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Jason B. Carmel, M.D., Ph.D.
Jason B. Carmel, M.D., Ph.D.
FORMER FACULTY

Jason B. Carmel, M.D., Ph.D.

Former Lab Director
Motor Recovery Laboratory
Burke Neurological Institute
Former Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medicine
Former Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Neurology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Former Assistant Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
Weill Cornell Medicine
Weinberg Family Associate Professor of Neurology (in Orthopedics)
Executive Director & Research Director
Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center

Biography

I am a child neurologist and motor system neuroscientist interested in central nervous system injury and repair. During my postdoctoral fellowship in Jack Martin’s laboratory, I developed expertise in corticospinal injury and response to activity-based treatments. Using a combination of anatomy, physiology (brain mapping), and behavior, I have been able to identify the brain circuits that adapt to developmental brain injury.

My laboratory uses activity-based therapies, including brain stimulation and intensive behavioral training to promote recovery of function, both in rodents and humans. In a rodent hemiparesis model, we have demonstrated that stimulation of spared motor circuits causes them to sprout at their terminations in the spinal cord, form functional connections with spinal motor circuits, and restore motor skill.

My expertise in animal models of human disease and clinical neurology will allow me to translate the gains in understanding that we hope to achieve in the proposed studies into improved treatments for children with cerebral palsy. This is my goal as a physician-scientist: to direct a truly translational program in which we model activity-based repair strategies in young animals with early brain injury and then use those results to design better treatments for children at risk for cerebral palsy.

Board Certification     
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Special Qualification in Child Neurology

Instructor                  
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York

Education

Degree: 
Resident, Neurology
Institution: 
Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York
Degree: 
Intern, Pediatrics
Institution: 
Children’s Hospital of New York, Columbia University, New York
Degree: 
Ph.D., Neuroscience
Institution: 
Laboratory of Wise Young and Ronald Hart, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey
Degree: 
M.D.
Institution: 
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York
Degree: 
B.A.
Institution: 
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Recent Publications

PUBLICATION: 
Journal Article
Mooney SWJ, Hill NJ, Tuzun MS, Alam NM, Carmel JB, Prusky GT.
J Vis. 2018 Nov 1;18(12):7. doi: 10.1167/18.12.7.
Full-Text on Pubmed
PUBLICATION: 
Journal Article
Garcia Sandoval A, Pal A, Mishra A, Sherman S, Parikh AR, Joshi-Imre A, Gutierrez G, Duran Martinez AC, Nathan JA, Arreaga-Salas D, Hosseini SM, Carmel J, Voit W.
J Neural Eng. 2018 Mar 23. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/aab90d. [Epub ahead of print]
Abstract on PubMed
PUBLICATION: 
Journal Article
Gillick BT, Gordon AM, Feyma T, Krach LE, Carmel J, Rich TL, Bleyenheuft Y, Friel K.
Front Pediatr. 2018 Mar 16;6:56. doi: 10.3389/fped.2018.00056. eCollection 2018.
Full-Text on Pubmed