
Shari Birnbaum, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School Medical School
Department Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute | Psychiatry
Education
- Graduate School
- Yale University (2002)
Publications
Featured Publications
- Aberrant hippocampal neurogenesis contributes to epilepsy and associated cognitive decline.
- Cho KO, Lybrand ZR, Ito N, Brulet R, Tafacory F, Zhang L, Good L, Ure K, Kernie SG, Birnbaum SG, Scharfman HE, Eisch AJ, Hsieh J Nat Commun 2015 6 6606
- Image-guided cranial irradiation-induced ablation of dentate gyrus neurogenesis impairs extinction of recent morphine reward memories.
- Rivera PD, Simmons SJ, Reynolds RP, Just AL, Birnbaum SG, Eisch AJ, Hippocampus 2019 Feb
- Reduced GluN1 in mouse dentate gyrus is associated with CA3 hyperactivity and psychosis-like behaviors.
- Segev A, Yanagi M, Scott D, Southcott SA, Lister JM, Tan C, Li W, Birnbaum SG, Kourrich S, Tamminga CA Mol. Psychiatry 2018 Jul
- TrkB dependent adult hippocampal progenitor differentiation mediates sustained ketamine antidepressant response.
- Ma Z, Zang T, Birnbaum SG, Wang Z, Johnson JE, Zhang CL, Parada LF Nat Commun 2017 Nov 8 1 1668
- Genetic background effects in Neuroligin-3 mutant mice: Minimal behavioral abnormalities on C57 background.
- Jaramillo TC, Escamilla CO, Liu S, Peca L, Birnbaum SG, Powell CM Autism Res 2017 Oct
- Foxp1 in forebrain pyramidal neurons controls gene expression required for spatial learning and synaptic plasticity.
- Araujo DJ, Toriumi K, Escamilla CO, Kulkarni A, Anderson AG, Harper M, Usui N, Ellegood J, Lerch JP, Birnbaum SG, Tucker HO, Powell CM, Konopka G J. Neurosci. 2017 Oct
- Autonomous and non-autonomous roles for ephrin-B in interneuron migration.
- Talebian A, Britton R, Ammanuel S, Bepari A, Sprouse F, Birnbaum SG, Szabó G, Tamamaki N, Gibson J, Henkemeyer M Dev. Biol. 2017 Sep
- Deletion of Kv4.2 gene eliminates dendritic A-type K+ current and enhances induction of long-term potentiation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons.
- Chen X, Yuan LL, Zhao C, Birnbaum SG, Frick A, Jung WE, Schwarz TL, Sweatt JD, Johnston D J. Neurosci. 2006 Nov 26 47 12143-51
- Signal transduction mechanisms in memory disorders.
- Shalin SC, Egli R, Birnbaum SG, Roth TL, Levenson JM, Sweatt JD Prog. Brain Res. 2006 157 25-41
- Protein kinase C overactivity impairs prefrontal cortical regulation of working memory.
- Birnbaum SG, Yuan PX, Wang M, Vijayraghavan S, Bloom AK, Davis DJ, Gobeske KT, Sweatt JD, Manji HK, Arnsten AF Science 2004 Oct 306 5697 882-4
Honors & Awards
- NIH fellowship
NRSA individual postdoctoral NIH fellowship award (2005) - Institutional Training Award
Baylor College of Medicine, Brain Disorders and Development (2002)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society (2002)
- Society for Neuroscience (1991)