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ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2024

A synergetic turn in cognitive neuroscience of brain diseases.

Agustin Ibanez, Morten L Kringelbach, Gustavo Deco

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Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  9. The landscape of dementia research, diagnosis, treatment, and care in Latin America.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026
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  11. The role of brain health and resilience in reshaping trajectories of late-life neuropsychiatric disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  14. Expotype-phenotype resilience and multimodal aging clocks.Clinical and translational medicine · 2026
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  20. Creative experiences and brain clocks.Nature communications · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Agustin IbanezLatin American Institute for Brain Health (BrainLat), Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile; Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), University California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA; Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: agustin.ibanez@gbhi.org.
Morten L KringelbachDepartment of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Gustavo DecoCenter for Brain and Cognition, Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roc Boronat 138, Barcelona 08018, Spain; Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain. Electronic address: gustavo.deco@upf.edu.

Funding

TDP-43 Loss-of-Function: Biology to BiomarkersP01AG019724 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Jennifer Merrilees · 2002 to 2026
$67.2M
An automated machine learning approach to language changes in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia across Latino and English-speaking populationsR01AG075775 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MARIA LUISA GORNO TEMPINI, Adolfo Martin Garcia · 2023 to 2026
$7.2M
PREDICTORS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN NORMAL AGINGR01AG012101 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI DE LEON, MONY J., RUSINEK, HENRY · 1993 to 2015
$6.7M
US-South American Initiative for Genetic-Neural-Behavioral Interactions in Human Neurodegenerative ResearchR01AG057234 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Claudia Duran-Aniotz, Agustin M. Ibanez · 2019 to 2026
$6.1M
Circadian Disturbance and Dementia in Latin AmericaR01AG083799 · NIA · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI Kun Hu, Agustin M. Ibanez · 2023 to 2026
$3.0M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG019724NIA NIH HHS R01 AG012101NIA NIH HHS R01 AG057234NIA NIH HHS R01 AG075775NIA NIH HHS R01 AG083799
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite significant improvements in our understanding of brain diseases, many barriers remain. Cognitive neuroscience faces four major challenges: complex structure-function associations; disease phenotype heterogeneity; the lack of transdiagnostic models; and oversimplified cognitive approaches restricted to the laboratory. Here, we propose a synergetics framework that can help to perform the necessary dimensionality reduction of complex interactions between the brain, body, and environment. The key solutions include low-dimensional spatiotemporal hierarchies for brain-structure associations, whole-brain modeling to handle phenotype diversity, model integration of shared transdiagnostic pathophysiological pathways, and naturalistic frameworks balancing experimental control and ecological validity. Creating whole-brain models with reduced manifolds combined with ecological measures can improve our understanding of brain disease and help identify novel interventions. Synergetics provides an integrated framework for future progress in clinical and cognitive neuroscience, pushing the boundaries of brain health and disease toward more mature, naturalistic approaches.

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Brain DiseasesCognitive NeuroscienceBrainHumans

Identifiers

PMID38246816
PMCPMC11927795

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