Mental Health and Telemedicine Organizations and Their Events

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Maintained by Myron Pulier, MD

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UPA is an institutional member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy

The Telehealth Technology Research Institute is involved in all stages of invention and translation leading up to successful commercialization of the technology. The development of products that have market potential will result in low-risk/high-return opportunities for the Telehealth Technology Research Institute

It supports the development of an intenational and interdisciplinary science of consciousness, which would seek new ways to express and understand the relationships between mind and matter through a variety of activities including: international conferences, Web-based information, and scholarly publications in the Journal of Consciousness Studies and elsewhere.

Specifically, the Arizona legislature funded an eight site Arizona Rural Telemedicine Network as a general appropriation to The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center's operating budget. The Arizona legislature defines telemedicine as the use of computers, video imaging, fiber optics and telecommunications for diagnosis and treatment of persons in rural, geographically isolated communities and state institutions.

The program's goals are to demonstrate how telemedicine can improve rural health care in Arizona, particularly with the rising costs of health care leading to closure of critically needed hospitals and clinics in rural Arizona communities, and to offer a cost-effective alternative to expensive transportation and time delays for outside referrals from Arizona Department of Corrections institutions.

The efms is an academic research center at the University of Bamberg. Its work in the areas of migration, integration and migration policies encompasses research, documentation, consultative services, training and providing information to the public. This requires interdisciplinary and international cooperation as well as the exchange of information between researchers, politicians, administrators, educators, the public and those working in the media.

The efms seeks to assist in shaping a viable and humane migration policy.

1. Early Years Conference Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: February 4-6, 2010
2. 4-th International Biennial Conference on Adolescents and Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [FASD]: "Facing the Future Together - Where Do We Go From Here?" Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: April 14-17, 2010

• Addictions
• Advocacy
• Assessment
• Community Collaboration
• Diagnosis
• Education
• Emotional Well Being
• Employment
• Ethno-Cultural
• Family Support
• Financial Planning
• Health Care
• Housing
• Justice/Legal
• Leisure/Recreation
• Mental Health
• Parenting
• Physical Health Issues
• Research
• Safety/Security
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• Social Services
• Spiritual
• Trauma
• Treatment

Research at the Center is diverse, covering the major sub-disciplines and techniques in neuroscience and ranges from cellular and molecular neurobiology through systems and developmental neuroscience to studies of human perception, attention, memory, language, and the nature of consciousness. The Center places special emphasis on sensory physiology, on the molecular-genetic basis of neuronal function and its development, on the search for genetic markers in psychiatric diseases, in addition combining information obtained from different brain-imaging techniques, including fMRI, and ERPs, for the study of human cognition and the development of improved methods to treat brain injury and disease.

Currently, the Center for Health and Technology offers programs in:

• Health Informatics
• Distance Education
• Outreach Programs
• The Telehealth Learning Center (established in 1999)
• The Telemedicine Program

The telemedicine program includes:

• Virtual Reality Training
• Home Health
• Teleradiology
• Acute Care
• Remote Monitoring
• Family Link

and covers many telemedicine specialties.

Specialized programs include cognitive-behavioral, group, family and couple psychotherapy. Evaluations are often multidisciplinary and may include psychiatric assessment, psychological testing, family or educational assessment, speech and language evaluation, or complete medical assessment.

Psychiatry faculty members engage in a wide variety of research programs, including inquiries into clinical processes; the causes, cures and neuropsychology of major psychiatric disorders; quality of care; medical education; and child and forensic psychiatry. Other topics under investigation include the nature and process of psychotherapy and ways in which "telemedicine" electronic telecommunications networks can be used to extend psychiatric care to rural and constrained patients.

Research studies are currently under way for children with autism, fragile X syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Down's syndrome, Tourette syndrome and other disorders that can prevent children from living lives of normalcy and independence.

Historically, attention to Asian Pacific American concerns in the delivery of mental health care has been minimal. NRCAAMH was founded out of a need for programmatic research devoted to Asian Pacific American mental health concerns. The Center aims to contribute theoretical and applied research that will have a valuable impact on mental health policy and service delivery to Asian Pacific Americans.

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