Ethan Firestone

Ethan Firestone

Ethan Firestone

Position Title

MD/PhD Candidate-Completed PhD and is returning to MD program to finish clerkships. Anticipated Graduation: 2026

Joint Appointments

 MD/PhD program

Areas of Interest

Intraoperative Localization of Epileptic Brain Regions Under Sevoflurane Anesthesia

Narrative Bio

 https://gradprograms.med.wayne.edu/profile/fx7349

Publications

  1. Ono H, Sonoda M, Sakakura K, Kitazawa Y, Mitsuhashi T, Firestone E, Jeong JW, Luat AF, Marupudi NI, Sood S, Asano E. Dynamic cortical and tractography atlases of proactive and reactive alpha and high-gamma activities. Brain Commun. 2023 Apr 4;5(2):fcad111. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad111. eCollection 2023. PMID: 37228850
  2. Firestone E, Sonoda M, Kuroda N, Sakakura K, Jeong JW, Lee MH, Wada K, Takayama Y, Iijima K, Iwasaki M, Miyazaki T, Asano E. Sevoflurane-induced high-frequency oscillations, effective connectivity and intraoperative classification of epileptic brain areas. Clin Neurophysiol. 2023 Mar 17;150:17-30. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.03.004. PMID: 36989866
  3. Kitazawa Y, Sonoda M, Sakakura K, Mitsuhashi T, Firestone E, Ueda R, Kambara T, Iwaki H, Luat AF, Marupudi NI, Sood S, Asano E. Intra- and inter-hemispheric network dynamics supporting object recognition and speech production. Neuroimage. 2023 Feb 23;270:119954. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119954. PMID: 36828156
  4. Sakakura K, Sonoda M, Mitsuhashi T, Kuroda N, Firestone E, O'Hara N, Iwaki H, Lee MH, Jeong JW, Rothermel R, Luat AF, Asano E. Developmental organization of neural dynamics supporting auditory perception. Neuroimage. 2022 Sep;258:119342. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119342. PMID: 3565437
  5. Mitsuhashi T, Sonoda M, Firestone E, Sakakura K, Jeong JW, Luat AF, Sood S, Asano E. Temporally and functionally distinct large-scale brain network dynamics supporting task switching. Neuroimage. 2022 Mar 22;254:119126. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119126. PMID: 35331870
  6. Wada K, Sonoda M, Firestone E, Sakakura K, Kuroda N, Takayama Y, Iijima K, Iwasaki M, Mihara T, Goto T, Asano E, Miyazaki T. Sevoflurane-based enhancement of phase-amplitude coupling and localization of the epileptogenic zone. Clin Neurophysiol. 2022 Feb;134:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.11.004. Epub 2021 Dec 1. PMID: 34922194
  7. Zhang J, Firestone E, Elattma A. Animal Models of Tinnitus Treatment: Cochlear and Brain Stimulation. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2021 Jul 20. doi: 10.1007/7854_2021_227. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34282563
  8. Wang W, Zinsmaier AK, Firestone E, Lin R, Yatskievych TA, Yang S, Zhang J, Bao S. Blocking Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Expression Prevents Blast-Induced Excitatory/Inhibitory Synaptic Imbalance and Parvalbumin-Positive Interneuron Loss in the Hippocampus. J Neurotrauma. 2018 Oct 1;35(19):2306-2316. doi: 10.1089/neu.2018.5688. PMID: 29649942
  9. Kaneko T, Macara AM, Li R, Hu Y, Iwasaki K, Dunnings Z, Firestone E, Horvatic S, Guntur A, Shafer OT, Yang CH, Zhou J, Ye B. Serotonergic Modulation Enables Pathway-Specific Plasticity in a Developing Sensory Circuit in Drosophila. Neuron. 2017 Aug 2;95(3):722. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.07.023. PMID: 28772126
  10. Kaneko T, Macara AM, Li R, Hu Y, Iwasaki K, Dunnings Z, Firestone E, Horvatic S, Guntur A, Shafer OT, Yang CH, Zhou J, Ye B. Serotonergic Modulation Enables Pathway-Specific Plasticity in a Developing Sensory Circuit in Drosophila. Neuron. 2017 Aug 2;95(3):623-638.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.034. PMID: 28712652

 

Education

BS in Celluar and Molecular Biology, University of Michigan

MS in Basic Medical Sciences, Wayne State University

 

 

Advisor

Drs. Eishi Asano and Donald DeGracia

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