Nucleus basalis of Meynert degeneration precedes and predicts cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

J Schulz, G Pagano, JA Fernández Bonfante, H Wilson… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Currently, no reliable predictors of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease exist. We
hypothesized that microstructural changes at grey matter T1-weighted MRI and diffusion …

In vivo cholinergic basal forebrain atrophy predicts cognitive decline in de novo Parkinson's disease

NJ Ray, S Bradburn, C Murgatroyd, U Toseeb, P Mir… - Brain, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract See Gratwicke and Foltynie (doi: 10.1093/brain/awx333) for a scientific commentary
on this article. Cognitive impairments are a prevalent and disabling non-motor complication …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal degeneration of the basal forebrain predicts subsequent dementia in Parkinson's disease

JB Pereira, S Hall, M Jalakas, MJ Grothe… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Cholinergic dysfunction plays a prominent role in cognitive impairment in
Parkinson's disease (PD). The aim of this study was to assess the relationship of baseline …

Lower volume, more impairment: reduced cholinergic basal forebrain grey matter density is associated with impaired cognition in Parkinson disease

MJ Barrett, SA Sperling, JC Blair… - Journal of Neurology …, 2019 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective A major contributor to dementia in Parkinson disease (PD) is degeneration of the
cholinergic basal forebrain. This study determined whether cholinergic nucleus 4 (Ch4) …

Gray matter atrophy associated with mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease

FX Chen, DZ Kang, FY Chen, Y Liu, G Wu, X Li… - Neuroscience …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective The underlying pathology of brain leading to cognitive impairment in Parkinson's
disease (PD) remains poorly understood. The aim of our study was to test the hypothesis …

Subcortical grey matter changes in untreated, early stage Parkinson's disease without dementia

HM Lee, KY Kwon, MJ Kim, JW Jang, S Suh… - Parkinsonism & related …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Previous MRI studies have investigated cortical or subcortical grey matter
changes in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), yielding inconsistent findings between …

Structural (dys) connectivity associates with cholinergic cell density in Alzheimer's disease

CP Lin, I Frigerio, BDC Boon, Z Zhou, AJM Rozemuller… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cognitive deficits in Alzheimer's disease, specifically amnestic (memory dominant) deficits,
are associated with cholinergic degeneration in the basal forebrain. The cholinergic nucleus …

Progression of grey and white matter brain damage in Parkinson's disease: a critical review of structural MRI literature

E Sarasso, F Agosta, N Piramide, M Filippi - Journal of neurology, 2021 - Springer
The current review summarizes the current knowledge on longitudinal cortical and
subcortical grey and white matter MRI findings assessed using T1-weighted and one-tensor …

[HTML][HTML] White matter pathology in Parkinson's disease: the effect of imaging protocol differences and relevance to executive function

CL Rae, MM Correia, E Altena, LE Hughes, RA Barker… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging is increasingly used as a non-invasive method to
investigate white matter structure in neurological and neuropsychiatric disease. However …

Baseline and longitudinal grey matter changes in newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease: ICICLE-PD study

E Mak, L Su, GB Williams, MJ Firbank, RA Lawson… - Brain, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is associated with progression to dementia
(Parkinson's disease dementia) in a majority of patients. Determining structural imaging …