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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. 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
  2. Wu R, Yu S, Bi A, Li Y, Tiek D, Yu K, Xiong H, Shi Q, Mo Z, Yu X  et al.  Therapeutic targeting of circTNK2 with nanoparticles restores tamoxifen sensitivity and enhances NK cell-mediated immunity in ER-positive breast cancer.  Cancer Lett  2025 Sep 01;627:217823. doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2025.217823
  3. During EH, Malkani R, Arnulf I, Kunz D, Bes F, De Cock VC, Ratti PL, Stefani A, Schiess MC, Provini F  et al.  Symptomatic treatment of REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD): A consensus from the international RBD study group - Treatment and trials working group.  Sleep Med  2025 Aug;132:106554. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106554
  4. Bhusal B, Sanpitak PP, Jiang F, Richardson J, Seiberlich N, Rosenow JM, Elahi B, Golestanirad L  Comparative study of radiofrequency heating in deep brain stimulation devices during MRI at 1.5 T and 0.55 T: Challenging the assumption of safety at low field strengths.  Magn Reson Med  2025 Aug;94(2):785-796. doi:10.1002/mrm.30515
  5. Kim M, López-Cano M, Zhang K, Wang Y, Gómez-Santacana X, Flores Á, Wu M, Li S, Zhang H, Wei Y  et al.  Wireless, battery-free, remote photoactivation of caged-morphine for photopharmacological pain modulation without side effects.  Biosens Bioelectron  2025 Aug 01;281:117440. doi:10.1016/j.bios.2025.117440
  6. Guillemaud M, Chavez M, Kobeissy F, Vezzani A, Jimenez AD, Basha MM, Batra A, Demeret S, Eka O, Eschbach K  et al.  Identification of Distinct Biological Groups of Patients With Cryptogenic NORSE via Inflammatory Profiling.  Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm  2025 Jul;12(4):e200403. pii:e200403
  7. Walters JB, Quezada MJ, He S, Haynes CS, Steece-Collier K, Collier TJ, Sortwell CE, Franz CK  The Impact of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor rs6265 (Val66Met) Polymorphism on Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration: A Preclinical Study of Therapy-Genotype Interactions.  Muscle Nerve  2025 Jul;72(1):149-157. doi:10.1002/mus.28409
  8. Takahashi S, Zhou Y, Dépreux F, Whitlon D, Cheatham MA, Homma K  Hearing loss and audiogenic seizures induced by hypofunctional prestin variants.  J Neurosci  2025 Jun 24;. pii:e0922252025
  9. Rawat R, Brooker SM, Naylor GE, Cherchi M, Opal P  Clinical Reasoning: A 57-Year-Old Man With Chronic Gait Unsteadiness and Diminished Lower Extremity Sensation.  Neurology  2025 Jun 24;104(12):e213713. pii:e213713
  10. Lennon MJ, Karvelas N, Ganesh A, Whitehead S, Sorond FA, Durán Laforet V, Head E, Arfanakis K, Kolachalama VB, Liu X  et al.  The future of biomarkers for vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID): proceedings of the 2025 annual workshop of the Albert research institute for white matter and cognition.  Geroscience  2025 Jun 21;. doi:10.1007/s11357-025-01746-y
  11. Biar CG, Bodkin N, Carvill GL, Calhoun JD  Protocol to perform multiplexed assays of variant effect using curated loci prime editing.  STAR Protoc  2025 Jun 20;6(2):103851. pii:103851
  12. Maas MB, Reid KJ, Jimenez M, Lopez M, Miller J, Carnethon MR, Zee PC, Knutson KL, Koralnik IJ  Multidimensional Characterization of Long COVID Fatigue.  Behav Sleep Med  2025 Jun 19;:1-10. doi:10.1080/15402002.2025.2522671
  13. Jia W, Yue H, Liu L, Wang L, Zhang L, Tao J, Zhou G, Wei L, Dong H, Dhondrup R  et al.  Biosynthesized nanoparticles of Tibetan medicine mercuric sulfide preparation to promote endocytosis and realize drug crossing through blood brain barrier.  J Nanobiotechnology  2025 Jun 16;23(1):445. pii:445
  14. 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 Jun 16;. doi:10.1227/neu.0000000000003569
  15. Narsinh KH, Young C, Chen SR, Ansari SA, Kan P, Hetts SW  Neurointerventional oncology: the new frontier.  J Neurointerv Surg  2025 Jun 16;17(7):671-672. doi:10.1136/jnis-2025-023050
  16. Mao J, Ansari SA, Siddiqui AH, Sedrakyan A, Marinac-Dabic D, Sheldon M, Claffey M, Hall AM, Sancheti H, Kim T  et al.  Developing a Coordinated Registry Network for devices used for acute ischemic stroke intervention: basilar artery occlusion quality assessment pilot.  J Neurointerv Surg  2025 Jun 16;17(7):691-696. doi:10.1136/jnis-2024-021741
  17. Peng S, Schaper FLWVJ, Cohen-Zimerman S, Miller GN, Jiang J, Rouhl RPW, Temel Y, Siddiqi SH, Grafman J, Fox MD  et al.  Mapping Lesion-Related Human Aggression to a Common Brain Network.  Biol Psychiatry  2025 Jun 15;97(12):1175-1185. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.09.022
  18. Wu Y, Perez-Rosello T, Awatramani R, Surmeier DJ  Presynaptic mu opioid receptors suppress the functional connectivity of ventral tegmental area dopaminergic neurons with aversion-related brain regions.  J Neurosci  2025 Jun 13;. pii:e1194242025
  19. Feng Y, Haupt B, Huynh TT, Meshaw R, Martin-Regalado A, Thakur A, Duffy JT, Alzeer A, Siegel DA, Barnes A  et al.  Longitudinal Imaging Reveals Tumor Uptake and Prolonged Retention of Bi-Specific T-Cell Engaging Antibody in GBM via Passive and Active Mechanisms.  Clin Cancer Res  2025 Jun 13;. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-4194
  20. Li Y, Ding Y, Dennis S, Hutch MR, Zhou J, Zhou Y, Li Y, Pillai M, Ghotbaldini S, Garcia MA  et al.  SOAR elucidates biological insights and empowers drug discovery through spatial transcriptomics.  Sci Adv  2025 Jun 13;11(24):eadt7450. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt7450
  21. Chapagai S, Harrington K, Alexandria SJ, Vu TT, Khan SS, Carnethon MR, Knutson KL  Associations between objectively measured sleep characteristics and six-minute walk distance in older adults: the Disparities in Sleep and Cognitive Outcomes (DISCO) study.  Sleep  2025 Jun 13;48(6). pii:zsaf020
  22. Mather MA, Ece B, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Ho EH, Bucko P, Dworak EM, Novack MA, Pila S, Hosseinian Z, Hanmer J  et al.  Measures of healthcare decision-making ability in cognitive aging: a scoping review from the Advancing Reliable Measurement in Cognitive Aging and Decision-Making Ability (ARMCADA) research initiative.  Front Public Health  2025;13:1582764. pii:1582764
  23. Habashy KJ, Synold TW, Feng Y, Gomez C, Amidei C, Ward R, VanderMolen S, Zarrieneh A, Kim KS, Gomez M  et al.  Pharmacokinetic analysis of carboplatin and fluorescein brain retention following ultrasound-based blood-brain barrier opening.  Clin Cancer Res  2025 Jun 10;. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-25-0080
  24. Lamberta LK, Asmar M, Fredwall MM, Ahrens SM, Bai S, Eisner M, Lado FA, Schuele SU, Clarke DF, Abdelmoity AT  et al.  Status Epilepticus Protocol Variation Across Accredited National Association of Epilepsy Centers Members.  Neurology  2025 Jun 10;104(11):e213689. pii:e213689
  25. Hadjas LC, Kollman GJ, Linderhof L, Xia M, Mansur S, Saint-Pierre M, Lim BK, Lee EB, Cicchetti F, Awatramani R  et al.  Parkinson's Disease-vulnerable and -resilient dopamine neurons display opposite responses to excitatory input.  bioRxiv  2025 Jun 07;. pii:2025.06.03.657460
  26. Mathalon DH, Nicholas S, Roach BJ, Billah T, Lavoie S, Whitford T, Hamilton HK, Addamo L, Anohkin A, Bekinschtein T  et al.  The electroencephalography protocol for the Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia Program: Reliability and stability of measures.  Schizophrenia (Heidelb)  2025 Jun 06;11(1):85. pii:85
  27. Xu T, Su T, Soye BJD, Kandi S, Huang CF, Wilkins JT, Castellani RJ, Kafader JO, Patrie SM, Vassar R  et al.  The Proteoform Landscape of Tau from the Human Brain.  J Proteome Res  2025 Jun 06;24(6):2916-2925. doi:10.1021/acs.jproteome.5c00139
  28. Aldred JL, Zesiewicz T, Okun MS, Ramirez-Zamora A, Vaou OE, Verhagen Metman L, Luca CC, Ramdhani R, Durphy J, Bezchlibnyk YB  et al.  Sustained Therapeutic Benefits Using Image-Guided Programming at Activation of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease.  Mov Disord Clin Pract  2025 Jun 05;. doi:10.1002/mdc3.70154
  29. Karunakaran DKP, Ley M, Guo J, Khatri A, Sadleir K, Popovic J, Upadhyay AK, Savas J, Procissi D, Atwal J  et al.  The UNC5C T835M mutation associated with Alzheimer's disease leads to neurodegeneration involving oxidative stress and hippocampal atrophy in aged mice.  Mol Neurodegener  2025 Jun 04;20(1):65. pii:65
  30. Prasad D, Weiss BE, Snyder LA, Arnold PM, Rosenow JM  Where are all the neurosurgery robots?  J Robot Surg  2025 Jun 04;19(1):267. doi:10.1007/s11701-025-02435-w
  31. Cisterna-Garcia A, Bustos BI, Bandres-Ciga S, Leal TP, Sarihan EI, Jok C, Krainc D, Mata IF, Lubbe SJ, Botia JA  Genome-wide epistasis analysis reveals significant epistatic signals associated with Parkinson's disease risk.  Brain  2025 Jun 03;148(6):2060-2074. doi:10.1093/brain/awae398
  32. Chalupczak NV, Aydemir B, Isaacs A, Muhammad LN, Song J, Reid KJ, Grimaldi D, Carns M, Dennis-Aren K, Dunlop DD  et al.  Sleep Matters: Exploring the Link Between Sleep Disturbances and Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis.  Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)  2025 Jun 02;. doi:10.1002/acr.25579
  33. Zhang F, Li R, Liu Y, Liang J, Gong Y, Xiao C, Cai J, Wang T, You Q, Zhang J  et al.  Integrative cross-tissue analysis unveils complement-immunoglobulin augmentation and dysbiosis-related fatty acid metabolic remodeling during mammalian aging.  Imeta  2025 Jun;4(3):e70027. pii:e70027
  34. Russell EJ  Closing the Loop: Improving Patient Care When Imaging Follow-up is Needed.  Radiology  2025 Jun;315(3):e251369. doi:10.1148/radiol.251369
  35. Slutzky MW, Vansteensel MJ, Herff C, Gaunt RA  A brain-computer interface working definition.  Nat Biomed Eng  2025 Jun;9(6):792. doi:10.1038/s41551-025-01414-8
  36. Raimann S, Schär S, Hayoz S, Guckenberger M, Finazzi T, Opitz I, Schmid S, Mark M, Addeo A, Mauti LA  et al.  Outcomes in Patients With Resectable Stage III NSCLC Who Did Not Have Definitive Surgery After Neoadjuvant Treatment-A Retrospective Analysis of the SAKK Trials 16/96, 16/00, 16/01, 16/08, and 16/14: A Brief Report.  JTO Clin Res Rep  2025 Jun;6(6):100834. pii:100834
  37. Bonakdarpour B, Schafer R, Takarabe C, Barbieri E, Miller J, Miller SS  Virtual group singing programs for well-being in healthy older adults and persons with neurocognitive disorders during early COVID-19 pandemic: A perspective from Chicago.  J Alzheimers Dis  2025 Jun;105(3):904-922. doi:10.1177/13872877251333155
  38. Kokkinos V, Hussein H, Rosenow J, Schuele SU  Sawtooth delta of the thalamus: A physiological variant and the intracranial generator of rapid-eye movement sleep sawtooth waves.  Clin Neurophysiol  2025 Jun;174:84-95. doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2025.03.040
  39. Kennedy E, Vadlamani S, Lindsey HM, Peterson KS, Dams O'Connor K, Agarwal R, Amiri HH, Andersen RK, Babikian T, Baron DA  et al.  Linking Symptom Inventories Using Semantic Textual Similarity.  J Neurotrauma  2025 Jun;42(11-12):1008-1020. doi:10.1089/neu.2024.0301
  40. Keller Sarmiento IJ, Bovenzi R, Kinsinger M, Kinsley L, Bustos BI, Krainc D, Mencacci NE  Novel In-Frame FGF14 Deletion Causes Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 27A: Clinical Response to Deep Brain Stimulation and 4-Aminopyridine.  Mov Disord  2025 Jun;40(6):1182-1188. doi:10.1002/mds.30183
  41. Elder C, Kerestes R, Opal P, Marchese M, Devinsky O  The cerebellum in epilepsy.  Epilepsia  2025 Jun;66(6):1773-1792. doi:10.1111/epi.18316
  42. Sokol LL, Ashner MC, Bega D, Kluger BM, Smith AK, Marder KS, Garcia TP,   Spiritual Well-Being and Phenoconversion in Huntington's Disease: Analysis from the Prospective Huntington at Risk Observational Study.  J Palliat Med  2025 Jun;28(6):803-807. doi:10.1089/jpm.2024.0227
  43. Kokkinos V, Cunningham EM, Nathan CL, Ghandour D, Kinsinger M, Beestrum M, Madkins K, Schuele SU  The localizing value of mimic ictal semiology: A systematic review of the spectrum.  Epileptic Disord  2025 Jun;27(3):358-373. doi:10.1002/epd2.70004
  44. Adewuyi AA, Hashemi M, Khanna S, Berger MJ, Franz CK  Multipoint Stimulation Motor Unit Number Estimation of the Extensor Indicis and Anconeus After Spinal Cord Injury.  Muscle Nerve  2025 Jun;71(6):979-985. doi:10.1002/mus.28373
  45. Zhu C, Han Y, Byun J, Xiao X, Rothwell S, Miller FW, Lundberg IE, Gregersen PK, Vencovsky J, Shaw VR  et al.  Genetic Architecture of Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies From Meta-Analyses.  Arthritis Rheumatol  2025 Jun;77(6):750-764. doi:10.1002/art.43088
  46. Le Borgne J, Gomez L, Heikkinen S, Amin N, Ahmad S, Choi SH, Bis J, Grenier-Boley B, Rodriguez OG, Kleineidam L  et al.  X-chromosome-wide association study for Alzheimer's disease.  Mol Psychiatry  2025 Jun;30(6):2335-2346. doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02838-5
  47. Sadagopan NS, Khazanchi R, Houskamp EJ, Nandoliya KR, Chaliparambil RK, Govind S, Alwakeal A, Zhang H, Cannone D, Grivas J  et al.  Extended lumbar drain trials for diagnostic evaluation of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus with the Berg Balance Scale.  J Neurosurg  2025 May 30;:1-8. doi:10.3171/2025.1.JNS242354
  48. Sadleir KR, Gomez KP, Edwards AE, Patel AJ, Ley ML, Khatri AW, Guo J, Mahesh S, Watkins EA, Popovic J  et al.  Annexin A6 membrane repair protein protects against amyloid-induced dystrophic neurites and tau phosphorylation in Alzheimer's disease model mice.  Acta Neuropathol  2025 May 24;149(1):51. pii:51
  49. Kokkinos V, VanHaerents SA, Nathan CL, Ghandour D, Avery RJ, Schuele SU  Pontine hyperperfusion associated with ictal central apnea.  Epileptic Disord  2025 May 23;. doi:10.1002/epd2.70047
  50. Ahn HY, Walters JB, Avila R, Oh S, Seo SG, Kim JU, Park J, Yoo S, Choi YS, Kim TY  et al.  Bioresorbable, wireless dual stimulator for peripheral nerve regeneration.  Nat Commun  2025 May 22;16(1):4752. pii:4752

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