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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology

Publications

Below are the 50 most recent publications by faculty members in the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

  1. Quezada MJ, Franz CK  Human spinal cord organoids: A powerful tool to redefine gray matter and lower motor neuron pathophysiology in spinal cord injury.  Neural Regen Res  2026 May 01;21(5):2001-2002. doi:10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-25-00111
  2. Yuasa-Kawada J, Kinoshita-Kawada M, Hiramoto M, Yamagishi S, Mishima T, Yasunaga S, Tsuboi Y, Hattori N, Wu JY  Neuronal guidance signaling in neurodegenerative diseases: Key regulators that function at neuron-glia and neuroimmune interfaces.  Neural Regen Res  2026 Feb 01;21(2):612-635. doi:10.4103/NRR.NRR-D-24-01330
  3. Brandon Bravo Bruinsma PJ, Hadjinicolaou A, Rajaraman RR, Hussain SA, Krueger DA, Sahin M, Northrup H, Porter BE, Wu JY, Bebin EM  et al.  Electroencephalogram (EEG) Spike Metrics Discriminate Impending Epileptic Spasms From Other Seizures in Children With Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: A Pilot Study.  J Child Neurol  2026 Jan;41(1):60-67. doi:10.1177/08830738251347523
  4. Hassani S, Gorelick PB  Periprocedural Brain Health: The Scope of the Problem and the Neurologist's Role.  Neurology  2025 Dec 23;105(12):e214427. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000214427
  5. Tunc-Ozcan E, Peng CY, Zhu Y, Dunlop SR, Contractor A, Kessler JA  Author Correction: Activating newborn neurons suppresses depression and anxiety-like behaviors.  Nat Commun  2025 Dec 10;16(1):11000. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-66664-1
  6. Dalton C, Mojsilovic-Petrovic J, Safren N, Snoznik C, Gebis KK, Wang YZ, Sutter AB, Lamitina T, Savas JN, Kalb RG  Ubiquitin Proteasome System Components, RAD23A and USP13, Modulate TDP-43 Solubility and Neuronal Toxicity.  J Neurosci  2025 Dec 10;. pii:e0906252025
  7. Rosenfeld J, Abrahams S, McHutchinson C, Ajroud-Driss S, Weber M, Paganoni S, Mitsumoto H, Genge A, Grosskreutz J, Van Den Berg L  et al.  Utility of patient subgrouping in ALS clinical trials: a World Federation of Neurology white paper.  Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener  2025 Dec 08;:1-8. doi:10.1080/21678421.2025.2593308
  8. Wu M, Yang Y, Zhang J, Efimov AI, Li X, Zhang K, Wang Y, Bodkin KL, Riahi M, Gu J  et al.  Patterned wireless transcranial optogenetics generates artificial perception.  Nat Neurosci  2025 Dec 08;. doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02127-6
  9. Young CC, Narsinh KH, Chen SR, Ansari SA, Hetts SW, Lang FF, Wintermark M, Kan PT  A Report from the Inaugural Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery Neurointerventional Oncology Summit.  AJNR Am J Neuroradiol  2025 Dec 04;. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A8902
  10. Lee M, Oh MS, Yu KH, Lee BC, Kim BJ, Kim JY, Kang J, Kim DY, Park JM, Kang K  et al.  Extending Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Beyond 3 Months in Acute Ischemic Stroke Due to Large-Artery Atherosclerosis.  J Am Heart Assoc  2025 Dec 03;:e044433. doi:10.1161/JAHA.125.044433
  11. Branco P, Cox J, Wu Y, Morison SL, Parker JG, Lerner TN, Martina M, Awatramani R, Surmeier DJ, Apkarian AV  The role of mesolimbic circuitry in aversive signaling and opioid dependence.  Neuron  2025 Dec 03;113(23):3924-3941. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2025.08.019
  12. Koo C, Zhou Y, Thomas D, Fuentes R, Li J, Kim M, Richter CP, Tan X  Sex-specific hearing loss in Sirt3 knockout mice and attenuation by honokiol.  Hear Res  2025 Dec 02;470:109502. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2025.109502
  13. Rangwala R, Davidson K, Lee J, Garand KLF, Bega D, Martin-Harris B  Respiratory-Swallowing Phase Pattern and Swallowing Impairment in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease.  J Speech Lang Hear Res  2025 Dec 02;:1-14. doi:10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00135
  14. Hanrieder J, Sun R, Ellis SR, Pahnke J, Savas JN  Considerations for Spatial Omics, Metabolite Analyses, and Tissue-Harvesting Artifacts.  J Neurochem  2025 Dec;169(12):e70315. doi:10.1111/jnc.70315
  15. Colman H, Lombardi G, Wong ET, Walbert T, Eoli M, Lassman AB, Peereboom DM, Kizilbash SH, Kamiya-Matsuoka C, Pitz MW  et al.  STELLAR: Phase III, Randomized, Open-Label Study of Eflornithine Plus Lomustine Versus Lomustine Alone in Patients With Recurrent Grade 3 Astrocytoma.  J Clin Oncol  2025 Dec 01;:JCO2501204. doi:10.1200/JCO-25-01204
  16. Behn JQ, Barbieri E, Mesulam MM, Bonakdarpour B  Anterior temporal lobe, word comprehension, and physiology of atrophy in semantic primary progressive aphasia.  Neurocase  2025 Dec;31(6):260-267. doi:10.1080/13554794.2025.2587123
  17. Joseph BJ, Marshall KA, Harley P, Mann JR, Alessandrini F, Vanoye CG, Chi W, Prudencio M, Simkin D, Kao TT  et al.  TDP-43-dependent mis-splicing of KCNQ2 triggers intrinsic neuronal hyperexcitability in ALS/FTD.  Nat Neurosci  2025 Dec;28(12):2476-2492. doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02096-w
  18. Gusman E, Wolfe LF  Billing and Coding Guidance: Device and Discharge Planning.  Sleep Med Clin  2025 Dec;20(4):557-565. doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2025.07.014
  19. Fiala JA, Coleman JM  Hypercapnic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Overlap Syndrome.  Sleep Med Clin  2025 Dec;20(4):489-498. doi:10.1016/j.jsmc.2025.07.009
  20. Bernstein RA, Previch LE  Anticoagulation and Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Atherosclerosis.  JAMA Neurol  2025 Dec 01;82(12):1213-1214. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.3534
  21. Padmanaban V, Smith TE, Sujijantarat N, Mareboina M, Zhu J, Zhou S, Ansari SA, Sahlein DH, Tejada JG, Wilkinson DA  et al.  Race- and ethnicity-associated differences in characteristics and outcomes of treated unruptured intracranial aneurysms: an analysis of the NeuroVascular Quality Initiative-Quality Outcomes Database cerebral aneurysm registry.  J Neurosurg  2025 Dec 01;143(6):1612-1618. doi:10.3171/2025.4.JNS25200
  22. Limbrick DD, Skoch J, Auguste K, Grant GA, Lam SK, Tate MC, Langer DJ, Roland JL, Alden TD, Charbel FT  et al.  A Multicenter Study of Noninvasive Wireless Assessment of Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunt Function in Hydrocephalus Patients.  Neurosurgery  2025 Dec 01;97(6):1397-1405. doi:10.1227/neu.0000000000003569
  23. Kawles A, Nelson C, Ayala I, Barbieri E, Castellani R, Geula C, Gefen T, Mesulam MM  Anatomical Progression of Neuropathology in FTLD-TDP Type C and Linkage to Annexin A11.  Ann Neurol  2025 Nov 26;. doi:10.1002/ana.78095
  24. Ferle PE, Krause N, Koliwer J, Völker JM, Becker F, Hillebrand A, Schröder LF, Jäger S, Edassery S, Liu D  et al.  The lactate sensor NDRG3 decelerates ER-to-Golgi transport through interaction with the long isoform of syntaxin-5.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A  2025 Nov 25;122(47):e2511307122. pii:e2511307122
  25. Lampert F, Baker MR, Jensen MA, Ayyoubi AH, Bentler C, Bowersock JL, Esteller R, Herron JA, Johnson GW, Kipke DR  et al.  Adaptive neuromodulation dialogues: navigating current challenges and emerging innovations in neuromodulation system development.  J Neural Eng  2025 Nov 24;. doi:10.1088/1741-2552/ae2359
  26. Rawat R, Tunc-Ozcan E, McGuire TL, Peng CY, Kessler JA  Author Correction: Ketamine activates adult-born immature granule neurons to rapidly alleviate depression-like behaviors in mice.  Nat Commun  2025 Nov 21;16(1):10316. pii:10316
  27. Samei Y, Cheung I, Papavasileiou P, Franz CK, Finan JD  Elastic and viscoelastic properties of human cortical organoids.  Acta Biomater  2025 Nov 19;. pii:S1742-7061(25)00857-8
  28. Sánchez Fernández I, Soldatelli MD, Miller GN, Gout CF, Broekhuizen EC, den Hertog ICJ, Pijs DA, Apostolopoulos E, Kaur P, Ouaalam A  et al.  Convolutional neural networks for automatic tuber segmentation and quantification of tuber burden in tuberous sclerosis complex.  Epilepsia  2025 Nov 19;. doi:10.1111/epi.70007
  29. Liu Q, Porter D, Damra H, Zhao Y, Voss JL, Schoenbaum G, Kahnt T  Distinct contributions of anterior and posterior orbitofrontal cortex to outcome-guided behavior.  Curr Biol  2025 Nov 17;35(22):5549-5559.e7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.007
  30. Knutson KL, Reid KJ, Cai X, Alexandria SJ, Abbott SM, Chapagai S, Chirinos D, Thomas SJ, Lewis CE, Schreiner PJ  et al.  Association of Clinical, Psychological and Lifestyle Factors with Disparities in Sleep: The CARDIA Sleep Study.  Sleep  2025 Nov 14;. pii:zsaf367
  31. Crawford TO, Servais L, Mercuri E, Kölbel H, Kuntz N, Finkel RS, Krueger J, Batley K, Dunaway Young S, Marantz JL  et al.  A plain language summary of the SAPPHIRE clinical trial of apitegromab in children and young adults with spinal muscular atrophy.  Expert Rev Neurother  2025 Nov 13;:1-20. doi:10.1080/14737175.2025.2579903
  32. Sagar V, Sheriff A, Yang Q, Arriaga N, Zhou G, Lane G, Kahnt T, Zelano C  The human brain modulates sniffs according to fine-grained perceptual features of odours.  Nat Hum Behav  2025 Nov 12;. doi:10.1038/s41562-025-02327-x
  33. Lin Y, Amokrane N, Worley S, Moore LR, Rosen A, Crespo LP, Trace K, Ashizawa T, Billnitzer A, Perlman S  et al.  Correction: The Natural History Study and Biomarker Collection of the Clinical Research Consortium for the Study of Cerebellar Ataxia (CRC-SCA).  Cerebellum  2025 Nov 11;24(6):172. doi:10.1007/s12311-025-01928-6
  34. Tiek D, Song X, Wu R, Yu X, Walker M, Mao Y, Sisbarro D, He Q, Magassa A, Singh A  et al.  Cysteine addiction in drug resistant glioblastoma and therapeutic targeting with designer selenium compounds.  Neuro Oncol  2025 Nov 10;. pii:noaf265
  35. Chung SH, Wang Z, Zhao T, Li Z, Krumpelman CS, Moum SJ, Ansari SA, Yan L  ASL 4D MRA Intracranial Vessel Segmentation With Deep Learning U-Nets.  Magn Reson Med  2025 Nov 09;. doi:10.1002/mrm.70173
  36. Tang R, Yin J, Weinberg B, Lin H, Lu J, Gate D, Klementieva O, Cheng JX  Mid-Infrared Photothermal Mesoscopy with Millimeter Field of View and Sub-micron Spatial Resolution.  bioRxiv  2025 Nov 05;. pii:2025.11.03.686410
  37. De La Fuente MI, Brastianos PK, Gampel B, Nassiri F, Raleigh DR, Ida CM, Abdelbaki MS, Pekmezci M, Bagley S, Young JS  et al.  Reflecting on Scientific Growth and Innovation as the Society for Neuro-Oncology Turns 30.  Neuro Oncol  2025 Nov 04;. pii:noaf255
  38. Le Rhun E, Sain D, Erridge SC, Reardon DA, Minniti G, Roth P, Wick W, Nabors B, Sampson J, Mason W  et al.  Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Survival in Patients With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma.  JAMA Netw Open  2025 Nov 03;8(11):e2545578. pii:e2545578
  39. Meira E Cruz M, Parreira E, Attarian H  Headache phenotypes in insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, and COMISA: Impact on diagnosis and therapy.  Dent Med Probl  2025;62(6):1009-1012. doi:10.17219/dmp/207666
  40. Khalili BF, Chojnacki MR, Dixit K, Gururangan K, Horbinski C, Rosenow JM, Hsieh JK, Magill ST, Tate MC, Lukas RV  et al.  Surgical Treatment of Brain Tumor-Related Epilepsy: Current and Emerging Strategies.  Cancers (Basel)  2025 Nov 01;17(21). pii:3539
  41. Frehner L, Schär S, Hayoz S, Guckenberger M, Finazzi T, Mark M, Addeo A, Mauti LA, Betticher D, Stupp R  et al.  Sex-specific efficacy and safety outcomes in patients with resectable stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) undergoing neoadjuvant therapies: a pooled analysis of the SAKK trials 16/96, 16/00, 16/01, 16/08 and 16/14.  ESMO Open  2025 Nov;10(11):105870. pii:105870
  42. Chan KCG, Dodge HH, Sano M, Au R, Craft S, Levey AI, Weintraub S, Kukull WA, Saykin AJ, Barnes LL  Comparable performance of the NACC Uniform Data Set version 3 neuropsychological test battery in assessing longitudinal cognitive change for African American and White participants.  Alzheimers Dement  2025 Nov;21(11):e70889. pii:e70889
  43. Khaled C, Kim M, Min B  The role of coinhibitory receptor-expressing non-T cells in inflammation and immunity: unsung heroes or peripheral players?  Exp Mol Med  2025 Nov;57(11):2397-2407. doi:10.1038/s12276-025-01562-6
  44. Padhye AS, Koralnik IJ, Hanson BA, Visvabharathy L, DeLisle RK, Tachas G  Blood diagnostic biomarkers for neurologic manifestations of long COVID.  Brain Behav Immun Health  2025 Nov;49:101110. pii:101110
  45. Dafsari HS, Deneubourg C, Singh K, Maroofian R, Suprenant Z, Kho AL, Ingham NJ, Steel KP, Sheshadri P, Baur F  et al.  Mutations in the Key Autophagy Tethering Factor EPG5 Link Neurodevelopmental and Neurodegenerative Disorders Including Early-Onset Parkinsonism.  Ann Neurol  2025 Nov;98(5):932-950. doi:10.1002/ana.78013
  46. Martynowicz R, Sullivan DP, Batra A  Injury to repair: Functions of microglia and monocyte-derived cells in ischemic stroke.  J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis  2025 Nov;34(11):108422. doi:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2025.108422
  47. Sadrieh T, Al-Smadi AS, Shaibani A, Abdalla RN, Ansari SA, Cantrell D  Fluoroscopic guided percutaneous sacroplasty utilizing a single curved needle: technical notes.  Clin Imaging  2025 Nov;127:110607. doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2025.110607
  48. Starr PA, Shivacharan RS, Goldberg E, Tröster AI, House PA, Giroux ML, Hebb AO, Whiting DM, Leichliter TA, Ostrem JL  et al.  Five-Year Outcomes from Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus for Parkinson Disease.  JAMA Neurol  2025 Nov 01;82(11):1181-1190. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.3373
  49. Ramos BA, Ram K, Martinez M, Sunderrajan A, Sindorf J, O'Brien MK, Prokup S, Siddiqui S, Morris LL, Knutson KL  et al.  Adapting and implementing a staff-led sleep intervention in an acute rehabilitation setting.  Clin Rehabil  2025 Nov;39(11):1492-1503. doi:10.1177/02692155251375369
  50. Felicelli C, Duckett D, Coty-Fattal Z, Feng Y, Obeidin F, Alexiev BA, Santana Dos Santos L, Jennings L, Wei JJ  Methylation Signatures Identify Two Distinct Clusters of Uterine Leiomyosarcoma With Unique Histologic and Clinical Behaviors.  Mod Pathol  2025 Nov;38(11):100883. doi:10.1016/j.modpat.2025.100883

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