Joel Geerling, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
Introduction
I am a clinician-scientist. Most of my time is spent in a basic science laboratory, conducting experiments for neuroscience projects. I spend the remainder of my time seeing patients in a the Cognitive Neurology clinic at UIHC and teaching neurology and neuroscience to PhD students, medical students, residents, and fellows.
Current Positions
- Associate Professor of Neurology
Education
- PhD in Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- MD in Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
- PGY1 in Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center / New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, United States
- PGY2 - PGY4 in Neurology, Harvard Medical School / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- PGY5 - PGY7 in Cognitive and behavioral neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
- Neuroanatomy
- Sodium appetite (salt hunger) neural circuitry
- Bladder control (micturition, incontinence) neural circuitry
- Neurodegeneration
- Cognitive neurology
- Sleep circuitry
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Arousal (wakefulness) neural circuitry
- Thermoregulation neural circuitry
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD/FTLD)
Licenses & Certifications
- American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry certification, American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry, United States
- Iowa medical license, State of Iowa Board of Medicine, Iowa, United States
- Massachusetts medical license, Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, Massachusetts, United States
Selected Publications
- Gasparini, S., Howland, J. M., Thatcher, A. J. & Geerling, J. C. (2020). Central afferents to the nucleus of the solitary tract in rats and mice. The Journal of comparative neurology 528 (16) 2708-2728. DOI: 10.1002/cne.24927. PMID: 32307700.
- Grady, F., Peltekian, L., Iverson, G. & Geerling, J. C. (2020). Direct Parabrachial-Cortical Connectivity. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 30 (9) 4811-4833. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa072. PMID: 32383444. PMCID: PMC7391272.
- Huang, D., Grady, F. S., Peltekian, L. & Geerling, J. C. (2020). Efferent projections of Vglut2, Foxp2, and Pdyn parabrachial neurons in mice. The Journal of comparative neurology. DOI: 10.1002/cne.24975. PMID: 32621762.
- Tish, M. M. & Geerling, J. C. (2020). The Brain and the Bladder: Forebrain Control of Urinary (In)Continence. Frontiers in physiology 11 658. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00658. PMID: 32719609. PMCID: PMC7349519.
- Verstegen, A. M., Tish, M. M., Szczepanik, L. P., Zeidel, M. L. & Geerling, J. C. (2019). Micturition video thermography in awake, behaving mice. Journal of neuroscience methods 331 108449. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2019.108449. PMID: 31812917.
- Verstegen AMJ, Klymko, N., Zhu, L., Mathai, J. C., Kobayashi, R., Venner, A., Ross, R. A., VanderHorst, V. G., Arrigoni, E., Geerling, J. C. & Zeidel, M. L. (2019). Non-Crh Glutamatergic Neurons in Barrington's Nucleus Control Micturition via Glutamatergic Afferents from the Midbrain and Hypothalamus. Current biology : CB 29 (17) 2775-2789.e7. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.009. PMID: 31422881. PMCID: PMC6736713.
- Geerling, J. C. & Boes, A. D. (2019). Reply to "Role of Thalamus in Sleep-Wake Cycle Regulation". (Vols. 85). (4), pp. 612-613. Annals of neurology. DOI: 10.1002/ana.25448. PMID: 30803002.
- McCarron, D. A., Geerling, J. C. & Alderman, M. H. (2019). Urinary sodium excretion measures and health outcomes. (Vols. 393). (10178), pp. 1294-1295. Lancet (London, England). DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30232-6. PMID: 30938309.
- Holth, J. K., Fritschi, S. K., Wang, C., Pedersen, N. P., Cirrito, J. R., Mahan, T. E., Finn, M. B., Manis, M., Geerling, J. C., Fuller, P. M., Lucey, B. P. & Holtzman, D. M. (2019). The sleep-wake cycle regulates brain interstitial fluid tau in mice and CSF tau in humans. Science (New York, N.Y.) 363 (6429) 880-884. DOI: 10.1126/science.aav2546. PMID: 30679382. PMCID: PMC6410369.
- Agostinelli, L. J., Geerling, J. C. & Scammell, T. E. (2019). Basal forebrain subcortical projections. Brain structure & function. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-018-01820-6. PMID: 30612231.