Publication Highlights

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2025

Distress Evokes a Visual Attention Bias

Igoshina E, Moxon-Emre I, Bouffet E, Mabbott DJ.

Distress Evokes a Visual Attention Bias to Treatment-Related Scenes in Children and Adolescents related for a Posterior Fossa Brain Tumour.

Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2025 September.

Repairing myelin after irradiated pediatric brain tumor

Baudou E, Ryan JL, Tseng J, Bouffet E, Bartels U, Timmons BW, de Medeiros CB, Mabbott DJ.

Repairing myelin after irradiated pediatric brain tumor: A magnetization transfer imaging analysis.

Pediatric Blood and Cancer. 2025 September

Neuropsychological function in childhood cancer patients

Jacola L, Peterson R, Oswald-McClosky KA, Sekely A, Mabbott DJ, Edelstein K.

Neuropsychological function in childhood cancer patients and adult survivors of childhood cancer.

J. Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2025 July

Associations between fronto-limbic white matter

Wu LC, Bells S, Tseng J, Sridar N, Arnold DL, Yeh EA, Mabbott DJ.

Associations between fronto-limbic white matter connections and internalizing symptoms in pediatric demyelinating disease.

Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2025 March

The National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Planning Meeting

Janelsins MC, Van Dyk K, Hartman SJ, Koll TT, Cramer CK, Lesser GJ, Barton DI, Mustian KM, Wagner LI, Ganz PA, Cole PD, Bakos A, Root JC, Hardy K, Magnuson A, Ferguson RJ, McDonald BC, Saykin AJ, Gonzalez BD, Wefel JS, Morilak DA, Dahiya S, Jeijnen CH, Conley YP, Morgans AK, Mabbott D, Monje M, Rapp SR, Gondi V, Bender C, Embry L, McCaskill Stevens W, Hopkins JO, St Germain D, Dorsey SG.

The National Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Planning Meeting to Address Gaps in Observational and Intervention Trials for Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment.

J. Natl Cancer Inst. 2025 February

Integrating priorities at the intersection of cancer and neuroscience

Hwang WL, Perrault EN, Birbrair A, Mattson BJ, Gutmann DH, Mabbott DJ, Cukierman E, Repasky EA, Sloan EK, Zong H, Demir IE, Saloman JL, Borniger JC, Hu J, Dietrich J, Breuning JJ, Cifcibasi K, Ahmad Kasm KA, Valiente M, Wintermark M, Acharya MM, Scheff NN, D’Silva NJ, Vermeer PD, Wong RJ, Talbot S, Hervey-Jumper SL, Want TC, Ye Y, Pan Y, Bunimovich YL, Amit, M.

Integrating priorities at the intersection of cancer and neuroscience.

Cancer Cell. 2025 January

2024

Brain Volume and microglial density changes

Ayoub R, Yang S, Ji H, Fan L, De Michino S, Mabbott DJ, Nieman BJ.

Brain volume and microglial density changes are correlated in a juvenile mouse model of cranial radiation and CSFIR inhibitor treatment.

NMH in Biomedicine. 2024 December

Compensatory Mechanisms Amidst Demyelinating Disorders

Al Dahhan NZ, Tseng J, de Medeiros C, Narayanan S, ASrnold DI, Coe B, Munoz DP, Yeh AE, Mabbott DJ.

Compensatory Mechanisms Amidst Demyelinating Disorders: Insights into Cognitive Preservation.

Brain Communications. 2024 November

Network connectivity underlying information

Al Dahhan NZ, Powanwe AS, Ismail M, Cox E, Tseng J, de Medeiros D, Laughlin S, Bouffet E, Lefebvre J, Mabbott DJ.

NeuroImage Clinical. 2024 September

A web based resource for exercise training in children treated

Cox E, Kiwan M, de Medeiros C, Chen-Lai J, Cassiani C, Tseng J, Johnston K, Timmons B, Stinson J, Bouffet E, Mabbott DJ.

A web based resource for exercise training in children treated from brain tumours to improve cognitive sequelae: Development and usability.

Digital Health. 2024 September

Proton Therapy Mediates Dose Reductions to Brain Structures

Sienna J, Kahalley LS, Mabbott D, Grosshans D, Santiago AT, Dela Cruz P, Merchant A, Manzar GS, Dama H, Hodgson DC, Chintagumpala M, Okcu MF, Whitehead WE, Laperierre N, Ramaswamy V, Bartels U, Tabori U, Bennett JM, Das A, Craig T, Tsang DS.

Proton Therapy Mediates Dose Reductions to Brain Structures Associated With Cognition in Children With Medulloblastoma.

Int J. Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 May

Network connectivity underlying episodic memory

Wade Alonso K, Dahhan NZA, Riggs L, Tseng J, de Medeiros C, Scott M, Laughlin S, Bouffet E, Mabbott DJ.

Network connectivity underlying episodic memory in children: Application of a pediatric brain tumor survivor injury model.

Developmental Science. 2024 January

Multi-Modal Imaging with Magnetization Transfer

Skocic J, Richard L, Ferkul A, Cox E, Tseng J, Laughlin S, Bouffet E, Mabbott DJ.

Multi-Modal Imaging with Magnetization Transfer and Diffusion Tensor Imaging Reveals Evidence of Myelin Damage in Children and Youth Treated for a Brain Tumor.

Neuro-Oncology Practice. 2024 January

 

2023

Exercise promotes growth and rescues volume deficits

Szulc-Lerch K, Yeung J, de Guzman AE, Egan S, Yee Y, Fernandes D, Lerch JP, Mabbott DJ, Nieman BJ.

Exercise promotes growth and rescues volume deficits in the hippocampus after cranial radiation in young mice.

NMR in Biomedicine. 2023 December

Long-Term Neurocognitive and Psychological Outcomes

Sekely A, Zakzanis KK, Mabbott DJ, Tsang DS, Kongkam P, Zadeh G, Edelstein K.

Long-Term Neurocognitive and Psychological Outcomes in Meningioma Survivors: Individual Changes Over Time and Radiation Dosimetry.

Psycho-Oncology. 2023 Nov

Sleep differentially and profoundly impairs

Matorina N, Tseng J, Ladyka-Wojcik N, Olsen R, Mabbott DJ, Barense MD.

Sleep differentially and profoundly impairs recall memory in a patient with fornix damage.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2023 October

Optimizing an exercise training program in pediatric brain

Baudou E, Ryan JL, Cox E, Nham L, Johnston K, Bouffet E, Bartels U, Timmons B, de Medeiros C, Mabbott DJ.

Optimizing an exercise training program in pediatric brain tumour survivors: Does timing post-radiotherapy matter?

Neuro-Oncology Practice. 2023 September

Delayed Oculomotor Response

Huang J, Brien D, Coe BC, Longoni G, Mabbott DJ, Munoz DP, Yeh EA.

Delayed Oculomotor Response Associated with Optic Neuritis in Youth with Demyelinating Disorders.

Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 2023 August

Social affective outcomes and brain injury

Igoshina E, Wu L, Moxon-Emre I, Mabbott DJ.

Social affective outcomes and brain injury in children and adolescents treated for brain tumours.

The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health. 2023 August

Insult to Short-range White Matter Connectivity

Oyefiade A, Parthab N, Skocic J, Moxon-Emre I, Tabori U, Bouffet E, Ramaswamy V, Laughlin S, Mabbott DJ.

Insult to Short-range White Matter Connectivity in Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors.

Intl Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics. 2023 July

Magnetization transfer saturation reveals subclinical optic nerve

Longoni G, Martinez Chavez E, Brown R, Young K, Bells S, Fetco D, Kim L, Grover S, Costello F, Reginald Y, Bar-or A, Marrie RA, Arnold D, Narayanan S, Branson H, Banwell B, Sled J, Mabbott DJ, Yeh EA.

Magnetization transfer saturation reveals subclinical optic nerve injury in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis.

Multiple Sclerosis Journal. 2023 February

2022

Impact of home-based cognitive or academic intervention

Peterson RK, Longo C, Cunningham T, Janzen L, Gufer S, Monteiro L, Rapson R, Bartels U, Bouffet E, Solomon T, Mabbott DJ.

Impact of home-based cognitive or academic intervention on working memory and mathematics outcomes in paediatric brain tumour survivors: The Keys to Succeed pilot randomized controlled clinical trial.

Child Neuropsychology. 2022 November

Neural and cognitive function in a pediatric brain

Cox E, Tseng J, Bells S, Laughlin S, de Medeiros C, Bouffet E, Mabbott DJ.

Neural and cognitive function in a pediatric brain injury model: the impact of task complexity.

Cortex. 2022 October

Homeostatic coordination and up-regulation

Talidou A, Frankland P, Mabbott DJ, Lefebvre J.

Homeostatic coordination and up-regulation of neural activity by activity-dependent myelination.

Nature: Computational Science. 2022 October

Structural Connectivity and Intelligence in Brain-Injured Children

Oyefiade, A, Moxon-Emre I, Beera KI, Bouffet E, Taylor M Ramaswamy V, Laughlin S, Skocic J, Mabbott DJ.

Structural COnnectivity and Intelligence in Brain-Injured Children.

Neuropsychologia. N2022 Aug

Cross-translational models of late-onset

Al Dahhan N, Cox E, Nieman B, Mabbott DJ.

Cross-translational models of late-onset cognitive sequelae and their treatment in pediatric brain tumor survivors.

Neuron. 2022 July

Abnormalities of structural brain connectivity

Oyefiade A, Moxon-Emre I, Beera K, Bouffet E, Taylor M, Ramaswamy V, Laughlin S, Skocic J, Mabbott DJ.

Abnormalities of structural brain connectivity in pediatric brain tumor survivors.

Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2022 May

Long-Term Neurocognitive Psychological and return to Work Outcomes in Meningioma Patients.

Sekely A, Zakanis KK, Mabbott DJ, Tsang DS, Kongkham P, Zadeh G, Edelstein K.

Long-Term Neurocognitive Psychological and Return to Work Outcomes in Meningioma.

Patients Supportive Care in Cancer. 2022 May

Radiation Dose to Circumscribed Brain Regions

Sekely A, Tsang D, Mabbott DJ, Kongkham P, Zadeh G, Zakzanis KK, Edelstein K.

Radiation Does to Circumscribed Brain Regions and Neurocognitive Function in Patients with Meningioma

Neuro-Oncology Practice. 2022 May

Patterns of white and gray structural abnormality

Bells S, Longoni G, Berenbaum T, de Medeiros CB, Narayanan S, Banwell BL, Arnold DL, Mabbott DJ, Yeh EA.

Patterns of white and gray structural abnormality associated with paediatric demyelinating disorders.

NeuroImage Clinical. 2022 March

2021

Hearing loss and intellectual outcome in children treated for malignant brain tumors
Moxon-Emre, I, Dahl, C, Ramaswamy, V, Bartels, U, Tabori, U, Huang, A, Cushing, SL, Papaioannou, V, Laperriere, N, Bouffet, E, Mabbott, DJ. Hearing loss and intellectual outcome in children treated for malignant brain tumors: implications for young children treated with radiation sparing approaches
Cancer Medicine. 2021 October

Family Environment as a Predictor and Moderator
Laliberté Durish, C, Moxon-Emre, I, Bouffet, E, Bartels, U, Mabbott, DJ. Family Environment as a Predictor and Moderator of Cognitive and Psychosocial Outcomes in Children Treated for Posterior Fossa Tumors
Child Neuropsychology. 2021 July

Cognitive Risk in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors
Oyefiade, A, Paltin, I, DeLuca, C, Hardy, KK, Mabbott, DJ, Kahalley, LS. Cognitive Risk in Survivors of Pediatric Brain Tumors
Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2021 June 1

Intellectual changes after radiation for children
Tsang, DS, Kim ,L, Liu, ZA, Janzen, L, Khandwala, M, Bouffet, E, Laperriere, N, Dama, H, Keilty, D, Craig, T, Ramaswamy, V, Hodgson, DC, Mabbott, DJ. Intellectual changes after radiation for children with brain tumors: Which brain substructures are most important?
Neuro-Oncology. 2021 March

2020

Eye-movements and White Matter are Associated with Emotional Control
Moxon-Emre, I, Taylor, MJ, Farb, NAS, Oyefiade, A, Taylor, MD, Bouffet, E, Laughlin, S, Skocic, J, de Medeiros, CB, Mabbott, DJ. ​Eye-movements and White Matter are Associated with Emotional ​Control in Children Treated for Brain Tumors
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2020 November

Children’s family income is associated with cognitive function
Decker, AL, Duncan, K, Finn, A, Mabbott, DJ. Children’s family income is associated with cognitive function and volume of anterior not posterior hippocampus
Nature Communications. 2020 August 12

Assessment of cognitive and neural recovery in survivors
Ayoub, R,  Ruddy, R, Cox, E, Oyefiade, A, Derkach, D, Laughlin, S, Ades-aron, B, Shirzadi, Z, Fieremans, E, MacIntosh, B,  de Medeiros, CB,  Skocic, J,  Bouffet, E, Miller, F, Morshead, C, Mabbott, DJ. Assessment of cognitive and neural recovery in survivors of paediatric brain tumours in a pilot clinical trial using Metformin
Nature Medicine. 2020 August

Mapping neural dynamics underlying saccade preparation
Bells, S, Isabella, S, Munoz, DP, Brien, D, Coe, B, Mabbott, DJ, Cheyne, DO.  Mapping neural dynamics underlying saccade preparation and execution and their relation to reaction time and direction errors
Human Brain Mapping. 2020 May

Superior Intellectual Outcomes after Proton Radiotherapy
Kahalley LS, Peterson R, Ris,MD, Janzen L, Okcu MF, Grosshans DR, Ramaswamy  V, Paulin, AC, Hodgson D, Mahajan A, Tsang DS, Laperriere N, Whitehead WE, Dauser RC, Taylor MD, Chintagumpala M, Bouffet E, Mabbott DJ.  Superior Intellectual Outcomes after Proton Radiotherapy Compared With Photon Radiotherapy for Pediatric Medulloblastoma
Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2020 Feb 10

2019

Molecular correlates of cerebellar mutism syndrome in medulloblastoma
Jabarkheel R, Amayiri N, Yecies D, Huang Y, Toescu S, Nobre L, Mabbott DJ, Sudhakar SV, Malik P, Laughlin S, Swaidan M, Al Hussaini M, Musharbash A, Chacko G, Mathew LG, Fisher PG, Hargrave D, Bartels U, Tabori U, Pfister SM, Aquilina K, Taylor MD, Grant GA, Bouffet E, Mankad K, Yeom KW, Ramaswamy V.
Neuro Oncol. 2019 Aug 23

White Matter Plasticity and Maturation in Human Cognition
Bells, S, Lefebvre, J, Longoni, G, Narayanan, S, Arnold, D, Yeh, A, Mabbott, DJ.
Glia. June 24 2019

Facial emotion recognition in children treated for posterior fossa tumours and typically developing children: A divergence of predictors
Moxon-Emre I, Farb NAS, Oyefiade A, Bouffet E, Laughlin S, Skocic J, de Medeiros CB, Mabbott DJ. NeuroImage Clinical. 2019 Jun 12;23:101886

2018

Early changes in white matter predict intellectual outcome in children treated for posterior fossa tumors.
Partanen M, Bouffet E, Laughlin S, Strother D, Hukin J, Skocic J, Szulc-Lerch K, Mabbott DJ.
Neuroimage Clin. 2018 20: 697-704.

Development of Short-range white matter in healthy children and adolescents.
Oyefiade A, Ameis S, Lerch, JP, Rockel, C, Szulc KU, Scantlebury N, Decker, A, Jefferson, J, Spichak, S, and Mabbott DJ.
Human Brain Mapping. 2018 Jan; 39(1): 204-217

“Normal development of short-range white matter tracts”

2017

Decker AL, Szulc K, Bouffet E, Laughlin S, Chakravarty MM, Skocic J, de Medeiros CB, Mabbott DJ.
Hippocampus. 2017 Nov 27; (11): 1140-1154

“We document the impact of radiation on the hippocampus”

 

Bells, S, Lefebvre, J, Prescott, S Bouffet E, Skocic, J, Laughlin, S, Dockstader, C, Mabbott DJ.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2017 Aug 23; 37(34): 8227-8238

“We show that changes in white matter impact cognition via neural synchrony”

Riggs, L, Piscione, PJ, Laughlin, S, Cunningham, T, Timmons, B, Courneya, K, Szulc, K, Bartels, U, Skocic, J, De Medeiros, C, Liu, F, Persadie, N, Scheinemann, K, Scantlebury, N, Bouffet, E, Mabbott, DJ.
Neuro-Oncology. 2017 Mar 1; 19(3): 440-450

“Our first clinical trial – documenting white matter growth following exercise training”

2016

Scantlebury, N, Bouffet E, Laughlin S, Strother D, McConnell D, Hukin J, Fryer C, Laperriere N, Montour-Proulx I, Keene D, Fleming A, Jabado, N, Liu F, Riggs L, Law N, Mabbott DJ.
Neuropsychology. 2016 May; 30(4): 425-38.

 

Moxon-Emre, I, Taylor, MD, Bouffet, E, Hardy, K, Campen, C, Malkin, D, Hawkins, C, Laperriere, N, Ramaswamy, V, Scantlebury, N, Spiegler, BJ, Janzen L, Law, N, Walsh, K, Mabbott, DJ.
Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2016 Dec; 34(34): 4161-4170.

 

2015

Law, N, Greenberg, M, Bouffet, E, Laughlin, S, Taylor, MD, Malkin, D, Liu, F, Moxon-Emre, I, Scantlebury, N, Mabbott, DJ.
Human Brain Mapping. 2015 Jul;36(7):2615-28.

 

Liu, F, Scantlebury, N, Tabori, U, Bouffet, E, Montour-Proulx, I, Keene, D, Briere, ME, Strother, D, McConnell, D, Hukin, J, Fryer, C, Wang, F, Mabbott, DJ.
Neuro-Oncology. 2015 April; 17(4): 604-13.

 

2014

Dockstader, C, Wang, F, Bouffet, E, & Mabbott, DJ.
Journal of Neuroscience. 2014 Jun 25; 34(26): 8813-24.

 

Moxon-Emre, I, Bouffet, E, Taylor, MD, Malkin, D, Laperriere, N, Scantlebury, N,  Law, N,  Spiegler, BJ, Janzen L, Mabbott, DJ.

Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014 Jun 10; 32(17): 1760-8.

“A key paper leading to practice change in CRT”

2013

Dockstader C, Gaetz W, Bouffet E, Tabori U, Wang F, Bostan S. Laughlin S, & Mabbott DJ.

Cortex.  2013 Sept; 49(8): pp 2140-2150.

 

2012

Law N, Greenberg M, Bouffet E, Taylor M, Laughlin S, Strother D, Fryer C, McConnell D, Hukin J, Kaise C, Wang F, & Mabbott DJ.

Neuro-Oncology. 2012 Oct; 14(10): pp 1294-1303

“An influential paper on Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome”

 

Dockstader C, Gaetz, W Rockel C, Mabbott DJ.

Human Brain Mapping. 2012; 33(1): pp 179-91.

“A combined MEG and DTI paper – relating white matter to neural activation”

 

2011

Law N, Bouffet E, Laughlin S, Laperriere N, Brière ME, Strother D, McConnell D, Hukin J, Fryer C, Rockel C, Dickson J, & Mabbott DJ.

NeuroImage.  2011 Jun 15; 56(4): 2238-48.

“Tractography and working memory”

 

2010

Gaetz, W, Scantlebury, N, Widjaja, E, Rutka, J, Bouffet, E, Rockel, Dockstader, C, & Mabbott, DJ.

Child’s Nervous System. 2010; 26(11): pp 1639-45.

“Our first MEG paper”

 

2009

Mabbott DJ, Snyder J, Penkman L, Witol A & Neufeld S.

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2009: 15(2): 205-16.

 

 

2008

Mabbott DJ, Penkman L, Witol A, Strother D, Bouffet E

Neuropsychology. 2008; 22(2): pp 159-68.

“We started our focus on core cognitive functions in brain tumor survivors”

 

2007

Mabbott DJ, Barnes M, Laperriere N, Landry S, Bouffet E

Neuro-Oncology. 2007; 9 (4): pp 460-4

“The only twin study of neuro-cognitive function in medulloblastoma”

 

2006

Mabbott DJ, Noseworthy MD, Bouffet E, Rockel C, Laughlin S.

Neuro-Oncology.  2006; 8(3): pp 244-52.

“First DTI paper from the lab”

 

Mabbott DJ, Noseworthy MD, Bouffet E, Laughlin S, Rockel C

NeuroImage. 2006; 33(3): pp 936-946

“Our first paper on white matter plasticity and cognitive development”

 

2005

Mabbott DJ, Spiegler BJ, Greenberg M, Rutka J, Hyder D, Bouffet E.

Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2005; 23(10): pp 2256-2263.

“First serial evaluation of the impact of cranial radiation on academic skills”

 

2004

Spiegler BJ, Bouffet E, Greenberg M, Rutka J, Mabbott DJ.

Journal of Clinical Oncology.  2004: 22(4): pp 706-713

“Our most cited paper”

 

2003

Mabbott DJ, Bisanz J.

Child Development.  2003: 74(4): pp 1091-107.

“From Dr. Mabbott’s PhD dissertation”