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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2017

Visualizing Hyperactivation in Neurodegeneration Based on Prefrontal Oxygenation: A Comparative Study of Mild Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Healthy Controls.

Kah Hui Yap, Wei Chun Ung, Esther G M Ebenezer, Nadira Nordin, Pui See Chin, Sandheep Sugathan, Sook Ching Chan, Hung Loong Yip, Masashi Kiguchi, Tong Boon Tang

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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44citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Kah Hui YapMedicine Based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Wei Chun UngCentre for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research, Universiti Teknologi PetronasSeri Iskandar, Malaysia.
Esther G M EbenezerMedicine Based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Nadira NordinCentre for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research, Universiti Teknologi PetronasSeri Iskandar, Malaysia.
Pui See ChinMedicine Based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sandheep SugathanCommunity Based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sook Ching ChanCommunity Based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Hung Loong YipCommunity Based Department, Royal College of Medicine Perak, Universiti Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Masashi KiguchiResearch & Development Group, Hitachi Ltd.Tokyo, Japan.
Tong Boon TangCentre for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research, Universiti Teknologi PetronasSeri Iskandar, Malaysia.
University of Kuala Lumpur · MYUniversiti Teknologi Petronas · MYHitachi (Japan) · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

functional near-infrared spectroscopymild Alzheimer's diseasemild cognitive impairmentprefrontal hemoglobin oxygenationsemantic verbal fluency task

Identifiers

PMID28919856
PMCPMC5585736
OpenAlexW2752970866

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