Read here about recent papers published by members of the Neuroscience Center Zurich.
Response to «Beyond biology: Key blind spots in predicting futile recanalisation» by Hongmei Tang, Lingxue Wang, Yuting Pu and Xue Bai
J Neurol Sci. 2026 Jul 15:486:125925. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2026.125925. Epub 2026 Apr 18.
Authors: Hannah-Lea Handelsmann, Lisa Herzog, Susanne Wegener
Contextual factors influence effectiveness of cognitive reappraisal
Behav Res Ther. 2026 Jul:202:105046. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2026.105046. Epub 2026 Apr 20.
Authors: Marta Anna Marciniak, Kenneth S L Yuen, Raffael Kalisch, Birgit Kleim
Teaching NeuroImage: Cervical Myelopathy Due to Alveolar Spinal Echinococcosis Cysts
Neurology. 2026 Jun 9;106(11):e214950. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000214950. Epub 2026 May 5.
Authors: Julian Ullrich, Marcomaria Meluso, Luca R Traini, Patrick Freund, Carl Moritz Zipser
Light-controlled disruption of cancer cell dormancy via photoswitchable stress hormone receptor degraders
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 May 26;123(21):e2528760123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2528760123. Epub 2026 May 21.
Authors: Karina M Freitag, Robin Scheuplein, Chiara Orlacchio, Viola Ansuinelli, Tommaso Fava, Vincent Fischer, Bohan Zhang, Miriam Kretschmer, Mahshid Gazorpak, Erick M Carreira, Katharina Gapp
ECgo: All-optical induction of single endothelial cell injury and capillary occlusion in the brain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026 May 26;123(21):e2513515123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2513515123. Epub 2026 May 18.
Authors: Jacqueline Condrau, Srinivasa R Allu, Tatiana V Esipova, Eva Erlebach, Matthias T Wyss, Chaim Glück, Luca Ravotto, Thomas Troxler, Mikhail Drobizhev, Marco Villa, Paola Ceroni, Mohamad El Amki, Sergei A Vinogradov, Bruno Weber
Differential alterations in peripheral tryptophan pathways in methamphetamine versus MDMA users are linked to their contrasting psychiatric symptoms
Transl Psychiatry. 2026 May 21. doi: 10.1038/s41398-026-04069-4. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Francesco Bavato, Andrea Steuer, Anna M Jacobsen, Amelie Zacher, Josua Zimmermann, David M Cole, Antje Opitz, Markus R Baumgartner, Ann-Kathrin Stock, Christian Beste, Boris B Quednow
Carprofen and buprenorphine delivery using micropipette-guided drug administration (MDA) in mice
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2026 May 20. doi: 10.1038/s41386-026-02445-8. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Olga Krzyzaniak, Sarah Steiner, Frida A M Nilsson, Macsmeila Dietrich, Laura Kämpfen, Pål Johansen, Paulin Jirkof, Urs Meyer
Duplex ultrasound in severe carotid stenosis: diagnostic performance for differentiating near-occlusion subtypes from conventional high-grade stenosis
Neuroradiology. 2026 May 20. doi: 10.1007/s00234-026-04005-9. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Corinne Inauen, Isabelle Barnaure, Lisa Herzog, Winston Schegg, Giuseppe Esposito, Zsolt Kulcsar, Stefan Yu Bögli, Andreas Luft, Elias Johansson, Susanne Wegener
Regression of central sensitization after bilateral focused ultrasound medial thalamotomies in atypical orofacial pain? – a case report
BMC Neurol. 2026 May 18. doi: 10.1186/s12883-026-04966-7. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Matus Velicky Buecheler, Lukasz Kolakowski, Marie Therese Kleinsorge, Heiko Pohl, Lennart Stieglitz, Susanne Wegener
Identification of a different DNA methylation pattern for pain related genes in children with intellectual disability: a cross-sectional study
Ital J Pediatr. 2026 May 18. doi: 10.1186/s13052-026-02274-x. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Fulvio Celsi, Luisa Zupin, Francesca Senn, Pio d’Adamo, Stefania Cappellani, Lucia De Zen, Giorgio Cozzi, Angelo Selicorni, Egidio Barbi, Francesca Peri
The Role of Ear Canal Sound Pressure in Bone Conduction Across Different Bone Conduction Devices
Otol Neurotol. 2026 May 18. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000004941. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Tobias Mair, Ivo Dobrev, Christof Röösli
Response to “Letter to the editor: Futile recanalisation in patients with anterior large vessel occlusion stroke randomised to mechanical thrombectomy” by Junzi Peng, Ke Sun, and Yanting Zhu
J Neurol Sci. 2026 May 17:487:125996. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2026.125996. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Hannah-Lea Handelsmann, Lisa Herzog, Susanne Wegener
Reply: The consequences of MDMA use are not easily disentangled from other drug use or lifestyle factors
Brain. 2026 May 15:awag173. doi: 10.1093/brain/awag173. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Boris B Quednow, Rebecca C Coray
Stable Mechanoreceptive Somatotopy in Chronic Low Back Pain: Is Cortical Map Reorganization a Myth?
J Neurosci. 2026 May 13;46(19):e2069252026. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2069-25.2026.
Authors: Monika Dörig, David M Cole, Alexandros Guekos, Philipp Stämpfli, Philipp Schütz, Louis Schibli, Petra Schweinhardt, Michael Lukas Meier
Attenuating trauma- and cocaine-related intrusions by blocking memory reconsolidation with minocycline: protocol for a transdiagnostic randomized controlled trial
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2026 Dec;17(1):2650920. doi: 10.1080/20008066.2026.2650920. Epub 2026 May 12.
Authors: Lina Dietiker, Amelie Zacher, Sofia de’Sperati, Michèle Loosli, Luca B Schmid, Madalina Wernigg, Charlotta Rühlmann, Francesco Bavato, Niklaus Zölch, Erich Seifritz, Boris B Quednow, Birgit Kleim
Intrinsic endothelial remodeling drives brain capillary repair
Neuron. 2026 May 11:S0896-6273(26)00315-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2026.04.020. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Jacqueline Condrau, Chaim Glück, Matthias T Wyss, Ladina Hösli, Eva Erlebach, Henri S Zanker, Alexandra von Faber-Castell, Luca Ravotto, Gina Eberle, Srinivasa R Allu, Tatiana V Esipova, Thomas Troxler, Jeffrey L Bennett, Marina Herwerth, Susanne Wegener, Aiman S Saab, Sergei A Vinogradov, Mohamad El Amki, Bruno Weber
Adapting in ovo RNAi as a tool to study gene function during neural circuit formation in the cerebellum
J Neurosci Methods. 2026 May 10:433:110801. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2026.110801. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Aikaterini Koutourlou, Martina Schaettin, Esther T Stoeckli
Auditory Stimulation of Slow-Wave Sleep Promotes Recovery after Brain Injury in an Animal Model
Ann Neurol. 2026 May 10. doi: 10.1002/ana.78234. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Carlos G Moreira, Adrian Müllner, Meltem Gönel, Pascal Hofmann, Filipe Teixeira, Rosa C Paolicelli, Inês Dias, Sergio I Nemirovsky, Christian R Baumann, Daniela Noain
Monocyte-derived macrophages drive neurological tissue damage through mitochondrial reactive oxygen species
Sci Immunol. 2026 May 8;11(119):eadw5197. doi: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adw5197. Epub 2026 May 8.
Authors: Juan Villar-Vesga, Donatella De Feo, Pauline Clément, Viola Bugada, Elèni Meuffels, Hannah Van Hove, Mitchell Bijnen, James King, Sophie Grundschober, Can Ulutekin, Maria Pena-Francesch, Sara Costa-Pereira, Laura Oberbichler, Violetta Gogoleva, Jeanne Kim, Katarina Wendy Schmidt, Musadiq A Bhat, Deborah Greis, Frauke Seehusen, Francesco Prisco, Urvashi Dalvi, Dietmar Benke, Bettina Schreiner, Tommaso Patriachi, Florian Ingelfinger, Isabelle C Arnold, Christian Münz, Melanie Greter, Aiman S Saab, Burkhard Becher, Sarah Mundt
Astroglial disinhibition of cortical circuits disrupts cognition via kynurenic acid in mice
Nat Commun. 2026 May 8. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-72640-0. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Viktor Beilmann, Johanna Furrer, Sina M Schalbetter, Ron Schaer, Edoardo Tiziani, Kim D Ferrari, Felisa Herrero, Celine Heeb, Alexandra von Faber-Castell, Jacqueline Condrau, Ulrike Weber-Stadlbauer, Matthias T Wyss, Aiman S Saab, Sarah Beggiato, Urs Meyer, Bruno Weber, Tina Notter
What is the role of amylin as an emerging therapeutic agent in obesity?
Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2026 May 7:1-4. doi: 10.1080/17446651.2026.2668391. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Guillaume Bogaerts, Greta Lommi, Thomas A Lutz
In vivo imaging of central nervous system fluid spaces using synchrotron radiation-based micro computed tomography
Nat Commun. 2026 May 2. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71835-9. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Marta Girona Alarcón, Willy Kuo, Mattia Humbel, Christine Tanner, Luca Fardin, Britta Bausch, Yann Decker, Irene Spera , Griffin Rodgers, Hans Deyhle, Alberto Bravin , Masato Hoshino, Arash Panahifar, Kentaro Uesugi, Sergei Gasilov, Petr Pleskač, Yuansheng Zhang, Diane de Zélicourt, Amandine Brenna, Ahmad Kamal Hamid, Pooya Razzaghi Khamesi, Britta Engelhardt, Steven T Proulx, Bert Müller, Vartan Kurtcuoglu
The effects of omega-3 fatty acids on Wnt activity in iPSC-derived neural stem cells from adult ADHD patients
Neurosci Appl. 2026 May 2:5:107005. doi: 10.1016/j.nsa.2026.107005. eCollection 2026.
Authors: Cristine M Yde Ohki, Natalie M Walter, Louisa C Dury, Letizia Del Campana, Romane Lasmarrigues, Rhiannon V McNeill, Zora Schickardt, Lukasz Smigielski, Susanne Walitza, Sarah Kittel-Schneider, Edna Grünblatt
Amylin analogues as a novel perspective in anti-obesity therapy
Br J Pharmacol. 2026 May 1. doi: 10.1111/bph.70484. Online ahead of print.
Author: Thomas A Lutz
To Merge or not: The Early Onto- and Phylogenetic Origin of Co-Representation
Dev Sci. 2026 May;29(3):e70199. doi: 10.1111/desc.70199.
Authors: Fabia M Miss, Luxshiha Santharuban, Erik P Willems, Judith M Burkart
Cerebral Hemodynamic Changes During Cardiac Surgery: A Feasibility MR Study in Piglets
NMR Biomed. 2026 May;39(5):e70284. doi: 10.1002/nbm.70284.
Authors: Dominik T Schulte, Ruth O’Gorman Tuura, Henning Richter, Michael Hofmann, Francesca Del Chicca, Tobias Aigner, Christoph Loeschmann, Martina Lentini, Manuela Wieser, Frauke Seehusen, Rima Bektas, Melanie Zeilinger, Martin O Schmiady, Marianne Schmid Daners
Magnetic resonance identification tags for ultra-flexible electrodes
Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 28. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71887-x. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Eminhan Özil, Peter Gombkoto, Athina Apostolelli, Tansel Baran Yasar, Angeliki D Vavladeli, Markus Marks, Manabu Rohr-Fukuma, Wolfger von der Behrens, Mehmet Fatih Yanik
Substance-related intrusive memories in cocaine use disorder are different from but associated with craving
Addiction. 2026 Apr 27. doi: 10.1111/add.70449. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Amelie Zacher, Lina Dietiker, Victoria Häffner, Francesco Bavato, Birgit Kleim, Boris B Quednow
The Interaction between Sleep and Development on Wake EEG Oscillations
eNeuro. 2026 Apr 27;13(4):ENEURO.0384-25.2026. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0384-25.2026. Print 2026 Apr.
Authors: Sophia Snipes, Valeria Jaramillo, Elena Krugliakova, Carina Volk, Melanie Furrer, Mirjam Studler, Monique LeBourgeois, Salome Kurth, Oskar G Jenni, Reto Huber
Redirection of sphingolipid metabolism drives cytoskeletal defects in SPLIS and reveals ROCK inhibition as therapy
J Clin Invest. 2026 Apr 23:e194427. doi: 10.1172/JCI194427. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Adam Majcher, Ranjha Khan, Kathrin Buder, Florence Bourquin, Julie D Saba, Thorsten Hornemann
Contralateral delay activity as a marker of visual working memory capacity: A multi-site registered replication
Cortex. 2026 Apr 23:201:10-39. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2026.04.006. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Dawid Strzelczyk, Peter E Clayson, Heida Maria Sigurdardottir, Faisal Mushtaq, Yuri G Pavlov, Hélène Devillez, Anton Lukashevich, Harold A Rocha, Yong Hoon Chung, Kevin M Ortego, Viola S Störmer, José C García Alanis, Christoph Löffler, Anna-Lena Schubert, Anna Lena Biel, Samuel A Birkholz, Emily M Johnson, Jeffrey S Johnson, Zitong Lu , Yong Min Choi, Eva Lout, Julie D Golomb, Shuangke Jiang, Myles Jones, Eda Mizrak, Claudia C von Bastian, Niko A Busch, Charline Peylo, Larissa Behnke, Yannik Hilla, Maro G Machizawa, William X Q Ngiam, Edward K Vogel, Nicolas Langer
Parenting behaviors over time and their effects on cortical and limbic brain structure in children and young adults
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2026 Apr 19:79:101728. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2026.101728. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Mirjam Habegger, Plamina Dimanova, Réka Borbás, Elena Federici, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel P Eisner, Todd A Hare, Nora Maria Raschle
A decade of Cybathlon: impact on public visibility, scientific dissemination and technology transfer
J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2026 Apr 16;23(1):148. doi: 10.1186/s12984-026-01988-7.
Authors: Robert Riener, Luca Vassella, Peter Wolf
Linking neurological status to functional outcomes in spinal cord injury: a multi-class, task-specific approach
BMC Biomed Eng. 2026 Apr 15;8(1):9. doi: 10.1186/s42490-026-00110-1.
Authors: Miklovana Tuci, Lena Steck, Louis P Lukas, Olga Taran, Ruediger Rupp, Norbert Weidner, Martin Schubert, Frank Röhrich, Josina Waldmann, Yorck B Kalke, Rainer Abel, Doris Maier, Thomas Liebscher, Björn Zörner, Armin Curt, Marc Bolliger, Sarah C Brüningk, Catherine R Jutzeler
ATP synthase is a promising target for identifying activated and non-activated adipose tissues
Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 15. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71343-w. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Caitlin V M L Jie, Aro Delparente, Tongtong Wang, Lisa Reichert, Petra Krajnovic, Marc Schläppi, Lukas Reininger, Laura T L Brandt, Claudia Keller, Julien Orts, Roland Riek, Stefanie D Krämer, Markus Stoffel, Christian Wolfrum, Roger Schibli, Linjing Mu
Hypercapnia dissociates neuronal and hemodynamic responses impairing neurovascular coupling and functional brain connectivity
Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 13. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71742-z. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Irmak Gezginer, Yi Chen, Valerio Zerbi, Zhenyue Chen, Daniel Razansky
Circadian-related hypothalamic structure differs by chronotype in bipolar disorder
Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2026 Apr 10:S2451-9022(26)00096-0. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2026.04.003. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Marlene Tahedl, Jonas Rohrer, Erich Seifritz, Daniel J Smith, Philipp Homan
A scalable human-zebrafish xenotransplantation model reveals gastrosome-mediated processing of dying neurons by human microglia
Commun Biol. 2026 Apr 9. doi: 10.1038/s42003-026-09948-6. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Ambra Villani, Jana Wittmann, Tamara Wyss, Izaskun Mallona, Irene Santisteban Ortiz, Nathalie Tichy, Corinna Maria Biermeier, Monique Pena, Ayush Aditya Pal, Darren Gilmour, Simon T Schafer, Francesca Peri
Introduction to the feature issue Photoacoustic Imaging and Sensing: Beyond Fundamentals to Translation
Biomed Opt Express. 2026 Apr 9;17(5):2225-2227. doi: 10.1364/BOE.600687. eCollection 2026 May 1.
Authors: Chulhong Kim, Lei Li, Liming Nie, Daniel Razansky
Cortical morphology and cognitive impairments in adolescents with complex congenital heart disease
Brain Commun. 2026 Apr 9;8(2):fcag124. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcag124. eCollection 2026.
Authors: Asuka Toyofuku, Melanie Ehrler, Oliver Kretschmar, Beatrice Latal, Ruth O’Gorman Tuura
Finger tapping at maximal speed evokes crossover fatigability in the other hand
Front Hum Neurosci. 2026 Apr 7:20:1782120. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1782120. eCollection 2026.
Authors: Caroline Heimhofer, Jenny Imhof, Ingrid Odermatt, Marc Bächinger, Nicole Wenderoth
Amylin
Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2026 Apr 6:S1043-2760(26)00063-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2026.03.002. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Giulia Mazzini, Thomas A Lutz
Intracranial biomarkers for anterior thalamic deep brain stimulation in epilepsy: a long-term observational study
Brain. 2026 Apr 3:awag120. doi: 10.1093/brain/awag120. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Giovanna Aiello, Adham Elshahabi, Lennart Stieglitz, Anina Belvedere, Tena Dubcek, Rafael Polania, Lukas Imbach
Descending inhibitory rostral ventromedial medulla neurons cause widespread antinociception and contribute to the pain-inhibits-pain phenomenon
Nat Commun. 2026 Apr 2. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-71289-z. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Robert P Ganley, Marília Sousa, Guangchen Ji, Matteo Ranucci, Camilla Beccarini, Kira Werder, Francesca Pietrafesa , Simon d’Aquin, Tugce Akyüz, Michèle Hubli, Petra Schweinhardt, Volker Neugebauer, Mark A Hoon, Hendrik Wildner, Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Reading skills modulate the audiovisual congruency effect in orthographic processing in children: an ERP study
Front Hum Neurosci. 2026 Apr 2:20:1679579. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1679579. eCollection 2026.
Authors: Christina G Lutz, Seline Coraj, Aline Kressebuch, Sarah V Di Pietro, Iliana I Karipidis, Silvia Brem
Evidence for Increased High Alpha Intermuscular Coherence as a Measure of Reticulospinal Motor Drive
Eur J Neurosci. 2026 Apr;63(8):e70517. doi: 10.1111/ejn.70517.
Authors: Nicole Sarah Holliger, Freschta Zipser-Mohammadzada, Daniel Fabio Carpanese, Martin Schubert, Linard Filli
EEG-Based Multifocal Tomographic Neurofeedback in Older Individuals With Chronic Tinnitus Does Not Lead to Persistent Electrophysiological Changes
Brain Behav. 2026 Apr;16(4):e71293. doi: 10.1002/brb3.71293.
Authors: Stefan Elmer, David Talaska, Nicole Peter, Nathalie Giroud, Patrick Neff, Tobias Kleinjung, Martin Meyer
GrimACE: automated, multimodal cage-side assessment of pain and well-being in mice
Lab Anim (NY). 2026 Apr;55(4):137-146. doi: 10.1038/s41684-026-01695-9. Epub 2026 Mar 5.
Authors: Oliver Sturman, Marcel Schmutz, Tom Lorimer, Runzhong Zhang, Mattia Privitera, Fabienne K Roessler, Justine Leonardi, Rebecca Waag, Alina-Mariuca Marinescu, Clara Bekemeier, Katharina Hohlbaum, Johannes Bohacek
Placebo Effect on Pain-Related Autonomic Responses in a State of Experimentally-Induced Sensitization
Eur J Pain. 2026 Apr;30(4):e70259. doi: 10.1002/ejp.70259.
Authors: Florin Allmendinger, Olivia Utz, Paulina Simonne Scheuren, Jan Rosner, John Lawrence Kippling Kramer, Michèle Hubli
Efficient denoising in LED-based optoacoustic tomography with squeeze-and-excitation deep convolutional networks
J Biomed Opt. 2026 Apr;31(4):046003. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.31.4.046003. Epub 2026 Mar 31.
Authors: Yuan Xu, Xiang Liu, Xosé Luis Deán-Ben, Sandeep Kumar Kalva, Daniel Razansky
A neural signature of adaptive mentalization
Nat Neurosci. 2026 Apr;29(4):934-944. doi: 10.1038/s41593-026-02219-x. Epub 2026 Mar 9.
Authors: Niklas Buergi, Gökhan Aydogan, Arkady Konovalov, Christian C Ruff
Stereotactic rodent-to-human approximation of the mesencephalic cuneiform nucleus to guide deep brain stimulation
Brain Stimul. 2026 Mar-Apr;19(2):103066. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2026.103066. Epub 2026 Mar 3.
Authors: Anna-Sophie Hofer, Myriam Ilona Scheuber, Andrea Michele Sartori, Ivo Skorup, Dominic Gascho, Giovanni Colacicco, Alina Kiseleva, Armin Curt, Lennart Henning Stieglitz, Martin Ernst Schwab
Probiotic treatment rescues behavioral deficits and gut microbial abnormalities induced by preconceptional stress in mothers and offspring
Brain Behav Immun. 2026 Mar 29:136:106571. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2026.106571. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Monica Iachizzi, Natalia Zajac, José Luis Ruiz, Tanja Güller, Ron Rabin, Sina Schalbetter, Floriana de Cillis, Maria Domenica Moccia, Annamaria Cattaneo, John F Cryan, Juliet Richetto
Motor Score Patterns Complement the AIS Grade in the Analysis of Segmental Motor Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury
J Neurotrauma. 2026 Mar 28:8977151261434501. doi: 10.1177/08977151261434501. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Louis P Lukas, Lucie Bourguignon, Rüdiger Rupp, Norbert Weidner, Martin Schubert, Frank Röhrich, Josina Waldmann, Yorck B Kalke, Rainer Abel, Doris Maier, Harvinder S Chhabra, Thomas Liebscher, Fred Geisler, Armin Curt, Sarah C Brüningk, Catherine R Jutzeler
Commentary: Minipterional and Sphenoid Ridge Keyhole Approaches: A Comparative Anatomic Study
Oper Neurosurg. 2026 Mar 27. doi: 10.1227/ons.0000000000002017. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Clarissa A E Gelmi, Luca Regli
The Unexplored Role of Noncoding Regulatory RNAs in Engram Dynamics
Neuroscientist. 2026 Mar 27:10738584261425960. doi: 10.1177/10738584261425960. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Prakruti Nanda, Gerhard Schratt
Optogenetic mediated contractility enables reversible control of microglial morphology and migration in vivo
Cell Rep. 2026 Mar 27;45(4):117150. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117150. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Corinna Maria Biermeier, Marvin Albert, Ayush Aditya Pal, Elisa Gallo, Jana Wittmann, Jonas Hartmann, Robert Theofanis Bill, Jérôme Julmi, Darren Gilmour, Francesca Peri
Smokers with Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke Show Poor Leptomeningeal Collaterals
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2026 Mar 26:ajnr.A9320. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A9320. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Hakim Baazaoui, Francesco Morra, Lukas Bastian Otto, Gabriele Maria Gassner, Chryso Lambride, Mohamad El Amki, Marius Güntert, Samil Pakmak, Tolga D Dittrich, Patrick Thurner Zsolt Kulcsar, Susanne Wegener
Alpha-2 agonists for severe childhood hypertonia: is it time to look beyond clonidine?
Arch Dis Child. 2026 Mar 25:archdischild-2026-330599. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2026-330599. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Francesca Peri, Francesca Burlo, Lucia De Zen
Pupil-based arousal self-regulation: impact on physiological and affective responses to emotional stimuli
Transl Psychiatry. 2026 Mar 19;16(1):191. doi: 10.1038/s41398-026-03937-3.
Authors: Jenny Imhof, Nora Maria Raschle, Nicole Wenderoth, Sarah Nadine Meissner
POLG-Related Parkinsonism with Good Response to Deep Brain Stimulation
Mov Disord Clin Pract. 2026 Mar 18. doi: 10.1002/mdc3.70588. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Evdokia Efthymiou, Fabian Büchele, Sujitha Mahendran, Lennart Stieglitz, Bettina Balint
Mixed-methods analysis on psychedelic-augmented meditation experiences from a randomized controlled mindfulness retreat
Sci Rep. 2026 Mar 18. doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-39261-5. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Jonas T T Schlomberg, Daniel Meling, Robin Grylka, Emilia A Vasella, Dominik Augustinovic, Milan Scheidegger
Needle beam two-photon microscopy for simultaneous multiplane neural and vascular imaging in awake mice
Photonix. 2026;7(1):18. doi: 10.1186/s43074-026-00237-3. Epub 2026 Mar 16.
Authors: Quanyu Zhou, Jingjing Zhao, Chaim Glück, Yu-Hang Liu, Lin Du, Lukas Glandorf, Tian Jin, Zhenyue Chen, Lingqi Jiang, Bruno Weber, Adam de la Zerda, Daniel Razansky
Nocturnal Sleep Breathing Patterns in Healthy Adolescents Residing at Very High Altitudes in Bolivia
J Sleep Res. 2026 Mar 16:e70326. doi: 10.1111/jsr.70326. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Keaton Patterson, Santiago Ucrós Rodríguez, E Nicolás Arancibia-Levit, Fernanda Aliaga Raduan, José Antonio Viruez Soto, Max Gassmann, Silvia Ulrich, Michael Furian, Edith M Schneider Gasser
GABAergic Gbx1 neurons of the superficial dorsal horn are critical elements of a spinal circuit for stress-induced analgesia
Neuron. 2026 Mar 16:S0896-6273(26)00083-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2026.01.033. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Karen Haenraets, Robert P Ganley, Francesca Pietrafesa, Donald Iain MacDonald, Marília Sousa, Sina Schalbetter, Raquel Mendes, Fabienne Luzi, Hendrik Wildner, Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer
Arterial spin labeling performs comparably to 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography for presurgical evaluation in pediatric lesional epilepsy
Epilepsia. 2026 Mar 14. doi: 10.1002/epi.70199. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Antonio Giulio Gennari, Dorottya Cserpan, Raimund Kottke, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Michael Messerli, Martin W Hüllner, Ruth O’Gorman Tuura, Georgia Ramantani
Effectiveness of brief interventions and contacts after suicide attempt: a systematic review and meta-analysis
EClinicalMedicine. 2026 Mar 12:93:103824. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.103824. eCollection 2026 Mar.
Authors: Stephanie Homan, Marta Anna Marciniak, Sofia Michel, Anna-Marie Bertram, Charlotta Rühlmann, Annamária Pethő, Lara Kirchhofer, Leonie Biele, Robin Segerer, Philipp Homan, Sebastian Olbrich, Rory C O’Connor, Birgit Kleim
Insights from clinical utility studies on rehabilitation technologies for therapy and research
Dev Med Child Neurol. 2026 Mar 11. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.70249. Online ahead of print.
Author: Hubertus J A van Hedel
Structure-function relationship of alpha-synuclein fibrillar polymorphs derived from distinct synucleinopathies
Mol Syst Biol. 2026 Mar 11. doi: 10.1038/s44320-026-00199-5. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Tetiana Serdiuk, Virginie Redeker, Jimmy Savistchenko, Sandesh Neupane, Walther Haenseler, Yanick Fleischmann, Viviane Reber, Sabrina Keller, Cinzia Tiberi, Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu, Matthias Gstaiger, Thomas Braun, Roland Riek, Steve Gentleman, Adriano Aguzzi, Natalie de Souza, Ronald Melki, Paola Picotti
Neuronal plasticity during motor rehabilitation training after spinal cord injury
Commun Biol. 2026 Mar 9. doi: 10.1038/s42003-026-09793-7. Online ahead of print.
Authors: Tim Max Emmenegger, Gergely David, Siawoosh Mohammadi, Gabriel Ziegler, Martina F Callaghan, Alan Thompson, Karl John Friston, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Tim Killeen, Patrick Freund
Effects of doxycycline on intrusive experimental trauma memory: a pre-registered, randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial
Transl Psychiatry. 2026 Mar 9;16(1):172. doi: 10.1038/s41398-025-03657-0.
Authors: Laura Meister, Alex Rosi-Andersen, Francesco Bavato, Yanfang Xia, Dominik R Bach, Birgit Kleim
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