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Education Through Autism
Road to Resilience - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsTrying to fit in can be a real challenge for autistic children. They may want to be social but lack the necessary skills. Or they may be happy to go it alone but feel tremendous pressure from family and school to be more social. Physician and researcher Alexander Kolevzon, MD, discusses his effo...
Thriving With Down Syndrome
Road to Resilience - April 11, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsDown syndrome is a genetic condition that carries physical, emotional, and intellectual concerns. But with proper health care, and a dose of realistic optimism, patients and their families can live happy and fulfilling lives. Geneticist Elsharkawi, MD, maintains that collaboration among healthca...
Life After Domestic Violence
Road to Resilience - March 27, 2024 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsIntimate partner violence can involve various physical injuries —including repeated concussions and strangulations—as well as emotional abuse. And when you add in misconceptions and stigma, it’s a real resilience challenge. On this episode, Neurologist Kristen Dams-O'Connor, PhD, and domestic ab...
When Hearts Attack
Road to Resilience - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsThe heart and mind are intertwined, as cardiologist Marc Miller, MD, knows in treating and researching heart conditions. Recuperating from a heart attack, for example, requires modification of both medicine and lifestyle—and emotional resilience. The same goes for mitral valve prolapse, a heart...
The Trials of Scientific Research
Road to Resilience - February 28, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsGenetics is an increasingly vital part of medical prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. But as findings increase, so do the challenges. Brian Brown, PhD, discusses the roles of resilience and perseverance in overcoming obstacles in scientific research. Visit https://www.mountsinai.org/clinical...
The Brain & Body Under Social Stress
Road to Resilience - February 15, 2024 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsLessons in resilience may be found in all walks of life— who knew some of the best would come from mouse behaviors? Dr. Scott Russo leads the Center for Affective Neuroscience and the Brain Body Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. On this special edition of Road to Re...
The Challenges of Schizophrenia
Road to Resilience - February 01, 2024 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsSchizophrenia brings both psychological and societal challenges. Medication can help but resilience, says psychiatrist Dr. Alexander Charney, is another key element of learning to live with the disease. In this podcast, Dr. Charney discusses the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia and other...
Bridging Parenting and Recovery
Road to Resilience - January 17, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsAddiction can always come with stigma and setbacks. For pregnant people, the physical, psychological, and social strains can feel even more challenging. The Bridge Program at Mount Sinai, led by Leah Habersham, MD, provides integrated prenatal care and substance-use treatment that can put you on...
Physical Endurance Breeds Resilience
Road to Resilience - January 02, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsWhat do a triathlon and All Quiet on the Western Front have in common? Answer: Lesley Paterson, and her stamina and perseverence. An actor, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and 5-time world champion triathlete, Lesley discusses how her chosen fields tested her resilience— and how each of those jour...
Interpreting Resilience
Road to Resilience - December 20, 2023 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsHaving managed the challenges of paraplegia since childhood, Alessa Ramos uses her language skills and experience to help Mount Sinai patients develop and sustain their own resilience. In this podcast, she shares her journey. Visit https://www.mountsinai.org/clinical-trials to see if you're eli...
The Dog Will See You Now
Road to Resilience - December 05, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsWorking in healthcare can sometimes be a ruff job, but for Mount Sinai's trained facility dogs, each day is absolutely fetching. Mount Sinai's three facility dogs —Professor, Amos, and Moby— are a part of the trailblazing Paws & Play Facility Dog Program at Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Si...
What Kids Teach Us About Resilience
Road to Resilience - November 28, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsWhat can children and young adults teach grown-ups about resilience? Barbara Sahakian, PhD, has some answers. Dr. Sahakian is a Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge and has authored and coauthored multiple studies over the years, including a 2023 study on how pare...
Women's Health is Everyone's Rights
Road to Resilience - November 09, 2023 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsThe fight for greater research into women's health means greater rights and knowledge for everyone, as our guest on this episode illustrates. Michal Elovitz, MD, is the Dean of Women's Health Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also the Director of the Women's Biomedi...
The Cold Chill of Seasonal Depression
Road to Resilience - October 24, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsWhen seasonal affective disorder (SAD) —also called seasonal depression—gets you down, your own resilience skills can help. On this episode of Road to Resilience, we hear resilience strategies on how to cope with SAD from Dr. Jelena Kecmanovic, PhD, a practicing clinical psychologist. Dr. Kecman...
When a Family Experiences a Homicide
Road to Resilience - October 12, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsLeslie Schlachter, a physician’s assistant in the neurosurgery department at Mount Sinai, witnessed the murder of her sister by a jealous ex-boyfriend. She discusses her long journey to recovery from PTSD and the impact on her work, in this special interview with Jonathan Depierro, PhD, Associat...
A New Approach to Behavioral Health
Road to Resilience - September 28, 2023 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsOn this podcast, Grant Mitchell, MD, describes the new Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center, a radical reimagination of how to deliver mental health care. From the welcoming physical environment with natural light and outdoor spaces, the Center inspires hope when each patient comes through the d...
Learning Through Widowhood
Road to Resilience - September 14, 2023 10:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsOn Valentine's Day, 2000, Carolyn Moor and her husband were in a car accident that took his life. Over the coming decades Carolyn channeled her grief into a career providing solace to —and advocacy for— the world's widows. On this special edition episode of Road to Resilience, Carolyn discusses ...
Coping with a Rapid-Aging Disease
Road to Resilience - August 31, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsTiffany Wedekind is an artist and professional candlemaker living in Columbus, Ohio. That in itself is a testimony to her resilience because Tiffany is also one of the world's oldest-known survivors of progeria, a rapid-aging disease that typically takes its sufferers by the time they're teenage...
Powering Through Internal Conflict
Road to Resilience - August 17, 2023 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsLaurie Keefer, PhD, is the Director of Psychobehavioral Research within Mount Sinai's Division of Gastroenterology. As a practicing physician and researcher, Dr. Keefer studies and treats diseases of the gut. On this episode of Road to Resilience, Dr. Keefer explains the process of teaching resi...
A Child's Diary of War
Road to Resilience - August 01, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsZlata Filipovic is a documentary filmmaker and world-renowned diarist. In 1992, as the war in Bosnia arrived in her hometown of Sarajevo, Zlata recounted the war's horrors in her diary. The diary's publication in 1993 brought worldwide acclaim, as well as the means for Zlata and her family to es...
The Sound of Music in Therapy
Road to Resilience - July 18, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsA music therapist at Mount Sinai's Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine discusses the center's innovative work in medical music psychotherapy. Caitlin Bell is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist in New York State and a Board Certified Music therapist at the Armstrong Center. She is an ac...
Resilience Lessons from Sully
Road to Resilience - July 06, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsFormer pilot Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger discusses resilience principles he honed through family tragedy, his decades as an Air Force pilot and commercial pilot, and his successful emergency landing of a passenger aircraft in the Hudson River, in what became known as "The Miracle on the H...
The Long Battle with Long COVID
Road to Resilience - June 22, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsTwo of Mount Sinai’s leading physicians and researchers discuss the prevailing research into and treatment for long COVID. Dr. Zijian Chen is an endocrinologist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and the director of the Center for Post-COVID Care at Mount Sinai; Dr. David Putrino is the Director of R...
Return of Road to Resilience
Road to Resilience - June 13, 2023 11:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsAfter a yearlong hiatus, Road to Resilience returns with a new producer and host. Stephen Calabria is the Director of Podcasting for the Mount Sinai Health System. He comes with a background in print and TV journalism, as well as years of experience in podcast hosting and producing. On this rela...
Farewell
Road to Resilience - February 14, 2022 20:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsRoad to Resilience host and producer Jon Earle signs off with a few reflections from listeners on the past 75 episodes. Stay subscribed for future updates about the podcast. Check out more episodes of Road to Resilience —as well as guest pictures, transcripts, and more— on the Mount Sinai webs...
A Programming Note
Road to Resilience - February 06, 2022 19:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsAfter more than 400,000 downloads, Road to Resillience host and producer Jon Earle is saying goodbye. For his final episode, we would like to feature you! We want to hear about your favorite guest, episode, or resilience insight. What’s one thing you have you learned from the podcast that has ...
Bright Days, Dark Nights
Road to Resilience - January 12, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsMariana Figueiro, PhD, is director of the Light and Health Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She studies how to use light to improve human health, including for patients with Alzheimer's, cancer, and Parkinson's. On Road to Resilience, Dr. Figueiro explains how to u...
Talking Resilience With a Harlem Minister
Road to Resilience - December 16, 2021 04:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsRev. Audrey A. Williamson of Harlem's historic Mother AME Zion Church estimates that up to 15 percent of her congregation succumbed to COVID-19, a burden of grief that weighs heavily on the community. Eager to help, Rev. Williamson recently teamed up with Mount Sinai's Center for Stress, Resilie...
A Psychedelic Solution to Complex PTSD?
Road to Resilience - December 08, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsA conversation between Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Bessel van der Kolk, MD, President of the Trauma Research Foundation and author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller The Body ...
The Cancer Dancer
Road to Resilience - November 04, 2021 20:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 190 ratingsSarrah Strimel Bentley has been singing and dancing since she was three years old. “I would spend hours putting on one-woman shows,” she recalls. “I think we all knew pretty early on what I was destined to do.” Sarrah went on to appear in The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and other Broadway sho...
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