Neurology Grand Rounds: Dr. Matt Burke

Topic: Expectations, Brain-Body Circuits and Neuropsychiatry: The Third of Medicine You Were Never Taught

Learning Objectives

• Gain an understanding of placebo effects terminology, principles and neurobiological mechanisms
• Appreciate how nocebo effects can drive symptom generation and/or amplification across a range of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders
• Develop a framework for ethically harnessing placebo effects and mitigating nocebo effects in your clinical practice 

Speaker: Matthew Burke, MD FRCPC 
Cognitive Neurologist, Neuropsychiatry Program
Medical Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery Program
Neuropsychiatry Lead, UofT Neurology Residency Program
Associate Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute 
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Generously supported through formal partnership with the Division of Neurology: Alexion, Argenx, EMD Serono, Grifols, Ipsen, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi and UCB.