Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. His primary interest is in basic and clinically applied cognitive neuroscience: that is, the search to understand how the brain works and how this knowledge can be applied to treat disease. Dr. Altschuler was the first to show a benefit of mirror therapy for individuals with hemiparesis following stroke, and the use of mirror therapy for an orthopaedic condition. x