Mount Sinai Makes Studying the Brain Exciting and Fun for Schoolchildren
Neuroscience graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and volunteers from The Friedman Brain Institute at Mount Sinai recently hosted a series of special activities during Brain Awareness Week, part of an annual global campaign each March by the Dana Foundation to...
Pregnancy and Antidepressants: Should You Avoid Taking Them?
Those who are pregnant or who may be thinking of getting pregnant may wonder if taking antidepressants could affect the heath of the child. New research from Mount Sinai offers some potentially important findings and shows that the underlying mental health of the...
Students Present Their Latest Studies at Medical Student Research Day
One hundred six poster presentations and four oral presentations capped off new research that was conducted by students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and featured at Mount Sinai’s Fourth Annual Karen Zier, PhD, Medical Student Research Day, held over...
Mount Sinai Seminar on Racism and Mental Health Draws an International Audience of Nearly 500 Participants
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to reveal the significant racial disparities that exist in health care access and treatment across the United States, Mount Sinai’s neuroscience community is additionally exploring the profound connections between racism and mental...
Artificial Intelligence Tools May Detect Abnormalities that Could Otherwise Be Missed
A patient’s electronic health record typically contains a trove of information that can be used to help predict and manage their future health needs. But much of that information is often composed of unstructured or fragmented data that first must be translated into...
Young, Asymptomatic People Can Get Reinfected With COVID-19 and Spread it More Than Once, Study Shows
A prospective study of 3,249 Marine recruits—who were mostly male and between the ages of 18 and 20—shows a significant risk of reinfection among those who have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that leads to COVID-19. The study, posted on...
Researchers Identify a Promising New Antiviral Drug to Treat COVID-19
The search for better medical treatments for COVID-19 has led a team of scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, with colleagues in San Francisco, to plitidepsin—a promising small molecule drug derived from a sea organism. When tested...
Sixth Annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards
Individuals and teams from the Mount Sinai Health System were honored for advances in biomedical research, technology, and medicine at the sixth annual Mount Sinai Innovation Awards ceremony, a virtual event held Tuesday, December 8, 2020.Mount Sinai...
Mount Sinai Researchers Describe Viral Sanctuaries in the Gastrointestinal Tract of COVID-19 Patients
A new study published in the journal Nature by researchers at Mount Sinai in collaboration with two other labs at Rockefeller University and co-investigators from the California Institute of Technology and Weill Cornell Medicine describes for the first...
