Brachial Plexus Injuries | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone orthopedic specialists provide expert diagnosis and care, including reconstructive surgery, for brachial plexus injuries.
Bradycardia | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone heart rhythm specialists are experts in diagnosing and managing bradycardia, a disorder in which the heart beats too slowly.
Brain & Nervous System Disorders | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone neurologists, neurosurgeons, and rehabilitation experts are leaders in treating conditions that affect the brain and nervous system.
Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors in Children | NYU Langone Health
Specialists at Hassenfeld Children's Hospital at NYU Langone diagnose and treat childhood brain and spinal cord tumors.
Brain & Spine Care | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone’s top-ranked specialists are leaders in neurology and neurosurgery.
Brain & Spine Tumor Center | NYU Langone Health
At NYU Langone’s Brain and Spine Tumor Center, cancer care experts support our neurosurgeons, ensuring you receive the best treatment.
Brain Effects of Lifetime Racial/Ethnic Discrimination on the LC-NE Function and the Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
The current biomarker classification system (i.e., the ATN model) may not fully account for racial disparity and can’t explain the increased prevalence in blacks of both AD and vascular risk factors for AD such as diabetes and hypertension when compared to whites. Postmortem studies suggest that loss of LC neurons better predicts severity of AD clinical symptoms than Aß/neurofibrillary tangle pathology in any other cortical/subcortical brain region. Our decade-long studies in humans have demonstrated a special vulnerability of LC to aging and stress. Further, our preliminary data in black and white subjects reveals that the decline rate of LC neurons is much faster in blacks starting in the mid-30s, particularly in black males. We now aim to test the hypothesis that cumulative exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage and racial discrimination may cause long-lasting changes in LC function followed by LC neuronal loss, which would explain the different AD phenotypical presentation among blacks; by asking120 cognitively normal older adults (80 blacks and 40 whites) to perform clinical evaluation, cognitive measurement, biomarkers (ATN and vascular markers) assessment, stress and discrimination scale testing, and one [11C]MRB PET-MR scan to determine NET availability.
Brain Injury & Concussion Rehabilitation | NYU Langone Health
The team at NYU Langone’s Rusk Rehabilitation provides inpatient and outpatient care for people after a brain injury or concussion.
Brain Tumors | NYU Langone Health
At NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, we treat adults with glioblastomas, gliomas, astrocytomas, meningiomas, and metastatic brain tumors.
Breast & Ovarian Cancer Screening | NYU Langone Health
At NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, we offer screening and special high-risk programs for breast and ovarian cancer.