Multimodal brain and retinal imaging of dopaminergic degeneration in Parkinson disease

JY Lee, A Martin-Bastida, A Murueta-Goyena… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive disorder characterized by dopaminergic
neurodegeneration in the brain. The development of parkinsonism is preceded by a long …

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 …

A brief history of brain iron accumulation in Parkinson disease and related disorders

PB Foley, DJ Hare, KL Double - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2022 - Springer
Iron has a long and storied history in Parkinson disease and related disorders. This
essential micronutrient is critical for normal brain function, but abnormal brain iron …

Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI as a promising biomarker of catecholamine function

P Trujillo, MA Aumann, DO Claassen - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Disruptions to dopamine and noradrenergic neurotransmission are noted in several
neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Neuromelanin-sensitive (NM)-MRI offers a …

Application of neuromelanin MR imaging in Parkinson disease

N He, Y Chen, PA LeWitt, F Yan… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
MRI has been used to develop biomarkers for movement disorders such as Parkinson
disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative disorders with parkinsonism such as progressive …

The irony of iron: The element with diverse influence on neurodegenerative diseases

S Lee, GG Kovacs - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Iron accumulation in the brain is a common feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. Its
involvement spans across the main proteinopathies involving tau, amyloid-beta, alpha …

An automatic interpretable deep learning pipeline for accurate Parkinson's disease diagnosis using quantitative susceptibility mapping and T1‐weighted images

Y Wang, N He, C Zhang, Y Zhang, C Wang, P Huang… - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Parkinson's disease (PD) diagnosis based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is still
challenging clinically. Quantitative susceptibility maps (QSM) can potentially provide …

Brainstem neuromelanin and iron MRI reveals a precise signature for idiopathic and LRRK2 Parkinson's disease

M Martínez, M Ariz, I Alvarez, G Castellanos… - npj Parkinson's …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuromelanin (NM) loss in substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) and locus coeruleus (LC)
reflects neuronal death in Parkinson's disease (PD). Since genetically-determined PD …

Diagnostic utility of 7T neuromelanin imaging of the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease

DA Lakhani, X Zhou, S Tao, V Patel, S Wen… - npj Parkinson's …, 2024 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disorder that presents a
diagnostic challenge due to symptom overlap with other disorders. Neuromelanin (NM) …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosing Parkinson's disease by combining neuromelanin and iron imaging features using an automated midbrain template approach

M Jokar, Z Jin, P Huang, Y Wang, Y Zhang, Y Li… - Neuroimage, 2023 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) is still a clinical
challenge. Most previous studies using manual or semi-automated methods for segmenting …