Dr Thierry HERTOGHE

Module 3 : Psychology, sexology and sexual endocrinology in lifespan medicineModule 3 : Psychology, sexology and sexual endocrinology in lifespan medicineModule 3 : Psychology, sexology and sexual endocrinology in lifespan medicine

Module 3 : Psychology, sexology and sexual endocrinology in lifespan medicine

The ABC of lifespan medicine (adapted to the module):

Psychological attitudes:

•    Stress and health
•    Burnout syndrome
•    Stress management
•    Humor and medicine
•    Meditation, relaxation and health: the scientific evidence
•    Psychology of active centenarians
•    Interactive discussion sessions on improving communication in the physician office

Sexology:

•    Erectile dysfunction DG-TH
•    Patients with sexual problems treated with hormonal l treatments
•    Nonhormonal treatment of sexual senescence in men
•    Nonhormonal treatment of senescence in women
•    Extramedicinal aids for sexual activity

Micronutrient supplementation for sexual dysfunction:

•    Male sexuality and micronutrients
•    Female sexuality and micronutrients

The psychology of sexuality: differences between male and female perceptions

Interactive treatment sessions

Psychic and sexual factors that impact on the endocrine system:

•    Psychological attitudes
•    Stress
•    Sexual activities

Female hormone in women: diagnosis and treatment

•    Safe female hormone therapy in pre- and postmenopausal women
•    Controversies in female hormone therapy
•    Female hormone therapies: practical cases
•    Female patients treated with bio-identical female hormones for birth-control
•    How to talk to patients and colleagues about the fear for cancer from female hormones
•    Reports on female patients treated with bio-identical female hormones in the premenopause
•    How to avoid hirsutism in women with androgens

Androgen deficiencies in men: diagnosis and treatment

•    Testosterone therapy in men: the basics, physiology, effects on age-related diseases, diagnosis, treatment, lab test weaknesses
•    Boosting sexual potency in men with testosterone
•    Practical patient cases

Androgen deficiencies in women: diagnosis and treatment:

•    Testosterone therapy in women: the basics, physiology, effects on age-related diseases, diagnosis, treatment, lab test weaknesses
•    Boosting sexual potency in women with testosterone
•    Testosterone and other hormone effects on female sexual organs
•    Interactive session
•    Practical patient cases

Interactive session

Mini-exam

Anti-ageing neurology:

•    The physiology of memory
•    Neurodegenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, macular degeneration, Amyotrophy sclerosis lateralis)
•    Paralysis and paresia: causes, conventional and adjuvant treatment
•    Paresthesias: causes, conventional and adjuvant treatment

Micronutrient supplementation for  severe psychiatric and neurological disorders:

-    Schizophrenia and micronutrients
-    Micronutrient therapies and Neurodegenerative diseases

Psychological attitudes:  

•    Negative emotion and attitudes - adverse effects on health
•    Positive feelings and behavior that make you live longer and better.
•    Sleep and health
•    Interactive sessions

Practical cases of

•    Patients with sexual dysfunctions
•    Patients with memory loss
•    Patients with mood disorders or psychiatric diseases