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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease

Publications

  1. Valentino RR, Scotton WJ, Roemer SF, Lashley T, Heckman MG, Shoai M, Martinez-Carrasco A, Tamvaka N, Walton RL, Baker MC  et al.  MAPT H2 haplotype and risk of Pick's disease in the Pick's disease International Consortium: a genetic association study.  Lancet Neurol  2024 May;23(5):487-499. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00083-8
  2. Ayala I, Bahrami A, Pan Y, Spencer C, Flanagan ME, Mesulam MM, Gefen T, Geula C  Loss and microglia phagocytosis of synaptic proteins in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 proteinopathy.  Neurochem Int  2024 May;175:105719. doi:10.1016/j.neuint.2024.105719
  3. Vandebergh M, Ramos EM, Corriveau-Lecavalier N, Ramanan VK, Kornak J, Mester C, Kolander T, Brushaber D, Staffaroni AM, Geschwind D  et al.  Gene specific effects on brain volume and cognition of TMEM106B in frontotemporal lobar degeneration.  medRxiv  2024 Apr 05;. pii:2024.04.05.24305253
  4. Iverson GL, Gardner AJ, Castellani RJ, Kissinger-Knox A  Applying the Consensus Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome Retrospectively to Case Studies of Boxers from the 20th Century.  Neurotrauma Rep  2024;5(1):337-347. doi:10.1089/neur.2023.0134
  5. Høilund-Carlsen PF, Alavi A, Castellani RJ, Neve RL, Perry G, Revheim ME, Barrio JR  Alzheimer's Amyloid Hypothesis and Antibody Therapy: Melting Glaciers?  Int J Mol Sci  2024 Mar 31;25(7). pii:3892
  6. McCord M, Jamshidi P  Targeting the cell cycle to enhance chemotherapy efficacy in glioblastoma.  Neuro Oncol  2024 Mar 22;. pii:noae062
  7. Turner M, Belli A, Castellani RJ  Changes in Brain Structure and Function in a Multisport Cohort of Retired Female and Male Athletes, Many Years after Suffering a Concussion: Implications for Neuroplasticity and Neurodegenerative Disease Pathogenesis.  J Alzheimers Dis Rep  2024;8(1):501-516. doi:10.3233/ADR-240021
  8. Kawles A, Keszycki R, Minogue G, Zouridakis A, Ayala I, Gill N, Macomber A, Lubbat V, Coventry C, Rogalski E  et al.  Phenotypically concordant distribution of pick bodies in aphasic versus behavioral dementias.  Acta Neuropathol Commun  2024 Feb 22;12(1):31. pii:31
  9. Tyner CE, Boulton AJ, Slotkin J, Cohen ML, Weintraub S, Gershon RC, Tulsky DS  Exploring symptom clusters in mild cognitive impairment and dementia with the NIH Toolbox.  J Int Neuropsychol Soc  2024 Feb 16;:1-12. doi:10.1017/S1355617724000055
  10. Walenski M, Sostarics T, Mesulam MM, Thompson CK  The production of adjectives in narratives by individuals with primary progressive aphasia.  J Neurolinguistics  2024 Feb;69. pii:101179
  11. Paudel B, Jeong SY, Martinez CP, Rickman A, Haluck-Kangas A, Bartom ET, Fredriksen K, Affaneh A, Kessler JA, Mazzulli JR  et al.  Death Induced by Survival gene Elimination (DISE) correlates with neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease and aging.  Nat Commun  2024 Jan 18;15(1):264. pii:264
  12. Mather MA, Ho EH, Bedjeti K, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Rogalski EJ, Gershon R, Weintraub S  Measuring Multidimensional Aspects of Health in the Oldest Old Using the NIH Toolbox: Results From the ARMADA Study.  Arch Clin Neuropsychol  2024 Jan 12;. pii:acad105
  13. Høilund-Carlsen PF, Alavi A, Barrio JR, Castellani RJ, Costa T, Herrup K, Kepp KP, Neve RL, Perry G, Revheim ME  et al.  Revision of Alzheimer's diagnostic criteria or relocation of the Potemkin village.  Ageing Res Rev  2024 Jan;93:102173. doi:10.1016/j.arr.2023.102173
  14. Echevarria-Cooper SL, Ho EH, Gershon RC, Weintraub S, Kahnt T  Evaluation of the NIH Toolbox Odor Identification Test across normal cognition, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.  Alzheimers Dement  2024 Jan;20(1):288-300. doi:10.1002/alz.13426
  15. Reznicek J, Sharifai N, Jamshidi P, Wadhwani N, Ahrendsen JT  Embryonal and pineal tumours.  Cytopathology  2023 Dec 15;. doi:10.1111/cyt.13350
  16. Petersen RC, Weintraub S, Sabbagh M, Karlawish J, Adler CH, Dilworth-Anderson P, Frank L, Huling Hummel C, Taylor A,   A New Framework for Dementia Nomenclature.  JAMA Neurol  2023 Dec 01;80(12):1364-1370. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.3664
  17. Minogue G, Kawles A, Zouridakis A, Keszycki R, Macomber A, Lubbat V, Gill N, Mao Q, Flanagan ME, Zhang H  et al.  Distinct Patterns of Hippocampal Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease with Transactive Response DNA-binding Protein 43.  Ann Neurol  2023 Dec;94(6):1036-1047. doi:10.1002/ana.26762
  18. Zouridakis A, Ayala I, Minogue G, Kawles A, Keszycki R, Macomber A, Bigio EH, Geula C, Mesulam MM, Gefen T  Shades of gray in human white matter.  J Comp Neurol  2023 Dec;531(18):2109-2120. doi:10.1002/cne.25512
  19. Franzen S, Nuytemans K, Bourdage R, Caramelli P, Ellajosyula R, Finger E, Illán-Gala I, Loi SM, Morhardt D, Pijnenburg Y  et al.  Gaps in clinical research in frontotemporal dementia: A call for diversity and disparities-focused research.  Alzheimers Dement  2023 Dec;19(12):5817-5836. doi:10.1002/alz.13129
  20. McCord M, Jamshidi P, Thirunavu V, Santana-Santos L, Vormittag-Nocito E, Dittman D, Parker S, Baczkowski J, Jennings L, Walshon J  et al.  Variant allelic frequencies of driver mutations can identify gliomas with potentially false-negative MGMT promoter methylation results.  Acta Neuropathol Commun  2023 Nov 02;11(1):175. pii:175
  21. Lapins A, Bonakdarpour B  The case of a 60-year-old man with decline in job performance and changes in personality and judgment.  Ann Clin Transl Neurol  2023 Nov;10(11):2171-2172. doi:10.1002/acn3.51917
  22. Engelmeyer JR, Kerr A, Makowski-Woidan BA, Gill NP, Mesulam MM, Weintraub S, Zhang H, Lindquist L, Rogalski EJ  Medical characterization of cognitive SuperAgers: Investigating the medication profile of SuperAgers.  J Am Geriatr Soc  2023 Nov;71(11):3638-3641. doi:10.1111/jgs.18496
  23. Hammers DB, Nemes S, Diedrich T, Eloyan A, Kirby K, Aisen P, Kramer J, Nudelman K, Foroud T, Rumbaugh M  et al.  Learning slopes in early-onset Alzheimer's disease.  Alzheimers Dement  2023 Nov;19 Suppl 9(Suppl 9):S19-S28. doi:10.1002/alz.13159
  24. Zhang M, Ho E, Nowinski CJ, Fox RS, Ayturk E, Karpouzian-Rogers T, Novack M, Dodge HH, Weintraub S, Gershon R  The Paradox in Positive and Negative Aspects of Emotional Functioning Among Older Adults with Early Stages of Cognitive Impairment.  J Aging Health  2023 Oct 06;:8982643231199806. doi:10.1177/08982643231199806
  25. Pang L, Dunterman M, Guo S, Khan F, Liu Y, Taefi E, Bahrami A, Geula C, Hsu WH, Horbinski C  et al.  Kunitz-type protease inhibitor TFPI2 remodels stemness and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in glioblastoma.  Nat Immunol  2023 Oct;24(10):1654-1670. doi:10.1038/s41590-023-01605-y
  26. Gasca-Salas C, Duff-Canning S, McArthur E, Armstrong MJ, Fox S, Meaney CA, Tang-Wai DF, Gill D, Eslinger PJ, Zadikoff C  et al.  Predictors of Cognitive Change in Parkinson Disease: A 2-year Follow-up Study.  Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord  ;37(4):335-342. doi:10.1097/WAD.0000000000000576
  27. Zhang L, Flagan TM, Häkkinen S, Chu SA, Brown JA, Lee AJ, Pasquini L, Mandelli ML, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sturm VE  et al.  Network Connectivity Alterations across the MAPT Mutation Clinical Spectrum.  Ann Neurol  2023 Oct;94(4):632-646. doi:10.1002/ana.26738
  28. Upadhyay A, Chhangani D, Rao NR, Kofler J, Vassar R, Rincon-Limas DE, Savas JN  Amyloid fibril proteomics of AD brains reveals modifiers of aggregation and toxicity.  Mol Neurodegener  2023 Sep 14;18(1):61. pii:61
  29. Bonakdarpour B, Zhou G, Huang D, Vidano CT, Schuele S, Zelano C, Takarabe C  Calming effect of Clinically Designed Improvisatory Music for patients admitted to the epilepsy monitoring unit during the COVID-19 pandemic: a pilot study.  Front Neurol  2023;14:1206171. pii:1206171
  30. Celis K, Moreno MDMM, Rajabli F, Whitehead P, Hamilton-Nelson K, Dykxhoorn DM, Nuytemans K, Wang L, Flanagan M, Weintraub S  et al.  Ancestry-related differences in chromatin accessibility and gene expression of APOE ε4 are associated with Alzheimer's disease risk.  Alzheimers Dement  2023 Sep;19(9):3902-3915. doi:10.1002/alz.13075
  31. Nassan M, Daghlas I, Piras IS, Rogalski E, Reus LM, Pijnenburg Y, Cuddy LK, Saxena R, Mesulam MM, Huentelman M  Evaluating the association between genetically proxied ACE inhibition and dementias.  Alzheimers Dement  2023 Sep;19(9):3894-3901. doi:10.1002/alz.13062
  32. Wiseman K, Slotkin J, Spratford M, Haggerty A, Heusinkvelt M, Weintraub S, Gershon R, McCreery R  Validation of a tablet-based assessment of auditory sensitivity for researchers.  Behav Res Methods  2023 Sep;55(6):2838-2852. doi:10.3758/s13428-022-01933-1
  33. Mao C, Xu J, Rasmussen L, Li Y, Adekkanattu P, Pacheco J, Bonakdarpour B, Vassar R, Shen L, Jiang G  et al.  AD-BERT: Using pre-trained language model to predict the progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease.  J Biomed Inform  2023 Aug;144:104442. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104442
  34. Iverson GL, Kissinger-Knox A, Huebschmann NA, Castellani RJ, Gardner AJ  A narrative review of psychiatric features of traumatic encephalopathy syndrome as conceptualized in the 20th century.  Front Neurol  2023;14:1214814. pii:1214814
  35. Sadleir KR, Vassar R  Connections between ApoE, sleep, and Aβ and tau pathologies in Alzheimer's disease.  J Clin Invest  2023 Jul 17;133(14). pii:e171838
  36. Castellani RJ, Perry G  The Teflon hypothesis.  Brain Commun  2023;5(4):fcad203. pii:fcad203
  37. Chandra S, Di Meco A, Dodiya HB, Popovic J, Cuddy LK, Weigle IQ, Zhang X, Sadleir K, Sisodia SS, Vassar R  The gut microbiome regulates astrocyte reaction to Aβ amyloidosis through microglial dependent and independent mechanisms.  Mol Neurodegener  2023 Jul 06;18(1):45. pii:45
  38. Høilund-Carlsen PF, Revheim ME, Costa T, Kepp KP, Castellani RJ, Perry G, Alavi A, Barrio JR  FDG-PET versus Amyloid-PET Imaging for Diagnosis and Response Evaluation in Alzheimer's Disease: Benefits and Pitfalls.  Diagnostics (Basel)  2023 Jul 03;13(13). pii:2254
  39. Mesulam MM, Gefen T, Flanagan M, Castellani R, Jamshidi P, Barbieri E, Sridhar J, Kawles A, Weintraub S, Geula C  et al.  Frontotemporal Degeneration with Transactive Response DNA-Binding Protein Type C at the Anterior Temporal Lobe.  Ann Neurol  2023 Jul;94(1):1-12. doi:10.1002/ana.26677
  40. Toller G, Cobigo Y, Callahan P, Appleby BS, Brushaber D, Domoto-Reilly K, Forsberg LK, Ghoshal N, Graff-Radford J, Graff-Radford NR  et al.  Multisite ALLFTD study modeling progressive empathy loss from the earliest stages of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.  Alzheimers Dement  2023 Jul;19(7):2842-2852. doi:10.1002/alz.12898
  41. Cahan JG, Vassar R, Bonakdarpour B  Lower Cerebrospinal Fluid Amyloid-β42 Predicts Sooner Time to Antipsychotic Use in Alzheimer's Disease.  J Alzheimers Dis Rep  2023;7(1):641-647. doi:10.3233/ADR-220064
  42. Iverson GL, Jamshidi P, Fisher-Hubbard AO, Deep-Soboslay A, Hyde TM, Kleinman JE, deJong JL, Shepherd CE, Hazrati LN, Castellani RJ  Chronic traumatic encephalopathy neuropathologic change is uncommon in men who played amateur American football.  Front Neurol  2023;14:1143882. pii:1143882
  43. Keszycki R, Kawles A, Minogue G, Zouridakis A, Macomber A, Gill N, Vu M, Zhang H, Coventry C, Rogalski E  et al.  Distinct and shared neuropsychiatric phenotypes in FTLD-tauopathies.  Front Aging Neurosci  2023;15:1164581. pii:1164581
  44. Nelson MJ, Moeller S, Seckin M, Rogalski EJ, Mesulam MM, Hurley RS  The eyes speak when the mouth cannot: Using eye movements to interpret omissions in primary progressive aphasia.  Neuropsychologia  2023 Jun 06;184:108530. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108530
  45. Conca F, Esposito V, Rundo F, Quaranta D, Muscio C, Manenti R, Caruso G, Lucca U, Galbussera AA, Di Tella S  et al.  Correction: Italian adaptation of the Uniform Data Set Neuropsychological Test Battery (I‑UDSNB 1.0): development and normative data.  Alzheimers Res Ther  2023 Jun 05;15(1):104. pii:104
  46. Iverson GL, Castellani RJ, Cassidy JD, Schneider GM, Schneider KJ, Echemendia RJ, Bailes JE, Hayden KA, Koerte IK, Manley GT  et al.  Examining later-in-life health risks associated with sport-related concussion and repetitive head impacts: a systematic review of case-control and cohort studies.  Br J Sports Med  2023 Jun;57(12):810-821. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2023-106890
  47. Nassan M, Piras IS, Rogalski E, Geula C, Mesulam MM, Huentelman M  Evaluating the Association Between Genetically Proxied Neurodevelopmental Language Phenotypes and the Risk of Primary Progressive Aphasia.  Neurology  2023 May 02;100(18):e1922-e1929. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000207136
  48. Siddiqui OM, Baskaran AB, Lin KA, Najam N, Shah T, Beestrum ML, Thuluvath A, Bonakdarpour B, Kim M, Dietch Z  et al.  Cognitive Impairment in Liver Transplant Recipients With a History of Cirrhosis: A Systematic Review.  Transplant Direct  2023 May;9(5):e1479. pii:e1479
  49. Karpouzian-Rogers T, Ho E, Novack M, Chinkers M, Bedjeti K, Nowinski C, Giordani B, Gershon R, Weintraub S  Baseline characterization of the ARMADA (Assessing Reliable Measurement in Alzheimer's Disease) study cohorts.  Alzheimers Dement  2023 May;19(5):1974-1982. doi:10.1002/alz.12816
  50. Valentino RR, Scotton WJ, Roemer SF, Lashley T, Heckman MG, Shoai M, Martinez-Carrasco A, Tamvaka N, Walton RL, Baker MC  et al.  Creating the Pick's disease International Consortium: Association study of MAPT H2 haplotype with risk of Pick's disease.  medRxiv  2023 Apr 24;. pii:2023.04.17.23288471

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