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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2026

Translating peripheral blood biomarkers into Alzheimer's disease care: an exploratory dual-pathway model of immune and viral dynamics in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.

Ching-Tse Wu, Shuo-Peng Chou, Chuang-Rung Chang, Chien-Chung Chang, Cheng-I Chu

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Ching-Tse WuInstitute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Shuo-Peng ChouDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Chuang-Rung ChangInstitute of Biotechnology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Chien-Chung ChangInstitute of Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Cheng-I ChuDepartment of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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Background: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) critically complicate Alzheimer's disease care, yet the precise biological correlates for highly heterogeneous symptom domains remain largely unexplored. Objective: To investigate an exploratory "dual-pathway framework" to map how macroscopic immunosenescence and elevated latent viral antibody titers parallelly correlate with distinct neurobehavioral phenotypes. Methods: We evaluated 103 older adults diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (n = 40) or probable Alzheimer's disease ( Results: Macroscopic immunosenescence, reflected by an elevated CD4/CD8 ratio (>1.58), differentiated Alzheimer's disease from mild cognitive impairment ( Conclusion: Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia are associated with an exploratory dual-pathway model. Elevated viral antibody titers act as an immunological priming factor associated with symptom occurrence, whereas the reduction of adaptive immune reserves continuously modulates the global neuropsychiatric severity in Alzheimer's disease.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseBPSDimmunosenescenceneuroinflammationperipheral biomarkersvirus

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