Susan Barman, PhD; FAPS

she/her/hers
University Distinguished Professor
Pharmacology & Toxicology

Bio

I have had a career-long interest in neural control of cardiorespiratory function with an emphasis on the characterization and origin of the naturally occurring discharges of sympathetic and phrenic nerves. I was a recipient of a prestigious National Institutes of Health MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award.

Colleges

• College of Human Medicine

Programs

• Neuroscience Program
• ASPET Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF) Program Director

Works

• Operations perspective to competency-based medical education: Experiences of IUPS-ICMR Physiology Education Workshop series (2018-2019) conducted in India. The Indian journal of medical research (2021)
• Physiological Societies Across the Globe Unite in an Effort to Handle the COVID-19 Pandemic. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) (2021)
• IUPS Physiology Education Workshop series in India: organizational mechanics, outcomes, and lessons. Advances in physiology education (2020)
• Responses of Neurons in the Medullary Lateral Tegmental Field and Nucleus Tractus Solitarius to Vestibular Stimuli in Conscious Felines. Frontiers in neurology (2020)
• Physiology without borders: report on physiology education workshops in India-IUPS Initiatives (2018-2019). Advances in physiology education (2020)
• Responses of neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of conscious cats to anticipated and passive movements. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2020)
• 2019 Ludwig Lecture: Rhythms in sympathetic nerve activity are a key to understanding neural control of the cardiovascular system. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2019)
• Renewed excitement for paraventricular neurons and sympathetic nerve activity. The Journal of Physiology (2018)
• Global Status of Physiology in Research, Education, and Outreach. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) (2018)
• Deciphering the Neural Control of Sympathetic Nerve Activity: Status Report and Directions for Future Research. Frontiers in neuroscience (2017)
• Ensuring due process in the IACUC and animal welfare setting: considerations in developing noncompliance policies and procedures for institutional animal care and use committees and institutional officials. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (2017)
• Overview of the Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology of the Autonomic Nervous System. Comprehensive Physiology (2016)
• How Diversity is Becoming a Reality in the American Physiological Society. The Physiologist (2015)
• 5-Hydroxytryptamine does not reduce sympathetic nerve activity or neuroeffector function in the splanchnic circulation. European journal of pharmacology (2015)
• What can we learn about neural control of the cardiovascular system by studying rhythms in sympathetic nerve activity?. International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology (2015)
• Reports of physiology's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) (2013)
• Highlights in basic autonomic neurosciences: Is an increase in sympathetic nerve activity involved in the development and maintenance of hypertension?. Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical (2013)
• Promoting physiology as an essential element in translational research. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) (2012)
• 85th president of APS Susan M. Barman. The Physiologist (2012)
• Serotonin and blood pressure regulation. Pharmacological reviews (2012)
• Physiologists without borders. Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) (2011)
• Rhythmic activity of neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of conscious cats: effect of removal of vestibular inputs. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2011)
• Rostral ventrolateral medullary but not medullary lateral tegmental field neurons mediate sympatho-sympathetic reflexes in cats. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2010)
• Sympathetic nerve activity has more character than you may think. The Journal of physiology (2009)
• Hyped up about the hypothalamus. The Journal of physiology (2009)
• The posterior vermis of the cerebellum selectively inhibits 10-Hz sympathetic nerve discharge in anesthetized cats. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2009)
• Variable rate ventilation strategies for the injured lung. Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie (2008)
• Role of serotonergic input to the ventrolateral medulla in expression of the 10-Hz sympathetic nerve rhythm. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2008)
• Methods of analysis and physiological relevance of rhythms in sympathetic nerve discharge. Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology (2007)
• Role of ventrolateral medulla in generating the 10-Hz rhythm in sympathetic nerve discharge. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2007)
• Medullary lateral tegmental field neurons influence the timing and pattern of phrenic nerve activity in cats. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) (2006)
• Fractal fluctuations in breath number, period, and amplitude are independently controlled in awake, healthy humans. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference (2006)
• Fractal noises and motions in time series of presympathetic and sympathetic neural activities. Journal of neurophysiology (2005)
• Medullary lateral tegmental field mediates the cardiovascular but not respiratory component of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex in the cat. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2005)
• Role of medullary excitatory amino acid receptors in mediating the 10-Hz rhythm in sympathetic nerve discharge of cats. Brain research (2005)
• Dynamic changes in baroreceptor-sympathetic coupling during the respiratory cycle. Brain research (2005)
• An unusual form of phase walk in a system of coupled oscillators. Journal of biological rhythms (2004)
• Medullary lateral tegmental field: control of respiratory rate and vagal lung inflation afferent influences on sympathetic nerve discharge. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2004)
• Fractal fluctuations in human respiration. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) (2004)
• Fractal properties of human muscle sympathetic nerve activity. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (2003)
• Role of the medullary lateral tegmental field in reflex-mediated sympathoexcitation in cats. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2003)
• Fractal activity generated independently by medullary sympathetic premotor and preganglionic sympathetic neurons. Journal of neurophysiology (2003)
• Fractal properties of sympathetic nerve discharge. Journal of neurophysiology (2003)
• Growing participation of women in physiology: 1987-2002. The Physiologist (2003)
• Basis for the cardiac-related rhythm in muscle sympathetic nerve activity of humans. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (2002)
• Pathways involved in synchronization of sympathetic nerve discharge to lung inflation. Brain research (2002)
• Differential effects of an NMDA and a non-NMDA receptor antagonist on medullary lateral tegmental field neurons. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology (2002)