Psychology

Metabolomics

Neuroscience

Disease

Cognitive decline

Bioinformatics

Biology

Internal medicine

Dementia

Biomarker

Neuroimaging

Medicine

Cognition

Alzheimer's disease

Biochemistry

Alzheimer s & Dementia

Introduction The Alzheimer's Disease Research Summits of 2012 and 2015 incorporated experts from academia, industry, and nonprofit organizations to develop new research directions to transform our understanding of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and propel the development of critically needed therapies. In response to their recommendations, big data at multiple levels are being generated and integrated to study network failures in disease. We used metabolomics as a global biochemical approach to identify peripheral metabolic changes in AD patients and correlate them to cerebrospinal fluid pathology markers, imaging features, and cognitive performance. Methods Fasting serum samples from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (199 control, 356 mild cognitive impairment, and 175 AD participants) were analyzed using the AbsoluteIDQ‐p180 kit. Performance was validated in blinded replicates, and values were medication adjusted. Results Multivariable‐adjusted analyses showed that sphingomyelins and ether‐containin...

Metabolic network failures in Alzheimer's disease: A biochemical road map