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The Locus Coeruleus & the Noradrenergic Prodrome
Working thesis on why the locus coeruleus is the earliest site of tau pathology in AD: pacemaking firing pattern, sustained mitochondrial demand, and noradrenaline-driven oxidative load as the substrate-level conditions that select LC neurons for the silent decades-long prodrome.
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