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James J Young, MD, PhD
JAKE YOUNG (Preferred Name)
Neurology
About Me
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.
Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Neurology, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Neurosurgery
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai South Nassau
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
Research Topics
Depression, Epilepsy, Memory, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience
Clinical Focus
- Electroencephalogram
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG) with video
- Epilepsy
- Seizure Disorder
Education
MD, 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 & Medical Center
Residency, Neurology
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Fellowship, Clinical Neurophysiology
Mount Sinai Hospital
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Awards
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
Insurance Information
Accepted insurance may vary by the doctor’s office location. Please contact the office directly to obtain the most up-to-date insurance information.
- 1199 SEIU
- AETNA - Commercial
- AETNA - Medicare
- Affinity Medicaid-Medicare-Essential Exchange
- Amidacare Medicaid
- CIGNA Healthcare
- Centivo
- Elderplan
- EmblemHealth - GHI-PPO
- EmblemHealth - HIP
- EmblemHealth - HIP-Medicaid
- EmblemHealth - HIP-Medicare
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - Commercial/Exchange
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - HealthPlus Medicaid
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - Medicare
- Fidelis Health Care
- HealthFirst Medicaid
- HealthFirst Medicare
- Horizon NJ
- Magnacare-Health Care
- Medicare - NJ
- Medicare - NY
- Metroplus
- Multiplan PHCS
- NJ Medicaid
- NY Medicaid
- Oscar
- Oxford - Freedom and Liberty
- Partners Health Plan
- Senior Whole Health
- United Health Care - Commercial
- United Health Care - Empire Plan
- United Health Care - Oxford Care
- United Health Care - Top Tier
- VNSNY Choice Medicare
- VNSNY Select Health Medicaid
- VillageCareMax
- WellCare Health Plan
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Publications
Selected Publications
- Healthcare utilization impacts of an eConsult program for headache at an academic medical center. Margaret H. Downes, Rachelle Morgenstern, Georges Naasan, Shanna Patterson, Anna Pace, Parul Agarwal, Susan Shin, Rory Abrams, Bridget Mueller, James Young, Ronald Tamler, Barbara G. Vickrey, Benjamin R. Kummer. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
- The neural activity of auditory conscious perception. Kate L. Christison-Lagay, Aya Khalaf, Noah C. Freedman, Christopher Micek, Sharif I. Kronemer, Mariana M. Gusso, Lauren Kim, Sarit Forman, Julia Ding, Mark Aksen, Ahmad Abdel-Aty, Hunki Kwon, Noah Markowitz, Erin Yeagle, Elizabeth Espinal, Jose Herrero, Stephan Bickel, James Young, Ashesh Mehta, Kun Wu, Jason Gerrard, Eyiyemisi Damisah, Dennis Spencer, Hal Blumenfeld. NeuroImage
- Intracranial substrates of meditation-induced neuromodulation in the amygdala and hippocampus. Christina Maher, Lea Tortolero, Soyeon Jun, Daniel D. Cummins, Adam Saad, James Young, Lizbeth Nunez Martinez, Zachary Schulman, Lara Marcuse, Allison Waters, Helen S. Mayberg, Richard J. Davidson, Fedor Panov, Ignacio Saez. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Dr. Young has not yet completed reporting of Industry relationships.
Mount Sinai’s faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.