New paradigms in systems neuroscience (connectomics; network neuroscience; and critical transition theory) provide an intellectual toolkit to describe and predict these state changes at the systems level.
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The paper frames cognitive decline and transition to neurodegenerative disease as rapid global state transitions in neural networks rather than simple linear regression.
Cognitive deterioration and the transition to neurodegenerative disease does not develop through simple, linear regression; it develops as rapid and global transitions from one state to another within the neural network.
The paper proposes a unified framework in which molecular pathology, circuit behavior, and computational intelligence converge to describe cognitive decline as a translatable change of state and to guide precision neurointervention and regenerative brain medicine.
Instead, we aim to present a unified model where the phenomena of molecular pathology; circuit behavior; and computational intelligence converge in describing cognitive decline as a translatable change of state, rather than an irreversible succumbing to degeneration. Thus, we provide a framework for precision neurointervention, regenerative brain medicine, and adaptive intervention, to modulate the trajectory of neurodegeneration.
Disruptive changes in glymphatic clearance mechanisms, aquaporin-4 polarity, venous output, and neuroimmune signaling correlate with neurophysiologic homeostasis and lead to destabilization of network attraction sites linked to memory, consciousness, and cognitive resilience.
The paper will integrate the latest findings that have demonstrated how the disruptive changes in glymphatic clearance mechanisms, aquaporin-4 polarity, venous output, and neuroimmune signaling increasingly correlate with the neurophysiologic homeostasis landscape, ultimately leading to the destabilization of the network attraction sites of memory, consciousness, and cognitive resilience.