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Ana Hernández-Sauret: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (Effectiveness for Improving Cognitive Control in Depressed Patients)

Ana Hernández-Sauret is a PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona. Originally from the Canary Islands in Spain, she completed her undergraduate degree in Life Sciences with a specialization in Neuroscience at the University of Aix-Marseille (France). During her final year, she studied at the University of Montreal in Canada. Ana earned her Master’s in Neuroscience at the University of Bordeaux (France), where she completed a six-month internship focusing on hippocampal stimulation in pharmaco-resistant epilepsy patients. After her studies, she developed a strong interest in non-invasive brain stimulation techniques and their potential to treat various mental disorders, which led her to focus her research on this area. Currently, Ana’s work centers on non-invasive brain stimulation, specifically investigating its role in enhancing cognitive control in depression.
 
Ana’s latest paper can be found here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-024-01193-w 
 
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Dr. James Lake: The Future of Mental Healthcare

Dr. Lake is a Board-certified psychiatrist who practices on the central California coast. He has chaired symposia and workshops at APA meetings and other national and international conferences on complementary, alternative and integrative mental health care. Dr. Lake has served as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Stanford, and the University of Arizona School of Medicine, Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Lake founded and chaired the American Psychiatric Association’s Caucus on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine from 2004 through 2010 and was a founding member and chair of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health. Since 2019 Dr. Lake has been an adjunct Fellow, National Institute of Complementary Medicine, Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University. 
 
Dr. Lake has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on integrative medicine and psychiatry, and serves on the editorial review boards of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Journal of the Association for Advances in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, and Jour of Clinical Psychiatry. Dr. Lake is the author or editor of: Chinese Medical Psychiatry: A Clinical Manual, (with Bob Flaws), Blue Poppy Press, 2000; Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care, Thieme, 2006; Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care (co-edited with David Spiegel), American Psychiatric Press, 2007, Integrative Mental Health Care: A Therapist’s Handbook, Norton, 2009, and An Integrative Paradigm for Mental Health Care: Ideas and Methods Shaping the Future, Springer, 2019. He has also published a series of 10 e-books on integrative mental healthcare intended as self-help guides for patients on the integrative management of depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, substance abuse and other common mental health problems.
 
Dr. Lake’s website: http://progressivepsychiatry.com/
Dr. Lake’s series of self-help books: https://theintegrativementalhealthsolution.com/ 
 
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