The lab conducts clinical translational studies in both adult and pediatric brain injury, employing clinically feasible neurophysiological tools—the electroencephalogram (EEG) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)—alongside state-of-the-art neuroimaging tools (magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) ligand studies.
The lab has identified novel biomarkers of altered executive function after traumatic brain injury (TBI) in adults and in recovery from coma in pediatric subjects. Impaired integrative brain functions, particularly within the cognitive domains, such as the impaired ability to perceive, plan, reason, and remember, are the most common and debilitating consequences of brain injury. Despite the tremendous acute and chronic impact of cognitive impairments post-injury, efforts to accurately diagnose, sensitively prognosticate, and track therapeutic interventions remain limited.
Biography
Sudhin Shah, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of neuroscience in the department of radiology within the Brain Health and Imaging Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM). She received her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Drexel University followed by a M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in systems neuroscience from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University. She completed her postdoctoral training at WCM as well. Dr. Shah is also the Scientific Director of cognitive recovery research at Blythedale Children’s Hospital. She is an affiliate faculty member with the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury at WCM. She has served on several National Institutes of Health scientific review panels, and as an invited reviewer for several journals. She has also served as a research mentor for more than 10 medical and graduate students.
