Nigrostriatal degeneration and serum BDNF levels in patients with “de novo” untreated Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To evaluate serum Brain-Derived NeurotrophicFactor(BDNF) levels in “de novo” untreated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and their relationship to nigrostriatal degeneration measured with [123I]FP-CIT SPECT.…Neural mechanisms underlying step initiation failure in patients with Parkinson’s disease and freezing of gait
Objective: To investigate the neural mechanisms underlying gait initiation failure in Parkinson's disease patients with Freezing of Gait. Background: Freezing of Gait (FOG) is a…Progressive atrophy of parahippocampal gyrus correlates with Hoehn & Yahr stages of Parkinson’s disease: A voxel based morphometric study
Objective: To determine the gray matter (GM) changes in different clinical stages of Parkinson's disease (PD) using Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM). Background: PD is a…Brain iron levels in Parkinson’s disease by postmortem and MRI measurements: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Objective: In this study we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis aiming to understand PD-associated iron variations in all brain regions that have been examined,…Impaired cerebellum to motor cortex associative plasticity in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To compare the corticocortical paired associative stimulation (PAS)-induced spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP)-like plasticity between Parkinson's disease (PD) and healthy elder subjects. Background: Patients with…Botulinum toxin treatment of freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease patients as reflected in functional magnetic resonance imaging of leg movement
Objective: To reflect botulinum toxin treatment of freezing of gait in Parkinson´s disease patients in functional magnetic resonance imaging of leg movement. Background: Freezing of…Freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease: A stopping deficit?
Objective: We evaluated the role of inhibition in freezing of gait, and related performance on a behavioral stopping task to the structural integrity of the…Parkinson’s disease-linked mutation in DNAJC13 causes specific trafficking defect in endosomal pathway
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of mutant DNAJC13 on the vesicle transport machinery using cultured cellular model. Background: Recently,…Altered resting-state functional interhemispheric connectivity in Parkinson’s disease
Objective: To examine direct interhemispheric functional connectivity (FCi) in Parkinson's disease (PD) during resting-state fMRI and to investigate the relations between observed connectivity changes and…Neural substrates of excessive daytime sleepiness in early drug naïve Parkinson’s disease: A resting state functional MRI study
Objective: We aimed to improve our understanding of the neuropathology of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in Parkinson's disease (PD). Background: EDS is a common non-motor…
Abstracts from the International Congress of Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders.