White matter alterations in Parkinson's disease with normal cognition precede grey matter atrophy.

Autor: Ivan Rektor, Alena Svátková, Lubomir Vojtíšek, Iva Zikmundová, Jirí Vaníček, András Király, Nikoletta Szabó
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 1, p e0187939 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187939
Popis: While progressive MRI brain changes characterize advanced Parkinson's disease (PD), little has been discovered about structural alterations in the earliest phase of the disease, i.e. in patients with motor symptoms and with normal cognition. Our study aimed to detect grey matter (GM) and white matter (WM) changes in PD patients without cognitive impairment.Twenty PD patients and twenty-one healthy controls (HC) were tested for attention, executive function, working memory, and visuospatial and language domains. High-resolution T1-weighted and 60 directional diffusion-weighted 3T MRI images were acquired. The cortical, deep GM and WM volumes and density, as well as the diffusion properties of WM, were calculated. Analyses were repeated on data flipped to the side of the disease origin.PD patients did not show any significant differences from HC in cognitive functioning or in brain volumes. Decreased GM intensity was found in the left superior parietal lobe in the right (p
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