2024 Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Reading List

Reading List

Please click below to access the 2024 Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry reading list.

C-cert Activity Description

The Continuous Certification (C-cert) activities provide subspecialty learning and knowledge assessment to ensure that diplomates are staying up to date on the latest science, treatments, and therapeutics relating to their subspecialty. The annual activities include: 1) reading the subspecialty  journal articles, and 2) taking and passing the 25-question online post-reading quiz to assess knowledge gained from the journal article content. 

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the neuropsychiatric manifestations of and interventions for genetic neurodevelopmental disorders, including FMR1 and MECP2 mutations
• Identify the diverse psychiatric, neurologic, and medical causes of catatonia and available treatments
• Articulate the appropriate approach to screening, selection, and deployment of disease-modifying agents for Alzheimer's disease
• Describe the proposed pathophysiology of and list available therapies for the neuropsychiatric syndromes and symptoms of neurologic disease, including akinetic mutism and apathy
• Identify the behavioral manifestations and appropriate selection of neuroimaging and CSF evaluations for mixed cognitive and psychiatric presentations

Core Competencies

• Medical Knowledge
• Patient Care
• Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Instructions

To claim CME credits, answer question 26 on the quiz to reflect the total time spent completing the required reading and online quiz. This question is not included in the scoring of the quiz. A passing score of 80% of higher is needed to meet C-cert requirements and receive CME credit. CME credit confirmation will be emailed within 24 hours of passing the quiz.

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Academy of Neurology Institute (AANI) and United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. The AANI is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Academy of Neurology Institute designates this enduring material for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1^TM credit(s). Physicians should claim only their credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity.

ABPN Self-Assessment Designation Statement

The American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN) has reviewed the UCNS Continuous Certification (C-cert) self-assessment activity and has approved the program as a part of a comprehensive self-assessment (SA) program, which is mandates by the American Board of Medical Specialties as a necessary component of maintenance of certification. The number of ABPN SA credits granted will equal the number of CME hours claimed for the activity. 

Disclosures

The UCNS complies with all standards and policies of the ACCME, including identification and resolution of all conflicts of interest prior to the educational activity being delivered to learners. Accordingly, UCNS  planners, authors, and staff comply with the UCNS’s Conflicts of Interest Policy. 

2024 C-cert Activity Planner Disclosures
All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Certification Examination Committee Contributors

Robin A. Hurley, MD, Chair, W.G. Hefner VA Medical Center
Disclosures: Receives personal compensation salary as a VA doctor – the VA is a government entity

Kyle J. Steinman, MD, MAS, Vice Chair, University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
Disclosures: Received research support from NIH, research funding (immediate family member); serves as Associate Editor (Behavioral Neurology) for the Journal of Child Neurology.

James R. Bateman, III, MD, MPH, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Disclosures: Received an honorarium from Novo Nordisk for participating in a 2-hour round table discussion of Alzheimer's Disease care pathways, received an honorarium for providing CME lectures to the Cherry State Hospital (an inpatient psychiatric facility), as well as honorarium for producing short, educational videos about Alzheimer's Disease for Medscape Decision Point; received research grants from the NIH, Alzheimer's Association, and Dementia Alliance of North Carolina.

Colin J. Harrington, MD, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University Medical School
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.

Jonathan H. Woodcock, MD, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus
Disclosures: Within the past two years received personal compensation for doing many medical-legal evaluations with related reports and testimony in deposition and court, working with both plaintiff and defense attorneys in civil actions and with public defenders in criminal actions. Dr. Woodcock has not been retained by other types of parties, such as insurance companies. None of the parties worked with have had any relationships to the work on the exam committee.

Michael J. Schrift, DO, MA, University of Washington
Disclosures: Received personal compensation for serving as an expert witness for the plaintiff in a medical malpractice case.

Mandana Modirrousta, MD, PhD, St. Boniface Hospital, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.

Lindsey Gurin, MD, NYU Langone
Disclosures: Received personal compensation for serving as a consultant for Human Services Research Institute supporting Administration for Community Living development of TBI Technical Assistance and Research Center.

Jesse M. Adams, MD, Seattle Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.

Samantha K. Holden, MD, MS, University of Colorado School Medicine
Disclosures: Received honoraria from American Academy of Neurology for Annual Meeting course; received research funding from NIH to institution.

Staff Contact

Bryan Hagerla, Continuous Certification Manager
Disclosures: Nothing to disclose.
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