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Publications

Original Reserach

  1. Kiehl EL, Parker A, Matar RM, Gottbrecht MF, Johansen MC, Adams MP, Griffiths LA, et al. "C‐GRApH: A Validated Scoring System for Early Stratification of Neurologic Outcome After Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treated With Targeted Temperature Management." Journal of the American Heart Association 6, no. 5 (2017): e003821. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.003821

  2. Johansen MC, Shah AM, Lirette ST, Griswold M, Mosley TH, Solomon SD, Gottesman RF. Associations of Echocardiography Markers and Vascular Brain Lesions: The ARIC Study. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Dec 18;7(24):e008992. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.008992

  3. Johansen MC, Lin M, Nazarian S, Gottesman RF. Associations of echocardiographic features with stroke in those without atrial fibrillation. Neurology. 2019 Feb 26;92(9):e924-e932. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000007002

  4. Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Urrutia VC. Cerebral venous thrombosis: Associations between disease severity and cardiac markers. Neurology: Clinical Practice. 2019 May 17:10-212. https://doi.org/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000670

  5. Johansen MC, Mosley TH, Knopman DS, Wong DF, Wagenknecht LE, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Gottesman RF. The Associations between Left Ventricular structure, function and Cerebral Amyloid: The ARIC-PET study. Stroke. 2019 Dec;50(12):3622-3624. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.018399

  6. Al Rifai M, Blaha MB, Ahmed A, Almosoudi F, Johansen MC, Qureshi W, Sakr S, Virani SS, Brawner CA, Ehrman JK, Keteyian SJ, Al-Mallah MH. Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Incident Stroke Types: The FIT (Henry Ford ExercIse Testing) Project. 2020 Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 95 (7), pp. 1379-1389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2019.11.027

  7. Yahya T, Blaha M, Johansen MC. Stroke in the Young Adult: Current Trends, Opportunities for Prevention and Pathways Forward. American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 3, 2020, 100085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpc.2020.100085

  8. Johansen MC, Mosley TH, Knopman DS, Wong DF, Ndumele C, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Gottesman RF. The Associations between Atrial Cardiopathy and Cerebral Amyloid: The ARIC-PET study. The Journal of the American Heart Association. 2020 Dec 15;9(24):e018399. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.018399

  9. Johansen MC, Doria de Vasconcellos H, Nazarian S, Lima JAC, Gottesman RF. The Investigation of Left Atrial Structure and Stroke Etiology: The I-LASER Study. The Journal of the American Heart Association. 2021 Jan 19;10(2):e018766. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.120.018766

  10. Khan SU, Khan MZ, Khan MU, Mamas AM, Rashid M, Blankstein R, Virani SS, Johansen MC, Blaha MJ, Cainzos-Achirica Miguel, Vahidy FS, Nasir K.  Clinical and Economic Burden of Stroke Among Young, Midlife and Older Adults in the United States, 2002 – 2017. Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes. 2021 Apr 8;5(2):431-441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocpiqo.2021.01.015

  11. Obisedan OH, Osei AD, Berman D, Dardari ZA, Uddin SM, Dzaye O, Orimoloye OA, Budoff MJ, Miedema MD, Rumberger J, Mirbolouk M, Boakye E, Johansen MC, Rozanski A, Shaw L, Nasir K, Blaha MJ. Thoracic Aortic Calcification for the prediction of stroke mortality: The Coronary Artery Calcium Consortium. Am J Cardiol. 2021 Mar 2:S0002-9149(21)00213-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2021.02.038

  12. Ziai WC, Cho SM, Johansen MC, Ergin B, Bahouth MN. Transcranial Doppler in Acute COVID-19 Infection: Unexpected Associations. Stroke. 2021 Jul;52(7):2422-2426. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032150

  13. Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Kral BG, Vaidya D, Yanek LR, Becker LC, Becker DM, Nyquist P. Association of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis with Brain White Matter Hyperintensity. Stroke. Stroke. 2021 Aug;52(8):2594-2600. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.032674

  14. Williams NL, Suarez A, Negoita S, Hillis AE, Gottesman RF, Johansen MC. Cardiac Structure and Function is Associated with Hemispatial Neglect Severity. Front Neurol. 2021 May 6;12:666257.   https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.666257

  15. Johansen MC, Nyquist P, Sullivan KJ, Fornage M, Gottesman RF, Becker DM. Cerebral small-vessel disease in individuals with a family history of coronary heart disease: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Neuroepidemiology. 2021;55(4):316-322. https://doi.org/10.1159/000516428

  16. Yahya T, Jilani MH, Khan SU, Mszar R, Hassan SZ, Blaha MJ, Blankstein R, Virani SS, Johansen MC, Vahidy F, Cainzos-Achirica M, Nasir K. Stroke in young adults: Current trends, opportunities for prevention and pathways forward. Am J Prev Cardiol. 2020 Sep 9;3:100085. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajpc.2020.100085

  17. Daneshvari NO, Johansen MC. Associations between cerebral magnetic resonance imaging infarct volume and acute ischemic stroke etiology. PLoS One. 2021 Aug23;16(8):e0256458.   https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256458

  18. Selvaraj S, Claggett B, Johansen MC, Cunningham JW, Gottesman RF, Yu B, Boerwinkle E, Mosley TH, Shah AM, Soloman SD. APOE Polymorphism, Cardiac Remodeling, and Heart Failure in the ARIC Study. Journal of Cardiac Failure. J Card Fail. 2021 Dec 26:S1071-9164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2021.12.011

  19. Johansen MC, Wang W, Zhang MJ, Alonso A, Wong DF, Gottesman RF, Chen LY. Associations Between Atrial Arrhythmias and Brain Amyloid Deposition: The ARIC-PET Study. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. 2022 Jan 4(Preprint):1-5. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-215378

  20. Koton S, Pike J, Johansen MC, Knopman DS, Lakshminarayan K, Mosley T, Patole S, Rosamond WD, Schneider ALC, Sharrett R, Wruck L, Coresh J, Gottesman RF. Ischemic Stroke Incidence, Severity, and Recurrence as Risk Factors for Dementia in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort Study. JAMA Neurology. 2022 Jan 24. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2021.5080

  21. Wang W, Zhang MJ, Inciardi RM, Norby FL, Johansen MC, Parikh R, Van’t Hof JR, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Mosley TH, Gottesman RF, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Chen LY. Association of echocardiographic measures of left atrial function and size with incident dementia. JAMA. 2022 Mar 22;327(12):1138-1148. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2022.2518

  22. Hicks CW, Wang D, Schneider ALC, Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Matsushita K, Coresh J, Windham BG, Selvin E. Associations of Peripheral Neuropathy Defined by Monofilament Insensitivity with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Older Adults. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2022 Mar 28:1-9. https://doi.org/10.1159/000523762

  23. Bianco F, De Caterina R, Chandra A, Aquila I, Clagett B, Johansen MC, Goncalves A, Norby F, Cogswell R, Soliman E, Gottesman RF, Mosley T, Alonso A, Shah A, Solomon S, Chen L. Left atrial remodeling and stroke in patients with sinus rhythm and normal ejection fraction: the ARIC-NCS Study. JAHA. 2022 May 3. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.024292 

  24. Hannawi Y, Vaidya D, Yanek LR, Johansen MC, Kral BG, Becker LC, Becker DM, Nyquist PA. Association of Vascular Properties with the Brain White Matter Hyperintensities in Middle-Age Population. JAHA. 2022 Jun 7. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.024606

  25. Johansen MC, Wang W, Zhang M, Knopman D, Ndumele C, Mosley T, Selvin E, Shah A, Solomon, S, Gottesman RF, Chen LY. The Risk of Dementia Associated with Atrial Cardiopathy: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. JAHA. 2022 Aug 10:e025646. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.025646

  26. Koton S, Patole S, Carlson JM, Haight T, Johansen M, Schneider ALC, Pike JR, Gottesman RF, Coresh J. Methods for stroke severity assessment by chart review in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Sci Rep. 2022 Jul 19;12(1):12338. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16522-7

  27. Zhao D, Gootee E, Johansen MC. Atrial Cardiopathy is Associated with Cerebral Microbleeds in Ischemic Stroke Patients. Frontiers in Neurology. 2022 Sept 01; 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.982926

  28. Gootee E, Stein C, Walker A, Daneshvari N, Blaha M, Lima J, Gottesman F, Johansen MC. Normal left atrial diameter is associated with better performance on a cognitive screener among a cohort of ischemic stroke patients. Frontiers Neurology. 2022 November 24. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2022.1028296

  29. Maheshwari A, Norby FL, Inciardi RM, Wang W, Zhang MJ, Soliman EZ, Alonso A, Johansen MC, Gottesman R, Solomon SD, Shah AM, Chen LY. Left Atrial Mechanical Dysfunction and the Risk of Ischemic Stroke in People Without Atrial Fibrillation or Stroke: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2023 Jan 17. https://doi.org/10.7326/M22-1638

  30. Johansen MC, Ye W, Gross A, Gottesman RF, Han D, Whitney R, Briceno EM, Giordani BJ, Shore S, Elkind MSV, Manly JJ, Sacco RL, Fohner A, Griswold M, Psaty BM, Sidney S, Sussman J, Yaffe K, Moran AE, Heckbert S, Hughes TM, Galecki A, Levine DA. Association Between Acute Myocardial Infarction and Decline in Cognition: A Pooled Cohort Analysis of the ARIC, MESA, CARDIA, CHS, FOS and NOMAS studies. JAMA Neurology. Published online May 30, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.1331

  31. Reyes JL, Norby FL, Wang W, Parikh R, Oldenburg NC, Lutsey PL, Jack CR, Johansen M, Gottesman RF, Coresh J, Mosley T, Soliman EZ, Alonso A, Chen LY. Association of Abnormal P-Wave Parameters with Brain MRI Morphology: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Neurocognitive Study (ARIC-NCS). Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. 2023 Mar 16.  https://doi.org/10.1111/pace.14687

  32. Liberman AL, Wang Z, Zhu Y, Hassoon A, Cho J, Austin M, Johansen MC, Lehman H, Newman-Toker, DE. Optimizing Measurement of Misdiagnosis-Related Harms using Symptom-Disease Pair Analysis of Diagnostic Error (SPADE): Comparison Groups. Diagnosis. 2023 Apr 5. https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2022-0130

  33. Zhang MJ, Ji Y, Wang W, Norby FL, Parikh R, Eaton AA, Inciardi RM, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Mosley TH, Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Shah AM, Solomon SD, Chen LY (2023). Association of Atrial Fibrillation with Stroke and Dementia Accounting for Left Atrial Function and Size. JACC Adv 2(2). 2023 Jul 28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2023.100408

  34. Ehrman JK, Keteyian SJ, Johansen MC, Blaha MJ, Al-Mallah MH, Brawner CA. Improved cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower incident ischemic stroke risk: Henry Ford FIT project. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2023 Jun 30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2023.107240

  35. Johansen MC, Chen J, Schneider ALC, Carlson J, Haight T, Lakshminarayan K, Patole S, Gottesman RF, Coresh J, Koton S. The Association between Ischemic Stroke Subtype and Stroke Severity: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Neurology. 2023 Jul 6. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000207535

  36. Okine DN, Knopman DS, Mosley TH, Wong DF, Johansen MC, Walker KA, Jack Jr CR, Pike JR, Graff-Radford J, Gottesman RF. Cerebral Microbleed Patterns and Cortical Amyloid-β: The ARIC-PET Study. Stroke. 2023 Aug 28. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.042835

  37. Sloane KL, Gottesman RF, Johansen MC, Jones Berkeley S, Coresh J, Kucharska-Newton A, Rosamond WD, Schneider ALC, Koton S. Stroke Subtype and Risk of Subsequent Hospitalization: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Neurology. 2024 Feb 13;102(3):e208035. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000208035

  38. Erhabor J, Boakye E, Dardari Z, Dzaye O, Soroosh G, Berman DS, Budoff MJ, Miedema MD, Nasir K, Rumberger JA, Shaw LJ, Johansen MC, Blaha MJ. Coronary artery calcium for stroke mortality prediction. Vasc Med. 2024 Feb 9:1358863X231226217. https://doi.org/10.1177/1358863X231226217

  39. Shore S, Li H, Zhang M, Whitney R, Gross AL, Bhatt AS, Nallamothu BK, Giordani B, Briceño EM, Sussman JB, Gutierrez J, Yaffe K, Griswold M, Johansen MC, Lopez OL, Gottesman RF, Sidney S, Heckbert SR, Rundek T, Hughes TM, Longstreth WT Jr, Levine DA. Trajectory of Cognitive Function After Incident Heart Failure. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Feb 11:2024.02.09.24302608. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.124.011837

  40. Egle M, Wang WC, Johansen MC, Fann YC, Lee JT, Yeh CH, Lin CHJ, Jeng JS, Sun Y, Lien LM, Gottesman RF. Sex Differences in the Role of Multimorbidity on Post-Stroke Disability: The Taiwan Stroke Registry. Neurology. 2024 Mar 12. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209140

  41. Hassoon A, Ng C, Lehmann H, Rupani H, Peterson S, Horberg MA, Liberman AL, Sharp AL, Johansen MC, McDonald K, Austin JM, Newman-Toker DE. Computable phenotype for diagnostic error: developing the data schema for application of symptom-disease pair analysis of diagnostic error (SPADE). Diagnosis (Berl). 2024 May 3. https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2023-0138

  42. Lee M, Lakshminarayan K, Sedaghat S, Sabayan B, Chen L, Johansen M, Gottesman R, Heckbert S, Misialek J, Szklo M, Lutsey P. Population Attributable Fraction of Total Stroke Associated with Modifiable Risk Factors in the United States. American journal of epidemiology. 2024 June 19. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae132

  43. Columbo JA, Daya N, Colantonio LD, Wang Z, Foti K, Hyacinth HI, Johansen MC, Gottesman RG, Goodney PP, Howard VJ, Muntner P, Schneider ALC, Selvin E, Hicks CW. Derivation and Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Identifying Incident Stroke. JAMA Neurol. July 01, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.2044

  44. Hussain A, Johansen MC, Blaha MJ, Al-Mallah MH, Cainzos-Achirica M, Nambi V, Rotter JI, Guo X, Yao J, Rich SS, Patel J, McEvoy JW, Nasir K, Gottesman R, Blumenthal RS, Ballantyne CM, Virani SS, Rifai MA. Predictors of incident stroke among individuals without coronary artery calcification: A pooled cohort analysis from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Jackson Heart Study, and Framingham Heart Study. Vascular Medicine. 2024 Sept 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/1358863X241270911

  45. Lopez A, Wang J, Prashant M, Johansen MC. Determining Differences in the Association between Atrial Fibrillation and Ischemic Stroke Outcomes by Treatment Received. Hearts. 2024 Oct 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/hearts5040036

  46. Wang W, Lutsey PL, Incidardi RM, Reyes JL, Mosley TH, Johansen MC, Gottesman RF, Alonso A, Jack Jr. CR, Solomon SD, Shah AM, Wasserman BA, Chen LY. Association of left atrial function with vascular brain injury: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study. Eur J Neurol. 2024 Nov 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.16549

  47. Shore, S, Li, H, Zhang, M, Whitney, R, Gross, A, Bhatt, A, Nallamothu, B, Giordani, B, Briceño, E, Sussman, J, Gutierrez, J, Yaffe, K, Griswold, M, Johansen, MC, Lopez, O, Gottesman, R, Sidney, S, Heckbert, S, Rundek, T, Hughes, T, Longstreth, W, Levine, D. Trajectory of Cognitive Function After Incident Heart Failure. Circ Heart Failure. 2025 Feb 18. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.09.24302608

  48. Kong S, Gootee E, Williams N, Gottesman RF, Johansen MC. Congestive Heart Failure and Its Associations with Cognition and Cerebral Blood Flow. Brain Circulation. 2025 March 20. https://doi.org/10.4103/bc.bc_86_24

  49. Yaghi SM, Johansen MC, Ghannam M, Kasner SE, Singh N, Sposato LA, Siegler JE, Sur NB, Khan F, Kamel H, Elkind MSV, Furie K. Proposal for the Ischemic Stroke Phenotyping System 2025: ISPS25. Stroke. In Press- Accepted June 22 2025. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.125.051169

  50. Johansen MC, Chen J, Walker KA, Wang Z, Wang W, Chen LY, Kalani R, Floyd J, Fornage M, Pike JR, Gottesman RF, Coresh J. Proteomics and the risk of incident embolic and thrombotic stroke. Annals of Neurology. In Press-Accepted June 25, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.70011

  51. Zhou J*, Ladak AA*, Law CA, Johansen MC, Reyes A, Koton S, Kelly S, Huang J, Lakshminarayan K, Gottesman RF, Johnson E**, Schneider, ALC**. Associations of Stroke with Risk of Epilepsy: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 2025. In Press-Accepted July 1, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.70144

  52. Cowan LT, Tome J, Beckodro CK, Lutsey PL, Lakshminarayan K, Johansen MC, Baldwin JD. Weight change and ischemic stroke risk among participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. Neuroepidemiology. In Press-Accepted July 19, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1159/000547807

  53. Egle M, Groechel RC, Johansen MC, Kucharska-Newton AM, Gottesman RF, Koton S. Role of Morbidity Clusters in Midlife on Ischemic Stroke Incidence and Severity: The ARIC Study. Stroke. 2025 Sep 4. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.049496

  54. Koton S, Gross AL, Aparicio HJ, Beiser AS, Briceño EM, Coresh J, Elkind MSV, Giordani BJ, Gottesman RF, Hayward RA, Howard VJ, Johansen MC, Lazar RM, Springer MV, Stanton RJ, Sussman J, Wang H, Whitney RT, Ye W, Levine DA. Ischemic Stroke Incidence and Severity and Poststroke Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia. JAMA Network Open. 2026 Apr 1. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.8900

  55. Vuong RQ, Morrill VN, Graff-Radford J, Knopman DS, Mosley TH, Johansen MC, Walker KA, Jack CR Jr, Pike JR, Schneider ALC, Gottesman RF. Associations Between Cerebral Microbleed Patterns and Incident Dementia: The ARIC-Neurocognitive Study. Stroke. 2026 Feb 27 https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.125.052926

  56. Sen S, Marchesan JT, Moss K, Wood SM, Barton AE, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Magnani JW, Johansen MC, Lakshminarayan K, Rosamond WD, Beck J. Dental Flossing May Lower the Risk for Incident Ischemic Stroke, Cardioembolic Stroke Subtype, and Atrial Fibrillation. Stroke. 2026 Apr 8. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.125.054440

  57. Wood S, Logue L, Meyer J, Moss K, Beck JD, Johansen MC, Rosamond WD, Sen S. Combined Influence of Dental Caries and Periodontal Disease on Ischemic Stroke Risk. Neurology. 2025 Oct 22. https://doi.org/10.1212/WN9.0000000000000036

  58. Wang J, Egle M, Jin Z, Lakshminarayan K, Ndumele CE, Coresh J, Gottesman RF, Johansen MC. Late-Life Incident Stroke in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study: Etiology and Prediction. Stroke. 2026 Apr 30. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.125.054194

  59. Okonkwo MC, Mok Y, Cudjoe TKM, Ding N, Riekert KA, Kucharska-Newton A, Stewart KJ, Ndumele CE, Johansen MC, Matsushita K, Mathews L. Cognitive Function and Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance in Older Adults With Cardiovascular Disease Events: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. 2026 Jul 2. https://doi.org/10.1097/HCR.0000000000001036

Invited Review Articles

  1. Chapman SN, Mehndiratta P, Johansen MC, McMurry TL, Johnston KC, Southerland AM. Current perspectives on the use of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Vascular health and risk management. 2014;10:75. https://doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S39213

  2. Johansen MC, De Vasconcellos, HD, Gottesman, RF. “Understanding Atrial Cardiopathy: An Under-Recognized Contributor to Cardioembolic Stroke.” Curr Treat Options Neurol (2019) 21: 32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11940-019-0571-4

  3. Johansen MC, Langton-Frost N & Gottesman RF. The Role of Cardiovascular Disease in Cognitive Impairment. Curr Geri Rep (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13670-020-00309-7

  4. Arthur K, Fracica L, Johansen MC. Stroke treatment in the setting of Systemic Disease. Current Treatment Options in Neurology. Curr Treat Options Neurol 22, 44 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11940-020-00650-4

  5. Johansen MC, Gottesman, RF. Cerebrovascular Disease and Cognitive Outcome in Patients with Cardiac Disease. Semin Neurol. 2021 Apr 13. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726330

  6. Johansen MC. The Future of Ischemic Stroke Diagnosis and a Review of Underrecognized Ischemic Stroke Etiologies. Neurotherapeutics. 2023 May 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13311-023-01383-3

  7. Sposato LA, Sur NB, Katan M, Johansen MC, De Marchis GM, Caso V, Fischer U, Chaturvedi S. Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: New Data and New Controversies on Cardiac Monitoring and Anticoagulation. Neurology. April 8 2024. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209535

  8. Johansen MC, von Rennenberg R, Nolte CH, Jensen M, Bustamante A, Katan M. The role of cardiac biomarkers in stroke and cognitive impairment. Stroke. 2024 July 17. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.044143

  9. Seiffge DJ, Paciaroni M, Auer EA, Saw J, Johansen M, Benz AP. Left atrial appendage occlusion and its role in stroke prevention. Stroke. 2025 April 18. https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.124.043867

  10. Sposato L, Johansen MC. Advances in Neurocardiology: Timing of Anticoagulation in Patients with Ischemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation. Stroke. In Press-Accepted April 24, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.125.049901

Review Articles

  1. Chen BJ, Daneshvari NO, Johansen MC. Bleeding risk in patients with cardiac disease from ischemic stroke reperfusion therapy: an update. BMJ Neurol Open. 2021 Aug 17;3(2):e000156. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjno-2021-000156

  2. Razavi AC, Troy AL, Patel J, Mehta LS, Spitz JA, Lloyd-Jones D, Whelton SP, Johansen MC, Blumenthal RS. Future of Stroke Prevention: Seven Key Updates in the 2024 AHA/ASA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Stroke. JACC: Advances. Accepted February 25, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101724

  3. Schmidli L, Richter I, Thaliyath S, Frenger J, Zietz A, Teller J, Schuppner R, Ernst J, Gabriel MM, Camps-Renom P, McCabe J, Tiedt S, Johansen MC, Katan M, Grosse GM. Biomarkers of post-stroke cognitive impairment-a systematic literature review. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2026 Jun 22. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2026.1864277

Case Reports

  1. Gailloud P, Deib G, Pearl MS, Khoshnoodi M, Johansen MC. Intersegmental artery dissection resulting in spinal infarction. Neurology: Clinical Practice. 2019 Oct 30. https://doi.org/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000766

  2. Evan, J, Akst, L, Johansen MC. Dysphagia, dysphonia and a deviated tongue: Diagnosing Collet-Sicard Syndrome. BMJ Case Reports. 2021 May 21;14(5):e243154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-243154

Book Chapters, Monographs

  1. Hao Q, Johansen MC, Wityk R.  Chapter 81 – Posterior Circulation: Large Artery Occlusive Disease and Embolism In: Caplan LR, Biller J, Leary MC, Lo EH, Thomas AJ, Yenari M, and Zhang JH, eds., Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases, Second Edition, San Diego: Academic Press, 2017: pp-pp 392-397. 

  2. Zhao D, Arthur, K, Naghani, IM, Johansen MC. Chapter 11-Maternal Stroke In: Contemporary Topics in Cardio-Obstetrics. Springer Nature. 2023 Aug 3.

Editorials

  1. Cole JW, Johansen MC.  Risk of recurrent cervical artery dissection. Neurology Mar 2018, 10.1212/WNL.0000000000005322; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000005322

  2. Johansen MC, Sheth KN. Is incident stroke associated with increased risk of major adverse cardiovascular events? Neurology. 2020 Mar 10. pii: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009235. doi: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000009235.

  3. Gottesman RF, Johansen MC. Coronary revascularization and cognitive decline: The patient or the procedure? JAMA. 2021 May 18;325(19):1941-1942. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.5816

  4. Johansen MC, Blaha MJ. Coronary Artery Calcium: A Risk Factor for Brain Aging? Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Jul;14(7):e013062. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.121.013062

  5. Johansen MC. Unraveling the cause of stroke-induced cognitive decline. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. 2023 Dec 1. 4(12):e653-e654. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-7568(23)00235-0

  6. Razavi AC, Troy AL, Patel J, Mehta LS, Spitz JA, Lloyd-Jones D, Whelton SP, Johansen MC, Blumenthal RS. Future of stroke prevention: 7 updates in the 2024 AHA/ASA primary prevention of stroke guideline. JACC: Advances. 2025 May 8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.101724

  7. Johansen MC, Gottesman RF. Poststroke Dementia: The Rotterdam Study Shows Why Risk Factors, Stroke Severity, and Premorbid Brain Health Matter. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2026 Mar 10. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.126.049117

Brief Reports and Expert Opinion

  1. Johansen MC, Geocadin RG and Kamel H. Embolic Stroke of Unknown Source Clinical Trials and Advances in Research. Ann Neurol. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.25825

  2. Johansen MC, Jones-London M, Koroshetz W, Masliah E, Nath A, Whittemore V, McArthur JC. ANA Webinar: Clinical and Basic Research Resilience during COVID-19. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology:  doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.51230.

  3. Johansen MC, Campbell BCV. ANA Investigates: Tenecteplase. Ann Neurol. 2021 May 2. doi: 10.1002/ana.26093. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26093

  4. Johansen MC, Cereda CW, Heit JJ. ANA Investigates: Basilar Artery Stroke. Ann Neurol. 2022 Apr;91(4):441-442. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26330

  5. Stretz C, Goss AL, Johansen MC, Sposato LA. ANA Investigates: Atrial Fibrillation after Stroke. Ann Neurol. 2025 Feb 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27215

​Guidelines/Protocols, Consensus Statement, Expert Opinion, Consortium Articles

  1. Martin SS, Aday AW, Almarzooq ZI, Anderson CAM, Arora P, Avery CL, Baker-Smith CM, Barone Gibbs B, Beaton AZ, Boehme AK, Commodore-Mensah Y, Currie ME, Elkind MSV, Evenson KR, Generoso G, Heard DG, Hiremath S, Johansen MC, Kalani R, Kazi DS, Ko D, Liu J, Magnani JW, Michos ED, Mussolino ME, Navaneethan SD, Parikh NI, Perman SM, Poudel R, Rezk-Hanna M, Roth GA, Shah NS, St-Onge MP, Thacker EL, Tsao CW, Urbut SM, Van Spall HGC, Voeks JH, Wang NY, Wong ND, Wong SS, Yaffe K, Palaniappan LP. 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data from the American Heart Association. Brain Health Chapter. Circulation. 2024 Feb 20. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001209

  2. Sposato LA, Cameron AC, Johansen MC, Katan M, Murthy SB, Schachter M, B Sur N, Yaghi S, Aspberg S, Caso V, Hsieh CY. Ischemic stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and a recent ischemic stroke, TIA, or intracranial hemorrhage: A World Stroke Organization (WSO) scientific statement. International Journal of Stroke. 2024 Dec 24:17474930241312649. https://doi.org/10.1177/17474930241312649

  3. Martin SS, Aday AW, Allen NB, Almarzooq ZI, Anderson CAM, Arora P, Avery CL, Baker-Smith CM, Bansal N, Beaton AZ, Commodore-Mensah Y, Currie ME, Elkind MSV, Fan W, Generoso G, Gibbs BB, Heard DG, Hiremath S, Johansen MC, Kazi DS, Ko D, Leppert MH, Magnani JW, Michos ED, Mussolino ME, Parikh NI, Perman SM, Rezk-Hanna M, Roth GA, Shah NS, Springer MV, St-Onge MP, Thacker EL, Urbut SM, Van Spall HGC, Voeks JH, Whelton SP, Wong ND, Wong SS, Yaffe K, Palaniappan LP. 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data from the American Heart Association. Brain Health Chapter. Circulation. 2025 Jan 27. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001303

  4. Palaniappan LP, Allen NB, Almarzooq ZI, Anderson CAM, Arora P, Avery CL, Baker-Smith CM, Bansal N, Currie ME, Earlie RS, Fan W, Fetterman JL, Gibbs BB, Heard DG, Hiremath S, Hong H, Hyacinth HI, Ibeh C, Jiang T, Johansen MC, Kazi DS, Ko D, Kwan TW, Leppert MH, Li Y, Magnani JW, Martin KA, Martin SS, Michos ED, Mussolino ME, Ogungbe O, Parikh NI, Perez MV, Perman SM, Sarraju A, Shah NS, Springer MV, St-Onge MP, Thacker EL, Tierney S, Urbut SM, Van Spall HGC, Voeks JH, Whelton SP, Wong SS, Zhao J, Khan SS. 2026 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2026 Mar 3. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001412

  5. Tiedt S, Bustamante A, Cameron A, Camps-Renom P, Grosse GM, Ospel J, Volbers B, Audebert HJ, Aulin J, Cheng B, Cordonnier C, Coutinho JM, Fonseca AC, Hill MD, Jensen M, Jern C, Kamtchum-Tatuene J, Katan M, Kelly PJ, Kopczak A, Lemmens R, Lindgren AG, Loan JJM, Nolte CH, Puy L, Saba L, Al-Shahi Salman R, Sandset EC, Selim MH, Seners P, Sprigg N, Tsai HH, Doyle KM, Montaner J, Schreuder FHBM, Sposato L, Samarasekera N, McCabe JJ, BIOSTROKE investigators. Biomarkers for advancing diagnosis and prognosis in stroke. Lancet Neurology. 2026 Apr 25. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(25)00480-6

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The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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