Sphingolipid Signaling

Sphingolipid Signaling enters the Adult Cognitive Disease corpus through the work of Carina Clawson (submission 90), and is indexed here as one of the concepts that submission puts to work.

The argument it belongs to

Carina Clawson's submission is summarised in this corpus as:

Alzheimer's disease is a 'disease of chronic accumulations' where no single feature is sufficient; instead, protein aggregation, lipid imbalance (particularly ceramide dysregulation), mitochondrial dysfunction, and oxidative stress create positive feedback loops that overwhelm neuronal compensatory mechanisms. A dual trigger model -- one immunologic and one metabolic -- initiates the cascade.

Where it sits

The submission scores against the framework's convergence nodes as: endosomal nexus 6 · compensatory paradigm 6 · cytoskeletal collapse 5 · neuroimmune interface 3 · ApoE4 hub 2.

Its declared subject matter: chronic-accumulations, ceramides, sphingolipid-metabolism, lipid-dyshomeostasis, autophagy-failure, innate-immunity, systems-biology, feedback-loops, BACE1-stabilization, lysosomal-permeabilization.

Named by the same submission

4 other concepts enter the corpus through the same paper, so they cover adjacent ground: Autophagy Dysfunction · Innate Immunity · Lipid Metabolism · Systems Biology.


Assembled from the corpus rather than written: the summary is quoted from the submission that named it; the node scores are read from its dossier. It has not yet been expanded into an article.

Last reviewed 15 August 2026.

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Compiled from the knowledge base and the research corpus under the Organic Network Synthesis methodology · the research corpus of Adult Cognitive Disease · the seven monographs are here. 2026.

827 interlinked articles · 120 papers in full · 53 as typeset PDFs · 635 concepts · 7 convergence nodes · 5 temporal stages.

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