Dr. Maria Teresa Lechuga M.D.
Emergency Physician (Pediatric) | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
8900 Van Wyck Expy Richmond Hill NY, 11418About
Dr. Maria Lechuga is a pediatric emergency medicine physician practicing in Richmond Hill, NY. Dr. Lechuga specializes in providing care for critically ill and injured children. Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians possess a vast amount of knowledge in areas such as neonatology, critical care and forensic pediatrics. Children involved in automobile accidents, child abuse or near-drowning episodes are frequent cases treated by pediatric emergency medicine physicians.
Education and Training
Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico,Ciudad Universitaria, Facultad De Medicina MD
University of New Mexico School of Medicine 1973
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Episodic recall of specifics and generalisation coexist in 25-month-old children.
- Old-fashioned responses in an updating memory task.
- Age differences in memory control: evidence from updating and retrieval-practice tasks.
- Retrieval-induced forgetting in recall and recognition of thematically related and unrelated sentences.
- Inhibition and retrieval of facts in young and older adults.
- Similarity-based interference in a working memory numerical updating task: age-related differences between younger and older adults.
- The role of similarity in updating numerical information in working memory: decomposing the numerical distance effect.
- Age differences in working memory updating: the role of interference, focus switching and substituting information.
- Normative data on the n-back task for children and young adolescents.
- Training working memory updating in young adults.
Treatments
- Gastritis
- Gastroenteritis
- Stomach Flu
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