Episode 8 of Mount Sinai Future You features a teen with autism who opted to have a special device implanted on his brain to stop debilitating seizures. Saadi Ghatan, MD, Chair of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Director of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Program of the Mount Sinai Health System, and Lara Marcuse, MD, Co-director of the Mount Sinai Epilepsy Program, explain how this implantation can detect electrical activity and normalize brain waves to stop a seizure in its tracks.
Other stories include:
- Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and her team are honored with the Inventor of the Year award for their discovery of a potential cure for epileptic seizures
- Joseph D. Buxbaum, PhD, Director of The Seaver Autism Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, shares the importance of personalized medicine in treating autism
- Alexander Kolevzon, MD, Clinical Director of The Seaver Autism Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses how the causes of autism may be in our genes
- Bonnie M. Davis, Trustee of The Mount Sinai Hospital, and alumni of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, reflects on how her medical school experience led to her study of Alzheimer’s disease
- Denise Cai, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, uses an advanced microscope to read brain activity of neurons associated with post-traumatic stress disorder
- Michelle Lin, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, discusses how population health is linked to changes in emergency room care