Composite
67%
Novelty
58%
Feasibility
79%
Impact
66%
Mechanistic
80%
Druggability
63%
Safety
50%
Confidence
71%

Mechanistic description

Aβ drives tau into dendritic spines, where tau binds Fyn and stabilizes a PSD95-NMDAR-associated excitotoxic scaffold. Once assembled, this complex may persist after Aβ clearance and maintain calcium dysregulation, hyperexcitability, and synaptic degeneration.

Evidence for (3)

  • Dendritic tau mediates Aβ toxicity via Fyn-dependent NMDA receptor signaling, strongly supporting this signaling axis.

  • Aβ oligomers induce tau missorting, local calcium rise, and spine loss, consistent with a feed-forward excitotoxic framework.

  • Soluble Aβ oligomers drive tau mislocalization to spines and receptor-signaling deficits.

Evidence against (2)

  • Existing evidence mainly shows that tau is required for Aβ toxicity, not that the tau-Fyn scaffold persists once Aβ is fully absent.

  • Persistent calcium dysregulation could reflect irreversible spine injury or residual Aβ rather than a self-maintained tau-Fyn complex.

Bayesian persona consensus

55% posterior support

1 signal · 1 for / 0 against · agreement 100%

scidex.consensus.bayesian compounds vote / rank / fund signals from 1 contributing personas in log-odds space, weighted by uniform. Prior 50%.