recent scientific understandings suggest that bodily processes-and especially inflammation-contribute significantly to the development and maintenance of mood disorders. An "inflammatory" view of depression also suggests that depression is not a discreet illness, but is rather a probabilistic set of symptoms that emerge from pathways that evolved to maintain adaptive homeostasis in the face of danger from predators and pathogens. This presentation explores how this new Mind-Body view unifies many currently unexplained areas in the pathophysiology and phenomenology of mood disorders in ways that have clear treatment implications. Vaccines for depression anyone?

Upon the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the relationship of inflammation, stress and mood disorders (ie, the neurobiological correlates).
2. Describe the structural and functional changes that occur during the progression of stress and mood disorders.

Join the entire faculty of Treating the Whole Patient for an Extended Question and Answer session at the end of Day 1.

Join the entire faculty of Treating the Whole Patient for an Extended Question and Answer session at the end of Day 2.

This is meditation's moment. From the cover of Time Magazine to the coffee table discussions of morning talk shows, meditation has acquired near mythic status both as an avenue to personal fulfillment and as a universal solvent against a dizzying array of diseases, mental and physical. However, despite increasing evidence that meditation may confer health benefits, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how meditation alters mind-body functioning to promote emotional and physical well-being. By providing a state-of-the-art update on what we do and do not know about meditation and meditation and mental health - with a focus on depression - this presentation will provide clinicians with information essential for thinking about how to incorporate meditation into their work with patients. The first talk in this program will provide an overview of research findings regarding mental health benefits of meditation, with a focus on rigorously examining areas of remaining uncertainty. The second talk will drill down deeper into a particular style of meditation - compassion meditation - to explore how this type of meditation may modulate deleterious stress responses relevant to health. The program will conclude with a chance for audience members to get a first hand sense of compassion meditation through a brief guided meditation.

At the end of this program, participants should be able to:

1. Describe the most important unanswered research questions regarding how to best apply meditation to mental illness.
2. Describe the different types of meditation practices that appear to offer the most promise as health interventions.
3. Describe how meditation practices may improve central nervous system, stress and immune functioning in ways likely to benefit mental and physical disease.
4. Describe what is known from the research literature regarding the effect of meditation on depression and anxiety in medically healthy and medically ill individuals.
5. Describe strategies for implementing meditation into clinical practice.

The session will encourage participants to explore the barriers of recognition and management of nonadherence in psychiatric patients with comorbid conditions and provide skills to balance long-term treatment requirements with optimized chronic care delivery.

This activty is supported by an educational grant from Eli Lilly and Company and Bristol-Myers Squibb and Otsuka America Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

This activity is sponsored by CME LLC.