1. Agostinelli LJ, Mix MR, Hefti MM, Scammell TE, Bassuk AG. Input-output connections of LJA5 prodynorphin neurons. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Jun 30. doi: 10.1002/cne.24974. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32602558.  
  2. Fiock KL, Smalley ME, Crary JF, Pasca AM, Hefti MM. Increased Tau Expression Correlates with Neuronal Maturation in the Developing Human Cerebral Cortex. eNeuro. 2020 May 28;7(3):ENEURO.0058-20.2020. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0058-20.2020. Print 2020 May/Jun. PMID: 32393582.  
  3. Marquez AM, Morgan RW, Ko T, Landis WP, Hefti MM, Mavroudis CD, McManus MJ, Karlsson M, Starr J, Roberts AL, Lin Y, Nadkarni V, Licht DJ, Berg RA, Sutton RM, Kilbaugh TJ. Oxygen Exposure During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Associated With Cerebral Oxidative Injury in a Randomized, Blinded, Controlled, Preclinical Trial. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 May 5;9(9):e015032. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.015032. Epub 2020 Apr 23. PMID: 32321350.  
  4. Rettenmaier LA, Kirby PA, Reinking BE, Viaene AN, Hefti MM. Neuropathology of Congenital Heart Disease in an Inpatient Autopsy Cohort 2000-2017. J Am Heart Assoc. 2020 Apr 7;9(7):e013575. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.119.013575. Epub 2020 Mar 23. PMID: 32200729.  
  5. Persons JE, Hefti MM, Nashelsky MB. Epidemiology of suicide in an Iowa cohort. Public Health. 2019 Dec;177:128-134. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2019.08.005. Epub 2019 Sep 26. PMID: 31563700.  
  6. Harper MM, Woll AW, Evans LP, Delcau M, Akurathi A, Hedberg-Buenz A, Soukup DA, Boehme N, Hefti MM, Dutca LM, Anderson MG, Bassuk AG. Blast Preconditioning Protects Retinal Ganglion Cells and Reveals Targets for Prevention of Neurodegeneration Following Blast-Mediated Traumatic Brian Injury. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2019 Oct 1;60(13):4159-4170. doi: 10.1167/iovs.19-27565. PMID: 31598627.  
  7. Hefti MM, Kim S, Bell AJ, Betters RK, Fiock KL, Iida MA, Smalley ME, Farrell K, Fowkes ME, Crary JF. Tau Phosphorylation and Aggregation in the Developing Human Brain. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2019 Oct 1;78(10):930-938. doi: 10.1093/jnen/nlz073. PMID: 31504677.  
  8. Kim Y, Liu G, Leugers CJ, Mueller JD, Francis MB, Hefti MM, Schneider JA, Lee G. Tau interacts with SHP2 in neuronal systems and in Alzheimer's disease brains. J Cell Sci. 2019 Jul 15;132(14). pii: jcs229054. doi: 10.1242/jcs.229054. PMID:31201283.  
  9. Fiock KL, Smith JD, Crary JF, Hefti MM. β-amyloid and tau pathology in the aging feline brain. J Comp Neurol. 2020 Jan 1;528(1):108-113.  
  10. Hefti MM, Farrell K, Kim S, Bowles KR, Fowkes ME, Raj T, Crary JF. High-resolution temporal and regional mapping of MAPT expression and splicing in human brain development. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 10;13(4):e0195771. PMID: 29634760.  
  11. Mavroudis CD, Karlsson M, Ko T, Hefti M, Gentile JI, Morgan RW, Plyler R, Mensah-Brown KG, Boorady TW, Melchior RW, Rosenthal TM, Shade BC, Schiavo KL, Nicolson SC, Spray TL, Sutton RM, Berg RA, Licht DJ, Gaynor JW, Kilbaugh TJ. Cerebral mitochondrial dysfunction associated with deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in neonatal swine. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 Jan 15. PMID: 29346537.  
  12. Hefti MM, Trachtenberg FL, Haynes RL, Hassett C, Volpe JJ, Kinney HC. A Century of Germinal Matrix Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Autopsied Premature Infants: A Historical Account. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2016 Mar-Apr;19(2):108-14. PMID: 26372101.  
  13. Hefti MM, Kinney HC, Cryan JB, Haas EA, Chadwick AE, Crandall LA, Trachtenberg FL, Armstrong DD, Grafe M, Krous HF. Sudden unexpected death in early childhood: general observations in a series of 151 cases: Part 1 of the investigations of the San Diego SUDC Research Project. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2016 Mar;12(1):4-13. PMID: 26782961.  
  14. Hefti MM, Cryan JB, Haas EA, Chadwick AE, Crandall LA, Trachtenberg FL, Armstrong DD, Grafe M, Krous HF, Kinney HC. Hippocampal malformation associated with sudden death in early childhood: a neuropathologic study: Part 2 of the investigations of The San Diego SUDC Research Project. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2016 Mar;12(1):14-25.