Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 2995

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.65, p 0.056). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 2994, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 2995
    19 Oct 2026, 10:02 UTC

    VIP

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionVIP in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredd7bd8e8d1188bd8b

    discovery+0.65 p=0.056 n=9

    replication+0.60 p=0.089 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.65, p 0.056)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 2995: VIP in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.54 (p 0.021, n 18), 95% CI +0.10 to +0.80. the interval excludes zero: something may be there, smaller than a half can see.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.58 (p 0.012, n 18). holds up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.61 (p 0.0077, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.48 to +0.65, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.54 (p 0.021, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for VIP in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.