Tanju Surmeli
International Board of Quantitative Electrophysiology, USA
Title: Use of clinical electrophysiology as a biomarker diagnostic and treatment in psychiatric setting
Biography
Biography: Tanju Surmeli
Abstract
Psychiatric disorders interfere with daily-life activities and treated with psychological and pharmacological treatments. For Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy to meaningfully improve outcomes, it's time to figure out how to develop "the next generation of interventions.” A new route map has been drawn for the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric diseases. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has called for a more rigorous and evidence-driven approach to mental healthcare. It is time that psychiatry and psychology moves away from its present focus on diagnosing subjectively and takes a new direction that uses other modalities of care; evidence-based diagnosis and treatments. Psychiatry and psychology are the only specialty that doesn't actually look at the organ it treats. Patients deserves better. We need to devote our selves to efficient evidence-based diagnosis of disorders and personalized treatments. Implementing biological markers for psychiatric disorders into laboratory-based electrophysiological diagnostic tests can significantly improve diagnosis and management of these disorders. Diagnostic electrophysiological techniques are non-invasive and relatively inexpensive. Psychiatric electrophysiology currently under utilizes such methods and plays a limited role in the diagnosis and treatment in psychiatric disorders. This status is not supported by the existing literature. I am going to talk about evidence supporting diagnostic electrophysiological biomarkers and their effectiveness in the treatment of psychiatric disorders.