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Uncover Your Mind’s Power: Navigating Parkinson’s Mentally

The Parkinson’s Solutions Summit

<h6>Kenneth Sharlin, MD</h6>
Welcome to the Parkinson&#8217;s Solutions Summit. I&#8217;m your host, Dr. Ken Sharlin. I hope you&#8217;ve been enjoying all the wonderful interviews we&#8217;ve had for you this week, and I am very excited to introduce you to Kirkland Newman. Kirkland, I call her Kiki, and that&#8217;s how she prefers to be addressed. Kiki Newman is an Anglo-American journalist and philanthropist, and she is the founder and editor of MindHealth360. This is a free global resource for integrative mental health and functional medicine. Psychiatrists, and neurologists like myself, as well, and she is the host of the MindHealth360 Show. She has also recently taken on another hat. I don&#8217;t know how she does it all, but she is the executive director of the Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference, which has educated many holistic practitioners around the world. Now here we are talking about mental health, and you might say, &#8220;Well, what does that have to do with Parkinson&#8217;s disease?&#8221; Well, anxiety and depression are pervasive in Parkinson&#8217;s, and the statistics are quite staggering. At least a third of all people affected by Parkinson&#8217;s suffer from mood disorders, although some estimates are that up to 90% are affected. Mood disorders are the most prevalent non-motor symptoms of Parkinson&#8217;s disease. They can be part of the expression of the disease in its full form, or they can be premonitory and herald the onset of the motor symptoms of Parkinson&#8217;s disease. In fact, mood symptoms can be the earliest expression of Lewy body dementia, which is related to Parkinson&#8217;s disease. We can also see changes in personality, which can lead to the tragedy of suicide, as we did with the great actor and comedian Robin Williams. That was a little bit of a lengthy intro, but it&#8217;s so important to understand that we are talking about an incredibly important subject, which is mental health, and how we can approach this with Parkinson&#8217;s, with our loved ones, with our friends, and with our colleagues, and spread the message that there are many solutions to addressing mental health. Kiki Newman, welcome to the Parkinson&#8217;s Solutions Summit.

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Kirkland Newman is an Anglo-American journalist and philanthropist. She is the Founder and Editor of MindHealth360, a free, global resource for integrative mental health and functional medicine psychiatry, the Host of The MindHealth360 Show, and the Executive Director of IMMH, Integrative Medicine for Mental Health.
She created MindHealth360 after her own postpartum depression to address the epidemic of mental health issues and the lack of sustainable, root-cause based solutions for mental health in mainstream medicine. She launched the MindHealth360 Show in 2020 to give a voice to the leading practitioners of integrative mental health from around the world. In 2023, she took over IMMH, to educate and connect mental health practitioners interested in integrative mental health.
Kirkland has a first class BA/MA from Oxford University in Modern Languages and Literature (French and Spanish); an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in European Studies; and an MA from The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in Near and Middle Eastern Studies. Her dissertation “The Battle for Victimhood, Roles and Narratives of Suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” was published in “Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine”.

Kirkland Newman

Kenneth Sharlin, MD, MPH, IFMCP, is a board-certified neurologist, consultant, functional medicine practitioner, Assistant Clinical Professor, researcher, author, and speaker. His medical degrees are from Emory University, The University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University. His functional medicine certification is through The Institute for Functional Medicine. He is author of the #1 best-seller The Healthy Brain Toolbox: Neurologist-Proven Strategies to Improve Memory Loss and Protect Your Aging Brain and co-author of Neurishment: The Brain Tune Up Food Guide. Dr. Sharlin is also a major contributor to Reversal of Cognitive Decline: 100 Patients, that can be found in the peer-reviewed Journal of Alzheimer’s &amp; Parkinsonism, and he has been the primary investigator in several pharma-sponsored clinical trials that have helped bring new therapeutics to market. Dr. Sharlin practices general neurology, and directs his functional medicine program, Brain Tune Up!, in Ozark, MO.

Uncover Your Mind’s Power: Navigating Parkinson’s Mentally

Kenneth Sharlin, MD, MPH, IFMCP

Kirkland Newman

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