Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6878

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.28, p 0.458). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6877, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6878
    22 Oct 2026, 22:33 UTC


    ATF6

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionATF6 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered05a5bea63429349d

    discovery+0.28 p=0.458 n=9

    replication-0.18 p=0.646 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.28, p 0.458)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6878: ATF6 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.20 (p 0.418, n 18), 95% CI -0.29 to +0.61. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.20 (p 0.429, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.20 (p 0.424, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.10 to +0.32, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.20 (p 0.418, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ATF6 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.