2024 Research

Here is a sample of Pitt research papers and review articles published in 2024 in journals with impact factors of 10 or higher. Click on the journal title to read a specific PubMed citation.


Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 23
Plasma p-tau212 antemortem diagnostic performance and prediction of autopsy verification of Alzheimer's disease neuropathology
Przemysław R Kac, Fernando González-Ortiz, Andreja Emeršič, Maciej Dulewicz, Srinivas Koutarapu, Michael Turton, Yang An, Denis Smirnov, Agnieszka Kulczyńska-Przybik, Vijay R Varma, Nicholas J Ashton, Laia Montoliu-Gaya, Elena Camporesi, Izabela Winkel, Bogusław Paradowski, Abhay Moghekar, Juan C Troncoso, Tammaryn Lashley, Gunnar Brinkmalm, Susan M Resnick, Barbara Mroczko, Hlin Kvartsberg, Milica Gregorič Kramberger, Jörg Hanrieder, Saša Čučnik, Peter Harrison, Henrik Zetterberg, Piotr Lewczuk, Madhav Thambisetty, Uroš Rot, Douglas Galasko, Kaj Blennow, Thomas K Karikari
 

Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Mar 23.Online ahead of print.
Novel ultrasensitive immunoassay for the selective quantification of tau oligomers and related soluble aggregates
Tohidul Islam, Hlin Kvartsberg, Anuradha Sehrawat, Przemysław R Kac, Bruno Becker, Maria Olsson, Eric E Abrahamson, Henrik Zetterberg, Milos D Ikonomovic, Kaj Blennow, Thomas K Karikari
 

Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 21
A cerebro-cerebellar network for learning visuomotor associations
Naveen Sendhilnathan, Andreea C Bostan, Peter L Strick, Michael E Goldberg
 

Cell Rep. 2024 Mar 19. Online ahead of print.
Long-range inhibitory neurons mediate cortical neurovascular coupling
Catherine F Ruff, Fernanda Juarez Anaya, Samuel J Dienel, Adiya Rakymzhan, Alain Altamirano-Espinoza, Jay Couey, Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Alan M Watson, Aihua Su, Kenneth N Fish, Maria E Rubio, Bryan M Hooks, Sarah E Ross, Alberto L Vazquez
 

Nat Hum Behav. 2024 Mar 18. Online ahead of print.
Biomimetic versus arbitrary motor control strategies for bionic hand skill learning
Hunter R Schone, Malcolm Udeozor, Mae Moninghoff, Beth Rispoli, James Vandersea, Blair Lock, Levi Hargrove, Tamar R Makin, Chris I Baker
 

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Mar 12, Epub 2024 Mar 4.
Endothelial peroxiredoxin-4 is indispensable for blood-brain barrier integrity and long-term functional recovery after ischemic stroke
Na Xu, Xiaoyan Jiang, Wenting Zhang, Yejie Shi, Rehana K Leak, Richard F Keep, Qing Ye, Tuo Yang, Sicheng Li, Xiaoming Hu, R Anne Stetler, Michael V L Bennett, Jun Chen
 

Sci Adv. 2024 Feb 23; Epub 2024 Feb 23.
Reward-based option competition in human dorsal stream and transition from stochastic exploration to exploitation in continuous space
Michael N Hallquist, Kai Hwang, Beatriz Luna, Alexandre Y Dombrovski 
 

Mol Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 16. Online ahead of print.
The glutamatergic system in Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Carolina Soares, Lucas Uglione Da Ros, Luiza Santos Machado, Andreia Rocha, Gabriela Lazzarotto, Giovanna Carello-Collar, Marco A De Bastiani, João Pedro Ferrari-Souza, Firoza Z Lussier, Diogo O Souza, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Tharick A Pascoal, Bruna Bellaver, Eduardo R Zimmer
 


Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Feb 20, Epub 2024 Feb 14.
Cochlear zinc signaling dysregulation is associated with noise-induced hearing loss, and zinc chelation enhances cochlear recovery
Brandon Bizup, Sofie Brutsaert, Christopher L Cunningham, Amantha Thathiah, Thanos Tzounopoulos
 

Nat Neurosci. 2024 Feb 13.Online ahead of print.
Anterior cingulate learns reward distribution
Tao Hong, William R Stauffer
 

Biol Psychiatry. 2024 Feb 7. Online ahead of print.
Specific patterns of endogenous functional connectivity are associated with harm avoidance in OCD
Merage Ghane, Lucas Trambaiolli, Michele A Bertocci, Freddyson J Martinez-Rivera, Henry W Chase, Tyler Brady, Alex Skeba, Simona Graur, Lisa Bonar, Satish Iyengar, Gregory J Quirk, Steven A Rasmussen, Suzanne N Haber, Mary L Phillips
 

Neuron. 2024 Feb 7.
Does high-frequency stimulation of sensory axons break the causal link between pain relief and paresthesia?
Evan R Rogers, Scott F Lempka, Marco Capogrosso


Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 31
Single nuclei transcriptomics in human and non-human primate striatum in opioid use disorder
BaDoi N Phan, Madelyn H Ray, Xiangning Xue, Chen Fu, Robert J Fenster, Stephen J Kohut, Jack Bergman, Suzanne N Haber, Kenneth M McCullough, Madeline K Fish, Jill R Glausier, Qiao Su, Allison E Tipton, David A Lewis, Zachary Freyberg, George C Tseng, Shelley J Russek, Yuriy Alekseyev, Kerry J Ressler, Marianne L Seney, Andreas R Pfenning, Ryan W Logan


Mol Psychiatry. 2024 Jan 25. Online ahead of print.
Altered Rbfox1-Vamp1 pathway and prefrontal cortical dysfunction in schizophrenia
Youjin Chung, Samuel J Dienel, Matthew J Belch, Kenneth N Fish, G Bard Ermentrout, David A Lewis, Daniel W Chung


Psychiatry Res. 2024 Jan 24:333:115756. Online ahead of print
Reduced slow wave density is associated with worse positive symptoms in clinical high risk: An objective readout of symptom severity for early treatment interventions?
Ahmad Mayeli, James D Wilson, Francesco L Donati, Fabio Ferrarelli


Nat Hum Behav. 2024 Jan 29. Online ahead of print.
Motor cortex retains and reorients neural dynamics during motor imagery
Brian M Dekleva, Raeed H Chowdhury, Aaron P Batista, Steven M Chase, Byron M Yu, Michael L Boninger, Jennifer L Collinger
 

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Jan 19. Online ahead of print.
Functional parcellation of the cingulate gyrus by electrical cortical stimulation: a synthetic literature review and future directions
Rawan Mahgoub, Ayse Kacar Bayram, Dennis D Spencer, Rafeed Alkawadri 


Neurology. 2024 Jan 23; Epub 2023 Dec 22.
Association Between β-Amyloid Accumulation and Incident Dementia in Individuals 80 Years or Older Without Dementia
Oscar L Lopez, Victor L Villemagne, Yue-Fang Chang, Ann D Cohen, William E Klunk, Chester A Mathis, Tharick Pascoal, Milos D Ikonomovic, Christopher Rowe, Vincent Dore, Beth E Snitz, Brian J Lopresti, M Ilyas Kamboh, Howard J Aizenstein, Lewis H Kuller
 

Neurology. 2024 Jan 23; Epub 2023 Dec 26.
Longitudinal Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer Disease Prevention Trials

Raphael M Castilhos, Beth E Snitz