Michael Romano, MD, PhD

RESIDENT

Education

06/2022 - Internal Medicine (Internship), St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
PhD, 05/2021 - Computational Neuroscience, Boston University School of Medicine
MD, 05/2021 - Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
BS, 05/2012 - Chemistry, Davidson College

Publications

Romano MF, Shih LC, Paschalidis IC, Au R, Kolachalama VB. Large Language Models in Neurology Research and Future Practice. Neurology. 2023 Dec 04; 101(23):1058-1067.
Romano MF, Zhou X, Balachandra AR, Jadick MF, Qiu S, Nijhawan DA, Joshi PS, Mohammad S, Lee PH, Smith MJ, Paul AB, Mian AZ, Small JE, Chin SP, Au R, Kolachalama VB. Deep learning for risk-based stratification of cognitively impaired individuals. iScience. 2023 Sep 15; 26(9):107522.
Romano MF, Kolachalama VB. Deep learning for subtyping the Alzheimer's disease spectrum. Trends Mol Med. 2022 02; 28(2):81-83.
Smith ACW, Jonkman S, Difeliceantonio AG, O'Connor RM, Ghoshal S, Romano MF, Everitt BJ, Kenny PJ. Opposing roles for striatonigral and striatopallidal neurons in dorsolateral striatum in consolidating new instrumental actions. Nat Commun. 2021 08 25; 12(1):5121.
House AE, Romano MF, Orczykowski ME, Zumwalt A, Devaiah AK. Multimodal Microvascular Mapping for Head and Neck, Skull Base Research and Education: An Anatomical Donor Study. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base. 2022 Aug; 83(4):435-442.
Greear GM, Romano MF, Katz MH, Munarriz R, Rague JT. Testicular torsion: epidemiological risk factors for orchiectomy in pediatric and adult patients. Int J Impot Res. 2021 Mar; 33(2):184-190.
Shemesh OA, Linghu C, Piatkevich KD, Goodwin D, Celiker OT, Gritton HJ, Romano MF, Gao R, Yu CJ, Tseng HA, Bensussen S, Narayan S, Yang CT, Freifeld L, Siciliano CA, Gupta I, Wang J, Pak N, Yoon YG, Ullmann JFP, Guner-Ataman B, Noamany H, Sheinkopf ZR, Park WM, Asano S, Keating AE, Trimmer JS, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Bear MF, Tye KM, Han X, Ahrens MB, Boyden ES. Precision Calcium Imaging of Dense Neural Populations via a Cell-Body-Targeted Calcium Indicator. Neuron. 2020 08 05; 107(3):470-486.e11.
Piatkevich KD, Bensussen S, Tseng HA, Shroff SN, Lopez-Huerta VG, Park D, Jung EE, Shemesh OA, Straub C, Gritton HJ, Romano MF, Costa E, Sabatini BL, Fu Z, Boyden ES, Han X. Population imaging of neural activity in awake behaving mice. Nature. 2019 10; 574(7778):413-417.
Romano M, Bucklin M, Gritton H, Mehrotra D, Kessel R, Han X. A Teensy microcontroller-based interface for optical imaging camera control during behavioral experiments. J Neurosci Methods. 2019 05 15; 320:107-115.
Gritton HJ, Howe WM, Romano MF, DiFeliceantonio AG, Kramer MA, Saligrama V, Bucklin ME, Zemel D, Han X. Unique contributions of parvalbumin and cholinergic interneurons in organizing striatal networks during movement. Nat Neurosci. 2019 04; 22(4):586-597.
Pittman-Polletta BR, Quach A, Mohammed AI, Romano M, Kondabolu K, Kopell NJ, Han X, McCarthy MM. Striatal cholinergic receptor activation causes a rapid, selective and state-dependent rise in cortico-striatal β activity. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 10; 48(8):2857-2868.
Paidas MJ, Annunziato J, Romano M, Weiss L, Or R, Barnea ER. Pregnancy and multiple sclerosis (MS): a beneficial association. Possible therapeutic application of embryo-specific pre-implantation factor (PIF*). Am J Reprod Immunol. 2012 Dec; 68(6):456-64.
Paidas MJ, Krikun G, Huang SJ, Jones R, Romano M, Annunziato J, Barnea ER. A genomic and proteomic investigation of the impact of preimplantation factor on human decidual cells. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 May; 202(5):459.e1-8.