scholarly journals Mitochondrial activity in the frontal cortex area 8 and angular gyrus in Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease with dementia

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Garcia-Esparcia ◽  
Anusha Koneti ◽  
M. Cruz Rodríguez-Oroz ◽  
Belen Gago ◽  
José Antonio del Rio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Frontal Cortex ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Mitochondrial Activity ◽  
Cortex Area ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease With Dementia

Cognitive and Physiological Substrates of Impaired Sentence Processing in Parkinson's Disease

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 480-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Grossman ◽  
Susan Carvell ◽  
Stephen Gollomp ◽  
Matthew B. Stern ◽  
Martin Reivich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Frontal Cortex ◽  
Sentence Processing ◽  
Sentence Comprehension ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Positron Emission ◽  
Left Caudate ◽  
Regional Cerebral Glucose Metabolism

Sentence comprehension is a complex process involving at least a grammatical processor and a procedural component that supports language computations. One type of cerebral architecture that may underlie sentence processing is a network of distributed brain regions. We report two experiments designed to evaluate the cognitive and physiological substrate of sentence processing diaculties in nondemented patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). In the first experiment, patients answered simple questions about sentences that varied in their computational demands. Group and individual patient analyses indicated that PD patients are significantly compromised on this task, and that their difficulties become more prominent as the computational demands of the sentences increase. We manipulated the set of sentences to stress performance aspects of sentence processing. PD patients were compromised in their ability to detect errors in the presence and nature of a sentence's grammatical morphemes, suggesting a deficit in selective attention, but their ability to answer questions about a sentence was not afFected by short-term memory factors. In the second experiment, positron emission tomography was used to correlate this pattern of sentence comprehension impairment with regional cerebral glucose metabolism (rCMRgl) obtained at rest in a representative subset of these PD patients. Grammatical comprehension and attention in sentence processing correlated significantly with mesial frontal rCMRgl. Regression analyses confirmed the central role of left mesial frontal cortex, and identified a subsidiary role for left caudate in overall sentence comprehension, for left dorsolateral frontal cortex in grammatical processing, and for bilateral dorsolateral frontal cortex in attending to the presence of grammatical features. We conclude that compromised mesial frontal functioning underlies in part the sentence processing deficit of these patients, and these data illustrate one method for mapping portions of a sentence processing mechanism onto a distributed cerebral architecture.

Correlations between gray matter reductions and cognitive deficits in dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson's disease with dementia

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1740-1746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Sanchez-Castaneda ◽  
Ramon Rene ◽  
Blanca Ramirez-Ruiz ◽  
Jaume Campdelacreu ◽  
Jordi Gascon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Gray Matter ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Dementia With Lewy Bodies ◽  
Lewy Bodies ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease With Dementia

scholarly journals Striatal and extrastriatal dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease with dementia: a 6‐[18F]fluoro‐l‐dopa PET study

Brain ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 125 (6) ◽  
pp. 1358-1365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kengo Ito ◽  
Atsuko Nagano‐Saito ◽  
Takashi Kato ◽  
Yutaka Arahata ◽  
Akinori Nakamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease With Dementia

P3-195: A TAU CLEAVAGE PRODUCT, ΔTAU314, IS INCREASED IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE WITH DEMENTIA

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (7S_Part_21) ◽  
pp. P1141-P1142
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Smith ◽  
Kathryn Nelson ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Margaret E. Flanagan ◽  
Dirk Keene ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Cleavage Product ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease With Dementia ◽  
Tau Cleavage

Gene expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α4 subunit in the frontal cortex in Parkinson's disease patients

1995 ◽  
Vol 187 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannsjörg Schröder ◽  
Robert A.I. de Vos ◽  
Ernst N.H. Jansen ◽  
Christina Birtsch ◽  
Andrea Wevers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Frontal Cortex ◽  
Acetylcholine Receptor ◽  
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor ◽  
Nicotinic Acetylcholine

scholarly journals Region-Specific Neurovascular Decoupling Associated With Cognitive Decline in Parkinson’s Disease

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song’an Shang ◽  
Hongying Zhang ◽  
Yuan Feng ◽  
Jingtao Wu ◽  
Weiqiang Dou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Cognitive Decline ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽  
Neurovascular Coupling ◽  
Angular Gyrus ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
The Right

Background: Cognitive deficits are prominent non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and have been shown to involve the neurovascular unit (NVU). However, there is a lack of sufficient neuroimaging research on the associated modulating mechanisms. The objective of this study was to identify the contribution of neurovascular decoupling to the pathogenesis of cognitive decline in PD.Methods: Regional homogeneity (ReHo), a measure of neuronal activity, and cerebral blood flow (CBF), a measure of vascular responses, were obtained from patients with PD with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and normal cognition (NC) as well as matched healthy controls (HCs). Imaging metrics of neurovascular coupling (global and regional CBF-ReHo correlation coefficients and CBF-ReHo ratios) were compared among the groups.Results: Neurovascular coupling was impaired in patients with PD-MCI with a decreased global CBF-ReHo correlation coefficient relative to HC subjects (P < 0.05). Regional dysregulation was specific to the PD-MCI group and localized to the right middle frontal gyrus, right middle cingulate cortex, right middle occipital gyrus, right inferior parietal gyrus, right supramarginal gyrus, and right angular gyrus (P < 0.05). Compared with HC subjects, patients with PD-MCI showed higher CBF-ReHo ratios in the bilateral lingual gyri (LG), bilateral putamen, and left postcentral gyrus and lower CBF-ReHo ratios in the right superior temporal gyrus, bilateral middle temporal gyri, bilateral parahippocampal gyri, and right inferior frontal gyrus. Relative to the HC and PD-NC groups, the PD-MCI group showed an increased CBF-ReHo ratio in the left LG, which was correlated with poor visual–spatial performance (r = −0.36 and P = 0.014).Conclusion: The involvement of neurovascular decoupling in cognitive impairment in PD is regionally specific and most prominent in the visual–spatial cortices, which could potentially provide a complementary understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive deficits in PD.

scholarly journals Environmental Enrichment Attenuates Oxidative Stress and Alters Detoxifying Enzymes in an A53T α-Synuclein Transgenic Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Antioxidants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 928
Author(s):  
Jung Hwa Seo ◽  
Seong-Woong Kang ◽  
Kyungri Kim ◽  
Soohyun Wi ◽  
Jang Woo Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Olfactory Bulb ◽  
Frontal Cortex ◽  
Brain Stem ◽  
Environmental Enrichment ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Detoxifying Enzymes

Although environmental enrichment (EE) is known to reduce oxidative stress in Parkinson’s disease (PD), the metabolic alternations for detoxifying endogenous and xenobiotic compounds according to various brain regions are not fully elucidated yet. This study aimed to further understand the role of EE on detoxifying enzymes, especially those participating in phase I of metabolism, by investigating the levels of enzymes in various brain regions such as the olfactory bulb, brain stem, frontal cortex, and striatum. Eight-month-old transgenic PD mice with the overexpression of human A53T α-synuclein and wild-type mice were randomly allocated to either standard cage condition or EE for 2 months. At 10 months of age, the expression of detoxifying enzymes was evaluated and compared with wild-type of the same age raised in standard cages. EE improved neurobehavioral outcomes such as olfactory and motor function in PD mice. EE-treated mice showed that oxidative stress was attenuated in the olfactory bulb, brain stem, and frontal cortex. EE also reduced apoptosis and induced cell proliferation in the subventricular zone of PD mice. The overexpression of detoxifying enzymes was observed in the olfactory bulb and brain stem of PD mice, which was ameliorated by EE. These findings were not apparent in the other experimental regions. These results suggest the stage of PD pathogenesis may differ according to brain region, and that EE has a protective effect on the PD pathogenesis by decreasing oxidative stress.

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