Thursday October 23, 2025 | 3:00pm PST
Mold, Lyme, and Vector-Borne Illnesses: Neurocognitive Impacts and Treatment
Bill Vickers will discuss Mold, Lyme, and Vector-Borne Illnesses: Neurocognitive Impacts and Treatment.
Chronic infections and environmental exposures often present with complex and overlapping symptom patterns that challenge both patients and clinicians. In this presentation, Dr. William Vickers, a functional medicine physician, will explore the clinical landscape of Lyme disease, Bartonella, Babesia, and mold-related illness, with a particular focus on their neurological and neuropsychiatric manifestations.
Discussing the latest insights into how these infections and toxins disrupt brain function, immune regulation, and overall physiology, emphasis will be placed on identifying distinguishing features, common co-infections, and the ways in which these conditions mimic or exacerbate one another. The presentation will also address the role of neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and immune dysregulation in symptom persistence.
Attendees will gain practical strategies for assessment and treatment, including functional medicine approaches to testing, detoxification, and integrative care. Case examples will illustrate how a systems-based model can improve outcomes for patients with chronic, multi-factorial illness.
By the end of this session, participants will have a clearer understanding of the interplay between infections and environmental factors in neurotherapy practice, and how to translate this knowledge into effective, patient-centered care.
About Bill
Dr. William (Bill) Wickers has an undergraduate degree in microbiology/biochemistry/virology including research in Herpes Simplex Virus, Cytomegalovirus, plasmid vector molecular genetics, T cruzi, and neuroscience of spinalothalamic tracts in mouse brain injury. He is trained in Internal Medicine / Anesthesiology / Pain / Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was elected Chief Resident. He had primary interest in neurointensive care and brain injury with extracurricular interests in medical mission work traveling to Haiti, Caribbean health clinics, and orphanages. Since medical school, his own experience with chronic disease including celiac disease, concussions, persistent Lyme and other vector-borne diseases where he was on disability and not working, and Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/PostLyme Syndrome which has led him on this journey of more comprehensive and integrative treatments for chronic disease. He also spent many years in competitive athletics, including 2 olympic campaigns, which has fueled his passion for sports, exercise physiology, hypoxic HIT therapy and altitude medicine, and staying at the forefront of brain performance and understanding the connectome of the brain. Lastly, he has a passion for brain injury and wellness including serving as Past President of the Neurobiofeedback Research Foundation, current member of ISNR, IBIS, ASA, anti-aging and several others, creating a Lyme Foundation focusing on research in Neurologic aspects of Lyme and chronic fatigue PostTreatment Lyme, QEEG/ERP and Loretta analysis of NeuroLyme, PostTreatment Lyme Syndrome along with helping families in Maryland diagnose and manage symptoms of Post-Treatment Lyme. His own family has gone thru mold illness/CIRS and experienced two remediation efforts and one of the few providers who has been treating mold patients for more than 10 years and knows about successful medical mold/bacteria remediation. He has a sister born with an hypoxic birth injury later developing schizophrenia and autistic spectrum disorder, leading to his interest brain injury, neuroinflammation, brain atrophy, neuroplasticity, hypo and hyper coherence in brain connectivity, hypoxic birth injury and cerebral palsy, dementia, Parkinsons, ALS neurodegenerative disorders, childhood and adult ASD, severe TBI and applying regenerative medicine techniques and neuromodulation to these illnesses. One of the first physicians to undergo Shoemaker mold training, member of ISEAI, attended nearly every mold and Lyme conference, one of the early members of the neurolipid foundation network, long term member of the Ketamine physician network, years of brain and sports medicine conferences, Integrative medicine, Bredesen protocol training, Functional Medicine conferences, residency and seminars in pain management, anesthesia, and the brain, HBOT Society, the International Brain Injury Society, and experienced in using various forms of advanced analysis including BAH, Applied Kinesiology, NeuroQuant, QEEG/ERP and cognitive testing.