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Jay Nair

Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy at Thomas Jefferson University; neurorehabilitation researcher specializing in spinal cord injury and Down syndrome respiratory neural control

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Jun 18, 2026

Down Syndrome Center Podcast

Down Syndrome Center Podcast

#228 - Central Neural Drive and Breathing in Down Syndrome

Jun 18 · 29m

Kishore VellodyHOST

9:14

Give us some ideas of what's been going on.

9:17

Yeah, so I think what the, I mean, it'll be, I may be sounding too naive, but I feel like the clinical testing for breathing is still like, you know, airplane mode.

9:29

Like, you know, when you say airplane, I'm saying like the invention as far as the, like, you know, aircraft is concerned is stuck in 60s.

9:36

All the flights are, all the innovation happened in 60s.

9:39

And then, you know, we're still using the same aircraft for like, you know, passenger movement and all those things.

9:44

So same way I think pulmonary function test is the only way we are assessing breathing.

9:48

But breathing, that only covers one aspect of the whole neuro axis that controls breathing.

9 MINS LATER

Kishore VellodyHOST

18:55

I don't know, is that something that you have been looking at in terms of strategies to help with this neural drive and how we might be able to help people with Down syndrome?