Publications by authors named "Lora A Khatib"
Empathy is characterized as the ability to share one's experience and is associated with altruism. Previous work using blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional MRI (fMRI) has found that empathy is associated with greater activation in brain mechanisms supporting mentalizing (temporoparietal junction), salience (anterior cingulate cortex; insula), and self-reference (medial prefrontal cortex; precuneus). However, BOLD fMRI has some limitations that may not reliably capture the tonic experience of empathy.
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- The gut microbiome may play a significant role in Alzheimer's disease (AD), but more research is needed to fully understand its impact on AD pathology.
- A study analyzed fecal microbiome data from participants in the Wisconsin Microbiome in Alzheimer's Risk Study, finding differences in gut microbiome composition between AD patients and cognitively healthy individuals, confirmed in another cohort.
- The variations in gut microbiome features were linked to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers associated with AD, suggesting a connection between gut microbes and AD progression.
The authors discovered an error in the primary analysis and have withdrawn the results from this version of the investigation.
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