Course Description

Course Roadmap

  • The Inflamed Brain: Stress, neuro-inflammation, and chronic disease
    • Stress and the Brain
    • The Brain is a Unique Environment
    • Neuro-Immune Relationship and the Blood Brain Barrier
  • The Gut-Brain Connection
    • The Inflamed Brain: Stress, neuro-inflammation, and chronic disease
    • Stress and the Brain
    • The Brain is a Unique Environment
    • Neuro-Immune Relationship and the Blood Brain Barrier
    • The Gut-Brain Connection
    • Barrier Permeability: A Key Mechanism for Disease
    • Barrier Permeability: Clinical Consequences
    • Healing Sleep: Neuro-endocrine-immune Connections
    • Sleep Loss and the Brain-Gut-Immune Connection
    • The Injured Brain and Neuro-Inflammation
    • Diverse Brain Response to Corticosteroids: It’s Complicated
    • Cortisol and the Immune System
    • Skin: A Neuroendocrine Organ?
    • Clinical Perspectives
      • Developmental Neuro-inflammation
      • Cortisol and Schizophrenia
  • The Origins of Stress
    • Biosocial Theory of Personality: Frameworks for Brain Function
    • Stress Before Birth? Timing is Everything
      • Maternal Stress Perception
      • Maternal Depression
      • Natural Disaster
    • Early Life Experience: Our Destiny?
      • The Developing Brain
      • Brain Vulnerability
      • Long-Term Effect of Early Experience
      • Neural Activity in the Traumatized Brain
    • Biological Mechanisms Transmit Stress
  • From The Field: Discussion with Experts
  • Adrenals, Stress, and Diabetes
    Pain: A Cortisol Problem?
  • Fatigue: How Simple a Solution…
  • Cancer and Human Stress: A Role for Cortisol Modulation
  • Sex and the Adrenals: The Hormone Connection
  • Thyroid and Cortisol: One And The Same?

Dr. Jamie Wright

Dr. Jamie Wright holds board certification in obstetrics and gynecology and a Master’s Degree in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Wright has built cash-only medical businesses, developed employee health programs for a large manufacturing firm, and created health-related educational content. His consultancy includes healthcare marketing, business strategy, communications, and professional speaking. Dr. Wright resides in Colorado Springs with his wife and four children.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome to this course

    • Introduction to Adrenal Physiology and Clinical Practice

  • 2

    Relevance of Physiologic Testing

    • Introduction

    • Quality of Life

    • History of Stress

    • Physiology of Stress

    • Allostatic Load

    • Chicken or Egg?

    • Covered in Course

    • Enroll

    • Case Study

    • Feedback Survey
  • 3

    Stress On The Brain

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