Increasing Serotonin to Reduce Parkinsonian Tremor

Autor: Daniele Caligiore, Francesco Montedori, Silvia Buscaglione, Adriano Capirchio
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1662-5137
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2021.682990
Popis: While current dopamine-based drugs seem to be effective for most Parkinson's disease (PD) motor dysfunctions, they produce variable responsiveness for resting tremor. This lack of consistency could be explained by considering recent evidence suggesting that PD resting tremor can be divided into different partially overlapping phenotypes based on the dopamine response. These phenotypes may be associated with different pathophysiological mechanisms produced by a cortical-subcortical network involving even non-dopaminergic areas traditionally not directly related to PD. In this study, we propose a bio-constrained computational model to study the neural mechanisms underlying a possible type of PD tremor: the one mainly involving the serotoninergic system. The simulations run with the model demonstrate that a physiological serotonin increase can partially recover dopamine levels at the early stages of the disease before the manifestation of overt tremor. This result suggests that monitoring serotonin concentration changes could be critical for early diagnosis. The simulations also show the effectiveness of a new pharmacological treatment for tremor that acts on serotonin to recover dopamine levels. This latter result has been validated by reproducing existing data collected with human patients.
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