Gordon Buchanan, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Current Positions
- Professor of Neurology
- Beth L. Tross Epilepsy Professor
Education
- BS in Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
- MS in Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
- PhD in Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
- MD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
- Resident in Neurology, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- Fellow in Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Graduate Program Affiliations
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
- Mechanisms of CO2-induced arousal from sleep
- Basic mechanisms of epilepsy
- Mechanisms of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
Licenses & Certifications
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- American Board of Medical Examiners
Selected Publications
- Petrucci, A., Joyal, K., Purnell, B. & Buchanan, G. (In Press). Serotonin and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
- Buchanan, G. (2019). Impaired CO2-induced arousal in SIDS and SUDEP. Trends Neurosci..
- Li, R. & Buchanan, G. (2019). Scurrying to understand sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: insights from animal models. Epi Currents..
- Gorter, J., van Vilet, E., dedeeurwaerdere, S., Buchanan, G., Friedman, K., Borges, H., Grabenstatter, K., Lukazuki, K., Scharfman, H. & Nehlig, A. (2018). A companion to the Preclinical Common Data Elements for physiological data in rodent epilepsy models. A report of the TASK3 Physiology Working Group of the ILAE/AES Joint Translational Task Force.
- Smith, R., Leiboid, D., Rappoport, M., Ginapp, S., Purnell, M., Bode, L., Alberico, C., Kim, E., Audero, C., Gross, T. & Buchanan, G. (2018). Dorsal raphe serotonin neurons medicate CO2-induced arousal from sleep.
- Buchanan, G. Impaired CO2-induced arousal in SIDS and SUDEP. Trends Neurosci. Invited Opinion.
- Goldman, A. M., Buchanan, G. F., Aiba, I. & Noebels, J. L. (2017). Animal models of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. In Moshe, S. L., Galamopoulou, A. S., Schwartzkroin, P. A. & Pitkanen, A. (Eds.) Models of Seizures and Epilepsy. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, Academic Press.
- Buchana, G. & Richerson, G. (2017). 2018 Update of Current evidence for a role of serotonin in SUDEP.
- Goldman, M., Buchanan, G., Noebels, A. & Noebels, J. (2017). Animal models of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. In Models of Seizures and Epilepsy, eds.
- Leibold, N. K., van den Hove, D. L., Viechtbauer, W., Buchanan, G. F., Goossens, L., Lange, I., Knuts, I., Lesch, K. P., Steinbusch, H. W. & Schruers, K. R. (2016). CO2 exposure as translational cross-species experimental model for panic. Translational psychiatry 6 (9) e885. DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.162. PMID: 27598969. PMCID: PMC5048202.