Nonsurgical Treatments for Meniscus Tears | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone specialists offer a variety of nonsurgical treatments for meniscus tears, including physical therapy and injections.
Nonsurgical Treatments for Scoliosis in Children | NYU Langone Health
Doctors at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone recommend back braces and physical therapy for children with mild to moderate scoliosis.
Nonsurgical Treatments for Torn Rotator Cuff | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone doctors may manage a torn rotator cuff with nonsurgical approaches, such as activity modification and physical therapy.
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Patient Education Program Registration Form | NYU Langone Health
Use our online form to register for NYU Langone's 2017 Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Patient Education Program.
Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone doctors identify and treat nontuberculous mycobacterial infections.
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus | NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone doctors offer treatment plans to restore independence in people who have normal pressure hydrocephalus, or spinal fluid in the brain.
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Novel Coding Strategies for Children with Cochlear Implants
Prior to the onset of deafness, the auditory brain of post-lingually deafened adults develops in response to a rich complement of spectral, temporal, and intensity cues from acoustic input. After becoming deaf and subsequently receiving a cochlear implant (CI), these recipients need time to adjust to the CI but eventually attain relatively high levels of speech understanding. By contrast, the auditory brain of children who are born deaf and receive a CI develops in direct response to electrical stimulation. Although their auditory systems do not benefit from the same rich acoustic input as that of post-lingually deafened adults prior to deafness, children have the advantage of adapting to the CI during the time window when neural plasticity is most sensitive. Therefore, it is assumed that the auditory brains of these two populations are different—yet both groups are fitted with the same coding strategies that were developed primarily for post-lingually deafened adults without consideration of children’s select listening needs. Although many implanted children do develop speech recognition (e.g. Niparko et al., 2010; Eisenberg et al., 2016) outcome variability remains high. Evidence from a small group of children with single-channel CIs (Berliner et al., 1989) suggests that early deafened children are able to access temporal cues from electrical stimulaton to understand speech in an open set. Pilot data from the Landsberger lab suggest that children with multichannel CIs attain better modulation detection thresholds than adult CI recipients. We recently published that early deafened children are less able to access spectral cues from multichannel CIs to the same extent as post-lingually deafened adults and hearing children (Landsberger et al., 2017). Taken together, these findings imply that early implanted children develop auditory skills differently than implanted adults through differential weighting of cues or combinations of cues. If so, then establishing optimal CI programming strategies, such as adjusting amplitude mapping to maintain key spectro-temporal contrasts, could conceivably improve perceptual outcomes for early implanted children.
Novelty and Early Assessment of Temperament (NEAT) Study
This pilot study will examine individual differences in how the brain processes novelty. This will provide preliminary data on the neural mechanisms that underlie attention to novelty, a key behavioral risk marker of anxiety disorders.
NSF/FDA SIR: OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF RECOVERY DURING POST STROKE NEUROREHABILITATION THERAPY USING BRAIN-MUSCLE CONNECTIVITY NETWORK
In this project, we will utilize EEG and surface EMG for assessment of efficacy of rehabilitative technologies. Population include healthy controls (20), and post-stroke individuals (20). It will lead to an evaluation of a novel, objective, and robust algorithmic biomarker of recovery in stroke patients.