Acta Neuropathologica

Papers
(The median citation count of Acta Neuropathologica is 15. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Regulated cell death and its role in Alzheimer’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis173
Co-registration of MALDI-MSI and histology demonstrates gangliosides co-localize with amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer’s disease168
Assessment of PABPN1 nuclear inclusions on a large cohort of patients and in a human xenograft model of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy160
A novel subtype of sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease with PRNP codon 129MM genotype and PrP plaques159
The proteomic landscape of glioblastoma recurrence reveals novel and targetable immunoregulatory drivers149
Macrophages and endothelial cells in the neurovascular unit120
Dysregulated coordination of MAPT exon 2 and exon 10 splicing underlies different tau pathologies in PSP and AD109
Comprehensive assessment of TDP-43 neuropathology data in the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center database106
Wolframin is a novel regulator of tau pathology and neurodegeneration103
Integrative multi-omics reveals two biologically distinct groups of pilocytic astrocytoma102
BTK inhibition limits microglia-perpetuated CNS inflammation and promotes myelin repair93
Identification of high-performing antibodies for the reliable detection of Tau proteoforms by Western blotting and immunohistochemistry71
SCN1A overexpression, associated with a genomic region marked by a risk variant for a common epilepsy, raises seizure susceptibility71
A familial missense variant in the Alzheimer’s disease gene SORL1 impairs its maturation and endosomal sorting70
Metabologenomic characterization uncovers a clinically aggressive IDH mutant glioma subtype69
RNA methyltransferase NSun2 deficiency promotes neurodegeneration through epitranscriptomic regulation of tau phosphorylation69
RNA aptamer reveals nuclear TDP-43 pathology is an early aggregation event that coincides with STMN-2 cryptic splicing and precedes clinical manifestation in ALS68
Cryptic exon detection and transcriptomic changes revealed in single-nuclei RNA sequencing of C9ORF72 patients spanning the ALS-FTD spectrum67
Genetical and epigenetical profiling identifies two subgroups of pineal parenchymal tumors of intermediate differentiation (PPTID) with distinct molecular, histological and clinical characteristics63
Even heterozygous loss of CDKN2A/B greatly accelerates recurrence in aggressive meningioma55
Multi-level profiling unravels mitochondrial dysfunction in myotonic dystrophy type 255
The Alzheimer’s disease GWAS risk alleles in the ABCA7 promoter and 5’ region reduce ABCA7 expression54
Detection of blood–brain barrier disruption in brains of patients with COVID-19, but no evidence of brain penetration by SARS-CoV-254
Progranulin deficiency results in sex-dependent alterations in microglia in response to demyelination53
Biomarkers for parkinsonian disorders in CNS-originating EVs: promise and challenges51
TDP-43 pathology in the retina of patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration49
Cell-specific MAPT gene expression is preserved in neuronal and glial tau cytopathologies in progressive supranuclear palsy48
Jorge Cervós-Navarro 1930–202148
TREM2 gene expression associations with Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology are region-specific: implications for cortical versus subcortical microglia48
Expanding the spectrum of amyloid-β plaque pathology: the Down syndrome associated ‘bird-nest plaque’47
Clinical applicability of miR517a detection in liquid biopsies of ETMR patients47
PolyGA targets the ER stress-adaptive response by impairing GRP75 function at the MAM in C9ORF72-ALS/FTD46
Myeloid cell iron uptake pathways and paramagnetic rim formation in multiple sclerosis45
Neuropathological associations of limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathological change (LATE-NC) differ between the oldest-old and younger-old45
Landscape of brain myeloid cell transcriptome along the spatiotemporal progression of Alzheimer’s disease reveals distinct sequential responses to Aβ and tau45
From metabolomics to proteomics: understanding the role of dopa decarboxylase in Parkinson’s disease. Scientific commentary on: “Comprehensive proteomics of CSF, plasma, and urine identify DDC and oth44
Spinal astrocyte dysfunction drives motor neuron loss in late-onset spinal muscular atrophy44
Clinicopathological and molecular characterization of three cases classified by DNA-methylation profiling as “Glioneuronal Tumors, NOS, Subtype A”44
Phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate interacts with alpha-synuclein and initiates its aggregation and formation of Parkinson’s disease-related fibril polymorphism43
Correction to: MET receptor serves as a promising target in melanoma brain metastases42
Variants in DTNA cause a mild, dominantly inherited muscular dystrophy42
Neuropathologic scales of cerebrovascular disease associated with diffusion changes on MRI41
Xenografted human iPSC-derived neurons with the familial Alzheimer’s disease APPV717I mutation reveal dysregulated transcriptome signatures linked to synaptic function and implicate LINGO2 as a diseas41
Rapid-CNS2: rapid comprehensive adaptive nanopore-sequencing of CNS tumors, a proof-of-concept study41
CSF p-tau205: a biomarker of tau pathology in Alzheimer’s disease41
A CHCHD6–APP axis connects amyloid and mitochondrial pathology in Alzheimer’s disease41
Novel lissencephaly-associated NDEL1 variant reveals distinct roles of NDE1 and NDEL1 in nucleokinesis and human cortical malformations41
DTYMK is essential for genome integrity and neuronal survival40
Co-expression of APP/PS1 disrupts the distribution of brain lesions in a synucleinopathy transgenic mouse model (M83)40
White matter microglia heterogeneity in the CNS40
Independent prognostic impact of DNA methylation class and chromosome 1p loss in WHO grade 2 and 3 meningioma undergoing adjuvant high-dose radiotherapy: comprehensive molecular analysis of EORTC 220439
Physiological aging and inflammation-induced cellular senescence may contribute to oligodendroglial dysfunction in MS39
The variance in phosphorylated, insoluble ⍺-synuclein in humans, rats, and mice is not mainly driven by biological sex39
Myofiber-type-dependent ‘boulder’ or ‘multitudinous pebble’ formations across distinct amylopectinoses38
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a female ex-professional Australian rules footballer38
Comprehensive proteomics of CSF, plasma, and urine identify DDC and other biomarkers of early Parkinson’s disease37
Distinct characteristics of limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy in Lewy body disease37
DGCR8 and the six hit, three-step model of schwannomatosis37
From methylation to myelination: epigenomic and transcriptomic profiling of chronic inactive demyelinated multiple sclerosis lesions37
Microglia and monocytes in inflammatory CNS disease: integrating phenotype and function37
Oncohistone interactome profiling uncovers contrasting oncogenic mechanisms and identifies potential therapeutic targets in high grade glioma36
Clinically unfavorable transcriptome subtypes of non-WNT/non-SHH medulloblastomas are associated with a predominance in proliferating and progenitor-like cell subpopulations36
Somatic mosaic SOX10 indel mutations underlie a form of segmental schwannomatosis36
EZHIP: a new piece of the puzzle towards understanding pediatric posterior fossa ependymoma35
The prevalence and topography of spinal cord demyelination in multiple sclerosis: a retrospective study35
Tau seeds occur before earliest Alzheimer’s changes and are prevalent across neurodegenerative diseases35
Multiplatform molecular analyses refine classification of gliomas arising in patients with neurofibromatosis type 134
Co-pathology may impact outcomes of amyloid-targeting treatments: clinicopathological results from two patients treated with aducanumab34
Diverse human astrocyte and microglial transcriptional responses to Alzheimer’s pathology34
Impaired GABAergic regulation and developmental immaturity in interneurons derived from the medial ganglionic eminence in the tuberous sclerosis complex33
Cortical-sparing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CSCTE): a distinct subtype of CTE33
Regional AT-8 reactive tau species correlate with intracellular Aβ levels in cases of low AD neuropathologic change33
Alteration of LARGE1 abundance in patients and a mouse model of 5q-associated spinal muscular atrophy33
Single-cell DNA sequencing identifies risk-associated clonal complexity and evolutionary trajectories in childhood medulloblastoma development32
Disruption of the blood–brain barrier is correlated with spike endocytosis by ACE2 + endothelia in the CNS microvasculature in fatal COVID-19. Scientific commentary on "Detection of blood–brain barrie32
Integrated genetic analyses of immunodeficiency-associated Epstein-Barr virus- (EBV) positive primary CNS lymphomas32
Decreased dystrophin expression and elevated dystrophin-targeting miRNAs in anti-HMGCR immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy32
Alteration of gene expression and protein solubility of the PI 5-phosphatase SHIP2 are correlated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology progression31
p-tau Ser356 is associated with Alzheimer’s disease pathology and is lowered in brain slice cultures using the NUAK inhibitor WZ400331
An interaction between synapsin and C9orf72 regulates excitatory synapses and is impaired in ALS/FTD31
Concussion leads to widespread axonal sodium channel loss and disruption of the node of Ranvier31
Isoform-specific patterns of tau burden and neuronal degeneration in MAPT-associated frontotemporal lobar degeneration31
More than meets the eye in Parkinson’s disease and other synucleinopathies: from proteinopathy to lipidopathy30
Hemorrhagic lesion with detection of infected endothelial cells in human bornavirus encephalitis30
Retinal pathological features and proteome signatures of Alzheimer’s disease30
Integrative proteomics highlight presynaptic alterations and c-Jun misactivation as convergent pathomechanisms in ALS30
Urinary tract infections trigger synucleinopathy via the innate immune response30
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): criteria for neuropathological diagnosis and relationship to repetitive head impacts30
Loss of the heterogeneous expression of flippase ATP11B leads to cerebral small vessel disease in a normotensive rat model29
Trafficking of the glutamate transporter is impaired in LRRK2-related Parkinson’s disease29
Loss of p16 expression is a sensitive marker of CDKN2A homozygous deletion in malignant meningiomas29
Expanded analysis of high-grade astrocytoma with piloid features identifies an epigenetically and clinically distinct subtype associated with neurofibromatosis type 129
Oncostatin M triggers brain inflammation by compromising blood–brain barrier integrity28
DNA-methylome-assisted classification of patients with poor prognostic subventricular zone associated IDH-wildtype glioblastoma28
DNA methylation analysis of glioblastomas harboring FGFR3-TACC3 fusions identifies a methylation subclass with better patient survival28
CDKN2A/B mutations and allele-specific alterations stratify survival outcomes in IDH-mutant astrocytomas28
Characterisation of premature cell senescence in Alzheimer’s disease using single nuclear transcriptomics28
“De novo replication repair deficient glioblastoma, IDH-wildtype” is a distinct glioblastoma subtype in adults that may benefit from immune checkpoint blockade28
Transmission experiments verify sporadic V2 prion in a patient with E200K mutation28
Neuroinflammatory disease signatures in SPG11-related hereditary spastic paraplegia patients28
Vagus nerve inflammation contributes to dysautonomia in COVID-1927
Glioneuronal tumor with ATRX alteration, kinase fusion and anaplastic features (GTAKA): a molecularly distinct brain tumor type with recurrent NTRK gene fusions27
Ferroptosis inhibitor improves outcome after early and delayed treatment in mild spinal cord injury27
DNA methylation analysis of archival lymphoreticular tissues in Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease27
Nanopore sequencing from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens for copy-number profiling and methylation-based CNS tumor classification27
Scientific commentary on: “Phosphorylated tau in the retina correlates with tau pathology in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease and primary tauopathies”27
Transcriptomic analysis of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 pathology reveals cellular alterations across multiple brain regions26
Immunohistochemistry as a tool to identify ELP1-associated medulloblastoma26
Genetic alterations of TP53 and OTX2 indicate increased risk of relapse in WNT medulloblastomas: “it’s a numbers game”—implications for WNT medulloblastoma dose-reduction clinical trials26
The perils of contact sport: pathologies of diffuse brain swelling and chronic traumatic encephalopathy neuropathologic change in a 23-year-old rugby union player26
Professor Charles Duyckaerts (1951–2022)26
Methylation class oligosarcoma may encompass IDH-wildtype gliomas26
The choroidal nervous system: a link between mineralocorticoid receptor and pachychoroid26
Neuropathology of central nervous system involvement in TTR amyloidosis26
Methylation class oligosarcoma, IDH-mutant could exhibit astrocytoma-like molecular features26
Molecular classification and outcome of children with rare CNS embryonal tumors: results from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital including the multi-center SJYC07 and SJMB03 clinical trials26
Individual myasthenia gravis autoantibody clones can efficiently mediate multiple mechanisms of pathology26
DNA methylation-based classification of malformations of cortical development in the human brain26
Head-to-head comparison of [18F]-Flortaucipir, [18F]-MK-6240 and [18F]-PI-2620 postmortem binding across the spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases26
Archival wild-type poliovirus 1 infected central nervous system tissues of the pre-vaccination era in Switzerland reveal a distinct virus genotype26
Signature laminar distributions of pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration26
Cross-regional homeostatic and reactive glial signatures in multiple sclerosis26
High-grade glioma with pleomorphic and pseudopapillary features (HPAP): a proposed type of circumscribed glioma in adults harboring frequent TP53 mutations and recurrent monosomy 1326
Selective vulnerability of tripartite synapses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis25
The neuropathology of intimate partner violence25
Unique seeding profiles and prion-like propagation of synucleinopathies are highly dependent on the host in human α-synuclein transgenic mice24
Physiological β-amyloid clearance by the liver and its therapeutic potential for Alzheimer’s disease24
Association of small vessel disease with tau pathology24
Spatial immune profiling of glioblastoma identifies an inflammatory, perivascular phenotype associated with longer survival24
Pituitary neuroendocrine tumors with PIT1/SF1 co-expression show distinct clinicopathological and molecular features23
Loss of function variants in DNAJB4 cause a myopathy with early respiratory failure23
TMEM106B coding variant is protective and deletion detrimental in a mouse model of tauopathy23
Persistent virus-specific and clonally expanded antibody-secreting cells respond to induced self-antigen in the CNS23
Adaptive structural changes in the motor cortex and white matter in Parkinson’s disease23
Abundant transcriptomic alterations in the human cerebellum of patients with a C9orf72 repeat expansion23
Neuronal tau pathology worsens late-phase white matter degeneration after traumatic brain injury in transgenic mice22
Temporal change of DNA methylation subclasses between matched newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma22
Seeding activity of human superoxide dismutase 1 aggregates in familial and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis postmortem neural tissues by real-time quaking-induced conversion22
Brain vasculature accumulates tau and is spatially related to tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer’s disease21
Microglia activation in periplaque white matter in multiple sclerosis depends on age and lesion type, but does not correlate with oligodendroglial loss21
Brain region-specific susceptibility of Lewy body pathology in synucleinopathies is governed by α-synuclein conformations21
Selective tau seeding assays and isoform-specific antibodies define neuroanatomic distribution of progressive supranuclear palsy pathology arising in Alzheimer’s disease21
Early and selective localization of tau filaments to glutamatergic subcellular domains within the human anterodorsal thalamus21
Recurrent atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors (AT/RT) reveal discrete features of progression on histology, epigenetics, copy number profiling, and transcriptomics20
Characterization of hippocampal sclerosis of aging and its association with other neuropathologic changes and cognitive deficits in the oldest-old20
New evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion along the nervus terminalis rather than the olfactory pathway20
Expanding the phenotype and genotype spectra of PLIN4-associated myopathy with rimmed ubiquitin-positive autophagic vacuolation20
Correction: Increased mRNA expression of CDKN2A is a transcriptomic marker of clinically aggressive meningiomas20
Identification of TMEM106B amyloid fibrils provides an updated view of TMEM106B biology in health and disease20
Anaplastic histology and distinct molecular features in a small series of spinal cord ependymomas19
Flow blockage disrupts cilia-driven fluid transport in the epileptic brain19
Transmembrane protein 97 is a potential synaptic amyloid beta receptor in human Alzheimer’s disease19
Cryo-EM structures of amyloid-β filaments with the Arctic mutation (E22G) from human and mouse brains19
α-Synuclein molecular behavior and nigral proteomic profiling distinguish subtypes of Lewy body disorders19
Multiple system atrophy prions transmit neurological disease to mice expressing wild-type human α-synuclein19
Molecular characterisation defines clinically-actionable heterogeneity within Group 4 medulloblastoma and improves disease risk-stratification19
Consequences of variability in α-synuclein fibril structure on strain biology19
Annexin A11 aggregation in FTLD–TDP type C and related neurodegenerative disease proteinopathies18
Brain DNA methylomic analysis of frontotemporal lobar degeneration reveals OTUD4 in shared dysregulated signatures across pathological subtypes18
Transmission of cervid prions to humanized mice demonstrates the zoonotic potential of CWD18
Novel actionable ROS1::GIT2 fusion in non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis with central nervous system involvement18
Skeletal muscle provides the immunological micro-milieu for specific plasma cells in anti-synthetase syndrome-associated myositis18
Inflammation and the pathological progression of Alzheimer’s disease are associated with low circulating choline levels17
New insights into neuropathology and pathogenesis of autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein meningoencephalomyelitis17
Generation of patient-derived models from a metastatic pediatric diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor with KIAA1549::BRAF fusion17
Pediatric spinal pilocytic astrocytomas form a distinct epigenetic subclass from pilocytic astrocytomas of other locations and diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumours17
Correction to: Disruption of MAM integrity in mutant FUS oligodendroglial progenitors from hiPSCs17
MSUT2 regulates tau spreading via adenosinergic signaling mediated ASAP1 pathway in neurons17
Stress-inducible phosphoprotein 1 (HOP/STI1/STIP1) regulates the accumulation and toxicity of α-synuclein in vivo17
Genome-wide association study and functional validation implicates JADE1 in tauopathy17
Amplification of the PLAG-family genes—PLAGL1 and PLAGL2—is a key feature of the novel tumor type CNS embryonal tumor with PLAGL amplification17
Similar brain proteomic signatures in Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy17
A point mutation in GPI-attachment signal peptide accelerates the development of prion disease16
Frequency of LATE neuropathologic change across the spectrum of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology: combined data from 13 community-based or population-based autopsy cohorts16
Genome-wide loss of heterozygosity predicts aggressive, treatment-refractory behavior in pituitary neuroendocrine tumors16
Viral entry and translation in brain endothelia provoke influenza-associated encephalopathy16
Risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in rugby union is associated with length of playing career16
Cryo-EM structures of prion protein filaments from Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker disease16
Gene expression profiling of Group 3 medulloblastomas defines a clinically tractable stratification based on KIRREL2 expression16
Heterogeneity of white matter astrocytes in the human brain16
AMFR dysfunction causes autosomal recessive spastic paraplegia in human that is amenable to statin treatment in a preclinical model15
Performance of a seed amplification assay for misfolded alpha-synuclein in cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue in relation to Lewy body disease stage and pathology burden15
Loss of TMEM106B exacerbates Tau pathology and neurodegeneration in PS19 mice15
Correction to: Integrative proteomics highlight presynaptic alterations and c-Jun misactivation as convergent pathomechanisms in ALS15
EWSR1-BEND2 fusion defines an epigenetically distinct subtype of astroblastoma15
Perivascular space dilation is associated with vascular amyloid-β accumulation in the overlying cortex15
Distinct tau neuropathology and cellular profiles of an APOE3 Christchurch homozygote protected against autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s dementia15
Mutant LRRK2 exacerbates immune response and neurodegeneration in a chronic model of experimental colitis15
Rainwater Charitable Foundation criteria for the neuropathologic diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy15
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