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Women Elevating and Supporting Health, Innovation, and Neuroscience Education 2026
A 13-hour on-demand conference featuring leading voices in neuroscience, rehabilitation, women’s health, and clinical innovation—designed to elevate modern clinicians.
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Course Description
The W.E S.H.I.N.E 2026 On-Demand Conference brings together leading clinicians and researchers to deliver a comprehensive 13-hour educational experience focused on advancing clinical neuroscience, women’s health, and innovative rehabilitation strategies. This multi-session event explores the evolving intersection of brain function, autonomic regulation, metabolic health, neuroplasticity, and emerging technologies such as virtual reality and AI-driven diagnostics.
Through 13 expert-led sessions, participants will gain practical, evidence-informed insights that can be immediately applied in clinical practice. Topics span concussion rehabilitation, vestibular and oculomotor integration, interoception, sleep neurophysiology, hormonal health, chronic pain, and longevity medicine—offering a uniquely diverse and clinically relevant perspective.
Designed for forward-thinking healthcare providers, this conference empowers clinicians to expand their diagnostic precision, enhance patient outcomes, and integrate cutting-edge neuroscience into modern care models.
What you’ll learn:
- Integrate advanced neuroscience principles into real-world clinical decision-making
- Apply emerging technologies like VR and AI to rehabilitation strategies
- Evaluate autonomic, metabolic, and neuroplastic mechanisms in complex patients
- Identify gender-specific, hormonal, and microbiome-driven health patterns
- Expand treatment strategies across concussion, pain, and neurodegenerative care
Components
Educational Syllabus
- Developing Brain: Plasticity & Play
- Explore early neurodevelopment through primitive reflexes, neuroplasticity, sensory-motor integration, and the neuroscience of play. This session highlights how early experiences shape neurologic organization, communication, and lifelong brain function, while providing practical strategies to support healthy development in infants and young children.
- VR in Concussion Rehabilitation
- Examine the clinical application of virtual reality in concussion care through an evidence-based lens. This session explores the neurological rationale for VR, patient selection, cybersickness considerations, and how to distinguish therapeutic benefit from system overload, giving clinicians a practical framework for implementation.
- Vestibular Rehab Post-mTBI Research
- A comprehensive review of vestibular and oculomotor rehabilitation interventions following mild traumatic brain injury. This session analyzes patient-reported, clinical, and objective outcomes while emphasizing the importance of central sensorimotor integration in improving diagnostic precision and treatment effectiveness.
- Eye-Brain-Body: 3D Neurorehab & AI
- Discover how eye movement analysis provides a powerful window into brain function. This session explores how oculomotor patterns reveal disruptions in visual processing, attention, and balance, and how advanced 3D assessment techniques can enhance clinical decision-making across neurological and vestibular conditions.
- Viscera to Brain: Interoception
- Bridge manual therapy with neuroscience by exploring how visceral manipulation and fascial input influence interoceptive processing and autonomic regulation. This session highlights mechanotransduction, connective tissue signaling, and afferent neurophysiology in clinical application.
- Postural Neurology: Brain-Based Care
- Understand the neurologic drivers of posture and how to implement brain-based assessment and correction strategies. This session connects visual, vestibular, and sensorimotor systems to postural dysfunction, helping clinicians identify neurologic deficits and design targeted correction protocols.
- The Multilingual Brain
- Explore how multilingualism shapes brain structure and function, influencing hemispheric specialization, executive control, and neuroplasticity. Learn how language-based tasks can serve as clinical assessment tools and be integrated into targeted neurological rehabilitation strategies.
- Sex Differences in Central Sensitization
- Examine why women are more likely to develop chronic pain syndromes and how trauma, neuroimmune signaling, and neuroplasticity influence these outcomes. This session reframes chronic pain as an adaptive response of a sensitized nervous system and highlights gender-specific clinical considerations.
- Longevity Medicine: Wellness Roadmap
- Learn three essential frameworks—Signal vs Noise, Blue Zones, and the Biopsychosocial Model—to guide patients toward vitality, longevity, and meaningful health outcomes. This session equips clinicians with practical tools for navigating modern wellness conversations.
- Estrobolome & Gut-Brain Axis
- Gain an advanced understanding of how the gut microbiome regulates estrogen metabolism and influences brain function. This session explores the clinical impact of dysbiosis and provides evidence-based strategies to optimize hormonal balance and improve outcomes in women’s health.
- Sleep Neurophysiology for Clinicians
- Explore the expanding role of the cerebellum and neural networks in sleep, cognition, and autonomic regulation. This session examines how sleep-related neurophysiology impacts neurological and neuropsychiatric function, with clinical implications for assessment and rehabilitation
- Pharmacology in Sport Neurology
- Learn how medications, supplements, and recreational substances alter neurologic exam findings in athletes. Through case-based discussion, this session highlights how pharmacology can mask, exaggerate, or distort clinical interpretation in functional neurology.
- Polyvagal Theory & Eating Disorders
- Understand how autonomic nervous system states shape eating disorder behaviors through the lens of polyvagal theory. This session connects neuroception, interoceptive signals, and trauma-informed care to clinical interventions, including emerging therapies like VR exposure and Safe and Sound Protocol.
Venue, Hotels & Schedule
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Women Elevating and Supporting Health, Innovation, and Neuroscience Education 2026
A 13-hour on-demand conference featuring leading voices in neuroscience, rehabilitation, women’s health, and clinical innovation—designed to elevate modern clinicians.
$
$
(
15
$
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