Structural compression and entorhinal vulnerability: Linking tentorial adjacency to tau burden and dementia progression.

Authors

Luyue Zhang, Ana M Franceschi, John F Crary, Frank A Provenzano, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Published in

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. Volume 22. Issue 10. Pages e71827.

Abstract

Early neurofibrillary tau degeneration in the entorhinal cortex (EC) is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aging. We propose a biomechanical cascade hypothesis, suggesting proximity to the tentorial incisura (TI) may render the EC susceptible to chronic mechanical stress, potentially contributing to tau pathology.
We developed a neuroanatomical contact coefficient (NCC) to quantify EC-TI proximity using Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative multimodal imaging data (n = 47), stratifying participants into high and low adjacency groups.
Controlling for risk factors, EC tau positron emission tomography signal predicted conversion from mild cognitive impairment to AD only in the high-adjacency group (P = 0.036).
Findings identify EC-TI proximity as a potential, novel, anatomically grounded biomarker of AD risk. These findings are consistent with a previously unrecognized biomechanical contribution to EC tau vulnerability in sporadic AD and aging, opening new avenues for early detection, risk stratification, and mechanistically targeted prevention strategies.

PMID:
42831470
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 05 Oct 2026.

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