Ming-Ge Li1,2, Tie-Fang Liu2, Tian-Hao Zhang3,4, Zhi-Ye Chen2, Bin-Bin Nie3,4, Xin Lou2, Zhen-Fu Wang5, Lin Ma6,7. 1. School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. 2. Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China. 3. Beijing Engineering Research Center of Radiographic Techniques and Equipment, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 4. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 5. Department of Neurology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. 6. School of Medicine, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. cjr.malin@vip.163.com. 7. Department of Radiology, Chinese PLA (People's Liberation Army) General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Beijing, 100853, China. cjr.malin@vip.163.com.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is commonly observed in Parkinson's disease (PD), even in the early stages. However, the neural substrates of cognitive impairment in PD remain unclear. The aim of the current study was to investigate the change of local brain function in PD patients with MCI. METHODS: Fifty patients with PD, including 25 PD patients with MCI (PD-MCI) and 25 PD patients with normal cognition (PD-NC), and 25 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) were enrolled. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 3D structural images, and resting state-functional MRI (rs-fMRI) were performed in all subjects. Regional homogeneity (ReHo) was measured based on the rs-fMRI images to investigate the altered local brain functions. RESULTS: Brain regions with decreased ReHo were located in the left posterior cerebellar lobe in PD sub-groups compared to the HC group, and the brain regions with increased ReHo were located in the limbic lobe (right precuneus/bilateral middle cingulate cortex) in PD-MCI compared with HC group. PD-MCI presented with increased ReHo in the bilateral precuneus/left superior parietal lobe and decreased ReHo in the left insula compared to PD-NC. ReHo values for the left precuneus were negatively related to neuropsychological scores, and ReHo values for the left insula were positively related to neuropsychological scores in PD subjects. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrated abnormal spontaneous synchrony in the left insula and left precuneus in patients with PD-MCI compared to PD-NC, which might provide a novel insight into the diagnosis and clinical treatment of cognitive impairment in PD.
PURPOSE:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is commonly observed in Parkinson's disease (PD), even in the early stages. However, the neural substrates of cognitive impairment in PD remain unclear. The aim of the current study was to investigate the change of local brain function in PDpatients with MCI. METHODS: Fifty patients with PD, including 25 PDpatients with MCI (PD-MCI) and 25 PDpatients with normal cognition (PD-NC), and 25 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HC) were enrolled. Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 3D structural images, and resting state-functional MRI (rs-fMRI) were performed in all subjects. Regional homogeneity (ReHo) was measured based on the rs-fMRI images to investigate the altered local brain functions. RESULTS: Brain regions with decreased ReHo were located in the left posterior cerebellar lobe in PD sub-groups compared to the HC group, and the brain regions with increased ReHo were located in the limbic lobe (right precuneus/bilateral middle cingulate cortex) in PD-MCI compared with HC group. PD-MCI presented with increased ReHo in the bilateral precuneus/left superior parietal lobe and decreased ReHo in the left insula compared to PD-NC. ReHo values for the left precuneus were negatively related to neuropsychological scores, and ReHo values for the left insula were positively related to neuropsychological scores in PD subjects. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrated abnormal spontaneous synchrony in the left insula and left precuneus in patients with PD-MCI compared to PD-NC, which might provide a novel insight into the diagnosis and clinical treatment of cognitive impairment in PD.
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