Robotic Surgery for Airway, Breathing & Lung Conditions | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone thoracic surgeons use robotic surgery to manage a range of conditions of the airway and chest, including lung cancers.
Robotic Surgery for Benign Conditions of the Urinary Tract | NYU Langone Health
At NYU Langone’s Robotic Surgery Center, surgeons use robotic-assisted techniques to manage most disorders of the urinary tract.
Robotic Surgery for Cancers & Tumors | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone’s Robotic Surgery Center treats patients with many types of cancer using robotic-assisted surgery.
Robotic Surgery for Digestive & Gastrointestinal Conditions | NYU Langone Health
Surgeons at NYU Langone’s Robotic Surgery Center use robotic-assisted surgery to manage a variety of digestive and gastrointestinal conditions.
Robotic Surgery for Female Reproductive & Sexual Health Conditions | NYU Langone Health
Surgeons at NYU Langone’s Robotic Surgery Center offer robotic-assisted surgeries for a variety of gynecologic disorders.
Robotic Surgery for Head & Neck Conditions | NYU Langone Health
Surgeons at NYU Langone’s Robotic Surgery Center manage head and neck cancer and other conditions.
Robotic Surgery for Heart Conditions | NYU Langone Health
Doctors at NYU Langone’s Robotic Surgery Center perform a range of robotic-assisted cardiac procedures.
Robotic Surgery for Obesity | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone bariatric surgeons use robotic techniques for several types of obesity surgery.
Role of the Decision-Making Reference Point in Cognition and Psychopathology
Mood disorders are characterized by a tendency to subjectively evaluate objectively positive outcomes in a negative light. A fundamental feature of nearly all standard models of decision-making is the idea that the subjective value of any choice option is shaped by a psychological and neurobiological variable called the reference point. The reference point serves as an internal benchmark against which values of all possible future events are weighed. Whether any given activity is viewed as an improvement or decrement in the quality of life is determined by whether that activity yields an outcome evaluated as better or worse than the reference point. Using behavioral decision-making tasks informed by an understanding of how human expectations are set, here propose to test the hypothesis that affective mood impacts the decision-making reference point—the computational instantiation of our expectations—and thus drives shifts in subjective value that mark mood pathologies like major depressive disorder (MDD). Our core hypothesis is that the affective changes associated with MDD can be largely captured as a pathological over-setting of the neurobiological reference point, such that nearly all activities appear as undesirable outcomes that lie well below the pathologically high reference point mark.
Role of the oral cavity in inflammatory bowel disease
The purpose of this investigation is to create a study bank of clinical data, peripheral blood, oral and gut microbiomes, and mucosal pinch biopsy specimens obtained during clinically indicated oral examinations or endoscopies in subjects with and without inflammatory bowel disease. This study bank will allow us to examine relationships between the oral cavity and IBD.