Publications

Deecke, L., Ohlei, O., Goldeck, D., Homann, J., Toepfer, S., Demuth, I., Bertram, L., Pawelec, G., & Lill, C. M. (2025). Peripheral immune profiles in individuals at genetic risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Cells, 14(4), Article 250. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells14040250

König, M., Malsch, C., Mariño, J., Vetter, V. M., Komleva, Y., Demuth, I., & Steinhagen‑Thiessen, E. (2025). Nocturia as a clinical marker of loss of function and resilience or risk factor for frailty in older adults? Results of the Berlin Aging Study II. GeroScience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-025-01525-9

Müller, L., Di Benedetto, S., & Müller, V. (2025). From homeostasis to neuroinflammation: Insights into cellular and molecular interactions and network dynamics. Cells, 14(1), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells14010054

Plini, E. R. G., Melnychuk, M. C., & Dockree, P. M. (2025). Meditation linked to enhanced MRI signal intensity in the pineal gland and reduced predicted brain age. Journal of Pineal Research, 77(2), Article e70033. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpi.70033

Rogina, B., Anderson, R., Lebrasseur, N., Curan, S., Yousefzadeh, M. J., Ghosh, B., Duque, G., Howlett, S., Austad, S., Demuth, I., Gerstorf, D., Korfhage, J., Lombard, D. B., Abadir, P., Christensen, K., Carey, J. R., Alberts, S. C., Campos, F., Palavicini, J. P., Palmer, A., Bell, J., Basisty, N., de Cabo, R., Gomes, A., Dixit, V. D., Sen, P., Baur, J. A., Imai, S.-ichiro, Li, X., Valdez, G., Orr, M. E., Pletcher, S., Andersen, J., Jones, L., Castillo-Azofeida, D., Bonaguidi, M., Suh, Y., Duncan, F. E., Murray, A., Wang, M. C., Burkewitz, K., Henne, M., Zhou, K., Bouhrara, M., Benjamini, D., Kolind, S., Walker, K. A., Reiter, D. A., Dean, D., Gorbunova, V., Gladyshev, V. N., Palovics, R., Niedernhofer, L. J., Fan, R., Bueckle, A. D., Hurley, J., Esser, K. A., Kapahi, P., Sato, S., Jiang, N., Ashiqueali, S. A., Diaz, J., Mishra, S. P., Ralmundo, N., Banarjee, R., Allsopp, R., Reynolds, L. M., Zhang, B., Sebastiani, P., Monti, S., Schork, N., & Rappaport, N. (2025). Symposia report of The Annual Biological Sciences Section Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America 2023, Tampa, Florida. The Journals of Gerontology: A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf026

Deecke, L., Goldeck, D., Ohlei, O., Homann, J., Demuth, I., Bertram, L., Pawelec, G., & Lill, C. M. (2024). Immune cell distributions in the blood of healthy individuals at high genetic risk of Parkinson’s disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(24), Article 13655. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms252413655

Deecke, L., Homann, J., Goldeck, D., Ohlei, O., Dobricic, V., Drewelies, J., Demuth, I., & Pawelec, G. (2024). No increase of CD8+ TEMRA cells in the blood of healthy adults at high genetic risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(4), 3116–3118. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13709

Deecke, L., Ohlei, O., Homann, J., Stagge, J., Dobricic, V., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Berger, K., Demuth, I., Hagelstein, V., Bertram, L., & Lill, C. M. (2024). Variants in the TERT gene increase the occurrence of solar lentigines by modifying telomerase expression exclusively in the skin. The Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 144(6), 1412–1415.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jid.2023.10.034

Drewelies, J., Homann, J., Vetter, V. M., Duezel, S., Kühn, S., Deecke, L., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Jawinski, P., Markett, S., Lindenberger, U., Lill, C. M., Bertram, L., Demuth, I., & Gerstorf, D. (2024). There are multiple clocks that time us: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among 14 alternative indicators of age and aging. The Journals of Gerontology: A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae244

Koetsier, J., Cavill, R., Reijnders, R., Harvey, J., Homann, J., Kouhsar, M., Deckers, K., Köhler, S., Eijssen, L. M. T., van den Hove, D. L. A., Demuth, I., Düzel, S., the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Smith, R. G., Smith, A. R., Burrage, J., Walker, E. M., Shireby, G., Hannon, E., Dempster, E., Frayling, T., Mill, J., Dobricic, V., Johannsen, P., Wittig, M., Franke, A., Vandenberghe, R., Schaeverbeke, J., Freund-Levi, Y., Frölich, L., Scheltens, P., Teunissen, C. E., Frisoni, G., Blin, O., Richardson, J. C., Bordet, R., Engelborghs, S., de Roeck, E., Martinez-Lage, P., Tainta, M., Lleó, A., Sala, I., Popp, J., Peyratout, G., Verhey, F., Tsolaki, M., Andreasson, U., Blennow, K., Zetterberg, H., Streffer, J., Vos, S. J. B., Lovestone, S., Visser, P.-J., Lill, C. M., Bertram, L., Lunnon, K., & Pishva, E. (2024). Blood-based multivariate methylation risk score for cognitive impairment and dementia. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20(10), 6682–6698. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.14061

Köhncke, Y., Kühn, S., Düzel, S., Sander, M. C., Brandmaier, A. M., & Lindenberger, U. (2024). Grey-matter structure in cortical and limbic regions correlates with general cognitive ability in old age. Aging Brain, 5, Article 100103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2023.100103

Mascherek, A., Düzel, S., Eibich, P., Krekel, C., Goebel, J., Gallinat, J., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Kühn, S. (2024). Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin Aging Study. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 93, Article 102224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102224

Müller, L., & Di Benedetto, S. (2024). Immunosenescence and cytomegalovirus: Exploring their connection in the context of aging, health, and disease. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25(2), Article 753. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25020753

Müller, L., & Di Benedetto, S. (2024). Aging brain: Exploring the interplay between bone marrow aging, immunosenescence, and neuroinflammation. Frontiers in Immunology, 15, Article 1393324. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2024.1393324

Müller, L., & Di Benedetto, S. (2024). Inflammaging, immunosenescence, and cardiovascular aging: Insights into long COVID implications. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 11, Article 1384996. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2024.1384996

Müller, L., & Di Benedetto, S. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on accelerating of immunosenescence and brain aging. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 18, Article 1471192. https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2024.1471192

Pupillo, F., Düzel, S., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., & Shing, Y. L. (2024). Deficits in memory metacognitive efficiency in late adulthood are related to distinct brain profile. Memory, 32(10), 1286–1302. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2341711

Song, C. K., Ohlei, O., Keller, T., Regitz-Zagrosek, V., Toepfer, S., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Bertram, L., Buchmann, N., & Demuth, I. (2024). Lipoprotein(a) and lung function are associated in older adults: Longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses. Biomedicines, 12(7), Article 1502. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines12071502

Suanet, B., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Eibich, P., Demuth, I., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., Ram, N., Ghisletta, P., & Gerstorf, D. (2024). Historical change in trajectories of loneliness in old age: Older adults today are less lonely, but do not differ in their age trajectories. Psychology and Aging, 39(4), 350–363. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000803

Tetzner, J., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Demuth, I., Wagner, G. G., Lachman, M., Lindenberger, U., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2024). Stability and change of optimism and pessimism in late midlife and old age across three independent studies. Psychology and Aging, 39(1), 14–30. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000789