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For Alzheimer's disease, resting-state fMRI looks the most promising route to an imaging biomarker, though reproducibility and longitudinal data are lacking.
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What the paper says, word for word
“Overall at this point in time, the data on AD are most promising towards the eventual use of resting-state fMRI as an imaging biomarker, although there remain issues such as reproducibility of results and a lack of data demonstrating longitudinal changes.”
From Hohenfeld et al. (2018), DOI 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.03.013. Quote verified against the PubMed abstract (Europe PMC) on 15 Oct 2026.
resting-state fMRI:
A brain scanning method that measures activity fluctuations in a person who is lying still and not doing a task, to see which regions activate together.
imaging biomarker:
A measurement taken from a brain or body scan that can indicate the presence, stage or progression of a disease or response to treatment.
longitudinal changes:
Changes seen in the same individuals when they are measured repeatedly over a period of time.
A review of resting-state functional MRI studies in neurodegenerative disorders, assessing whether the technique could serve as a biomarker, mostly for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 15 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
A biomarker is a measurable sign that can help diagnose a disease, follow its progression or test treatments. The review says Alzheimer's disease has the strongest body of resting-state fMRI evidence, so it is the best candidate for this use. The authors note that results must be reproducible and shown to change over time with disease before routine clinical use could become a reality.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 15 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as PubMed (Europe PMC) publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors wrote a critical review of the published literature on resting-state functional connectivity measured with fMRI across neurodegenerative disorders, and briefly outlined the methods used.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
For Alzheimer's disease, the literature shows a relatively strong consensus of impaired default mode network connectivity compared with healthy individuals, but little documentation of how this changes over time.
For Parkinson's disease, connectivity alterations are mainly in limbic and motor-related regions and networks, but the disease's heterogeneity calls for caution.
For rarer neurodegenerative diseases, few published results mean no clear conclusions, although the data point towards characteristic connectivity alterations.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"Overall at this point in time, the data on AD are most promising towards the eventual use of resting-state fMRI as an imaging biomarker, although there remain issues such as reproducibility of results and a lack of data demonstrating longitudinal changes."
(Hohenfeld et al., NeuroImage Clinical, 2018)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): For Alzheimer's disease, resting-state fMRI looks the most promising route to an imaging biomarker, though reproducibility and longitudinal data are lacking.
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Refuted if a systematic review of the same primary studies reports that at least one other neurodegenerative disorder shows stronger evidence for rs‑fMRI biomarker utility than AD, as measured by effect size or number of significant findings.
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Cite this claim
Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Christian Hohenfeld, Cornelius Johannes Werner and Kathrin Reetz (2018), Resting-state connectivity in neurodegenerative disorders: Is there potential for an imaging biomarker?, NeuroImage Clinical. Ecdysis, claim ext:4a652fcbf1f3d6d7. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:4a652fcbf1f3d6d7
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