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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. Geurts M, Berchtold L, Koenig F, Nabors B, Reardon DA, Tonn JC, Stupp R, Gorlia T, Weller M, Preusser M  et al.  Temozolomide chemotherapy for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma in the CENTRIC EORTC 26071-22072 and CORE trials: Does time of administration matter?  Neurooncol Pract  2025 Apr;12(2):291-300. doi:10.1093/nop/npaf006
  2. Peck A, Dadi A, Yavarow Z, Alfano LN, Anderson D, Arkin MR, Chou TF, D'Ambrosio ES, Diaz-Manera J, Dudley JP  et al.  2024 VCP International Conference: Exploring multi-disciplinary approaches from basic science of valosin containing protein, an AAA+ ATPase protein, to the therapeutic advancement for VCP-associated multisystem proteinopathy.  Neurobiol Dis  2025 Apr;207:106861. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2025.106861
  3. Knutson KL, Reid KJ, Wong M, Alexandria SJ, Thomas SJ, Lewis CE, Schreiner PJ, Sidney S, Kershaw K, Carnethon MR  Chronotype and Sleep Timing by Race-Gender: The CARDIA Sleep Study.  J Biol Rhythms  2025 Apr;40(2):171-180. doi:10.1177/07487304251315596
  4. Elsamadicy AA, Cross J, Reeves BC, Shaffer A, McGuire LS, Welch WC, Arnold PM, Rosenow JM,   Characteristics of reported industry payments to neurosurgeons from 2019 to 2022: The impact of COVID-19.  J Clin Neurosci  2025 Apr;134:111089. doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2025.111089
  5. Wang YZ, Savas JN  Reply to "Concerns regarding the interpretation of Shank3 protein isoforms expressed in Shank3B-/- mice: potential off-target effects by a neomycin resistance cassette".  Mol Psychiatry  2025 Apr;30(4):1712-1713. doi:10.1038/s41380-025-02903-7
  6. Brown EG, Chahine LM, Siderowf A, Gochanour C, Kurth R, Marshall MJ, Caspell-Garcia C, Brumm MC, Stanley CE, Korell M  et al.  Staged Screening Identifies People with Biomarkers Related to Neuronal Alpha-Synuclein Disease.  Ann Neurol  2025 Apr;97(4):730-740. doi:10.1002/ana.27158
  7. Affaneh A, Linden AK, Tunc-Ozcan E, Tsai YH, Peng CY, Kessler JA  Inhibition of Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Prevents Tau Pathology in iPSC Derived Neurons and PS19 Mice.  Ann Neurol  2025 Apr;97(4):657-672. doi:10.1002/ana.27149
  8. Mohar B, Michel G, Wang YZ, Hernandez V, Grimm JB, Park JY, Patel R, Clarke M, Brown TA, Bergmann C  et al.  DELTA: a method for brain-wide measurement of synaptic protein turnover reveals localized plasticity during learning.  Nat Neurosci  2025 Mar 31;. doi:10.1038/s41593-025-01923-4
  9. 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 Mar 29;. doi:10.1002/mds.30183
  10. van Olst L, Simonton B, Edwards AJ, Forsyth AV, Boles J, Jamshidi P, Watson T, Shepard N, Krainc T, Argue BM  et al.  Author Correction: Microglial mechanisms drive amyloid-β clearance in immunized patients with Alzheimer's disease.  Nat Med  2025 Mar 28;. doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03664-0
  11. Peng W, Bonakdarpour B  The Case of a 67-Year-Old Man With Memory Difficulties and Altered Sleep.  Ann Clin Transl Neurol  2025 Mar 27;. doi:10.1002/acn3.70027
  12. 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 Mar 25;. doi:10.5664/jcsm.11704
  13. Yu X, Song X, Tiek D, Wu R, Walker M, Horbinski C, Hu B, Cheng SY  Targeting PDGFRA-SHP2 Signaling Enhances Radiotherapy in IDH1-Mutant Glioma.  Neuro Oncol  2025 Mar 25;. pii:noaf086
  14. Gorelick PB, Sorond FA  Stress and Stroke: What, Me Worry?  Neurology  2025 Mar 25;104(6):e213398. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000213398
  15. Marks LJ, Ritter V, Agrusa JE, Kamdar KY, Rivers J, Gardner R, Ehrhardt MJ, Devine KJ, Phillips CA, Reilly A  et al.  Pediatric relapsed/refractory ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma treatment and outcomes in the targeted-drug era.  Blood Adv  2025 Mar 25;9(6):1356-1365. doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2024014745
  16. Lee KJ, Kim SE, Guk HS, Kim DY, Kim BJ, Han MK, Kim JT, Choi KH, Shin DI, Cha JK  et al.  Persistent Beta-Blocker Therapy Reduces Long-Term Mortality in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke With Elevated Heart Rates.  J Am Heart Assoc  2025 Mar 18;14(6):e039678. doi:10.1161/JAHA.124.039678
  17. Ho EH, Ece B, Bucko P, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Pila S, Hosseinian Z, Hussein Y, Han SD, Lichtenberg PA, Lim AC  et al.  A scoping review of financial decision-making measures in midlife and beyond: results from the advancing reliable measurement in cognitive aging and decision-making ability (ARMCADA) study.  Front Psychol  2025;16:1540508. pii:1540508
  18. Telenson AM, Hsieh RR, Cowen GJ, Sode EP, Kwon JM, Vo AH, Hadhazy M, Page PG, Rao NR, Pesce L  et al.  A novel, rapidly progressive ataxia due to a spontaneous Myo5a mutation in mice impairs transport proteins and alters mitochondria.  FASEB J  2025 Mar 15;39(5):e70423. doi:10.1096/fj.202402274R
  19. Vedaei F, Srinivasan D, Parker D, Erus G, Dolui S, Sorond FA, Jacobs DR, Launer LJ, Lackland DT, Davatzikos C  et al.  Spatial and signal features of white matter integrity and associations with clinical factors: A CARDIA brain MRI study.  Neuroimage Clin  2025 Mar 14;46:103768. doi:10.1016/j.nicl.2025.103768
  20. Wang C, Zhou J, Li T, Du S, Urushidani T, Wang D, Chen Y, Mullen M, Cao X, Cheng SY  et al.  Akt-elicited phosphorylation of Acapin steers cell migration.  J Mol Cell Biol  2025 Mar 13;. pii:mjaf010
  21. Elder C, Kerestes R, Opal P, Marchese M, Devinsky O  The cerebellum in epilepsy.  Epilepsia  2025 Mar 13;. doi:10.1111/epi.18316
  22. Johnson HR, Wang MC, Stickland RC, Chen Y, Parrish TB, Sorond FA, Bright MG  Variable cerebral blood flow responsiveness to acute hypoxic hypoxia.  Front Physiol  2025;16:1562582. pii:1562582
  23. Rugel CL, Thompson SD, Franz CK, Heckman CJ, Lavasani M, Lee SSM  Stress and stiffness as predictors of shear wave velocity in peripheral nerve.  PLoS One  2025;20(3):e0319439. pii:e0319439
  24. Taporoski TP, Beijamini F, Alexandria SJ, Aaby D, Krieger JE, von Schantz M, Pereira AC, Knutson KL  Gender-specific associations between sleep stages and cardiovascular risk factors.  Sleep  2025 Mar 11;48(3). pii:zsae242
  25. 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.  medRxiv  2025 Mar 10;. pii:2025.03.09.25323610
  26. Paumier JM, Zewe J, Panja C, Pergande MR, Venkatesan M, Israeli E, Prasad S, Snider N, Savas JN, Opal P  Neurofilament accumulation disrupts autophagy in giant axonal neuropathy.  JCI Insight  2025 Mar 10;10(5). pii:e177999
  27. Tomatsu S, Abbott SM, Attarian H  Clinical Chronobiology: Circadian Rhythms in Health and Disease.  Semin Neurol  2025 Mar 10;. doi:10.1055/a-2538-3259
  28. Song D, Zhang Z, Zheng J, Zhang W, Cai J  5-Hydroxymethylcytosine modifications in circulating cell-free DNA: frontiers of cancer detection, monitoring, and prognostic evaluation.  Biomark Res  2025 Mar 07;13(1):39. pii:39
  29. Zhu P, Pfrender EM, Steffeck AWT, Reczek CR, Zhou Y, Thakkar AV, Gupta NR, Kupai A, Willbanks A, Lieber RL  et al.  Immunomodulatory role of the stem cell circadian clock in muscle repair.  Sci Adv  2025 Mar 07;11(10):eadq8538. pii:eadq8538
  30. Chahine LM, Lafontant DE, Choi SH, Iwaki H, Blauwendraat C, Singleton AB, Brumm MC, Alcalay RN, Merchant K, Nudelman KNH  et al.  LRRK2-associated parkinsonism with and without in vivo evidence of alpha-synuclein aggregates: longitudinal clinical and biomarker characterization.  Brain Commun  2025;7(2):fcaf103. pii:fcaf103
  31. van Olst L, Simonton B, Edwards AJ, Forsyth AV, Boles J, Jamshidi P, Watson T, Shepard N, Krainc T, Argue BM  et al.  Microglial mechanisms drive amyloid-β clearance in immunized patients with Alzheimer's disease.  Nat Med  2025 Mar 06;. doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03574-1
  32. 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 Mar 05;:0. doi:10.1089/jpm.2024.0227
  33. Kong G, Song Y, Yan Y, Calderazzo SM, Saddala MS, De Labastida Rivera F, Cherry JD, Eckman N, Appel EA, Velenosi A  et al.  Clonally expanded, targetable, natural killer-like NKG7 T cells seed the aged spinal cord to disrupt myeloid-dependent wound healing.  Neuron  2025 Mar 05;113(5):684-700.e8. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2024.12.012
  34. Kokkinos V, Cunningham EM, Nathan CL, Ghandour D, Kisinger M, Beestrum M, Madkins K, Schuele SU  The localizing value of mimic ictal semiology: A systematic review of the spectrum.  Epileptic Disord  2025 Mar 04;. doi:10.1002/epd2.70004
  35. Burt AL, L'Italien G, Perlman SL, Rosenthal LS, Kuo SH, Ashizawa T, Zesiewicz T, Dietiker C, Opal P, Duquette A  et al.  Spinocerebellar Ataxia Progression Measured with the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Ataxia.  Mov Disord  2025 Mar 04;. doi:10.1002/mds.30158
  36. Park TH, Hong KS, Cho YJ, Ryu WS, Kim DE, Park MS, Choi KH, Kim JT, Kang J, Kim BJ  et al.  Temporal Trends in Stroke Management and Outcomes Between 2011 and 2020 in South Korea: Results From a Nationwide Multicenter Registry.  J Am Heart Assoc  2025 Mar 04;14(5):e035218. doi:10.1161/JAHA.124.035218
  37. Opal P, Swanson GT  Bridging the gap: insights into sensorimotor deficits in NMDA receptor antibody encephalitis.  J Clin Invest  2025 Mar 03;135(5). pii:e188251
  38. Sejourne C, Barker MS, Heath MR, Gazes Y, Fremont R, Perez YG, Hearne LJ, Wassermann EM, Tierney MC, Manoochehri M  et al.  Neuropsychiatric and behavioral symptom clusters in frontotemporal dementia.  J Alzheimers Dis Rep  2025;9:25424823251324391. pii:25424823251324391
  39. Qureshi AI, Al-Salihi MM, Bhatti IA, Al-Jebur MS, Abd Elazim A, Ansari SA, Ford DE, Hanley DF, Hassan AE, Lakhani P  et al.  Intraarterial Thrombolysis as an Adjunct to Thrombectomy in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Current Status and Future Prospects.  J Neuroimaging  2025;35(2):e70030. doi:10.1111/jon.70030
  40. Knutson KL  Sleep Health in Human Biology Research.  Am J Hum Biol  2025 Mar;37(3):e70025. pii:e70025
  41. Texakalidis P, Matsoukas S, Murthy N, Adewuyi AA, Dahdaleh NS, Franz CK, Swong K  Nerve transfers to anterior interosseous nerve for restoration of finger flexion in spinal cord and brachial plexus injury: a systematic Review and individual-patient-data meta-analysis.  Spinal Cord  2025 Mar;63(3):127-134. doi:10.1038/s41393-025-01066-0
  42. Arya R, Baumer FM, Chauvel P, Frauscher B, Jayakar P, Kheder A, Lega B, Lesser RP, Miller KJ, Nuwer MR  et al.  American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Technical Standards for Electrical Stimulation With Intracranial Electrodes for Functional Brain Mapping and Seizure Induction.  J Clin Neurophysiol  2025 Mar 01;42(3):190-200. doi:10.1097/WNP.0000000000001149
  43. Feng H, Hu B, Vuori K, Sarkaria JN, Furnari FB, Cavenee WK, Cheng S-  Correction: EGFRvIII stimulates glioma growth and invasion through PKA-dependent serine phosphorylation of Dock180.  Oncogene  2025 Mar;44(10):710-711. doi:10.1038/s41388-025-03290-7
  44. Ellenbogen AL, Poewe W, Espay AJ, Simuni T, Gurevich T, Yardeni T, Lopes N, Sasson N, Case R, Stocchi F  et al.  Long-term, continuous, subcutaneous levodopa/carbidopa infusion with ND0612 in Parkinson's disease: 3-year outcomes from the open-label BeyoND study.  Parkinsonism Relat Disord  2025 Mar;132:107293. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2025.107293
  45. Wang Z, Wang F, Qin C, Lyu J, Ouyang C, Wang S, Li Y, Yu M, Zhang H, Guo K  et al.  CMRxRecon2024: A Multimodality, Multiview k-Space Dataset Boosting Universal Machine Learning for Accelerated Cardiac MRI.  Radiol Artif Intell  2025 Mar;7(2):e240443. pii:e240443
  46. Eid SA, Townsend KL, Spallone V, Menichella DM, Koubek EJ, Feldman EL  A call to action for peripheral neuropathy research funding-Time to consolidate funding under one NIH initiative?  J Peripher Nerv Syst  2025 Mar;30(1):e12681. pii:e12681
  47. Nikolcheva T, Pagano G, Pross N, Simuni T, Marek K, Postuma RB, Pavese N, Stocchi F, Seppi K, Monnet A  et al.  A Phase 2b, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravenous prasinezumab in early-stage Parkinson's disease (PADOVA): Rationale, design, and baseline data.  Parkinsonism Relat Disord  2025 Mar;132:107257. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2024.107257
  48. Provini F, Högl B, Iranzo A, Kushida C, Lee JY, Shukla G, Stefani A, Wing YK, Malkani R,   Endorsement of: "Position paper for the treatment of nightmare disorder in adults: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine position paper" by the World Sleep Society.  Sleep Med  2025 Mar;127:49-54. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2025.01.001
  49. McCullough LM, Attarian H  Enough is enough: strict hypopnea criteria exacerbate sleep-related health disparities in females.  J Clin Sleep Med  2025 Mar 01;21(3):453-454. doi:10.5664/jcsm.11550
  50. Horbinski C, Solomon DA, Lukas RV, Packer RJ, Brastianos P, Wen PY, Snuderl M, Berger MS, Chang S, Fouladi M  et al.  Molecular Testing for the World Health Organization Classification of Central Nervous System Tumors: A Review.  JAMA Oncol  2025 Mar 01;11(3):317-328. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2024.5506

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