Stanley E Smerin

Ph.D.

Department of Primary Appointment:
School of Medicine
Psychiatry
Title
Senior Research Associate
Location: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Research Interests:
Neuropsychology
Neurophysiology
Office Phone

Education

Ph.D. Neuropsychology Stanford
B.A. Biology Stanford

Biography

Dr. Smerin's career interest is in the neurophysiology underlying the intersection of cognition and emotion. His dissertation with Karl Pribram is early work tying the striatum with visual attention. Under William de Groat he researched the effect of traumatic injury on neural reorganization. At NIH he moved to modulation of brain rhythmicity by potassium leak channels. The devastation caused by of anger in PTSD and TBI has led to his "Neurophysiology of Anger" project currently in the USU Department of Psychiatry.

Representative Bibliography

Tai C., Smerin S.E., de Groat W.C., Roppolo J.R. (2006) Pudendal-to-bladder reflex in chronic spinal-cord-injured cats. Experimental Neurology 197:225 – 234

Koizumi H.*, Smerin S.E.*, Yamanishi T.*, Moorjani B.R., Zhang R., Smith J.C. (2010) TASK Channels Contribute to the K+- Dominated Leak Current Regulating Respiratory Rhythm Generation in Vitro. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(12):4273– 4284. * = Contributed equally.

Zhang L., Li H., Hu X., Li X., Smerin S.E., Ursano R. (2011) Glucocorticoid-induced p11 over-expression and chromatin remodeling: A novel molecular mechanism of traumatic stress? Medical Hypotheses 76:774–777.

Jia M., Meng F., Smerin S. E., Xing G., Zhang L., Su D. M., Li H. (2012) Biomarkers in an animal model for revealing neural, hematologic, and behavioral correlates of PTSD. J. Vis. Exp. (), e3361, DOI: 10.3791/3361

Li H., Li X., Smerin S.E., Zhang L., Jia M., Xing G., Su Y.A., Wen J., Benedek D., Ursano R. (2014) Mitochondrial gene expression profiles and metabolic pathways in the amygdala associated with exaggerated fear in an animal model of PTSD. Frontiers in Neurology 5 (article 164): 1-15

Jia M., Smerin S.E., Zhang L., Xing G., Li X., Benedek D., Ursano R., Li H. (2015) Corticosterone mitigates the stress response in an animal model of PTSD. Journal of Psychiatric Research 60:29-39.

Zhang L., …, Smerin S.E. … (2015) Mitochondria-focused gene expression profile reveals common pathways and CPT1B dysregulation in both rodent stress model and human subjects with PTSD. Translational Psychiatry 5, e580; doi:10.1038/tp.2015.65.

Smerin S.E. and Li H. (2017) Neurophysiology of Anger in PTSD. Society for Neuroscience poster and abstract