Dr. Rusk’s Precision Pillars of Brain Health Program- a roadmap to longevity + joy™

Over decades of clinical work in neuropsychology and integrative brain health, I have developed and now teach Dr. Rusk’s Precision Pillars of Brain Health Program—a root-cause, precision medicine + lifestyle, nervous system–based framework designed to protect, restore, and optimize brain function and mental wellness across the lifespan. The program has be implemented for individual patients, small groups larger groups and adapted to corporate and insurance based programs. It has been adapted to be a four week training, a twelve week training and a more recently a sixteen week program.

This program draws from neuroscience, neuropsychology, somatic psychology, Polyvagal Theory, functional medicine, and long-standing spiritual and contemplative traditions, integrating modern science with embodied approaches to healing. It is also informed by the pioneering work of Dale Bredesen, a close colleague, and the broader root-cause model of brain health, which recognizes that Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias arise from multiple interacting contributors, not a single pathology. The program is very helpful as an integrative mental health model because brain health and the tone of the vagus nerve are woven closely together with emotional wellness.