Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 5313

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.20, p 0.602). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 5312, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 5313
    21 Oct 2026, 12:31 UTC


    FIGN

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionFIGN in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered41992d933fb23d2f

    discovery+0.20 p=0.602 n=9

    replication+0.21 p=0.586 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.20, p 0.602)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 5313: FIGN in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.16 (p 0.526, n 18), 95% CI -0.33 to +0.58. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.11 (p 0.664, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.17 (p 0.493, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.06 to +0.32, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.16 (p 0.526, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for FIGN in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.