ArticleAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association2024
Neurochemical organization of cortical proteinopathy and neurophysiology along the Alzheimer's disease continuum.
Article in Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Aperiodic Neural Activity in Clinical Investigations.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Advances in Targeting Central Cholinergic Dysfunction for Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Pharmacotherapy to Neuromodulation.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026Review
- Magnetoencephalography in human neuroscience research: planning, piloting, implementation and quality assurance.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Glial Cells in Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Peripheral Mitochondrial Energetics are Associated with Cortical Neurophysiological Alterations in Alzheimer's Disease.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Reduced cortical excitability is associated with head impact severity and cognitive symptoms in adolescent football players.iScience · 2026Article
- AI-enabled multimodal neuroimaging for neurotransmitter mapping in normal aging and age-related disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Review
- Neurophysiological signatures of default mode network dysfunction and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.Science advances · 2025Article
- The PREVENT-AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer's disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- Cortical Effects of Dopamine Replacement Account for Clinical Response Variability in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2025Article
- Associations between neuromelanin depletion and cortical rhythmic activity in Parkinson's disease.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Amyloid-β deposition predicts oscillatory slowing of magnetoencephalography signals and a reduction of functional connectivity over time in cognitively unimpaired adults.Brain communications · 2025Article
- zBMI scales with multispectral alterations in the neural oscillatory dynamics serving verbal working memory in youth.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Tracking the neurophysiological effects of proteinopathy into the pre-clinical stage of Alzheimer's disease.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Reduced Cortical Excitability is Associated with Cognitive Symptoms in Concussed Adolescent Football Players.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Neurochemical organization of cortical proteinopathy and neurophysiology along the Alzheimer's disease continuum.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
introductionDespite parallel research indicating amyloid-β accumulation, alterations in cortical neurophysiological signaling, and multi-system neurotransmitter disruptions in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the relationships between these phenomena remains unclear.
methodsUsing magnetoencephalography, positron emission tomography, and an atlas of 19 neurotransmitters, we studied the alignment between neurophysiological alterations, amyloid-β deposition, and the neurochemical gradients of the cortex.
resultsIn patients with mild cognitive impairment and AD, changes in cortical rhythms were topographically aligned with cholinergic, serotonergic, and dopaminergic systems. These alignments correlated with the severity of clinical impairments. Additionally, cortical amyloid-β plaques were preferentially deposited along neurochemical boundaries, influencing how neurophysiological alterations align with muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Most of the amyloid-β-neurochemical and alpha-band neuro-physio-chemical alignments replicated in an independent dataset of individuals with asymptomatic amyloid-β accumulation. DISCUSSION: Our findings demonstrate that AD pathology aligns topographically with the cortical distribution of chemical neuromodulator systems and scales with clinical severity, with implications for potential pharmacotherapeutic pathways. HIGHLIGHTS: Changes in cortical rhythms in Alzheimer's are organized along neurochemical boundaries. The strength of these alignments is related to clinical symptom severity. Deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) is aligned with similar neurotransmitter systems. Aβ deposition mediates the alignment of beta rhythms with cholinergic systems. Most alignments replicate in participants with pre-clinical Alzheimer's pathology.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.