Prism in Practice recording now available!​
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Aron Tendler, MD shares practical steps to power your practice
with Prism™.
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Here is a summary of the key highlights from the GrayMatters Health webinar featuring Dr. Aaron Tendler and Kirk Thelander discussing how psychiatrists implement Prism in their clinics.
What is Prism?
Prism is a biomarker-based interventional psychiatry platform. It consists of a laptop with the Prism software and a patient monitor with a wireless EEG cap provided separately. Patients learn to develop personal mental strategies, for PTSD to lower the amygdala-based biomarker and for Depression to raise the reward system biomarker, and see the result in a responsive simulation.
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Key Highlight: The Future of Psychiatry
Dr. Tendler emphasizes that Prism is the first objective, brain biomarker-based therapy in psychiatry. By offering a treatment driven by digital fMRI-Informed biomarkers, clinics that adopt Prism can position themselves as bringing leading technology to their patient community.
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Clinical Efficacy and Outcomes
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PTSD: Prism is FDA-cleared for treating PTSD, with studies showing a 67% reduction in symptoms on the CAPS scale.
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Depression & Anhedonia: Pilot studies showed a 78% clinically meaningful response for depression and a 76.5% reduction in symptoms for patients with anhedonia.
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Durability & Side Effects: Because patients are learning a skill, they often continue to improve even after the treatment concludes. Side effects reported are mild, transient fatigue or headaches.
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Practice Integration and Workflow
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Minimal Space Required: The equipment does not require a dedicated room; it just needs a quiet space, a desk, and a chair.
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Staffing: A trained technician or other staff member can run the Prism patient sessions while the psychiatrist sees other patients.
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Training & Support: GrayMatters provides a one and half-day on-site installation and training. Clinics also receive ongoing technical, clinical, and marketing support through the "Prism Pathway" program to help build their program.
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Meet Your Expert Speaker
Aron Tendler, MD
Psychiatrist and GMH Chief Medical Officer
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​Aron brings years of experience in the treatment of mental disorders as a psychiatrist. Aron is Board Certified in General Psychiatry, Sleep Medicine, and Obesity Medicine. He graduated in 2002 from State University of New York Downstate Medical School (Brooklyn, NY) with a distinction in research.
From 2002-2004, he trained at Tulane University (New Orleans, LA) in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry followed by two years at the University of Chicago in General Psychiatry, where he was chief resident of the consultation liaison service and course director for psychosomatic medicine.
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In 2006, Aron established Advanced Mental Health Care Inc. in Palm Beach County, Florida, which has since served over 4,000 patients. Currently, he has three clinical research sites studying the efficacy of Deep TMS™ for bipolar depression, smoking cessation, PTSD, and OCD.
Aron began using TMS clinically in 2009 for a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions, and his research sites participated in the clinical trials that led to BrainsWay’s FDA clearances. He helped commercialize this treatment all over the world as the Chief Medical Officer for BrainsWay from 2015-2024.
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Since 2023, he has been the Chief Medical Officer for GrayMatters Health, working on bringing to market Prism™, a paradigm shifting self-neuromodulation platform for interventional psychiatry clinics.