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ArticleeNeuro2026

Most Neuroscience Data Is Not Normally Distributed: Analyzing Your Data in a Non-normal World.

Michael Malek-Ahmadi, Alexandra M Reed, Dylan X Guan

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Article in eNeuro, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael Malek-AhmadiBanner Alzheimer's Institute, Phoenix, Arizona 85006 michael.malekahmadi@bannerhealth.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9901-3650
Alexandra M ReedArizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85281.
Dylan X GuanUniversity of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada.

Funding

TAU, AB, SYNUCLEIN AND NITRATIVE/OXIDATIVE DAMAGE IN MCIP01AG014449 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH · PI COUNTS, SCOTT E · 1997 to 2024
$39.7M
Research Education ComponentP30AG072980 · NIA · BANNER HEALTH · PI Nicholas Ashton · 2021 to 2026
$24.9M
Building a data science workforce to improve the reproducibility of rehabilitation researchR25HD105583 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI David Nelson Kennedy, Sook-Lei Liew · 2022 to 2026
$812k
Cardiovascular Genotype and APOE ε4 Carrier Status Interaction Effects on Amyloid Load in Pre-Clinical Alzheimer's DiseaseR03AG077270 · NIA · BANNER HEALTH · PI MALEK-AHMADI, MICHAEL · 2023 to 2024
$179k
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG014449NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072980NIA NIH HHS R03 AG077270NICHD NIH HHS R25 HD105583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While the most common statistical tests assume that the error of the dependent variable follows a normal distribution, dependent variables in translational neuroscience studies often fail to meet this assumption. Common statistical tests like the

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NeurosciencesAnimalsData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansNormal DistributionRegression Analysis

Identifiers

PMID41506914
PMCPMC12782781

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