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Moustafa Algamal

@moustafaalgamal.bsky.social
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Instructor in Neurology MGH and HMS. Dementia and neurodegenerative disorders.

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Moustafa Algamal @moustafaalgamal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Microglia on the move! Here’s microglial clustering around amyloid plaques (cyan) after one week of aducanumab treatment. Our new preprint shows this response begins within 18–48 hours. Pretty exciting to watch it unfold in the living brain! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Excited to share a pre-print from a collaboration between my lab at NIH, Len Petrucelli's lab at University of Miami, and Shyamal Mosalaganti's lab at University of Michigan.
CryoET and colored segmentation of TMEM106B fibrils protruding from within a broken lysosome in post-mortem FTLD-GRN brain.
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Nature Reviews Neurology @natrevneurol.nature.com · 09/02/2026
Analyses of plasma multi‐omic data across ancestries identify novel pathways implicated in Alzheimer's disease alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Analyses of plasma multi‐omic data across ancestries identify novel pathways implicated in Alzheimer's disease
INTRODUCTION Few genetic studies on Alzheimer's disease (AD) have incorporated multiple ancestries and omic datasets to pinpoint actionable AD risk effectors for each ancestry. METHODS Here, we fi...
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Nature Reviews Neurology @natrevneurol.nature.com · 09/02/2026
Proteomics reveals three molecular subtypes of Alzheimer's disease with distinct progression patterns alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Proteomics reveals three molecular subtypes of Alzheimer's disease with distinct progression patterns
INTRODUCTION Alzheimer's disease (AD) shows marked molecular heterogeneity. Defining biological subtypes may refine diagnosis and treatment. METHODS We analyzed cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteomic...
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Nature Medicine @natmed.nature.com · 21/01/2026
A new trial provides direct human evidence that the #placeboeffect can shape humoral #immunity and vaccine responses, opening new avenues for biomedical research. News & Views from Jonathan Kipnis & colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-…
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Placebo effect influences vaccine responses - Nature Medicine
A randomized trial provides direct human evidence that the placebo effect can shape humoral immunity, showing that reward-related brain activity correlates with vaccine-induced antibody production and opening new avenues for treating many medical conditions.
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John Lukens @lukensjohnr.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Clonal CD8+ T cells populate the leptomeninges and coordinate with immune cells in human degenerative brain diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr. Katy Sheer @katywalla.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Calling all Boston-based/bound research technicians! Come join a neuroimaging lab looking at cerebrovascular function in CAA! Please share with those who may be interested 🧠 massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MGBExternal/...
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Research Technician I
Site: The General Hospital Corporation Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to adva...
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Moustafa Algamal @moustafaalgamal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Excited to be attending AAIC 2025 at the Toronto Convention Centre! I’ll be presenting my poster (#188) tomorrow — please stop by and take a look.
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Jaime Grutzendler @jgrutzendler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Happy to share our latest publication on subcellular myelin proteomics and structural changes in Alzheimer disease www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Emilia Favuzzi @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Exciting to see growing work on microglial GABA receptors and their role in regulating inhibition. Here, hyperactive inhibitory neurons in epilepsy activate microglia via GABA. Activated microglia then eliminate inhibitory synapses through a GABA–C3 feedback loop. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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GABA-dependent microglial elimination of inhibitory synapses underlies neuronal hyperexcitability in epilepsy - Nature Neuroscience
The microglia–neuron interactions contributing to neuronal hyperexcitability are unclear. Here, the authors show how GABA and C3 signaling coordinate microglial engulfment of inhibitory synapses, driv...
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Martin Fuhrmann @martinfuhrmann.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It is out! Read how you achieve 1.7 mm deep 3-photon imaging in prefrontal cortex with dendritic spine resolution over a week. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Three-photon in vivo imaging of neurons and glia in the medial prefrontal cortex with sub-cellular resolution - Communications Biology
Three-photon in vivo imaging provides access to medial prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and spinal cord in mice at up to 1.7 mm depth of neurons, dendrites, spines, astrocytes and microglia.
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