Cheng Zhou, Jia You, Xiaojun Guan, Tao Guo, Jingjing Wu, Haoting Wu, Chenqing Wu, Jingwen Chen, Jiaqi Wen, Sijia Tan, Xioajie Duanmu, Jianmei Qin, Peiyu Huang, Baorong Zhang, Wei Cheng, Jianfeng Feng, Xiaojun Xu, Linbo Wang, Minming Zhang
BACKGROUND: Whether there is hypothalamic degeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD) and its association with clinical symptoms and pathophysiological changes remains controversial. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to quantify microstructural changes in hypothalamus using a novel deep learning-based tool in patients with PD and those with probable rapid-eye-movement sleep behavior disorder (pRBD). We further assessed whether these microstructural changes associated with clinical symptoms and free thyroxine (FT4) levels...
March 11, 2024: Neurobiology of Disease