Lab100, Mount Sinai’s new hybrid clinic and research lab, is helping researchers prove that health is more than just the absence of disease.
The new U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals guidebook that ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital No. 18 among more than 4,500 U.S. hospitals also spotlights experts at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in four articles.
In an article titled “The Loneliness Effect,” Dolores Malaspina, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Director, Psychosis Program, Department of Psychiatry, explains how the brain’s wiring for socialization can malfunction, leading people to feel isolated and bereft.
In “What Is Health, Precisely?” David Stark, MD, Assistant Professor, Health System Design and Global Health, and Medical Director, Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, explains how Lab100, Mount Sinai’s new hybrid clinic and research lab, is helping researchers prove that health is more than just the absence of disease.
In “Food for Thought: Diet May Be the Top Way to Influence How Your Brain Ages,” Mary Sano, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Associate Dean for Clinical Research, says there isn’t enough research yet to fully convince her that two “brain friendly” diets have specific brain benefits.
“Scientists Continue to Fine-Tune Gene Therapies” cites a team at the Icahn School of Medicine that is planning a 2019 trial of a therapy that will introduce a gene into the coronary arteries that produces a calcium-regulating protein essential for improving heart function in patients with chronic heart failure.