Shari Birnbaum, PhD

Assistant Professor
Psychiatry

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-5123
Office Fax: 214-648-4182

shari.birnbaum@utsouthwestern.edu

Education

Graduate SchoolYale University (2002)

Publications

Signal Transduction Mechanisms in Memory Disorders

Shalin S., Egli R.E., Birnbaum S., Roth T., Levenson J. and Sweatt, J.D. , Progress in Brain Research, Moller, S.B. Chapman, and S.G. Lomber, Eds , 2006;

Protein kinase C overactivity impairs prefrontal cortical regulation of working memory

Birnbaum, S.G., Yuan, P.X., Wang, M., Vijayraghavanm S., Bloom, A.K., Davis, D.J., Gobeske, K.T., Sweatt, J.D., Manji., H.K., Arnsten, A.F.T. , Science , 2004; (306):882-884

Deletion of Kv4.2 gene eliminates dendritic A-type K+ current and enhances induction of long-term potentiation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons.

L.L. Yuan*, X. Chen*, C. Zhao, S.G. Birnbaum, A. Frick, W. E. Jung, T.L. Schwarz, J. D. Sweatt, D. Johnston , J. Neuroscience , ; (submitted)

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

Society for Neuroscince