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In vivo cholinergic basal forebrain degeneration and cognition in Parkinson's disease: Imaging results from the COPPADIS study.

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2021-05-31

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Grothe, Michel J
Labrador-Espinosa, Miguel A
Jesús, Silvia
Macías-García, Daniel
Adarmes-Gómez, Astrid
Carrillo, Fátima
Camacho, Elena Iglesias
Franco-Rosado, Pablo
Lora, Florinda Roldán
Martín-Rodríguez, Juan Francisco

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We aimed to assess associations between multimodal neuroimaging measures of cholinergic basal forebrain (CBF) integrity and cognition in Parkinson's disease (PD) without dementia. The study included a total of 180 non-demented PD patients and 45 healthy controls, who underwent structural MRI acquisitions and standardized neurocognitive assessment through the PD-Cognitive Rating Scale (PD-CRS) within the multicentric COPPADIS-2015 study. A subset of 73 patients also had Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) acquisitions. Volumetric and microstructural (mean diffusivity, MD) indices of CBF degeneration were automatically extracted using a stereotactic CBF atlas. For comparison, we also assessed multimodal indices of hippocampal degeneration. Associations between imaging measures and cognitive performance were assessed using linear models. Compared to controls, CBF volume was not significantly reduced in PD patients as a group. However, across PD patients lower CBF volume was significantly associated with lower global cognition (PD-CRStotal: r = 0.37, p  Early cognitive deficits in PD without dementia are more closely related to structural MRI measures of CBF degeneration than hippocampal degeneration. In our multicentric imaging acquisitions, DTI-based diffusion measures in the CBF were inferior to standard volumetric assessments for capturing cognition-relevant changes in non-demented PD.

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Basal Forebrain
Cognitive Dysfunction
Cohort Studies
Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Female
Hippocampus
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Multimodal Imaging
Neuroimaging
Neuropsychological Tests
Parkinson Disease

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DTI, Diffusion, MRI, Nucleus basalis Meynert, Parkinson's disease, Substantia innominata

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