De Simone et al. compared MRI scans from migraine and idiopathic intracranial hypertension patients versus controls. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Papilledema is not the point: intracranial pressure dysregulation as a common pathway in migraine and idiopathic intracranial hypertension

De Simone et al. compared MRI scans from migraine and idiopathic intracranial hypertension patients versus controls. Venous sinus stenosis and other pressu

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Lin et al. report that during the 2023 dengue outbreak in Tainan, neurological complications occurred in 12% of hospitalized patients, with myositis as the most common manifestation. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

De Leeuw et al. report that small-worldness values of grey matter networks decrease across the Alzheimer's continuum, which was associated with low CSF levels of proteins related to neuroplasticity, and high levels of proteins related to immune response. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

Gras et al. detail genotypic and phenotypic data from 316 individuals with KCNT1-variants reported in literature, including updated clinical information for 60 of them. Read it here 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Zifman et al. demonstrate that prefrontal interhemispheric connectivity measured with transcranial magnetic stimulation and EEG provides an objective marker of cognitive performance in community-dwelling adults. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Rave et al. report impaired sleep-associated spatial memory consolidation in leucine-rich, glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1)-associated limbic encephalitis. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Rodrigues et al. present a diffusion-MRI-derived brain age gap as an early biomarker of clinical outcomes following traumatic brain injury. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Kaestner et al. report that dividing diagnostic AI tasks into sequential steps improves accuracy for temporal lobe epilepsy classification. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Pulvermüller et al. report that intensive communicative speech-language therapy leads to greater improvements of clinical language performance in chronic post-stroke aphasia than matched conventional language therapy. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

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Siquara-de-Sousa et al. reported that nerve biopsy provides critical diagnostic confirmation in patients with peripheral neuropathy suspected of pure neuritic leprosy. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

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Achalu et al. demonstrated that, in most youth, changes in neurofilament light and glial fibrillary acidic protein following sports-related concussion would not be classified as abnormal when compared to population-based reference intervals. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience

Capiglioni et al. present a direct methodological comparison of multi-pool chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) imaging at 3T and 7T in a glioma cohort. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Hobin et al. identify synaptic proteins as novel biomarkers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), reporting increased cerebrospinal fluid levels of some synaptic proteins in ALS patients. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Eid et al. investigated synaptic proteins in post-mortem brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, comparing those with GBA mutations to wild-type cases and controls. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Seo et al. found that reduced suppression of beta brainwaves in the subthalamic nucleus just before a movement reflects motor impairment, offering valuable insight into the neural basis of motor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience

Lao et al. report that microglia density was elevated with similar topography to tau, and greater microglia density was associated with greater neurodegeneration and tau. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

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Corti et al. review evidence that phosphorylated TDP-43 accumulates in skeletal muscle and intramuscular nerves of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Williams et al. report that in the MS-STAT2 trial cohort (secondary progressive multiple sclerosis), higher cholesterol was associated with more severe current disability, and longitudinal increases in T2 lesion volume in the placebo group. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience

Poulin et al. show that degenerative cervical myelopathy causes astrogliosis- and fibrosis-related extracellular matrix changes, identifying a vascular/interstitial signature distinct from acute spinal cord injury. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Krohn et al. examined substantia nigra MRI contrast, volume and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease. SN volume differed by diagnosis and correlated with memory and cognition, supporting its use to study the dopaminergic system. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Bonanni et al. report that physical exercise may influence seizure susceptibility by modulating neurosteroid synthesis and, consequently, GABA transmission in the CNS. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Sadeqi et al. showed that Lewy body dementia is characterized by abnormal, state dependent brain dynamics measured with a hidden Markov model of magnetoencephalography data. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Wang et al. report that patients with chronic disorders of consciousness exhibit impaired brain fluid clearance linked to reduced glucose metabolism, particularly in the parietal cortex and brainstem. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Montgomery et al. report that concussion before infectious mononucleosis between ages 11 and 20 years is associated with a raised risk of multiple sclerosis. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Mahfoud et al. report that quantitative chromatic pupillometry can reveal functional recovery of photoreceptive neural pathways following surgical decompression of the optic chiasm in patients with pituitary adenoma. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Bao et al. report that cognitive and psychiatric symptoms in long COVID are associated with time-varying patterns of brain structure. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunications

Milbocker et al. demonstrate that magnetic resonance elastography scanning produces biomarkers for studying women’s brain health, validated with histology. Read it at 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai... #neuroscience #braincommunication