This study uses magnetic resonance elastography to measure mechanical properties of post-mortem human brain tissue and track changes over time, revealing stiffness and damping ratio trends.

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · Dec 2, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

In vivo epigenetic editing of sema6a promoter reverses impaired transcallosal connectivity caused by C11orf46/ARL14EP neurodevelopmental risk gene

Cyril Jayakumar Peter, Atsushi Saito, Yuto Hasegawa, Yuya Tanaka, Mohika Nagpal, Gabriel Perez, Emily Alway, Sergio Espeso‐Gil, Tariq Fayyad, Chana Ratner, Aslihan Dincer, Achla Gupta, Lakshmi A. Devi, John Pappas, François M. Lalonde, , Atsushi Kamiya

The paper shows that epigenetic editing of the Sema6a promoter can reverse impaired transcallosal connectivity caused by C11orf46 mutations.

Nature Communications · Sep 11, 2019Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

A framework for spatial normalization and voxelwise analysis of diffusion propagators in multiple MAP-MRI data sets

Alexandru V. Avram, Adam S. Bernstein, Mustafa Okan Irfanoglu, Craig C Weinkauf, Martin R. Cota, Neville Gai, Amber Simmons, Anita Moses, Lisa Christine Turtzo, Neekita R. Jikaria, Lawrence L. Latour, Dzung L. Pham, John A. Butman, Peter J. Basser

This paper introduces a framework for spatial normalization and voxelwise analysis of diffusion propagators across multiple MAP-MRI datasets, enabling detection of subtle microstructural changes.

bioRxiv · Jul 9, 2019 · PreprintNeuroscience