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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2025

A Shift Toward Supercritical Brain Dynamics Predicts Alzheimer's Disease Progression.

Ehtasham Javed, Isabel Suárez-Méndez, Gianluca Susi, Juan Verdejo Román, J Matias Palva, Fernando Maestú, Satu Palva

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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

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7 authors.

Ehtasham JavedNeuroscience Center, HiLIFE-Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland ehtasham.javed@helsinki.fi satu.palva@helsinki.fi.ORCID 0000-0002-0852-3602
Isabel Suárez-MéndezCenter for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28015, Spain.
Gianluca SusiCenter for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28015, Spain.
Juan Verdejo RománDepartment of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, University of Granada 18071, Spain.
J Matias PalvaNeuroscience Center, HiLIFE-Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland.
Fernando MaestúCenter for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid 28015, Spain.
Satu PalvaNeuroscience Center, HiLIFE-Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FI-00014, Finland ehtasham.javed@helsinki.fi satu.palva@helsinki.fi.ORCID 0000-0001-9496-7391

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia with continuum of disease progression of increasing severity from subjective cognitive decline (SCD) to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and lastly to AD. The transition from MCI to AD has been linked to brain hypersynchronization, but the underlying mechanisms leading to this are unknown. Here, we hypothesized that excessive excitation in AD disease progression would shift brain dynamics toward supercriticality across an extended regime of critical-like dynamics. In this framework, healthy brain activity during aging preserves operation at near the critical phase transition at balanced excitation-inhibition (E/I). To test this hypothesis, we used source-reconstructed resting-state MEG data from a cross-sectional cohort (

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Alzheimer DiseaseBrainCognitive DysfunctionDisease ProgressionAgedAged, 80 and overCohort StudiesCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMagnetoencephalographyMaleMiddle Agedbrain criticalitydetrended fluctuation analysis (DFA)excitation–inhibition imbalancelong-range temporal correlation (LRTC)machine learningneuronal oscillations

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PMCPMC11867000

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