Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4592

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.11, p 0.784). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4591, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4592
    20 Oct 2026, 21:01 UTC


    ESPN

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionESPN in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered41341308fec82e08

    discovery-0.11 p=0.784 n=9

    replication-0.58 p=0.103 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.11, p 0.784)

    dataVolpato et al. 2025, ventral substantia nigra (18 donors)

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 4592: ESPN in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.32 (p 0.194, n 18), 95% CI -0.69 to +0.17. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.40 (p 0.101, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.56 (p 0.016, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.45 to -0.23, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.32 (p 0.194, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ESPN in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.