James J Young, MD, PhD
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- Positions
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Neurology
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Neurosurgery
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- Specialty
- Neurology
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai Queens
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
Many patients with epilepsy will respond to medications, but about 30% will not. In those patients, we consider epilepsy surgery as a possible solution to controlling their seizures. Most of these patients will require invasive monitoring where brain activity is measured by electrodes that are implanted in the brain to clearly determine where their seizures are coming from. Invasive monitoring offers important information for the treatment of epilepsy, but it also provides valuable insights in the function of the human brain.
Dr. Young’s research uses patients that are being invasively monitored for epilepsy surgery to try to understand how brain activity supports thinking and to improve the effectiveness of surgery for the treatment of epilepsy. In addition, he studies brain activity from invasive monitoring in other settings including deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery and from the responsive neurostimulation (RNS) device.
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Epilepsy
Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Clinical Focus
- Epilepsy
Research Topics
Epilepsy, Memory, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience
Education
MD PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
MD,PHD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Graduate, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Graduate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Graduate, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Internship, Internal Medicine
Englewood Hospital and Medical Center
Residency, Neurology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Fellowship, Clinical Neurophysiology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Language
English
2019
Neurology Department Resident Teaching Award
Mount Sinai Hospital
2018
Faculty Idea Prize
Mount Sinai Innovation Awards
2016
Leon Levy Fellow in Neuroscience
Leon Levy Foundation
2016
J. Kiffin Penry Neurostimulation for Epilepsy Mini-Fellowship
J. Kiffin Penry Foundation
2015
Mount Sinai Neurology Resident-Researcher Training Program (R25)
National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS8440304)
2009
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD
National Institutes of Mental Health
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Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Young during 2019 and/or 2020. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting:
- Monteris Medical
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