Current Environment:

Research Background

Selected Publications

  1. Kinney HC, Cryan JB, Haynes RL, Paterson DS, Haas EA, Mena OJ, Minter M, Journey KW, Trachtenberg FL, Goldstein RD, Armstrong DD. Dentate gyrus abnormalities in sudden unexplained death in infants: morphological marker of underlying brain vulnerability. Acta neuropathologica. 2015 Jan 1; 129(1): 65-80. PubMed PMID: 25421424; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4282685.
  2. Goldstein RD, Trachtenberg FL, Sens MA, Harty BJ, Kinney HC. Overall Postneonatal Mortality and Rates of SIDS. Pediatrics. 2016 Jan 1; 137(1). PubMed PMID: 26634772.
  3. Kinney HC, Poduri A, Cryan JB, Haynes RL, Teot L, Sleeper LA, Holm I, Berry G, Prabhu SP, Warfield SK, Brownstein C, Abram HS, Kruer M, Kemp WL, Hargitai B, Gastrang J, Mena OJ, Haas EA, Dastjerdi R, Armstrong DD, Goldstein RD. Hippocampal Formation Maldevelopment and Sudden Unexpected Death across the Pediatric Age Spectrum. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology. 2016 Oct 1; 75(10): 981-997. PubMed PMID: 27612489; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6281079.
  4. Goldstein RD, Nields HM, Kinney HC. A New Approach to the Investigation of Sudden Unexpected Death. Pediatrics. 2017 Aug 1; 140(2). PubMed PMID: 28679642.
  5. Brownstein C, Goldstein RD, Thompson CH, Haynes RL, Giles E, Sheidley B, Bainbridge M, Haas EA, Mena OJ, Lucas J, Schaber B, Holm I, George AL, Kinney HC, Poduri A. SCN1A variants associated with sudden infant death syndrome. Epilepsia. 2018 Apr 1; 59(4): e56-e62. PubMed PMID: 29601086.
  6. Goldstein RD, Lederman RI, Lichtenthal WG, Morris SE, Human M, Elliott AJ, Tobacco D, Angal J, Odendaal H, Kinney HC, Prigerson HG. The Grief of Mothers After the Sudden Unexpected Death of Their Infants. Pediatrics. 2018 May 1; 141(5). PubMed PMID: 29712764; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6173829.
  7. Anderson TM, Lavista Ferres JM, Ren SY, Moon RY, Goldstein RD, Ramirez JM, Mitchell EA. Maternal Smoking Before and During Pregnancy and the Risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death. Pediatrics. 2019 Apr 1; 143(4). PubMed PMID: 30858347; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6564075.
  8. Goldstein RD, Petty CR, Morris SE, Human M, Odendaal H, Elliott A, Tobacco D, Angal J, Brink L, Kinney HC, Prigerson HG. Pre-loss personal factors and prolonged grief disorder in bereaved mothers. Psychological medicine. 2019 Oct 1; 49(14): 2370-2378. PubMed PMID: 30409237.
  9. Goldstein RD, Blair PS, Sens MA, Shapiro-Mendoza CK, Krous HF, Rognum TO, Moon RY. Inconsistent classification of unexplained sudden deaths in infants and children hinders surveillance, prevention and research: recommendations from The 3rd International Congress on Sudden Infant and Child Death. Forensic science, medicine, and pathology. 2019 Dec 1; 15(4): 622-628. PubMed PMID: 31502215; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6872710.
  10. Goldstein RD, Petty CR, Morris SE, Human M, Odendaal H, Elliott AJ, Tobacco D, Angal J, Brink L, Prigerson HG. Transitional objects of grief. Comprehensive psychiatry. 2020 Jan 11; 98: 152161. PubMed PMID: 31978784.
  11. Odendall H, Human M, van der Merwe C, Brink L, Nel D, Goldstein RD. The association between maternal depression, infant characteristics and need for assistance in a low-income-country. Journal of Substance Abuse and Alcoholism. 2021; 8(2).
  12. Plews-Ogan E, Keywan C, Morris S, Goldstein RD. The parental role before and after SIDS. Death Studies. 2021 Jun 8; Erin Plews-Ogan, Christine Keywan, Sue E. Morris & Richard D. Goldstein (2021) The parental role before and after SIDS, Death Studies, DOI: 10.1080/07481187.2021.1936296.
  13. Koh H, Haghighi A, Keywan C, Alexandrescu S, Plews-Ogan E, Haas E, Brownstein C, Vargas S, Haynes R, Berry G, Holm I, Poduri A, Goldstein RD. Genetic determinants of sudden unexpected death in pediatrics. Genetics in Medicine. Forthcoming.

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