Pediatric Neurology; Neurology; Epilepsy; Neurogenetics; Epiepsy Neurogenetics; Developmental Delay; Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Epilepsy; Neurobiology of Disease; Physiology; Ion channels; Two-photon imaging.
Selected Publications
Sherer, M., Goldberg, E.M.: Flip of the Switch: Targeting GABA Dysregulation to Treat Nonseizure Comorbidities in Dravet Syndrome. Epilepsy Currents Nov 14 2025 Notes: Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1177/15357597251389967.
Hill, S.F., Liebergall, S.L., Wengert, E.R., Goldberg, E.M., Theyel, B.: Attenuated ectopic action potential firing in parvalbumin expressing interneurons in a mouse model of Dravet Syndrome. J Neurophysiol 133(6): 1692-1698, Jun 2025.
Edmondson, A.C., Budhraja, R., Xia, Z., Melendez-Perez, A., Cai, C., Radenkovic, S., Collins, A.M., Shiplett, E.J., Hill, S.F., Somarowthu, A., Dam, J., Pai, L.L., Santi, M., Kim, S., He, M., Goldberg, E.M., Kozicz, T., Morava, E., Pandey, A., Zhou, Z.: Novel mouse model reveals neurodevelopmental origin of PMM2-CDG brain pathology.
bioRxiv 2025.06.01.657261; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.01.657261
Jun 2025.
Rosenthal, Z., Joseph Majeski, J., Somarowthu, A., Quinn, D., Lindquist, D., Putt, M., Karaj, A., Favilla, C., Baker, W., Hosseini, G., Rodriguez, J., Cristancho, M., Sheline, Y., Shuttleworth, Abbott, C., Yodh, A., Goldberg, E.M.: Electroconvulsive therapy generates a hidden wave after seizure. Nat Commun 15((2_suppl)): 793S-822S, May 2025 Notes: doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.31.621357.
Furlanis, E., Dai, M., Garcia, B.L., Vergara, J., Pereira, A., Pelkey, K., Tran, T., Gorissen, B.L., Vlachos, A., Hairston, A., Huang, S., Dwivedi, D., Du, S., Wills, S., McMahon, J., Lee, A.T., Chang, E.F., Razzaq, T., Qazi, A., Vargish, G., Yuan, X., Caccavano, A., Hunt, S., Chittajallu, R., McLean, N., Hewit, L., Paranzino, E., Rice, H., Cummins, A.C., Plotnikova, A., Mohanty, A., Tangen, A.C., Shin, J.H., Azadi, R., Eldridge, M.A.G. Alvarez, V.A., Averbeck, B.B., Alyahyay, M., Vallejo, T.R., Soheib, M., Vattino, L.G., MacGregor, C.P., Banks, E., Olah, V.J., Naskar, S., Hill, S., Liebergall, S., Badiani, R., Hyde, L., Xu, Q., Allaway, K.C., Goldberg, E.M., Nowakowski, T.J., Lee, S., Takesian, A.E., Ibrahim, L.A., Iqbal, A., McBain, C.J., Dimidschstein, J., Fishell, G., Wang, Y.: An enhancer-AAV toolbox to target and manipulate distinct interneuron subtypes. Neuron
113(10): 1525-1547, May 2025.
Clatot, J., Thompson, C.H., Susan Sotardi, S., Jiang, J., Trivisano, M., Balestrini, S., Ward, I., Ginn, N., Guaragni, B., Malerba, L., Vakrinou, A., Sherer, M., Helbig, I., Somarowthu, A., Sisodiya, S.M., Ben-Shalom, R., Guerrini, R., Specchio, N., George, Jr., A.L., Goldberg, E.M.: Rare dysfunctional SCN2A variants are associated with malformation of cortical development. Epilepsia 66(3): 914-928, Mar 2025.
Wengert, E.R., Cheng, M.A., Liebergall, S.R., Markwalter, K.H., Hong, Y., Arias, L., Marsh, E.D., Zhang, X., Somarowthu, A., Goldberg, E.M.: Impaired excitability of fast-spiking neurons in a novel mouse model of KCNC1 epileptic encephalopathy. eLife 13(RP103784), December 2024 Notes: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103784.1
Epi25 Collaborative.: Exome sequencing of 20,979 individuals with epilepsy reveals shared and distinct ultra-rare genetic risk across disorder subtypes. Nat Neurosci 27(10): 1864-1879, Oct 2024.
Dabrowski, A.K., Goldberg, E.M.: A human touch: Hominid-specific LRRC37B regulates axon initial segment excitability
Epilepsy Currents 24(4): 286-288, Jul-Aug 2024.
Qu, G., Merchant, J.P., Clatot, J., DeFlitch, L., Frederick, D., Tang, S., Salvatore, M., Zhang, X., Li, J., Anderson, S.A., Goldberg, E.M.: Targeted blockade of aberrant sodium current in a stem cell-derived neuron model of SCN3A encephalopathy. Brain 147(4): 1247-1263, April 2024.
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