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Nadjet Gacem, Svetlana Bezukladova, Farina Windener, Tala Karam, Linda Ottoboni, Elena Brambilla, Francesca Ruffini, Karthik Soman, Beatriz Garcia-Diaz, Marion J F Levy, Qiao-Ling Cui, Alessia Formato, Cyrille Deboux, Jeremy Chazot, Radmila Panic, Stefanie Albrecht, Elif Nur Yilmaz, Raquel Guerrero González, Ivano Eberini, Stefania Olla, Alberto Bresciani, Norbert Goebels, Frauke Zipp, Cristina Agresti, Jack Antel, Anne Baron-Van Evercooren, Tanja Kuhlmann, Sergio E Baranzini, Paola Panina-Bordignon, Brahim Nait-Oumesmar, Gianvito Martino.

In silico screening and preclinical validation identify bavisant as a therapeutic candidate for multiple sclerosis.

Sci Transl Med. 2026 Jan 21;18(833):eads0633. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.ads0633. Epub 2026 Jan 21. PubMed ID: 41564155

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Odette Fründt, Verena Caroline Lamb, Anne-Marie Hanff, Tobias Mai, Christiane Kirchner, Ali Amouzandeh, Carsten Buhmann, Rejko Krüger, Alfons Schnitzler, Martin Südmeyer.

Quantity and quality of care and staff knowledge regarding people with Parkinson's disease in long-term nursing care: "real-life" results from the German Care4PD study.

Front Aging Neurosci. 2026 Jan 2:17:1701254. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2025.1701254. eCollection 2025. PubMed ID: 41551754

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Frank Brand, Lily S Rose, Amir H Akbarzadeh, Christine A M Weber, Isabel Eckert, Gunnar Schmidt, Bernd Auber, Alisa Förster, Ulrike Beyer, Robert Geffers, Stephan Bartels, Michael Lalk, Manolis Polemikos, Michael Friese, Michael Sabel, Philipp Schwenkenbecher, Paul Kremer, Arya Nabavi, Amir Samii, Ulrich Lehmann, Guido Reifenberger, Joachim K Krauss, Bettina Wiese, Christian Hartmann, Ruthild G Weber.

Germline variants in ATM, BRCA2, other cancer predisposition and novel candidate genes are implicated in glioma risk in adult glioma patients with a familial or personal history of tumors.

Acta Neuropathol. 2026 Jan 17;151(1):6. doi: 10.1007/s00401-025-02972-6. PubMed ID: 41546701

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Andreas Müller-Schiffmann, Felix Torres, Anatoliy Kitaygorodskyy, Anand Ramani, Argyro Alatza, Sarah K Tschirner, Julien Orts, Arthur Haltrich, Ingrid Prikulis, Shaofeng Yu, Debendranath Dey, Suguna Mallesh, Dharma Prasad, Dennis Solas, Verian Bader, Annemieke Rozemuller, Selina Wray, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Roland Riek, Vishwanath R Lingappa, Carsten Korth.

Oxidized MIF is an Alzheimer's disease drug target relaying external risk factors to tau pathology.

Cell Rep Med. 2026 Jan 20;7(1):102520. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102520. Epub 2025 Dec 18. PubMed ID: 41418773

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Nicolo Bisi, Josine Kothuis, Julia Kaffy, Helena Pérez Peña, Celina Schulz, Chiara Maria Giulia De Luca, Arianna Ciullini, Ilaria Linda Dellarole, Léa Radal, Fabio Moda, Graziella Cappelletti, Dragos Horvath, Stefano Pieraccini, Wolfgang Hoyer, Frédéric Halgand, Nicolo Tonali, Sandrine Ongeri.

Peptidomimetics Inspired by α-Synuclein or Its Chaperone αB-Crystallin Differentially Modulate α-Synuclein Aggregation.

J Med Chem. 2026 Jan 23. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c02716. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed ID: 41576203

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Franz Felix Konen, Franziska Axhausen, Stephanie Wolff, Pauline Mühlenbrock, Stefan Gingele, Konstantin Fritz Jendretzky, Sandra Nay, Lea Martha Grote-Levi, Philipp Schwenkenbecher, Sven G Meuth, Thomas Skripuletz, Steffen Pfeuffer.

Discontinuation of ocrelizumab in multiple sclerosis: reoccurrence of disease activity.

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2026 Jan 20:jnnp-2025-337944. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2025-337944. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed ID: 41558853

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Nora Möhn, Lea Grote-Levi, Agnes Bonifacius, Sabine Tischer-Zimmermann, Sandra Nay, Konstantin Fritz Jendretzky, Mieke Luise Sassmann, Kevin Karacondi, Melanie Zent, Franz Felix Konen, Kurt-Wolfram Sühs, Sven G Meuth, Marc Pawlitzki, Clemens Warnke, Ilya Ayzenberg, Ruth Schneider, Christoph Helmchen, Norbert Brüggemann, Stephan Klebe, Marcel Hildner, Christian Grefkes, Louisa Nitsch, Petra Hühnchen, Sebastian Böltz, Laura Alt, Hayrettin Tumani, Christoph Kleinschnitz, Refik Pul, Oliver Grauer, David Clifford, Sharmilee Gnanapavan, Rebecca Wicklein, Thomas Perpoint, Martijn Beudel, Arnaud Del Bello, Sebastian Rauer, Heinz Wiendl, Ilijas Jelcic, Jacques Gasnault, Eleonora Cimini, Andrea Antinori, Carmela Pinnetti, Valérie Pourcher, Nicolas Weiss, Nicolas Lambert, Britta Maecker-Kolhoff, Günter U Höglinger, Sara Zahraeifard, Irene Cortese, Britta Eiz-Vesper, Guillaume Martin-Blondel, Thomas Skripuletz; Immunotherapy for PML Study Group.

Virus-Specific T Cells and Response to Checkpoint Inhibitors in Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy.

JAMA Neurol. 2026 Jan 20:e255318. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.5318. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed ID: 41557340

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Zhiqiu He, Wenli He, Zhiyi Chen, Wei Wei, Xiaojin Liu, Juergen Dukart, Weidong Li, Justin T Baker, Avram J Holmes, Felix Hoffstaedter, Thomas Nickl-Jockschat, Birgit Derntl, Lydia Kogler, Renaud Jardri, Oliver Gruber, André Aleman, Iris E Sommer, Kaustubh R Patil, Yunrong Lu, Simon B Eickhoff, Ji Chen.

Intrinsic connectivity patterns of striatal subfields predict individual dimensions of psychopathology and are associated with cholinergic and serotonergic neurotransmission in schizophrenia.

Neuropsychopharmacology. 2026 Jan 17. doi: 10.1038/s41386-026-02354-w. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed ID: 41548024

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Naomi Gyger, Tobias Monschein, Melanie Filser, Sharon Bätge, Alina Renner, Melanie Roth, Orhan Aktas, Philipp Albrecht, Hans-Peter Hartung, Iris-Katharina Penner.

Cognitive training, exercise training or combined training? A comparative effectiveness research study on subjective and objective cognitive outcomes in multiple sclerosis.

J Neurol. 2026 Jan 16;273(2):82. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13535-w. PubMed ID: 41543747

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Vincent Küppers, Hanwen Bi, Eliana Nicolaisen-Sobesky, Felix Hoffstaedter, B T Thomas Yeo, Alexander Drzezga, Simon B Eickhoff, Masoud Tahmasian.

Multivariate associations of motor performance, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and grey matter volume in younger and mid-to-older adults.

Sci Rep. 2026 Jan 10;16(1):1318. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-34951-y. PubMed ID: 41519920

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