Susan Anne Masino

Explores the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry, which examines how metabolic dysfunction contributes to mental illness, and highlights the potential of ketogenic metabolic therapy as a new treatment for conditions like depression, anxiety, PTSD, and schizophrenia.

Examines the proposed 2024 National Old-Growth Amendment (NOGA) and its relevance to ongoing regional and national forest policies. Highlights the need for coordinated, long-term strategies to conserve old-growth forests in the U.S., focusing on biodiversity and climate benefits.

Explores the various mechanisms through which the ketogenic diet (KD) helps treat medically resistant epilepsy. Highlights recent findings showing KD's broader effects, like anti-inflammatory, neuroprotective, and epigenetic benefits.

Argues that expensive forest management interventions are often unnecessary, have uncertain benefits, or are detrimental to many forest attributes such as resilience, carbon accumulation, structural complexity, and genetic and biological diversity. Advocates for natural forest stewardship as a cost-effective strategy for forest climate adaptation.

Provides a discussion of early-successional habitat programs and policies in terms of their origins, in the context of historical baselines, with respect to species’ ranges and abundance, and as they relate to carbon accumulation and ecosystem integrity. Calls for a reevaluation of forest and wildlife management policies to better balance efforts between creating early-successional habitats and ensuring long-term protection for mature and old-growth forests, along with more comprehensive monitoring and evaluation of these programs.

Provides a critical baseline and a path forward for advancing policies and securing funding to accelerate Wildlands conservation in New England.

Focuses on proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics in epilepsy research. Outlines key parameters and case report forms (CRFs) for studies involving rodent models and humans with epilepsy, providing a rationale for the important elements to document in these methodologies to improve consistency and data quality.

Examines how minor experimental differences across laboratories can significantly affect epigenetic data, even under baseline conditions. Highlights the challenges of reproducibility in epigenomic research and stresses the need for strict protocol standardization to ensure reliable and interpretable results in neuroscience studies using animal models.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the ketogenic diet (KD) and its growing role in treating neurological and metabolic disorders. Explores the underlying mechanisms of the diet's effects, from ion channels to epigenetics, and examines how metabolism-based therapies can offer alternatives to pharmacological treatments, often with fewer side effects.