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Katrin Amunts

The Vogt Collection: reactivating a treasure facilitating brain research, neurology and psychiatry.

Brain. 2026 Jan 8;149(1):2-5. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaf365. PubMed ID: 41032660

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Liang Ma, Sara Reithofer, Verena Pesch, José Miguel Flores-Fernandez, Aishwarya Sriraman, Caleb Duckering, Sara Amidian, Pelin Özdüzenciler, Laura Müller, Holger Wille, Gültekin Tamgüney.

Vaccines mimicking conformational epitopes on α-synuclein fibrils provide immunity to Parkinson's disease.

Brain. 2026 Jan 9:awag010. doi: 10.1093/brain/awag010. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed ID: 41512110

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Peter A Calabresi, Gavin Giovannoni, Hans-Peter Hartung, Robert T Naismith, Robert J Fox, Maria Pia Sormani, Douglas L Arnold, Ludwig Kappos, Martin Valis, Scott D Newsome, Martin I Belkin, Emmanuel Bartholomé, Katherine Riester, Andrija Javor, Jennifer Lyons, Daniel P Bradley, Elizabeth Fisher, Ian Tagge, Maria L Naylor, Shibeshih Belachew, Aaron Deykin, Nathalie Franchimont, Bing Zhu, Wenting Cheng.

Oxidized MIF is an Alzheimer's disease drug target relaying external risk factors to tau pathology.Safety and efficacy of opicinumab in participants with relapsing multiple sclerosis (AFFINITY Part 1): A randomized, controlled, phase 2 trial.

Mult Scler. 2026 Jan;32(1):107-120. doi: 10.1177/13524585251396433. Epub 2025 Dec 26. PubMed ID: 41454463

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Bendix Labeit, Sriramya Lapa, Gero Lueg, Rebecca Joebges, Jule Hofacker, Paul Muhle, Sonja Suntrup-Krueger, Cornelius J Werner, Stefanie Schreiber, Rainer Wirth, Tobias Warnecke, Rainer Dziewas, Sven G Meuth.

Oropharyngeal dysphagia: a narrative review towards an integrated neurogeriatric perspective.

Lancet Healthy Longev. 2025 Dec;6(12):100794. doi: 10.1016/j.lanhl.2025.100794. Epub 2025 Dec 2. PubMed ID: 41349566

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Yannick Hass, Julia Kniep, Anne Hoffrichter, Fabio Marsoner, Nesil Eşiyok, Matteo Gasparotto, Lei Xing, Matteo Pio Loco Detto Gava, Annasara Artioli, Catello Guida, Sven G Meuth, Wieland B Huttner, Ammar Jabali, Michael Heide, Julia Ladewig.

ARHGAP11A maintains cortical progenitor identity through RHOA-ROCK signaling during human brain development.

Cell Rep. 2025 Dec 23;44(12):116599. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116599. Epub 2025 Nov 26. PubMed ID: 41307995

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Sara Samadzadeh, Natalia Szejko, Yara Hamadah, Wan Ying Tan, Sanja Gluscevic, Vinícius Boldrini, Vito A G Ricigliano, Hans-Peter Hartung, Xavier Montalban; ECF Young Investigators/Fellows Initiative.

CAR T cells as novel therapeutic strategy for multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmune disorders.

J Neuroinflammation. 2025 Dec 30. doi: 10.1186/s12974-025-03668-0. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed ID: 41470000

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Dagmar Jürgens, Gerhard Tischler, Alexander Brener, Tina Bartsch, Gunther Kauselmann, Knut Adermann, Kathrin Zeiger, Katja Lindner, Julie-Anne Gabelich, Dieter Willbold, Oliver Peters.

Drug Development. PRImus-AD study: Design of the phase 2 study treating patients with MCI or mild dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) with the orally available PRI-002.

Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Dec;21 Suppl 5(Suppl 5):e103102. doi: 10.1002/alz70859_103102. PubMed ID: 41449684

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Dieter Willbold, Janine Kutzsche, Nicoleta Carmen Cosma, Gunther Kauselmann, Dagmar Jürgens, Oliver Peters.

Drug Development. Results of a randomized, placebo-controlled phase 1b study in MCI and mild AD patients with the orally available PRI-002 with a unique mode of action.

Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Dec;21 Suppl 5(Suppl 5):e101508. doi: 10.1002/alz70859_101508. PubMed ID: 41448835

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Oliver Peters, Dagmar Jürgens, Gerhard Tischler, Alexander Brener, Tina Bartsch, Gunther Kauselmann, Knut Adermann, Kathrin Zeiger, Katja Lindner, Julie-Anne Gabelich, Dieter Willbold.

Developing Topics. Anti-oligomeric PRI-002 does not cause ARIA-E in an ongoing Phase 2 trial.

Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Dec;21 Suppl 7(Suppl 7):e108724. doi: 10.1002/alz70861_108724. PubMed ID: 41434123

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Marios Georgiadis, Franca Auf der Heiden, Jeffrey Nirschl, Andy Liu, Hossein Moein Taghavi, Katrin Amunts, Markus Axer, Miriam Menzel, Michael Zeineh.

Alzheimer's Imaging Consortium. Mapping neuronal trajectories in neurodegeneration independent of sample preparation.

Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Dec;21 Suppl 8(Suppl 8):e110123. doi: 10.1002/alz70862_110123. PubMed ID: 41433726

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