A5029731308- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Color Science and Applications
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
- Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
- Healthcare Systems and Technology
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Thermal Regulation in Medicine
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Color perception and design
- Social Media in Health Education
George Washington University
2021-2023
MIND Research Institute
2020
Cornell University
2020
Weill Cornell Medicine
2020
Hunter College
2017
Postnatal neurodevelopment is profoundly influenced by environmental experiences. Environmental enrichment a commonly used experimental paradigm that has uncovered numerous examples of experience-dependent plasticity in health and disease. However, the role normal development, especially glial largely unexplored. Oligodendrocytes, myelin-forming glia central nervous system, provide metabolic support to axons establish efficient saltatory conduction producing myelin. Indeed, alterations...
Critically ill pediatric patients are frequently initiated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) active antibiotics during infection evaluation even though MRSA infections rare in many patient populations. The nasal swab polymerase chain reaction assay (MRSA-NS-PCR) is a test that has been shown to have high negative predictive value (NPV) for adults. This study evaluated the diagnostic characteristics of MRSA-NS-PCR predicting presence critically patients.
This study aimed to establish the indices of responsiveness for Coma/Near-Coma (CNC) scale without (8 items) and with (10 pain test stimuli. A secondary purpose was examine whether CNC 8 items 10 differ when detecting change in neurobehavioral function.We analyzed data from three studies participants disorders consciousness: one observational two intervention studies. We generated Rasch person measures using each participant at time points 14 ± 2 days apart Measurement Theory. calculated...
Following oxycodone (Oxy) conditioned place preference (CPP), delta opioid receptors (DORs) differentially redistribute in hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells female and male rats a manner that would promote plasticity opioid-associative learning processes. However, following chronic immobilization stress (CIS), males do not acquire Oxy-CPP the trafficking of DORs neurons is attenuated. Here, we examined subcellular distribution CA1 using electron microscopy these same cohorts. Saline...
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Abstract Date Presented 04/22/2023 We provide indices of responsiveness for the Coma/Near-Coma Scale, an assessment utilized with patients disordered consciousness. Responsiveness is critical identifying effective treatments and patient change that beyond measurement error. Primary Author Speaker: Jennifer Weaver Additional Authors Speakers: Jasmine Tran Contributing Authors: Trudy Mallinson, Allan Kozlowski, Theresa Bender Pape, Ann Guernon, Vera Pertsovskaya
To explore the neural mechanisms of color perception we used saturation scaling as a measure perceived and chromatic visual evoked potential (cVEP) activity. The isoluminant (30 cd/m2) squares or 8×8 checkerboards, both size 1.875° across, was rectangular-wave modulated from gray to back (0.5s on, 1.5s off). patterns had cone contrasts ranging 0.04 0.4. Outside edges stimuli faded gradually into background. With no clear edges, stimulated only single-opponent neurons while checkerboards...
Previous experiments indicated that edge-dependent, double-opponent neurons are involved in the color perception of patterns (Nunez et al., 2017). These earlier measured perceptual scaling saturation by human observers, for equiluminant red squares on a gray background and also red-gray checkerboards same size space-averaged cone contrast. While evoked responses primarily from Parvocellular system, we wanted to determine whether or not driven signals parallel Koniocellular pathway...
Abstract Background Patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are frequently evaluated for bacterial infections and initiated on antibiotic regimens that include a MRSA-active agent even though invasive MRSA rare in this population. The PCR nasal swab (MRSA-PCR) is non-invasive test colonization has been shown within adult ICUs have high negative predictive value (NPV), making it potentially valuable tool antimicrobial stewardship. This study performance of MRSA-PCR...
Introduction: Critically ill pediatric patients are frequently evaluated for bacterial infections and initiated on antibiotic regimens that include a MRSA-active agent even though invasive MRSA rare. The PCR nasal swab (MRSA-PCR) is non-invasive test has been shown within adult ICUs to have high negative predictive value (NPV). This study the performance of MRSA-PCR in predicting infection PICU identified risk factors infection. Methods: A retrospective cohort was performed 44-bed from...