Associate Professor of Radiology

Email: ERATAI@mgh.harvard.edu

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Recent Publications

• Rezende TJR, Petit E, Park YW, du Montcel ST, Joers JM, DuBois JM, Arnold HM, Povazan M, Özdemir I, Banan G, Valabregue R, Ehses P, Faber J, Onyike CU, Barker PB, Schmahmann JD, Ratai EM, Subramony SH, Mareci TH, Bushara KO, Paulson H, Klockgether T, Durr A, Ashizawa T, Lenglet C, Öz G. Value of MRI Outcomes for Preventive and Early-Stage Trials in Spinocerebellar Ataxias 1 and 3. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2026 Feb 10.
• Baumeister H, Wegner P, Ferreira M, Schaprian T, França MC, Rezende TJR, Muro Martinez AR, Jiang H, Chen Z, Weihua L, Grobe-Einsler M, Koyak B, Önder D, van de Warrenburg B, van Gaalen J, Durr A, Coarelli G, Synofzik M, Schöls L, Giunti P, Garcia-Moreno H, Öz G, Joers J, Timmann D, Thieme AG, Jacobi H, de Vries J, Barker P, Onyike C, Ratai EM, Schmahmann JD, Reetz K, Infante J, Huebener-Schmid J, Kuegler D, Klockgether T, Berron D, Faber J. Brain atrophy staging in spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 for clinical prognosis and trial enrichment. EBioMedicine. 2026 Jan. 123:106090
• Sandström A, Kim M, Weerasekera A, Lin Y, Castro-Blanco K, Tandon A, Murphy J, Byrne K, Alshelh Z, Torrado-Carvajal A, Goodin BR, Ahern R, Marx C, Kilts J, Gandhi RT, Napadow V, Edwards RR, Pollak L, Mukerji SS, Loggia ML, Ratai EM. Brain levels of the neurotransmitter ?-aminobutyric acid are reduced in people with HIV-related neuropathic pain. Pain. 2026 Jan 01. 167(1):e8-e17
• Eichler F, Cataltepe OI, Daci R, Puri AS, Taghian T, Jiang X, Shazeeb MS, Kuhn A, Hader A, Celik H, Vardar Z, Lewis CJ, Artinian R, Nagy A, Vachha B, Thompson R, Gallagher T, Bateman S, Parzych J, Spanakis SG, Vaughn TA, Pier K, De Boever E, Abbott MA, D Ambrosio E, Kokoski D, Blackwood M, Drummond E, Ratai EM, Townsend EL, McLaughlin H, Tifft CJ, Keeler AM, Sena-Esteves M, Gray-Edwards HL, Flotte TR. Dual-vector rAAVrh8 gene therapy for GM2 gangliosidosis: a phase 1/2 trial. Nat Med. 2025 Sep. 31(9):2927-2935
• van Nieuwenhuizen H, Antal BB, Hone-Blanchet A, Lithen A, McMahon L, Nikolaidou S, Kuang Z, Clarke K, Jenkins BG, Rothman DL, Mujica-Parodi LR, Ratai EM. Ketosis Elevates Antioxidants and Markers of Energy Metabolism: A Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2025 Nov. 10(11):1186-1196