Neuroimaging and fluid biomarkers in Parkinson's disease in an era of targeted interventions

A Zarkali, GEC Thomas, H Zetterberg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A major challenge in Parkinson's disease is the variability in symptoms and rates of
progression, underpinned by heterogeneity of pathological processes. Biomarkers are …

The neuropsychiatry of Parkinson disease: a perfect storm

D Weintraub, E Mamikonyan - The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2019 - Elsevier
Affective disorders, cognitive decline, and psychosis have long been recognized as common
in Parkinson disease (PD), and other psychiatric disorders include impulse control …

Association between midlife obesity and its metabolic consequences, cerebrovascular disease, and cognitive decline

F Morys, M Dadar, A Dagher - The Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Context Chronic obesity is associated with several complications, including cognitive
impairment and dementia. However, we have only piecemeal knowledge of the mechanisms …

Obesity-associated neurodegeneration pattern mimics Alzheimer's disease in an observational cohort study

F Morys, O Potvin, Y Zeighami, J Vogel… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Excess weight in adulthood leads to health complications such as diabetes,
hypertension, or dyslipidemia. Recently, excess weight has also been related to brain …

Sex effects on brain structure in de novo Parkinson's disease: a multimodal neuroimaging study

C Tremblay, N Abbasi, Y Zeighami, Y Yau, M Dadar… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Parkinson's disease varies in severity and age of onset. One source of this variability is sex.
Males are twice as likely as females to develop Parkinson's disease, and tend to have more …

White matter hyperintensities are associated with grey matter atrophy and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

M Dadar, AL Manera, S Ducharme, DL Collins - Neurobiology of aging, 2022 - Elsevier
White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are commonly assumed to represent non-specific
cerebrovascular disease comorbid to neurodegenerative processes, rather than playing a …

Pathobiology of cognitive impairment in Parkinson disease: challenges and outlooks

KA Jellinger - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cognitive impairment (CI) is a characteristic non-motor feature of Parkinson disease (PD)
that poses a severe burden on the patients and caregivers, yet relatively little is known about …

Longitudinal white matter damage evolution in Parkinson's disease

PG Scamarcia, F Agosta, EG Spinelli… - Movement …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Background White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) have a role in cognitive
impairment in normal brain aging, while the effect on Parkinson's disease (PD) progression …

The temporal relationships between white matter hyperintensities, neurodegeneration, amyloid beta, and cognition

M Dadar, R Camicioli, S Duchesne… - Alzheimer's & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction Cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease is associated with amyloid
beta (Aβ) accumulation, neurodegeneration, and cerebral small vessel disease, but the …

[HTML][HTML] White matter hyperintensity distribution differences in aging and neurodegenerative disease cohorts

M Dadar, S Mahmoud, M Zhernovaia, R Camicioli… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Introduction White matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are common magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) findings in the aging population in general, as well as in patients …