Episode 23: Lyme Disease and the Brain

April 5, 2018

Cindy Kennedy, FNP, is joined by Dr. Robert C. Bransfield, M.D., F.A.P.A., who discusses Lyme disease and the brain, including the connection between Lyme disease and mental health and how Lyme disease and co-infections can cause cognitive impairments, sleep disorders and various psychiatric issues.

Dr. Robert Bransfield

Dr. Bransfield is a graduate of Rutgers College and the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency training at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry.
Dr. Bransfield’s primary activity is office-based private practice of psychiatry with an emphasis upon treatment resistant cases. In addition, Dr. Bransfield is the Associate Director of Psychiatry and the Chairman of Quality Assurance at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, N.J.

He has held teaching appointments at Hahnemann Medical College and Eastern Virginia Medical School. He has taught in many settings to physicians, mental health professionals and the public. He has performed research, and has a particular interest in psychopharmacology, a unified theory of mental health and illness, the link between microbes and mental illness, Lyme and other tick-borne disease, violence, and the link between microbes and violence.

Dr Bransfield has authored and co-authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed literature, other medical publications and books. He has held a number of administrative positions for various organizations involved with a number of health, mental health and community related activities.

Dr Bransfield has been active in political advocacy on a national, state and local level. He has appeared on network and regional television, radio and various publications.

Transcript of Episode 23: Lyme Disease and the Brain

Cindy K.: This is Cindy Kennedy your host and we are on the Living with Lyme today. We have the great honor of having Dr. Robert Bransfield with us. He is well versed and considered an expert in the area of Lyme and other tickborne diseases and the treatment of neuropsychiatric symptoms. He’s active in political advocacy on national state and local levels. He’s also been an author and a speaker. He has notable publications in peer-reviewed literature. We’ve had a lot of technical issues today but we finally have him and I’d like to welcome Dr. Bransfield. How are you today?

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