Lijun Zhang, Ming Wang, Nicholas W Sterling, Eun-Young Lee, Paul J Eslinger, Daymond Wagner, Guangwei Du, Mechelle M Lewis, Young Truong, F DuBois Bowman, Xuemei Huang
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized clinically by motor dysfunction (bradykinesia, rigidity, tremor, and postural instability), and pathologically by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra of the basal ganglia. Growing literature supports that cognitive deficits may also be present in PD, even in non-demented patients. Gray matter (GM) atrophy has been reported in PD and may be related to cognitive decline. This study investigated cortical thickness in non-demented PD subjects and elucidated its relationship to cognitive impairment using high-resolution T1-weighted brain MRI and comprehensive cognitive function scores from 71 non-demented PD and 48 control subjects matched for age, gender, and education...
March 2018: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics