Monthly Webinar -'Working with FND'
Event Details
Members have free access to this event and will be sent the zoom link via the mailing list.
This monthly webinar takes place between 6 and 7.30pm.
We have three presenters: Dr Ranjan Sanyal , Dr Abijit Das and Antonio Allegretta.
Aim: The aim of this webinar is to explore how hypnosis can help in the treatment of FND
Learning outcomes:
1. Understand the concept: Have a clear and current, conception of FND, distinguish it as a problem of the functioning of the nervous system and brain rather than a structural disease process such as MS or stroke. Understand the rationale for dropping previously used terminology and why newer terms are preferable.
2. Be able to identify common symptoms and signs of FND, such as: functional dystonia, functional gait disorder, numbness, tingling, weakness, or seizures.
3. Understand how FND arises from distorted sensory processing and perception, excessive worry and attention to symptoms, activation of symptom representations in the mind and implications for hypnotic experience.
4. Understand the importance of excluding organic causes for symptoms, assessing patients’ psychological and emotional factors and using clinical examination and history-taking to distinguish FND from other conditions.
5. Overview of evidence-based treatments for FND, including cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), other psychological interventions, medications targeted at underlying mental health conditions, multidisciplinary team management and collaboration and hypnotherapeutic approaches for guiding attention and re-framing sensory input.
About this webinar:
Dr Ranjan Sanyal and Antonio Allegretta will discuss their approach to helping patients with FND. Dr Abijit Das will be talking about “Hypnosis: An ideal therapy for Functional Neurological Disorder?”
Dr Ranjan Sanyal is a senior consultant in Stroke Medicine at the University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust and an Honorary Clinical lecturer at Keele University. He has a special interest in using hypnosis to treat Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) patients presenting with stroke. His goals are to make hypnosis widely available to FND patients, to train other clinicians in this technique, and ultimately to establish hypnosis as a mainstream treatment for FND. He is also passionate about undergraduate teaching and has been recognised for his excellence.
Antonio Allegretta studied Psychology at Università degli Studi di Trieste and Clinical Hypnosis and Integrative Psychotherapy at the National College of Hypnosis, Psychotherapy (UKCP). He is accredited with the NSHPM – National Society of Hypnosis, Psychotherapy and Mindfulness (UK) and the BSCAH – British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis. He also obtained a Ph.D. (equivalence degree) in Behavioural Sciences.
Antonio lives and works in Pistoia as Hypnotherapist where he founded the Istituto Superiore per lo Studio dell’Ipnosi, Mindfulness e Terapie Complementari – Centro Ipnosi per la Donna.
He has published a paper: Allegretta A. (2012), Is Fibromyalgia just ‘a matter of Rheumathology’?, FIDELITY The Journal for the NCP, ISSN 1471-6658 and presented a case of Fibromyalgia resisting to chemical treatment happily sorted out by hypnosis at the FOURTH CLINICAL CHALLENGE IN RHEUMATHOLOGY – La multidisciplinarietà in Reumatologia – Discussione di casi clinici difficili in Pisa (2015).
Dr Abhijit Das is a Consultant Neurologist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, where he leads the regional Functional Neurological Disorder Service. He also serves as an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. Trained in India and USA, he has over 20 years of experience in clinical neurology and neuroengineering research and industry collaboration. He holds multiple international patents in neuroengineering, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and has received multiple awards and research grants. His leadership roles include being a member of the FND and Neuropsychiatry Advisory Group of the Association of British Neurologists and serving on the Scientific Subcommittee of the British and Irish Association of Stroke Physicians (BIASP). His current research interest is using hypnosis for treatment of functional neurological disorder.