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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. Gerard EE  Two Meds Are Not Enough: The Need for Continued Prospective Antiseizure Medication Pregnancy Research.  Neurology  2025 Aug 12;105(3):e213959. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000213959
  4. Leocadio-Miguel M, Taporoski TP, Beijamini F, Ruiz FS, Horimoto ARVR, Pereira AC, Knutson KL, von Schantz M  Heritability of sleep architecture based on home polysomnography.  J Sleep Res  2025 Aug;34(4):e14448. pii:e14448
  5. 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
  6. Arguedas A, Schneck D, Cui E, Xenopoulos-Oddsson A, Arcila-Londono X, Lunetta C, Wymer J, Olney N, Gwathmey K, Ajroud-Driss S  et al.  Risk prediction for ALS using semi-competing risk models with applications to the ALS Natural History Consortium dataset.  Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener  2025 Aug;26(5-6):550-557. doi:10.1080/21678421.2025.2500359
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Schneck D, Arguedas A, Xenopoulos-Oddsson A, Arcila-Londono X, Lunetta C, Wymer J, Olney N, Gwathmey K, Ajroud-Driss S, Hayat G  et al.  Time-to-event prediction in ALS using a landmark modeling approach, using the ALS Natural History Consortium dataset.  Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener  2025 Aug;26(5-6):417-425. doi:10.1080/21678421.2025.2482943
  10. Taporoski TP, Beijamini F, Alexandria S, Aaby D, von Schantz M, Pereira AC, Knutson KL  Gender differences in the relationship between sleep and age in a Brazilian cohort: the Baependi Heart Study.  J Sleep Res  2025 Aug;34(4):e14154. pii:e14154
  11. Li E, Chakraborty A, Kohtz SJ, Cajigas I, Hinojosa-Gonzalez L, Shiau F, Bertossi R, Vassar RJ, Kessler JA, Ay F  et al.  Single-cell transcriptomics of ventral forebrain progenitors identifies Evf2 enhancer lncRNA-enhancer gene guidance through direct RNA binding and RNP recruitment domains.  Nat Commun  2025 Jul 26;16(1):6902. pii:6902
  12. 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 Jul 25;:1-7. doi:10.3171/2025.4.JNS25200
  13. Irfan B, Attarian H, Irfan M, Sankari A, Kirschner D, Khan M  Religious and culturally conscious sleep care for Muslim patients: Clinical considerations and recommendations.  Sleep Med Rev  2025 Jul 24;83:102138. doi:10.1016/j.smrv.2025.102138
  14. Lo SS, Halasz LM, Choi S, Kumthekar P, Wang TJC, Shu HK, Sloan AE, Olson JJ  Congress of Neurological Surgeons systematic review and evidence-based guidelines for the role of radiotherapy in the management of patients with diffuse low grade glioma in adults: update.  J Neurooncol  2025 Jul 24;. doi:10.1007/s11060-025-05074-1
  15. 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  2025 Jul 23;:e70032. doi:10.1111/bpa.70032
  16. Takahashi S, Zhou Y, Dépreux F, Whitlon DS, Cheatham MA, Homma K  Hearing Loss and Audiogenic Seizures Induced by Hypofunctional Prestin Variants.  J Neurosci  2025 Jul 23;45(30). pii:e0922252025
  17. Smith HL, Duckett DJ, Mejia-Bautista M, Alshawa A, Jamshidi P, Castellani RJ, Lukas RV, Chandler JP, Jennings LJ, Santana-Santos L  et al.  IDH-wildtype astrocytoma with FH mutation, epigenetic similarity to IDH-mutant astrocytoma, and hypermethylation of CDKN2A arising in the brainstem.  J Neuropathol Exp Neurol  2025 Jul 22;. pii:nlaf086
  18. Petrillo J, Sawant R, Rogers R, Cleanthous S, Cano S, Kumar R, Klapper J, Sierra LA, Bang J, Anderson KE  et al.  Reliability and validity of the Huntington's Disease Everyday Functioning (Hi-DEF): A patient-reported measure of cognitive capacity on daily functioning in Huntington's disease.  J Huntingtons Dis  2025 Jul 22;:18796397251358375. doi:10.1177/18796397251358375
  19. Nassiri F, Patil V, Yefet LS, Singh O, Liu J, Dang RMA, Yamaguchi TN, Daras M, Cloughesy TF, Colman H  et al.  Author Correction: Oncolytic DNX-2401 virotherapy plus pembrolizumab in recurrent glioblastoma: a phase 1/2 trial.  Nat Med  2025 Jul 21;. doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03895-1
  20. Zhou C, An D, Faruqui SHA, Patel A, Abdalla RN, Shaibani A, Ansari SA, Cantrell DR,   `Probabilistic ensemble learning for prediction of stroke thrombectomy outcomes from the NeuroVascular Quality Initiative-Quality Outcomes Database (NVQI-QOD) Acute Ischemic Stroke Registry.  J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis  2025 Jul 18;34(9):108401. doi:10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2025.108401
  21. Lin Y, Amokrane N, Worley S, Moore LR, Rosen A, Crespo LP, Trace K, Ashizawa T, Billnitzer A, Perlman S  et al.  The Natural History Study and Biomarker Collection of the Clinical Research Consortium for the Study of Cerebellar Ataxia (CRC-SCA).  Cerebellum  2025 Jul 18;24(5):134. doi:10.1007/s12311-025-01885-0
  22. Copenhaver K, Silva Pinheiro do Nascimiento J, Garg RK, Goldenberg F, Shownkeen H, Potts M, Jahromi B, Lindholm PF, Naidech AM  Biomarkers of Thromboelastography Platelet Mapping Predict Hematoma Expansion After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage.  Stroke  2025 Jul 18;. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.125.051447
  23. Rajabli F, Benchek P, Tosto G, Kushch N, Sha J, Bazemore K, Zhu C, Lee WP, Haut J, Hamilton-Nelson KL  et al.  Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies known and novel cross-population and ancestry-specific associations as novel risk loci for Alzheimer's disease.  Genome Biol  2025 Jul 17;26(1):210. pii:210
  24. Johnson DA, Attarian H, Hale L, Knutson K  Sleep deserts: From observational to interventional environmental patterns of sleep health and sleep disorders.  Sleep Health  2025 Jul 16;. pii:S2352-7218(25)00135-4
  25. Jiang X, Zhu F, Graça G, Du X, Ran J, Ahmadizar F, Wood AC, Zhou Y, Scholtens DM, Farzaneh A  et al.  Serum Metabolomic Profiling of Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Rotterdam Study.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab  2025 Jul 15;110(8):e2700-e2710. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgae812
  26. Avila EK, Reiner AS, Armstrong TS, Aaroe AE, Cunningham EM, Brown JG, Bruno F, Diarte J, Haggiagi A, Harrison RA  et al.  RANO seizure working group-Tumor Related Epilepsy Assessment Tool (RANO-TREAT) to assess seizure control for glioma treatment trials and clinical practice.  Neuro Oncol  2025 Jul 12;. pii:noaf165
  27. Weintraub D, Nair AR, Kurth R, Brumm MC, Kohnen C, York MK, Dobkin RD, Marek K, Tanner C, Simuni T  et al.  Cognitive Performance in Early Neuronal Synuclein Disease with Hyposmia but without Motor Disability: Association with Dopamine Deficiency and Isolated Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder.  Ann Neurol  2025 Jul 11;. doi:10.1002/ana.27263
  28. Nathan CL, Ghandour D, May J, Bega D, Schuele S  New Onset Medically Refractory Seizures in an Adult With Parkinson's Disease and Vitamin B6 Deficiency Case Report.  Neurohospitalist  2025 Jul 09;:19418744251360306. pii:19418744251360306
  29. 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 Jul 09;45(28). pii:e1194242025
  30. Zenk M, Baid U, Pati S, Linardos A, Edwards B, Sheller M, Foley P, Aristizabal A, Zimmerer D, Gruzdev A  et al.  Towards fair decentralized benchmarking of healthcare AI algorithms with the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) challenge.  Nat Commun  2025 Jul 08;16(1):6274. pii:6274
  31. Hanson BA, Dang X, Jamshidi P, Steffens A, Copenhaver K, Orban ZS, Bustos B, Lubbe SJ, Castellani RJ, Koralnik IJ  Human pegivirus alters brain and blood immune and transcriptomic profiles of patients with Parkinson's disease.  JCI Insight  2025 Jul 08;10(13). pii:e189988
  32. 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  2025 Jul 08;:8830738251347523. doi:10.1177/08830738251347523
  33. Sheriff A, Lane G, Zelano C  Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose.  Curr Biol  2025 Jul 07;35(13):R657-R659. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2025.05.054
  34. Svoboda MD, Kuntz N, Leon-Astudillo C, Byrne BJ, Krueger J, Kwon JM, Sieburg C, Castro D  Risdiplam treatment following onasemnogene abeparvovec in individuals with spinal muscular atrophy: a multicenter case series.  BMC Neurol  2025 Jul 07;25(1):283. pii:283
  35. Scirocco E, Allen MD, Giacomelli E, Ajroud-Driss S, Andrews J, Banack S, Bede P, Benatar M, Cheung K, Corcia P  et al.  Toward therapeutic trials in primary lateral sclerosis.  Amyotroph Lateral Scler Frontotemporal Degener  2025 Jul 06;:1-8. doi:10.1080/21678421.2025.2527123
  36. Luthra NS, Mehta N, Munoz MJ, Fantuzzi G, Lamotte G, Haus JM, McFarland NR, Tansey MG, Gonzalez-Latapi P, Caraveo G  et al.  Aerobic exercise-induced changes in fluid biomarkers in Parkinson's disease.  NPJ Parkinsons Dis  2025 Jul 01;11(1):190. pii:190
  37. Pagano G, Trundell D, Simuni T, Pavese N, Marek K, Postuma RB, Shariati N, Monnet A, Moore E, Davies EW  et al.  Time-to-event analysis mitigates the impact of symptomatic therapy on therapeutic benefit in Parkinson's disease trials.  NPJ Parkinsons Dis  2025 Jul 01;11(1):193. pii:193
  38. Young CC, Narsinh KH, Chen SR, Ansari SA, Hetts SW, Lang FF, Wintermark M, Kan PT  State of Practice: A Report from the Inaugural SNIS Neurointerventional Oncology Summit.  AJNR Am J Neuroradiol  2025 Jul 01;. pii:ajnr.A8902
  39. Maas MB, Shirodkar R, Russe SJ  The authors reply.  Crit Care Med  2025 Jul 01;53(7):e1520-e1521. doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000006691
  40. Brooker SM, Novelli M, Coukos R, Prakash N, Kamel WA, Amengual-Gual M, Anheim M, Barcia G, Bardakjian T, Baur F  et al.  The Spectrum of Neurologic Phenotypes Associated With NUS1 Pathogenic Variants: A Comprehensive Case Series.  Ann Neurol  2025 Jul 01;. doi:10.1002/ana.27272
  41. Davalos L, Callaghan BC, Muthukumar L, Thomas S, Reynolds EL, Smith AG, Singleton JR, Höke A, Ajroud-Driss S, Dimachkie MM  et al.  The Impact of Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Burden on Pain, Neuropathy Severity and Fiber Type.  Ann Clin Transl Neurol  2025 Jul;12(7):1408-1417. doi:10.1002/acn3.70072
  42. Chandra S, Popovic J, Singhal NK, Watkins EA, Dodiya HB, Weigle IQ, Salvo MA, Ramakrishnan A, Chen Z, Watson T  et al.  The gut microbiome controls reactive astrocytosis during Aβ amyloidosis via propionate-mediated regulation of IL-17.  J Clin Invest  2025 Jul 01;135(13). pii:e180826
  43. 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
  44. Sindorf J, Campagnini S, O'Brien MK, Sunderrajan A, Knutson KL, Zee PC, Wolfe L, Arora VM, Jayaraman A  Sleep Following a Stroke: Multimodal Evaluation of Sleep Health and Disruptions and Impact on Recovery During Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation.  Neurorehabil Neural Repair  2025 Jul;39(7):529-541. doi:10.1177/15459683251335332
  45. Simuni T, Gochanour C, Nair AR, Brumm MC, Coffey C, Poston KL, Chahine LM, Weintraub D, Tanner CM, Gonzalez-Latapi P  et al.  Neuronal α-Synuclein Disease Stage Progression over 5 Years.  Mov Disord  2025 Jul;40(7):1318-1330. doi:10.1002/mds.30191
  46. 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
  47. Vormittag-Nocito E, Duckett D, Castellani RJ, Ahrendsen JT, Lu X, Jennings LJ, Lukas RV, Magill ST, Santana-Santos L, Brat DJ  et al.  Meningiomas With Chromosomal Polysomies Reveal Nonrandom Gain of Chromosomes, Distinct Methylation Signature, and Lower Risk of Recurrence.  Mod Pathol  2025 Jul;38(7):100775. doi:10.1016/j.modpat.2025.100775
  48. Peng W, Bonakdarpour B  The Case of a 67-Year-Old Man With Memory Difficulties and Altered Sleep.  Ann Clin Transl Neurol  2025 Jul;12(7):1511-1513. doi:10.1002/acn3.70027
  49. Samra S, Attarian H, Malkani R  The use of cannabinoid therapy in treatment-refractory isolated REM sleep behavior disorder: a case report.  J Clin Sleep Med  2025 Jul 01;21(7):1311-1313. doi:10.5664/jcsm.11704
  50. Simuni T, Chahine LM, Poston KL, Kopil CM, Weintraub D, Dunn B, Marek K  Reply to: "Refutation of the αSyn-SAA-Based Staging for Parkinson's Progression (Neuronal α-Synuclein Disease-Integrated Staging System [NSD-ISS])".  Mov Disord  2025 Jun 27;. doi:10.1002/mds.30272

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