Publications

Research supported by Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience grants and fellowships is advancing our understanding of healthy brain aging and new approaches to combat neurodegenerative disease.

Nature Methods Light-activated tetanus neurotoxin for conditional proteolysis and inducible synaptic inhibition in vivo

Heegwang Roh, Dongwook Kim, Byeongchan Kim, Younghyeon Jeon, Shreya Malhotra, Hyeonho Kim, Yeonghye Kim, Martin Jacko, Peter M Klein, Chang Lin, Fei Xu, Ivan Soltesz, Ji Won Um, Alice Y Ting
Date

Jul 30 2026
Science Restored clearance of senescent neutrophils by tissue-resident macrophages limits organ aging

Yuting Jessy Tan, Travis E Conley, Fuwen Yao, Fernando J García-Marqués, Damilola E Akinyemi, Van Vuong Dinh, Qian Wang, Abel Bermudez, Jieun Kim, Julia A Belk, Oliver Soehnlein, Sharon J Pitteri, Katrin I Andreasson
Date

Jul 16 2026
The Lancet Neurology Natural experiments on herpes zoster vaccines and dementia - Author's reply

Pascal Geldsetzer
Date

Jul 15 2026
bioRxiv (preprint – not peer reviewed) Dissociable structural and molecular pathways of age-related change in sustained attention

S Subbulakshmi, Jennifer Park, Julia Rathmann-Bloch, Tyler Ward, Gloria L Cheng, Douglas S Miller, Shawn T Schwartz, Jintao Sheng, Tammy T Tran, Sharon J Sha, Gayle Deutsch, Alexandra N Trelle, Elizabeth C Mormino, Anthony D Wagner
Date

Jul 10 2026
Nature Medicine Biological aging clocks in health and disease

Tony Wyss-Coray, Eric J Topol
Date

Jul 9 2026
Annual Review of Neuroscience Synucleins in Neural Physiology: Understanding Endogenous Function to Better Contextualize Pathology

Garrett D Sheehan, Jun B Ding
Date

Jul 8 2026
Light: Science and Applications Two-photon 3D imaging of optically stimulated neural activity at 100 Hz

Dongli Xu, Fuu-Jiun Hwang, Jun B Ding, Leilei Peng
Date

Jul 2 2026
Frontiers in Neuroscience Brain protein burden is related to intravoxel incoherent motion: PET-MR imaging study

Dimuthu Hemachandra, Kevin Zheng, Sara A Lorkiewicz, Joseph Winer, Hillary Vossler, Guido A Davidzon, Elizabeth C Mormino, Tilman Schulte, Kathleen L Poston, Eva M Müller-Oehring
Date

Jul 1 2026
Cell An emergent disease-associated motor neuron state precedes cell death in ALS

Olivia Gautier, Jacob A Blum, Thao P Nguyen, Shaolong Cao, Sandy Klemm, Mai Yamakawa, Dann Huh, Jessica A Hurt, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, Yi Zeng, Chung-Ha O Davis, Juliane Bombosch, Chang Liu, Lisa N Encarnacion, Kevin A Guttenplan, Derek Chen, Arwa Kathiria, Luke Zhao, Stephen Moore, Alex Meng, Kailee Ong, Don W Cleveland, John Ravits, Jessica E Rexach, William J Greenleaf, Aaron D Gitler
Date

Jun 23 2026
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Date

Jun 22 2026