NIH R01 · 2024
A multiscale investigation of the living human brain
ABSTRACT Molecular investigations of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias over the past decade have largely relied on postmortem specimens due to the inaccessibility of the brain in living people. At least two serious limitations are inherent to this framework. First, the molecular impact of death and the preceding agonal process on the human brain are unknown. This uncertainty looms over the field as a potential confounder of virtually all modern neurobiological studies of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias in humans. Second, profiling the brain postmortem decouples molecular biology from deep neuropsychiatric assessment and neuroimaging. As a result, a holistic narrative of…
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