The debate highlighted fundamental disagreement about tau's role - whether aggregation causes neuronal death or represents a compensatory mechanism. This mechanistic uncertainty undermines therapeutic targeting strategies and explains clinical trial failures. Source: Debate session sess_SDA-2026-04-03-gap-seaad-v4-20260402065846 (Analysis: SDA-2026-04-03-gap-seaad-v4-20260402065846)
Landscape Summary: Do tau aggregates represent protective responses or primary pathogenic drivers in vulnerable neuronal subtypes? is a 0.9 priority gap in neurodegeneration. It has 0 linked hypotheses with average composite score 0.000. Status: partially_addressed.
Colonna, Sevlever, et al. (TREM2 biology)
Do tau aggregates represent protective responses or primary pathogenic drivers in vulnerable neuronal subtypes? — INVOKE-2 (completed)
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