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Brain Communications is the #OA sister journal to @Brain1878. We aim to publish robust translational neuroscience studies.

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Have you read an outstanding paper published in Brain Communications during 2025? Take note of it for the Early Career Researcher Paper Prize! Nominations are Open! #ecr #paperprize #neuroscience
Link to form: https://t.co/b2HWUpcoOE
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Liou et al. found hospitalized COVID-19 patients had lower hippocampal volume, reduced plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein and poorer memory than age-matched controls, despite similar white matter hyperintensity burden.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/EP9O3B9RtQ

#neuroscience

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Lyu et al. demonstrated that damage to specific brain regions relates to changes in appetite and weight after neurological injury. In two distinct analyses, lesions to the right posterior insula were associated with reduced appetite and weight loss 👉 https://t.co/E6yHJ96SLZ

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Tatti, Benelli et al. showed that patients with multiple sclerosis and fatigue display reduced movement-related beta modulation compared with healthy and non-fatigued individuals. Read at 👉 https://t.co/o7ycFpt4dl

#braincommunications #multiplesclerosis #neuroscience

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Meet Stefano Delli Pizzi, an Assistant Professor at the "G. d'Annunzio University" of Chieti-Pescara and the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies (ITAB).

#meettheteam #braincommunications #neuroscience

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Jia et al. applied fixel-based analysis to patients with chronic traumatic brain injury, systematically revealing robust, differential damage in crossing white matter fibres missed by conventional methods.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/wAuOwFCBIt

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Physical exercise supports brain health. This study shows that a single bout of exercise can influence brain activity tied to learning and memory through synchronized “ripple” brain waves involved in memory consolidation 👉 https://t.co/lEwuf3ftiu

#exercise #neuroscience

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Apolipoprotein E4 is the strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Here, Hällqvist et al. find an isoform-dependent gradient in the association of ethanolamine plasmalogen, a phospholipid implicated in Alzheimer’s pathogenesis 👉 https://t.co/esi6m66sBF

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Beyersdorf et al. present the protocol and pilot data of a multicentre observational study that integrates precise anatomical phenotyping and dynamic structural features with ontogenetic mapping and the identification of higher-order meta-topologies 👉 https://t.co/m4ifdqyNDS

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Chinen et al. report that adults with Down syndrome have weaker entrainment of the occipital cortical neurons and have an elevated spontaneous activity relative to controls.
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Read at 👉 https://t.co/7UjZas4720

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Cho et al. report that specific morphological features of cerebral vessels—luminal shape and curvature—are associated with ischaemic stroke, with analyses stratified by intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/VIYr4hj5Xt
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Kutz et al. found that post-COVID-19 syndrome patients had altered cerebral blood flow, which was quantified using sample entropy (for temporal variability) and its coefficient of variation (CV) (for spatial variability).

Read at 👉 https://t.co/SEnUCFdmsY

#neuroscience

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Vijiaratnam et al. report the results of the nucleic acid-linked immuno-sandwich assay panel detecting changes in levels of multiple proteins between Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy and healthy controls in peripheral samples and CSF 👉 https://t.co/dMfPHWzy9z

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Meet Julien Dampuré, an Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology and Director of the 2PS research team at the Université Catholique de l’Ouest (UCO), Niort, France.

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Jüschke et al. report a novel genotype-phenotype correlation between a CACNB3 (CaVβ3) mutation and idiopathic infantile nystagmus. The mutation impairs voltage-gated calcium channel function and increases calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum 👉 https://t.co/QV4LI9vfL2

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Temporal lobe surgery for epilepsy can cause verbal memory deficits. Binding et al. found that damage to the fornix and ventral cingulum, key white matter tracts in the memory network, is a significant factor.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/PE0GVrk0yF

#epilepsy @LawrenceBinding

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Ghasemi et al. report in this review that the metabolic enzyme pyruvate kinase M2 influences neuronal metabolism, cell-cycle re-entry, cytoskeletal regulation, amyloid-β and tau pathology, neuroinflammation and astrocyte function in Alzheimer’s disease 👉 https://t.co/tL1IHclr8x

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Stable isotope labeling kinetics method developed to capture CSF protein flow in humans. A potential diagnostic tool for normal pressure hydrocephalus

Read at 👉 https://t.co/mAcAvIPQFk

#neuroscience
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Leodori et al. report that transcranial magnetic stimulation combined with electroencephalography (TMS–EEG) captures differences in cortical motor network responses in multiple sclerosis.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/cvLM15H31L

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Tong et al. report that intermittent theta burst stimulation targeting the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with an optimized protocol alleviates negative symptoms in #schizophrenia.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/kQGu99tK8p

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Naros et al. report that voxel-based spatial mapping of 737 intracranial meningiomas reveals distinct anatomical clustering of histological subtypes and CNS grades.

Read at 👉 https://t.co/vdtzRcPdaM

#meningioma #neuroscience #braincommunications