Associations between brain metabolism and financial capacity in Alzheimer’s disease
Luca Marie Michel, Wyllians Vendramini Borelli, Thomas Hugentobler Schlickmann, Sarah Wehle Gehres, Marco De Bastiani, Andrei Bieger, Guilherme Povala, Luiza Santos Machado, Eduardo R. Zimmer · 2025
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Luca Marie Michel and co-authors link brain sugar use to money-handling ability across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum, in a study from 2025. People in early decline often lose financial capacity, and with it quality of life. Whether brain function tracks that loss was unclear.
The team drew on a large Alzheimer's dataset, selecting well over a thousand people with both a financial capacity score and brain scans of glucose use. Sugar use in seventy-nine brain regions was tested against the score. Twenty-six regions correlated with financial capacity. The strongest ties sat in the caudate nucleus and the fornix, deep structures for memory and drive. Adjusted models confirmed several links. The work ties a daily-life skill to brain energy patterns.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Luca Marie Michel, Wyllians Vendramini Borelli, Thomas Hugentobler Schlickmann, Sarah Wehle Gehres, Marco De Bastiani, Andrei Bieger, Guilherme Povala, Luiza Santos Machado, Eduardo R. Zimmer |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |