Dr. Ilene Naomi Rusk
Your Embodied Brain: How to Live a Soulful and Healthy Life
Dr Ilene Naomi Rusk began her career in behavioral neuroscience and psychopharmacology. She completed her Fellowship positions in the neuropsychology of psychiatric illness and neurodegenerative disease at the University of Birmingham in England and at the Royal Ottawa Hospital in Canada. She worked for the British government assessing children with multiple neurologic and emotional disabilities.
Dr. Rusk was awarded the Parkinson’s Disease Fellowship position in Canada investigating mental health changes in neurologic illnesses. Her current integrative approach as Director of the Healthy Brain Program at the Brain and Behavior Clinic includes her emphasis on positive neuroplasticity, building resilience in the nervous system, and healing personal and intergenerational trauma. She is trained in various trauma resolution techniques and in cognitive rehabilitation.
Dr Rusk blends these approaches into her resilience-based work, and is guided by a functional medicine approach which looks for the root causes of cognitive and psychological suffering. Her work focuses on bringing personalized, integrative healthcare and psychological wellness to individuals and communities within a model sensitive to soul and science.
She has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers, is a community health educator, started a Death Café, and speaks all over the world about Alzheimer’s, stress resilience and nervous system wellness. Being a mother has greatly informed her spiritual path and her international humanitarian work. Spirituality, mystical texts and sacred prayer have been woven into her clinical practice for over 35 years.
Learn more at ilenenaomirusk.com.