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Stuart McAfee, PhD
Stuart McAfee, PhD

Stuart McAfee, PhD

Instructor, St. Jude Faculty

Departments

Divisions

Education

BS – University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Ph.D. (Neuroscience) – University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN

Research Interests

  • Network interactions between cerebellum, brainstem, and cerebral cortex in normal development and disease
  • Etiology of mutism and related symptoms in posterior fossa syndrome

Professional Memberships

  • Posterior Fossa Society – Board member and Lead, Imaging and Neuroscience Group

Selected Publications

Ji Q, McAfee S, Scoggins M, Holtrop J, Glass JO, Yuan X, Liang J, Li Y, Chiang J, Orr BA, Edwards A, Storment D, Brinkman T, Robinson GW, Gajjar A, Reddick WE, Patay Z, Khan RB, Bag AK. Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome and Dentato-Thalamo-Cortical Tract Disruption in Diffusion Tractography Following Surgery for Medulloblastoma. (2024). Radiology, e232521. PMID: 38742969; PMCID: PMC11140529

McAfee S, Robinson G, Gajjar A, Phillips NS, Zhang S, Zou Stinnett P, Sitaram R, Raches D, Conklin HM, Khan RB, Scoggins MA. Secondary cerebro-cerebellar and intracerebellar dysfunction in cerebellar mutism syndrome. (2024). Neuro-Oncology, noae070. PMID: 38581226

McAfee S, Robinson G, Gajjar A, Zhang S, Bag A, Raches D, Conklin H, Khan R, & Scoggins M. (2023). Cerebellar mutism is linked to midbrain volatility and desynchronization from speech cortices. Brain, awad209. PMID: 37343136

Zhang S, McAfee S, Patay Z, Pinto S, & Scoggins M. (2023). Automatic detection and segmentation of postoperative cerebellar damage based on normalization. Neuro-Oncology Advances, 5(1), vdad006. PMID: 36926247

McAfee S, Zhang S, Zou P, Conklin H, Raches D, Robinson G, Gajjar A, Khan R, Klimo P, Patay Z, Scoggins M (2023). Fastigial nuclei surgical damage and focal midbrain disruption implicate PAG survival circuits in cerebellar mutism syndrome. Neuro-oncology, 25(2), 375–385. PMID: 35789275

Liu Y, McAfee S, Van Der Heijden M, Dhamala M, Sillitoe R, & Heck D. (2022). Causal evidence for a role of cerebellar lobulus simplex in prefrontal-hippocampal interaction in spatial working memory decision-making. The Cerebellum, 21(5), 762–775. PMID: 35218525

McAfee S, Liu Y, Sillitoe R, & Heck D. (2019). Cerebellar lobulus simplex and crus I differentially represent phase and phase difference of prefrontal cortical and hippocampal oscillations. Cell reports, 27(8), 2328–2334. PMID: 31116979

McAfee S, Liu Y, Dhamala M, & Heck D. (2018). Thalamocortical communication in the awake mouse visual system involves phase synchronization and rhythmic spike synchrony at high gamma frequencies. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 837. PMID: 30524224

Liu Y, McAfee S, Guley N, Del Mar N, Bu W, Heldt S, Honig M, Moore B, Reiner A, & Heck D. (2017). Abnormalities in dynamic brain activity caused by mild traumatic brain injury are partially rescued by the cannabinoid type-2 receptor inverse agonist SMM-189. eNeuro, 4(4). PMID: 28828401

Liu Y, McAfee S, Heck D. (2017). Hippocampal sharp-wave ripples in awake mice are entrained by respiration. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1–9. PMID: 28827599

McAfee S, Ogg M, Ross J, Liu Y, Fletcher M, & Heck D. (2016). Minimally invasive highly precise monitoring of respiratory rhythm in the mouse using an epithelial temperature probe. Journal of neuroscience methods, 263, 89–94. PMID: 26868731

Narayana S, Rezaie R, McAfee S, Choudhri A, Babajani-Feremi A, Fulton S, Boop F, Wheless J, & Papanicolaou A. (2015). Assessing motor function in young children with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Pediatric neurology, 52(1), 94–103. PMID: 25439485

Choudhri A, Narayana S, Rezaie R, Whitehead M, McAfee S, Wheless J, Boop F, & Papanicolaou A. (2013). Same day tri-modality functional brain mapping prior to resection of a lesion involving eloquent cortex: technical feasibility. The neuroradiology journal, 26(5), 548–554. PMID: 24199815

Last update: June 2024

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