JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4519
Niraj M Shanbhag, Jaya L Padmanabhan, Zheng Zhang, Brian T Harel, Hongxia Jia, Tairmae Kangarloo, Wei Yin, Ariel V Dowling, Antonio Laurenza, Polyna Khudyakov, Kevin Galinsky, Robert D Latzman, Tanya Simuni, Daniel Weintraub, Fay B Horak, Cindy Lustig, Paul Maruff, Arthur A Simen
{"title":"An Acetylcholine M1 Receptor-Positive Allosteric Modulator (TAK-071) in Parkinson Disease With Cognitive Impairment: A Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Niraj M Shanbhag, Jaya L Padmanabhan, Zheng Zhang, Brian T Harel, Hongxia Jia, Tairmae Kangarloo, Wei Yin, Ariel V Dowling, Antonio Laurenza, Polyna Khudyakov, Kevin Galinsky, Robert D Latzman, Tanya Simuni, Daniel Weintraub, Fay B Horak, Cindy Lustig, Paul Maruff, Arthur A Simen","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4519","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Fall risk and cognitive impairment are prevalent and burdensome in Parkinson disease (PD), requiring efficacious, well-tolerated treatment.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the safety and efficacy of TAK-071, a muscarinic acetylcholine M1 positive allosteric modulator, in participants with PD, increased fall risk, and cognitive impairment.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This phase 2 randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover clinical trial was conducted from October 21, 2020, to February 27, 2023, at 19 sites in the US. Participants included patients aged 40 to 85 years with a diagnosis of PD, with at least 1 fall in the prior 12 months, with a Montreal Cognitive Assessment score of 11 to 26, and receiving stable antiparkinsonian medications and no acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>One-to-one randomization to once-daily oral TAK-071 or placebo for 6 weeks, followed by washout and 6 weeks of crossover treatment.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary end point was change from baseline in gait variability (stride time variability [STV]) during a 2-minute walk test with or without cognitive load. The secondary efficacy end point was change from baseline in a cognitive composite score consisting of tests of attention, executive function, and memory.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 54 participants included in the analysis, 45 (83%) were male, mean (SD) age was 69.7 (6.9) years, and median Montreal Cognitive Assessment score was 24 (range, 17-26). After 6 weeks of treatment, the primary outcome was negative: the change from baseline in STV did not differ between participants receiving TAK-071 or placebo, with cognitive load (geometric mean ratio, 1.15; 95% CI, 0.94-1.41; P = .16) or without cognitive load (geometric mean ratio, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.88-1.18; P = .78). TAK-071 improved the secondary efficacy outcome (cognitive composite score) vs placebo. The least squares mean difference of the change from baseline was 0.22 (95% CI, 0.05-0.38; P = .01). Treatment-emergent adverse events occurred in 18 of 49 participants (37%) while receiving placebo and in 19 of 53 (36%) while receiving TAK-071. Four participants (8%) receiving TAK-071 had adverse events resulting in withdrawal of study drug; 4 had gastrointestinal tract adverse events.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this study, in participants with PD, risk for falls, and cognitive impairment, TAK-071 was well-tolerated. The treatment did not improve the primary outcome of gait variability, but did improve cognition compared with placebo. Larger and longer studies in more diverse populations are needed to better understand the safety and efficacy of TAK-071 in broader populations.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04334317.</p>","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":"152-159"},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11811800/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142931698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3835
James M Hillis, Edward R Scheffer Cliff, Kerstin N Vokinger
{"title":"AI Devices in Neurology-Moving From Diagnosis to Prognosis.","authors":"James M Hillis, Edward R Scheffer Cliff, Kerstin N Vokinger","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3835","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":"117-118"},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142647929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4322
Wouter I Schievink, Ferdinand K Hui
{"title":"Spinal Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Mimicking a Cerebellopontine Angle Tumor.","authors":"Wouter I Schievink, Ferdinand K Hui","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4322","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":"200-201"},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142828486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4537
Seonkyeong Yang, Yulia Orlova, Haesuk Park, Steven M Smith, Yi Guo, Benjamin A Chapin, Debbie L Wilson, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic
{"title":"Cardiovascular Safety of Anti-CGRP Monoclonal Antibodies in Older Adults or Adults With Disability With Migraine.","authors":"Seonkyeong Yang, Yulia Orlova, Haesuk Park, Steven M Smith, Yi Guo, Benjamin A Chapin, Debbie L Wilson, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4537","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4537","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) or its receptor (anti-CGRP mAbs) offer effective migraine-specific preventive treatment. However, concerns exist about their potential cardiovascular risks due to CGRP blockade.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) between Medicare beneficiaries with migraine who initiated anti-CGRP-mAbs vs onabotulinumtoxinA in the US.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This retrospective, sequential cohort study was conducted among a nationally representative population-based sample of Medicare claims from May 2018 through December 2020. Data analysis was performed from August to December 2023. This study included fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries aged 18 years or older with migraine who initiated either anti-CGRP mAbs or onabotulinumtoxinA. Beneficiaries who had a history of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, cluster headache, malignant cancer, or hospice service within a 1-year baseline period prior to treatment initiation were excluded. To minimize channeling bias from new drug introductions and time-related bias due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 5 cohorts were established, representing sequential 6-month calendar intervals based on the initial prescription or date of index anti-CGRP mAbs or onabotulinumtoxinA use.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Anti-CGRP mAbs vs onabotulinumtoxinA.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was time to first MI or stroke. Secondary outcomes included hypertensive crisis, peripheral revascularization, and Raynaud phenomenon. The inverse probability of treatment-weighted Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare outcomes between the 2 treatment groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 266 848 eligible patients with migraine, 5153 patients initiated anti-CGRP mAbs (mean [SD] age, 57.8 [14.0] years; 4308 female patients [83.6%]) and 4000 patients initiated onabotulinumtoxinA (mean [SD] age, 61.9 [13.7] years; 3353 female patients [83.8%]). Use of anti-CGRP mAbs was not associated with an increased risk of composite CVD events (adjusted hazard ratio [aHR], 0.88; 95% CI, 0.44-1.77), hypertensive crisis (aHR, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.14-1.55), peripheral revascularization (aHR, 1.50; 95% CI, 0.48-4.73), or Raynaud phenomenon (aHR, 0.75; 95% CI, 0.45-1.24) compared with onabotulinumtoxinA. Subgroup analyses by age group and presence of established non-MI or stroke CVD showed similar findings.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this cohort study, despite initial concerns regarding the cardiovascular effects of CGRP blockade, anti-CGRP mAbs were not associated with an increased risk of CVD compared with onabotulinumtoxinA among adult Medicare beneficiaries with migraine, who were predominantly older adults or individuals with disability. Future studies with longer follow-up periods and in other ","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":"132-141"},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11811796/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142931710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4426
Therese Friis, Lina Bergman, Susanne Hesselman, Linda Lindström, Katja Junus, Catherine Cluver, Carlos Escudero, Anna-Karin Wikström
{"title":"Gestational Hypertension, Preeclampsia, and Eclampsia and Future Neurological Disorders.","authors":"Therese Friis, Lina Bergman, Susanne Hesselman, Linda Lindström, Katja Junus, Catherine Cluver, Carlos Escudero, Anna-Karin Wikström","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4426","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4426","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia are established risk factors for stroke and dementia later in life. Whether these pregnancy complications are associated with an increased risk of new-onset neurological disorders within months to years after giving birth is not known.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To explore whether gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia are associated with new-onset migraine, headache, epilepsy, sleep disorder, or mental fatigue within months to years after giving birth.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>In this register-based cohort study, exposures were identified in the Swedish Medical Birth Register from 2005 to 2018. Follow-up was conducted using the National Patient Register, containing diagnoses from specialized inpatient and outpatient care. Follow-up started 42 days after delivery and continued until the first event, death, emigration, or the end of the follow-up period (2019). The risk was calculated with Cox regression analysis and expressed as adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) with a 95% CI. Through the Swedish Medical Birth Register, 659 188 primiparous women with singleton pregnancies between 2005 and 2018 were identified. Women with a diagnosis of chronic hypertension (n = 4271) or a prepregnancy neurological disorder (n = 6532) were excluded. The final study population included 648 385 women. Data analyses were conducted in 2023.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>Gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia.</p><p><strong>Main outcome: </strong>The primary outcome was a composite neurological outcome of migraine, headache, epilepsy, sleep disorder, or mental fatigue.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 648 385 women with a mean age of 28.5 (SD, 5.0) years at the time of their first pregnancy. Women with gestational hypertension (n = 11 133), preeclampsia (n = 26 797), and eclampsia (n = 625) all had an association with increased risk for a new-onset neurological disorder compared with women with normotensive pregnancies. The aHR for gestational hypertension was 1.27 (95% CI, 1.12-1.45), 1.32 (95% CI, 1.22-1.42) for preeclampsia, and 1.70 (95% CI, 1.16-2.50) for eclampsia. When exploring individual outcomes, women with eclampsia were associated with more than a 5 times increased risk of epilepsy (aHR, 5.31; 95% CI, 2.85-9.89).</p><p><strong>Conclusion and relevance: </strong>In this study, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia were associated with an increased risk of new-onset migraine, headache, epilepsy, sleep disorder, or mental fatigue within months to years after giving birth. Guidelines recommend follow-up after delivery for women with gestational hypertension and preeclampsia for their increased risk of cardiovascular disease. At these visits, caregivers should also pay attention to persisting or new-onset of neurological symptoms, since this group of women appears to be vulnera","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":"142-151"},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11811790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142876776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4838
Maarten G Lansberg, Max Wintermark, Hui Chen, George Howard, Christy Cassarly, Qi Pauls, Stephanie Kemp, Tashia L Harris, Balaji Krishnaiah, Robert J Stanton, Michael J Lyerly, Benjamin R Miller, Eric E Smith, David L Tirschwell, Kevin N Sheth, Hooman Kamel, William T Longstreth, Mitchell S V Elkind, Joseph P Broderick, Ronald M Lazar
{"title":"Apixaban to Prevent Covert Infarcts After Cryptogenic Stroke in Patients With Atrial Cardiopathy: A Secondary Analysis of the ARCADIA Randomized Clinical Trial.","authors":"Maarten G Lansberg, Max Wintermark, Hui Chen, George Howard, Christy Cassarly, Qi Pauls, Stephanie Kemp, Tashia L Harris, Balaji Krishnaiah, Robert J Stanton, Michael J Lyerly, Benjamin R Miller, Eric E Smith, David L Tirschwell, Kevin N Sheth, Hooman Kamel, William T Longstreth, Mitchell S V Elkind, Joseph P Broderick, Ronald M Lazar","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4838","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4838","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>In the Atrial Cardiopathy and Antithrombotic Drugs in Prevention After Cryptogenic Stroke (ARCADIA) randomized clinical trial, anticoagulation did not prevent recurrent stroke among patients with a recent cryptogenic stroke and atrial cardiopathy. It is unknown whether anticoagulation prevents covert infarcts in this population.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To test the use of apixaban vs aspirin for prevention of nonlacunar covert infarcts after cryptogenic stroke in patients with atrial cardiopathy.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>ARCADIA-MRI, an ancillary study to the ARCADIA trial with a median follow-up period of 27 months, enrolled participants from 75 sites in the US from November 14, 2019, until December 2, 2022. Participants in ARCADIA were invited to coenroll in ARCADIA-MRI if they had not permanently discontinued the study drug and had no contraindications on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A total of 310 (31%) of the 1015 ARCADIA participants enrolled in ARCADIA-MRI and of those 174 (56%) with adequate quality baseline and follow-up MRI were included in the present analyses.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>MRI performed at the time of the index stroke served as the baseline image unless it was unavailable or of insufficient quality, in which case a new research MRI was obtained. A follow-up research MRI was performed upon each participant's completion of participation in the ARCADIA parent study.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The primary outcome was incident nonlacunar covert infarct on the follow-up MRI assessed by 2 independent raters who were masked to treatment assignment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Baseline characteristics were balanced between the apixaban (n = 79) and aspirin (n = 95) arms. The mean (SD) age was 66 (10.6) years, and the median (IQR) modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score 1 (0-2). Ninety-one participants (52.3%) were male. During the median (IQR) follow-up of 811 (487-1288) days, the risk of incident nonlacunar covert infarcts was lower in the apixaban group (5.1%) than the aspirin group (17.9%) (weighted relative risk, 0.29; 95% CI, 0.10-0.83).</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Apixaban compared to aspirin was associated with fewer incident nonlacunar covert infarcts among a subset of patients with a recent cryptogenic ischemic stroke and atrial cardiopathy who were enrolled in ARCADIA.</p><p><strong>Trial registration: </strong>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03192215.</p>","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773411/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143046720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4788
Michael G Kaplitt, Vibhor Krishna, Howard M Eisenberg
{"title":"Cognitive Effects of MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Thalamotomy-Time to Evaluation-Reply.","authors":"Michael G Kaplitt, Vibhor Krishna, Howard M Eisenberg","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143046723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4847
Holly Elser, S Andrew Josephson
{"title":"Anticoagulation in ESUS-Back From the Dead?","authors":"Holly Elser, S Andrew Josephson","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4847","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143046719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA neurologyPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4857
Nahian S Chowdhury, Chuan Bi, Andrew J Furman, Alan K I Chiang, Patrick Skippen, Emily Si, Samantha K Millard, Sarah M Margerison, Darrah Spies, Michael L Keaser, Joyce T Da Silva, Shuo Chen, Siobhan M Schabrun, David A Seminowicz
{"title":"Predicting Individual Pain Sensitivity Using a Novel Cortical Biomarker Signature.","authors":"Nahian S Chowdhury, Chuan Bi, Andrew J Furman, Alan K I Chiang, Patrick Skippen, Emily Si, Samantha K Millard, Sarah M Margerison, Darrah Spies, Michael L Keaser, Joyce T Da Silva, Shuo Chen, Siobhan M Schabrun, David A Seminowicz","doi":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4857","DOIUrl":"10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.4857","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Biomarkers would greatly assist decision-making in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of chronic pain.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To undertake analytical validation of a sensorimotor cortical biomarker signature for pain consisting of 2 measures: sensorimotor peak alpha frequency (PAF) and corticomotor excitability (CME).</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>This cohort study at a single center (Neuroscience Research Australia) recruited participants from November 2020 to October 2022 through notices placed online and at universities across Australia. Participants were healthy adults aged 18 to 44 years with no history of chronic pain or a neurological or psychiatric condition. Participants experienced a model of prolonged temporomandibular pain with outcomes collected over 30 days. Electroencephalography to assess PAF and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to assess CME were recorded on days 0, 2, and 5. Pain was assessed twice daily from days 1 through 30.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Participants received an injection of nerve growth factor (NGF) to the right masseter muscle on days 0 and 2 to induce prolonged temporomandibular pain lasting up to 4 weeks.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>The predictive accuracy of the PAF/CME biomarker signature was determined using a nested control-test scheme: machine learning models were run on a training set (n = 100), where PAF and CME were predictors and pain sensitivity was the outcome. The winning classifier was assessed on a test set (n = 50) comparing the predicted pain labels against the true labels.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the final sample of 150 participants, 66 were female and 84 were male; the mean (SD) age was 25.1 (6.2) years. The winning classifier was logistic regression, with an outstanding area under the curve (AUC = 1.00). The locked model assessed on the test set had excellent performance (AUC = 0.88; 95% CI, 0.78-0.99). Results were reproduced across a range of methodological parameters. Moreover, inclusion of sex and pain catastrophizing as covariates did not improve model performance, suggesting the model including biomarkers only was more robust. PAF and CME biomarkers showed good to excellent test-retest reliability.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This study provides evidence for a sensorimotor cortical biomarker signature for pain sensitivity. The combination of accuracy, reproducibility, and reliability suggests the PAF/CME biomarker signature has substantial potential for clinical translation, including predicting the transition from acute to chronic pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":14677,"journal":{"name":"JAMA neurology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11773403/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143046776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}