Recent Faculty Publications

Our research has been published in a variety of national and international peer-reviewed journals.

Saleem K, Xiao Z, Zhu B, Ren Y, Yan Z, Feng J. (2026) Elevated SGK1 increases Tau phosphorylation and microtubule instability in Alzheimer's patient-derived cortical neurons. Molecular psychiatry (Jan), 31(1): 332-342.
Santo BA, Jenkins TD, Shah JP, Balghonaim S, Scotti A, Patel TR, Levy EI, Siddiqui AH, Kolega J, Tutino VM. (2025) Impact of neutrophil extracellular traps on the mechanical, radiomic, and histological properties of in vitro stroke clots. Acta neurologica Belgica (Dec).
Kristen L Woodhouse, Jun-Xu Li. (2025) Individual differences in behavioral effects of xylazine and opioid-xylazine mixtures in male rats. Psychopharmacology (Dec) doi:10.1007/s00213-025-06988-4
Li L, Zhu B, Feng J. (2025) Identifying key regulators in neuronal transdifferentiation by gene regulatory network analysis. PNAS nexus (Dec), 4(12): pgaf365.
Kern KA, DiBrog AM, Demieri E, Przybysz JT, Clark SD, Mietlicki-Baase EG. (2025) Central pramlintide administration potently suppresses operant responding for sucrose and locomotor activity in male rats. Physiology & behavior (Dec), 302: 115114.
Kedari KG, Smith Z, Cheli VT, Corral JG, Wang C, Paez PM. (2025) Astrocyte-specific deletion of ceruloplasmin exacerbates oxidative stress and demyelination in the spinal cord in a murine model of multiple sclerosis. Neurobiology of disease (Dec)107249.
Mirmosayyeb O, Balconi J, Santivasci C, Dong X, Young N, Szigeti K, Benedict RHB. (2025) Predictive role of Neuroticism and Conscientiousness in conversion from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. Aging & mental health (Dec)1-8.
Feinstein A, Bar-Or A, Benedict RHB, Filippi M, Freedman DE, Kever A, Meza C, Rocca MA. (2025) Is multiple sclerosis-related depression different from depression in general? The data for and against. Brain : a journal of neurology (Dec), 148(12): 4210-4221.
Diego Zelada, Natalia Saldivia, Ashna Konjeti, Shayla Samano, Michael S. Marshall, Rima Rebiai, Pearl Sutter, Zachary Zurawski, Daniel Simchuck, Ruth Muchiri, Richard van Breemen, Daesung Shin, Maria I. Givogri, Stephen J. Crocker, Simon T. Alford, and Ernesto R. Bongarzone. (2025) Impaired docking and recycling of synaptic vesicles in inherited lysosomal sphingolipidoses. Cell Communication and Signaling (Dec) doi:10.1186/s12964-025-02560-x
Castro EV, Chizuk HM, Bergsland N, Dwyer MG, Muldoon S, Schweser F, Leddy JJ, Haider MN. (2025) Assessment of the DTI-ALPS Index in Adolescents With Sport-Related Concussion. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI (Dec), 62(6): 1663-1671.
Alexander SPH, Davenport AP, Kelly E, Gibb AJ, Mathie AA, Peach CJ, Veale EL, Armstrong JF, Faccenda E, Harding SD, Southan C, Davies JA, Abbracchio MP, Abraham GR, Agoulnik A, Alexander W, Al-Hosaini K, Bäck M, Baker JG, Barnes NM, Bathgate R, Beaulieu JM, Beck-Sickinger AG, Behrens M, Bennett KA, Bernstein KE, Bettler B, Birdsall NJM, Blaho VA, Bonaventure P, Boulay F, Bousquet C, Bräuner-Osborne H, Brown AJ, Burnstock G, Busnelli M, Caló G, Caruso V, Castaño JP, Catt KJ, Ceruti S, Chazot P, Chiang N, Chini B, Christopoulos A, Chun J, Cianciulli A, Civelli O, Clapp LH, Couture R, Cox HM, Csaba Z, Dahlgren C, Dautzenberg FM, Dent G, Douglas SD, Dournaud P, Dubocovich ML, Eguchi S, Escher E, Filardo EJ, Fong T, Forsman HF, Fumagalli M, Gainetdinov RR, Garelja ML, de Gasparo M, Gbahou F, Gerard C, Gershengorn M, Glass M, Gloriam DE, Gobeil F, Goodfriend TL, Goudet C, Grätz L, Gregory KJ, Gruber C, Gundlach AL, Hamann J, Hanson J, Hartman DS, Hauger RL, Hay DL, Heinemann A, Heitman L, Herr DR, Hollenberg MD, Holliday ND, Holst B, Horiuchi M, Hoyer D, Hunyady L, Husain A, IJzerman AP, Inagami T, Insel PA, Jacobson KA, Jacobson LH, Jensen RT, Jockers R, Jonnalagadda D, Karnik S, Kaupmann K, Kemp J, Kennedy C, Kihara Y, Kinsolving J, Kitazawa T, Kozielewicz P, Kreienkamp HJ, Kukkonen JP, Laishram L, Langenhan T, Langmead CJ, Larhammar D, Leach K, Lecca D, Lee JD, Leeman SE, Leprince J, Leurs R, Li XX, Liebscher I, Lolait SJ, Lupp A, Macrae R, Maguire JJ, Malfacini D, Manning M, Marangon D, Martemyanov K, Mazella J, McArdle CA, Melmed S, Michel MC, Miller LJ, Mitolo V, Mouillac B, Müller CE, Murphy PM, Nahon JL, Neubig RR, Ngo T, Norel X, Nyimanu D, O'Carroll AM, Offermanns S, Panaro MA, Parmentier M, Perry-Hauser N, Pertwee RG, Pin JP, Prossnitz ER, Qin HC, Quinn M, Raffaele S, Ramachandran R, Ray M, Reinscheid RK, Buzón AR, Rondard P, Rosenkilde MM, Rovati GE, Ruzza C, Sanger GJ, Scholz N, Schöneberg T, Schulte G, Schulz S, Segaloff DL, Serhan CN, Shukla AK, Singh KD, Smith CM, Smith NJ, Stäubert C, Stoddart LA, Sugimoto Y, Summers R, Tan VP, Thal DM, Thomas WW, Timmermans PBMWM, Tirupula K, Toll L, Tulipano G, Unal H, Unger T, Valant C, Vanderheyden P, Vaudry D, Vaudry H, Verbalis JG, Vilardaga JP, Walker CS, Wang JM, Ward DT, Wester HJ, Willars GB, Williams TL, Woodruff TM, Wu H, Yang C, Yao C, Ye RD, Zaidman N. (2025) The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein-coupled receptors. British journal of pharmacology (Dec), 182 Suppl 1: S24-S151.
Roeder NM, Penman SL, Richardson BJ, Wang J, Freeman-Striegel L, Pareek O, Eiden R, Chakraborty S, Thanos PK. (2025) Nicotine e-cigarette exposure in utero diminishes spatial memory and has negative effects on attention in a dose-, diet- and sex-dependent manner. Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior (Dec), 257: 174102.
Lantry AM, Lu H, Marion M, Hamilton J, Richardson B, Quattrin T, Mastrandrea LD, Hadjiargyrou M, Komatsu D, Thanos PK. (2025) Combined chronic oral methylphenidate and fluoxetine treatment increases CB1 receptor density in the somatosensory forelimb region. Neuroscience letters (Dec), 869: 138407.
Lewandrowski KU, Lorio MP, Elman I, Blum K, Pinhasov A, Thanos PK, Schmidt SL, Fiorelli RKA. (2025) Prehabilitation Reimagined as Policy: A Multidimensional Framework to Reduce Pain, Opioid Use, and Surgical Risk. International journal of spine surgery (Dec), 19(S3): S30-S47.
Balconi J, Jaworski M, Mirmosayyeb O, Woodbeck M, Weinstock Z, Zak N, Cruz S, Dong X, Camarata S, Santivasci C, Bergsland N, Weinstock-Guttman B, Dwyer MG, Zivadinov R, Covey TJ, Benedict RHB. (2025) Auditory test of processing speed: Further validation and test-retest reliability. Multiple sclerosis and related disorders (Nov), 105: 106867.
Yu C, Tyler JR, Elman I, Blum K, Lewandrowski KU, Sharafshah A, Gold MS, Pinhasov A, Thanos PK. (2025) Exercise-driven modulation of glutamatergic signaling: mechanisms and clinical implications. Neuroscience (Nov), 589: 33-49.
Roeser J, Lu H, Lantry AM, Hoerner C, Lagamjis G, Klein S, Ahmed R, Elman I, Pinhasov A, Blum K, Hadjiargyrou M, Komatsu DE, Thanos PK. (2025) Chronic Combined Oral Methylphenidate and Fluoxetine Increases Inflammation in Somatosensory and Mesolimbic Brain Regions. Neurochemical research (Nov), 50(6): 352.
Sharafshah A, Blum K, Lewandrowski KU, Elman I, Fuehrlein BS, Baron D, Pinhasov A, Thanos PK, Fiorelli RKA, Schmidt SL, Gardner EL, Lorio MP, Lewandrowski APL, Gold MS. (2025) Pharmacoepigenomics in Personalized Medicine: A Hypothesis-Generating Approach to Introduce CpG-PGx SNPs as New Candidates for a Systematic Insight into Genomic-Epigenomic-Phenomic-Pharmacogenomics (G-E-Ph-PGx) Axis. Journal of personalized medicine (Nov), 15(12).
Cheli VT, Paez PM. (2025) Voltage-Gated and Chemogenetic Modulation of Calcium Signaling in Oligodendrocyte Development and Synaptic Integration. Journal of neurochemistry (Oct), 169(10): e70259.
Cheli VT, Wartanian TP, Santiago González DA, Corral JG, Angeliu CG, Tumuluri SG, Wang C, Smith Z, Paez PM. (2025) Chemogenetic Activation of Oligodendrocytes Delays Postnatal Myelination by Promoting Progenitor Proliferation and Inhibiting Maturation. Glia (Oct).

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