Lifestyle & Integrative Psychiatry at Psych Congress 2026

Course · Integrative Psychiatry

Integrative Psychiatry Intensive: Systems-Level Biology and Lifestyle Factors Transforming Psychiatric Practice

James Greenblatt · Ashley Mason · Charles Raison

Half-day ticketed intensive covering four integrative domains — temperature-based interventions, rapid sleep-optimization strategies, nutritional psychiatry, and metabolic regulation of brain function — framed as complements to standard psychopharmacology.

GLP-1 & Metabolic Psychiatry · Sleep & Insomnia

Symposium · Integrative Psychiatry

Small Changes, Big Impact: How to Bring Lifestyle and Nutritional Psychiatry into Real-World Practice

Mariela Podolski · James Somers

Workflow-friendly tactics for weaving sleep, exercise, stress management, social connection, and nutritional assessment into time-limited medication visits.

Symposium · First-Line Decisions

First-Line Decisions: Lifestyle Modification or Medication? Balancing Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Care in ADHD

James Greenblatt · Julie Carbray

Guides initial ADHD treatment choices between stimulant/non-stimulant medication and behavioral, coaching, and environmental strategies based on severity, preference, and comorbidity.

ADHD · Stimulants & ADHD Medications

Symposium · First-Line Decisions

First-Line Decisions: Lifestyle Modification or Medication? Guiding Initial Care in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Manish Jha · Saundra Jain · Vanessa Joy Walker

Helps clinicians decide between pharmacotherapy and CBT, mindfulness, sleep, and exercise strategies at the outset of GAD treatment based on severity, comorbidity, trauma history, and preference.

Anxiety Disorders · Psychotherapy

Lecture · Integrative Psychiatry

Fat Matters: Understanding How Cholesterol and Fatty Acids Shape Psychiatric Illness

James Greenblatt

Connects cholesterol and omega-3 fatty acid biology to mood disorders, psychosis, and cognition, translating lipid research into assessment strategies and adjunctive interventions.

Dementia & Cognitive Disorders · Neuroscience & Mechanisms

Lecture · MDD

Inflammatory and Immune-Driven Depression: CRP, Biomarkers, and Anti-Inflammatory Treatment Pathways

Charles Raison

Reviews the inflammatory depression phenotype and CRP-guided antidepressant selection, plus anti-inflammatory, glutamatergic, microbiome, and lifestyle interventions targeting immune activity.

Depression · Inflammation & Immunopsychiatry · Pharmacogenomics & Precision Psychiatry