Associate Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Pathology

Rebecca Folkerth is an expert in the field of Pathology. She studied medicine at University of Louisville School of Medicine. University of Louisville School of Medicine has a rank of 83 in research and a 0 in primary care Rebecca Folkerth is a published doctor and has 42 publications published. The lastest was: 'Clinical implementation of integrated whole-genome copy number and mutation profiling for glioblastoma.' She is registered with Medicare.

Publications

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• Clinical implementation of integrated whole-genome copy number and mutation profiling for glioblastoma.
• Cytomegalovirus and glioblastoma: a review of evidence for their association and indications for testing and treatment.
• Clinical multiplexed exome sequencing distinguishes adult oligodendroglial neoplasms from astrocytic and mixed lineage gliomas.
• Development of Cerebellar Connectivity in Human Fetal Brains Revealed by High Angular Resolution Diffusion Tractography.
• Exome sequencing identifies a novel SMCHD1 mutation in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 2.
• Focal cortical dysplasia IIb presenting as slowly progressive aphasia mimicking a brain tumor.
• Developmental Expression of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor Subunits in Human White and Gray Matter: Potential Mechanism of Increased Vulnerability in the Immatur...
• Disconnection of the Ascending Arousal System in Traumatic Coma.
• The Human Connectome Project and Beyond: Initial Applications of 300 mT/m Gradients.
• Surface based analysis of diffusion orientation for identifying architectonic domains in the in vivo human cortex.
• Detection of postmortem human cerebellar cortex and white matter pathways using high angular resolution diffusion tractography: a feasibility study.
• Antiepileptic effects of levetiracetam in a rodent neonatal seizure model.
• Radial Coherence of Diffusion Tractography in the Cerebral White Matter of the Human Fetus: Neuroanatomic Insights.
• Biopsy neuropathology of cerebral ischemia associated with a developmental venous anomaly.
• Neuroanatomic Connectivity of the Human Ascending Arousal System Critical to Consciousness and Its Disorders.
• Developmental regulation of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors in the premature brain and their protective role in a rodent model of periventricular leukomalacia.
• Angiogenin variants in Parkinson disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Late development of the GABAergic system in the human cerebral cortex and white matter.
• Emerging Cerebral Connectivity in the Human Fetal Brain: An MR Tractography Study.
• Developing neocortex organization and connectivity in cats revealed by direct correlation of diffusion tractography and histology.
• Potential neuronal repair in cerebral white matter injury in the human neonate.
• Mutations in WDR62, encoding a centrosome-associated protein, cause microcephaly with simplified gyri and abnormal cortical architecture.
• Neuropathology of a fatal case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
• Composite ganglioneuroma-paraganglioma of the filum terminale.
• Alzheimer's disease amyloid-beta links lens and brain pathology in Down syndrome.
• A practical classification schema incorporating consideration of possible asphyxia in cases of sudden unexpected infant death.
• Thalamic damage in periventricular leukomalacia: novel pathologic observations relevant to cognitive deficits in survivors of prematurity.
• The development of ring-shaped contrast enhancement in a case of cerebellar dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor: case report.
• Oxidative injury in the cerebral cortex and subplate neurons in periventricular leukomalacia.
• Angiogenin loss-of-function mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• A familial form of pallidoluysionigral degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with divergent clinical presentations.
• The neuropathology of acquired pre- and perinatal brain injuries.
• Is the late preterm infant more vulnerable to gray matter injury than the term infant?
• Lipid peroxidation during human cerebral myelination.
• Development of microglia in the cerebral white matter of the human fetus and infant.
• Developmental regulation of alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole-propionic acid receptor subunit expression in forebrain and relationship to regional susceptibil...
• Periventricular leukomalacia: overview and recent findings.
• Axonal development in the cerebral white matter of the human fetus and infant.
• Proliferative potential of human astrocytes.
• Developmental lag in superoxide dismutases relative to other antioxidant enzymes in premyelinated human telencephalic white matter.
• Nitrosative and oxidative injury to premyelinating oligodendrocytes in periventricular leukomalacia.

Schools

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• University Of Louisville

• New Eng Med Center

• Brigham Womens Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Cytopathology
• Neuropathology
• Pathology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Tufts Medical Center
• University of Louisville School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1669453106
Last Name Of The Provider	FOLKERTH
First Name Of The Provider	REBECCA
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