Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6697

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.27, p 0.478). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6696, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6697
    22 Oct 2026, 18:28 UTC


    PPY

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionPPY in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered530724969f72d201

    discovery+0.27 p=0.478 n=9

    replication-0.37 p=0.329 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.27, p 0.478)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6697: PPY in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.21 (p 0.408, n 18), 95% CI -0.61 to +0.29. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.23 (p 0.351, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.38 (p 0.118, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.35 to -0.11, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.21 (p 0.408, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for PPY in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.