Our outstanding clinical programs across the Mount Sinai Health System—the largest health system in New York City—that functionally integrate the several disciplines that comprise clinical neuroscience, offering unparalleled care to our diverse universe of patients. And all of this presents truly unique opportunities for our graduate and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and clinical residents and fellows—our next generation of scientists and clinicians.
This issue of the FBI newsletter focuses on traumatic brain injury (TBI), which has received increasing attention in recent years as the consequences of the many different types and contexts of head trauma have become better recognized through research.
Today, the Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) of Mount Sinai offers this diverse patient population the most advanced treatments available and is researching the pathological changes in the brain that underlie the range of functional deficits that characterize this heterogeneous syndrome. A major imperative in studying human TBI is to procure brain samples from individuals with the illness at their time of death. Mount Sinai has long had one of the largest brain collections in the country and now, under new leadership, is advancing creative approaches to investigating human brain tissue, including the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD
Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, Director, The Friedman Brain Institute, Dean for Academic Affairs, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief Scientific Officer, Mount Sinai Health System