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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. Heidari P, Heidari N, Khazaie H, Abbott SM, Maroufi A, Abdolmaleki A, Salari N, Mohammadi M, Sharafkhaneh A  Relationship between stroke onset timing and clinical outcomes in ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes: a systematic review.  Int J Cardiol Cardiovasc Risk Prev  2026 Mar;28:200559. pii:200559
  3. Tam SB, Waldeck NJ, Wright M, Mojsilovic-Petrovic J, Baker EM, Kiskinis E, Bass J, Kalb RG  A role for the cholinergic neuron circadian clock in RNA metabolism and mediating neurodegeneration.  Life Sci Alliance  2026 Mar;9(3). pii:e202503508
  4. Coughlin DG, Adler CH, Barbosa W, Feuerstein J, Galasko D, Gunzler SA, Jimenez-Shahed J, Kannarkat GT, Lang AE, Martinez-Lemus JD  et al.  CSF α-Synuclein Seed Amplification Assays and Skin Immunofluorescence: Clinical Applications, Research Opportunities, and Knowledge Gaps.  Neurology  2026 Feb 10;106(3):e214648. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000214648
  5. 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
  6. Azad N, Avery RJ, Crews M, Schuele SU, Nathan CL  Use of Ictal-Interictal SPECT in Localization of Surface-EEG-Negative Insular Epilepsy.  Neurology  2026 Jan 27;106(2):e214529. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000214529
  7. Salvi C, Luchini SA, Pestilli F, Hanekamp S, Parrish T, Beeman M, Grafman J  The white matter of Aha! moments.  BMC Psychol  2026 Jan 20;. doi:10.1186/s40359-025-03593-0
  8. Patti ME, Hu B, Kirschling S, Wang HJ, Foster K, Sarig Y, Simonson DC, Wolfs D, Arterburn D, O'Brien MJ  et al.  Effect of Social Vulnerability on Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery Versus Medical and Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes: Analysis of the ARMMS-T2D Consortium of Randomized Trials.  Ann Intern Med  2026 Jan 20;. doi:10.7326/ANNALS-24-01882
  9. Guo X, Prajapati RS, Chun J, Byun I, Gebis KK, Wang YZ, Ling K, Dalton C, Blair JA, Hamidianjahromi A  et al.  Reduction of RAD23A extends lifespan and mitigates pathology in a mouse model of TDP-43 proteinopathy.  Nat Commun  2026 Jan 16;. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-65104-4
  10. Kim M, Wang P, Clow PA, Chien E, Wang X, Peng J, Chai H, Liu X, Lee B, Ngan CY  et al.  Interplay between cohesin and RNA polymerase II in regulating chromatin interactions and gene transcription.  Nat Struct Mol Biol  2026 Jan 13;. doi:10.1038/s41594-025-01708-0
  11. Lank GK, Budhiraja S, Gaelen JI, Mukherjee S, Singer T, Venkatesh A, Jimenez M, Miller J, Lopez M, Duax CJ  et al.  Characterizing Neuro-PASC outcome with the mobile Neuro-COVID recovery care companion application.  BMC Neurol  2026 Jan 12;26(1):24. pii:24
  12. Passarelli JV, Yang Y, Smith CS, Hao J, Dave DR, Narayanan A, Álvarez Z, Johnson BK, Marshall KA, Fithian I  et al.  Peptide-Induced Ferroelectricity in Charge-Transfer Supramolecular Materials.  Adv Mater  2026 Jan 10;:e14940. doi:10.1002/adma.202514940
  13. Gao Z, Andrade da Silva LH, Li Z, Chen F, Smith C, Lipfert Z, Martynowicz R, Arias E, Muller WA, Sullivan DP  et al.  Toward development of a dynamic supramolecular peptide therapy for acute ischemic stroke.  Neurotherapeutics  2026 Jan 08;:e00820. doi:10.1016/j.neurot.2025.e00820
  14. Zhu X, John AJ, Kim S, Wang L, Ding E, Zheng J, Saleh A, Marín-Goñi I, Jomaa A, Gao H  et al.  Alcohol use disorder-associated gene FNDC4 alters glutamatergic and GABAergic neurogenesis in neural organoids.  J Clin Invest  2026 Jan 08;. pii:e193204
  15. 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  2026 Jan 08;69(1):32-45. doi:10.1044/2025_JSLHR-25-00135
  16. Goodall LS, Lennon MJ, Sachdev PS, Gorelick PB, Kovacic JC, Samaras K  Current and Emerging Therapeutic Approaches for Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia.  J Am Coll Cardiol  2026 Jan 06;87(1):77-100. doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2025.09.1502
  17. Li Y, Miao Y, Liang H, Zhou K, Li R, Qi J, Kong X, Zhou Y, Zhang Q  Elucidating the biological characteristics of overweight populations based on urine Raman spectroscopy and bioinformatics analysis.  Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc  2026 Jan 05;350:127442. doi:10.1016/j.saa.2026.127442
  18. 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  2026 Jan 05;47(1):1-8. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A8902
  19. Kopal J, Vo A, Tao Q, Simuni T, Chahine LM, Bzdok D, Dagher A  Carriers of LRRK2 pathogenic variants show a milder, anatomically distinct brain signature of Parkinson's disease.  Commun Med (Lond)  2026 Jan 03;. doi:10.1038/s43856-025-01330-7
  20. Carroll DD, Cira K, Archer J, Shapiro J, Pen UY, Tieri D, Leonor L, Roofchayee ND, Yee SS, Wahab M  et al.  Post-COVID impairment of memory T cell responses to community-acquired pathogens can be rectified by activating cellular metabolism.  bioRxiv  2026 Jan 02;. pii:2025.12.31.697156
  21. Li JM, Gauen AM, Zmora R, Stephen JJ, Petito LC, Scholtens D, Peterson EA, Kohli-Lynch C, Mansolf M, Sedaghat S  et al.  Midlife and late-life population attributable fractions of risk factors for dementia in the United States: The Dementia Risk Prediction Project.  Alzheimers Dement  2026 Jan;22(1):e71065. doi:10.1002/alz.71065
  22. Dekker J, Oksuz BA, Zhang Y, Wang Y, Minsk MK, Kuang S, Yang L, Gibcus JH, Krietenstein N, Rando OJ  et al.  An integrated view of the structure and function of the human 4D nucleome.  Nature  2026 Jan;649(8097):759-776. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09890-3
  23. 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  2026 Jan;29(1):234-245. doi:10.1038/s41593-025-02127-6
  24. 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  2026 Jan;470:109502. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2025.109502
  25. Samei Y, Cheung I, Papavasileiou P, Franz CK, Finan JD  Elastic and viscoelastic properties of human cortical organoids.  Acta Biomater  2026 Jan;209:481-492. doi:10.1016/j.actbio.2025.11.034
  26. 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  2026 Jan;26(1):101-120. doi:10.1080/14737175.2025.2579903
  27. Gautam M, Laith A, Gunel A, Yilmaz M, Basak N, Idrisoglu H, Ozdinler PH  Exosome Proteomics of SOD1D90A Mutation Suggest Early Disease Mechanisms, and FN1 as a Biomarker.  Ann Clin Transl Neurol  2026 Jan;13(1):131-143. doi:10.1002/acn3.70208
  28. Benedetti GM, Pardo AC, Nelson Sanchez-Pinto L, Straley M, Wainwright MS, Kurz JE, Press CA  Predicting pediatric cardiac arrest outcomes using early quantitative EEG.  Resuscitation  2026 Jan;218:110838. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110838
  29. Weng TB, Porwal G, Srinivasan D, Inglis B, Rodriguez S, Jacobs DR, Schreiner PJ, Sorond FA, Sidney S, Lewis C  et al.  Predicting Breath Hold Task Compliance From Head Motion.  J Magn Reson Imaging  2026 Jan;63(1):183-192. doi:10.1002/jmri.70105
  30. Kawles A, Zouridakis A, Nelson C, Keszycki R, Minogue G, Macomber A, Jamshidi P, Castellani RJ, Geula C, Gefen T  et al.  Dendritic location of dystrophic neurites in FTLD-TDP type C with annexinopathy.  Brain Pathol  2026 Jan;36(1):e70032. pii:e70032
  31. 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
  32. Duckett D, Santana-Santos L, McCord M, Smith V, Lopes MBS, Youngblood MW, Magill ST, Chandler JP, Heimberger AB, Lukas R  et al.  Development, validation, and utility of a clinically applicable methylation classifier for recurrence risk prediction in meningiomas.  Acta Neuropathol Commun  2025 Dec 29;13(1):259. pii:259
  33. Tang J, Chung SH, Gamez M, Zhao T, Wolf MS, Pandey DK, Gorelick PB, Yan L  Pulsatility Assessment of Cerebral Perforating Arteries Using Submillimeter-Resolution Dual-VENC Phase-Contrast MRI at 3T.  J Magn Reson Imaging  2025 Dec 27;. doi:10.1002/jmri.70218
  34. Maas MB  Abnormal sleep during acute illness: Therapeutic opportunity or allostatic phenomenon.  J Hosp Med  2025 Dec 23;. doi:10.1002/jhm.70246
  35. 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
  36. McKee HR, Ovalle AB, Giambarberi L, Lekoubou A, Rossetti AO, Block C, Habela CW, Alexopoulos AV, Tripathi M, Beniczky S  et al.  Annual Course / From Then to Now: The Evolving Spectrum of Epilepsy Care.  Epilepsy Curr  2025 Dec 22;:15357597251406694. pii:15357597251406694
  37. Hiemstra FW, González LB, Engelhardt LJ, Hancke L, Pilz LK, Adler AI, Dashti HS, Drouot X, Kitchen GB, Knauert MP  et al.  Challenges and Recommendations for Integrating Circadian Medicine in Critical Care: A Roadmap.  Chest  2025 Dec 20;. pii:S0012-3692(25)05931-8
  38. 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 Dec 19;22(6). pii:061005
  39. Banker M, do Nascimento JSP, Shownkeen H, Chang TR, Goldenberg F, Faine B, Cella D, Schuele SU, Luo Y, Tipton E  et al.  Prophylactic Antiseizure Medication in Patients with Lobar Intracerebral Hemorrhage.  Neurocrit Care  2025 Dec 18;. doi:10.1007/s12028-025-02423-w
  40. Aucoin L, Templer JW, Tate MC, Dixit KS  The role of a multidisciplinary clinic for management of patients with IDH mutant gliomas.  Front Oncol  2025;15:1729589. pii:1729589
  41. Youngblood MW, Kumari A, Kang YT, Gould A, Habashy K, Gomez M, Lingamarla H, Morey T, Chen L, Congivaram H  et al.  Dynamic release of extracellular particles after opening of the blood-brain barrier predicts glioblastoma susceptibility to paclitaxel.  Nat Commun  2025 Dec 16;16(1):11045. pii:11045
  42. 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 16;14(24):e044433. doi:10.1161/JAHA.125.044433
  43. Trifan G, Daviglus ML, Gonzalez HM, Tarraf W, Gorelick PB, Elkind MSV, Gallo LC, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Perreira KM, Stickel AM  et al.  Cognitive Function as a Predictor of Incident Hypertension in Hispanic/Latino Adults: Results From the Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.  Hypertension  2025 Dec 15;. doi:10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.125.26109
  44. Grant RA, Runyan CE, Minogue GA, Stoolman JS, Watanabe S, Chen F, Senkow KJ, Cusick L, Schleck MJ, Nafikova R  et al.  Influenza A infection accelerates disease-associated microglia formation during physiological aging.  bioRxiv  2025 Dec 14;. pii:2025.12.11.693336
  45. Li Y, Sheng M, Li W, Liu S, Wang B, Liu B, Luo M, Zhou X, Xia Q, Hong S  et al.  Targeting chaperone-mediated autophagy inhibits properties of glioblastoma stem cells and restores anti-tumor immunity.  Nat Commun  2025 Dec 13;17(1):440. pii:440
  46. Alessandrini F, Wright M, Kurosaki T, Perloff OS, Ngo M, Kofler JK, Donnelly CJ, Maquat LE, Kiskinis E  TDP-43 dysfunction compromises UPF1-dependent mRNA metabolism in ALS.  Neuron  2025 Dec 12;. pii:S0896-6273(25)00848-7
  47. Song X, Tiek D, Lu M, Yu X, Wu R, Walker M, He Q, Sisbarro D, Hu B, Cheng SY  A single-cell atlas of RNA alternative splicing in the glioma-immune ecosystem.  Genome Biol  2025 Dec 12;26(1):426. pii:426
  48. Ulugut H, Younes K, Montembeault M, Bertoux M, Irish M, Kumfor F, Fumagalli GG, Samanci B, Illán-Gala I, Thompson JC  et al.  Clinical recognition of frontotemporal dementia with right temporal predominance: a consensus statement from the International Working Group.  Commun Med (Lond)  2025 Dec 12;5(1):523. pii:523
  49. Yu J, Ramirez MA, Wang YZ, Edassery S, Shramuk M, Cheatham MA, Rutherford MA, Welty LJ, Savas JN  Heat-shock pathway activation by TRC051384 protects spiral ganglion neurons from noise-induced hearing loss.  bioRxiv  2025 Dec 11;. pii:2025.12.08.693048
  50. 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. pii:11000

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