Publications

Aydoğan, T. M. I., Toepfer, S., Spira, D., Kreutz, R., & Demuth, I. (2026). Long‑term intake of statins or renin‑angiotensin system inhibitors: Associations with sarcopenia‑related parameters in older people. GeroScience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-026-02387-5

Bahr, V., Schmid, H., Vetter, V. M., Spira, D., Drewelies, J., Regitz-Zagrosek, V., Gerstorf, D., Düzel, S., Mai, K., & Demuth, I. (2026). Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between testosterone and cognitive performance in older people: Results of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). The Journals of Gerontology: A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 81(3), Article glaf286. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf286

Bougel, C., Servien, R., Vialaneix, N., Maigne, E., Boirie, Y., Lahaye, C., Canlet, C., Debrauwer, L., Vetter, V. M., Norman, K., Dardevet, D., Demuth, I., & Polakof, S. (2026). Serum metabolomic signatures associated with frailty‑related phenotypes in a cohort of older people. GeroScience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-026-02116-y

Grødem, E. O. S., Vidal-Pineiro, D., Sørensen, Ø., Bartrés-Faz, D., Brandmaier, A. M., Cattaneo, G., Garrido, P. F., Henson, R. N., Kühn, S., Lindenberger, U., MacIntosh, B. J., Nyberg, L., Pascual-Leone, A., Smith, S. M., Solé-Padullés, C., Solana-Sánchez, J., Watne, L. O., Walhovd, K. B., Bjørnerud, A., & Fjell, A. M. (2026). Stable individual differences dominate adult brain volume variation until later life. Imaging Neuroscience, 4, Article IMAG.a.1242. https://doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1242

Koch, J., Buchinger, L., Brady, B., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Lindenberger, U., Ghisletta, P., Ram, N., Demuth, I., Vetter, V., Anstey, K. J., & Gerstorf, D. (in press). Health, cognitive, and psychosocial trajectories over nearly a decade as distal antecedents of awareness of age-related change in old age. The Journals of Gerontology: B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Müller, L., & Di Benedetto, S. (2026). Network rewiring in the aging immune system: From chronic inflammation to age-related pathologies. Cells, 15(5), Article 414. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells15050414

Müller, L., Di Benedetto, S., & Müller, V. (2026). Nutrition as a systems regulator of brain aging trajectories. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 19, Article 1825800. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2026.1825800

Müller, L., Di Benedetto, S., & Müller, V. (2026). The cellular choreography of brain aging: A neuroimmune network perspective. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 18, Article 1848642. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2026.1848642

Müller, L., Di Benedetto, S., & Müller, V. (2026). Reframing brain aging: Neuroinflammation as an interconnected network process. Frontiers in Aging, 7, Article 1858763. https://doi.org/10.3389/fragi.2026.1858763

Müller, L., Di Benedetto, S., & Müller, V. (2026). Host-virus resilience networks and viral inflammaging circuits in aging and long COVID: A CMV-centered perspective. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 16, Article 1896480. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2026.1896480

Park, R., Gerstorf, D., Drewelies, J., Eibich, P., Smith, J., Lindenberger, U., Hoppmann, C. A., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Demuth, I., & Ram, N. (2026). Tracking divergence of objective and subjective health across age and historical time. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254261446800

Quinones, J. F., Düzel, S., Drewelies, J., Gerstorf, D., Demuth, I., Lindenberger, U., & Kühn, S. (2026). Aging in the city: Linking neighborhood features with whole-brain structural and micro-structural changes during aging. Environmental Research, 303, Article 124671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.124671

Sander, M. C., Shoushtari, S. S. Z., Düzel, S., & Fandakova, Y. (in press). Memory specificity in aging: Detrimental and beneficial effects of item similarity. Psychology and Aging.

Vetter, V. M., Drewelies, J., Homann, J., Düzel, S., Deecke, L., Jawinski, P., Kühn, S., Kubala, E., Markett, S., Mülleder, M., Ralser, M., Lindenberger, U., Lill, C. M., Gerstorf, D., Bertram, L., & Demuth, I. (2026). Comprehensive cross-sectional and longitudinal comparison of sixteen markers of biological aging from the Berlin Aging Study II. Communications Medicine, 6, Article 168. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-01233-7

Vetter, V. M., Junge, M. P., Drevon, C. A., Gundersen, T. E., Homann, J., Lill, C. M., Lindenberger, U., Pawelec, G., Bertram, L., Gerstorf, D., & Demuth, I. (2026). Comparing fourteen consensus biomarkers of aging: Epigenetic pace of aging as the strongest predictor of mortality in BASE-II. Biomarker Research, 14, Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40364-026-00909-z

Wettstein, M., Drewelies, J., Kornadt, A. E., Düzel, S., Lindenberger, U., Demuth, I., Hoppmann, C. A., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2026). Subjective age in proximal and distal contexts: Both momentary pain and long-term trajectories of physical health shape daily dynamics of subjective age. Psychology and Aging, 41(1), 85–103. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000944

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

Demuth, I., Vetter, V. M., Homann, J., Junge, M. P., Regitz-Zagrosek, V., Gerstorf, D., Lill, C. M., & Bertram, L. (2025). DunedinPACE predicts incident metabolic syndrome: Cross-sectional and longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study II. The Journals of Gerontology: A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 80, Article glaf157, 9. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glaf157

Didier, J., De Landtsheer, S., Pires Pacheco, M., Kishk, A., Schneider, J. G., Goldeck, D., Pawelec, G., Spira, D., Demuth, I., & Sauter, T. (2025). Clinical data-driven classification of pre-frailty reveals sex-specific patterns: Data from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 228, Article 112114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mad.2025.112114

Dordevic, N., Dierks, C., Hantikainen, E., Farztdinov, V., Amari, F., Verri Hernandes, V., De Grandi, A., Domingues, F. S., Shomroni, O., Textoris-Taube, K., Bahr, V., Schmid, H., Demuth, I., Kurth, F., Mülleder, M., Pramstaller, P. P., Rainer, J., & Ralser, M. (2025). Extensive modulation of the circulating blood proteome by hormonal contraceptive use across two population studies. Communications Medicine, 5, Article 131. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00856-0