[HTML][HTML] The role of dopamine in the brain-lessons learned from Parkinson's disease

D Meder, DM Herz, JB Rowe, S Lehéricy, HR Siebner - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease causes a characteristic combination of motor symptoms due to
progressive neurodegeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars …

Behavioral tests in neurotoxin-induced animal models of Parkinson's disease

EM Prasad, SY Hung - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, neurodegenerative diseases are a major cause of disability around the world.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second-leading cause of neurodegenerative disorder after …

Enhancing and extending biological performance and resilience

RK Leak, EJ Calabrese, WJ Kozumbo… - Dose …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Human performance, endurance, and resilience have biological limits that are genetically
and epigenetically predetermined but perhaps not yet optimized. There are few systematic …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term plasticity of the motor cortex compensates for bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease

A Guerra, D Colella, A Cannavacciuolo… - Neurobiology of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) show impaired short-term potentiation (STP)
mechanisms in the primary motor cortex (M1). However, the role played by this …

Old and new challenges in Parkinson's disease therapeutics

AO Pires, FG Teixeira, B Mendes-Pinheiro… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the
degeneration of dopaminergic neurons and/or loss od neuronal projections, in several …

Insights into Parkinson's disease from computational models of the basal ganglia

MD Humphries, JA Obeso, JK Dreyer - Journal of Neurology …, 2018 - jnnp.bmj.com
Movement disorders arise from the complex interplay of multiple changes to neural circuits.
Successful treatments for these disorders could interact with these complex changes in …

The hormesis principle of neuroplasticity and neuroprotection

MP Mattson, RK Leak - Cell Metabolism, 2024 - cell.com
Animals live in habitats fraught with a range of environmental challenges to their bodies and
brains. Accordingly, cells and organ systems have evolved stress-responsive signaling …

[PDF][PDF] Basal ganglia-A motion perspective

S Grillner, B Robertson, JH Kotaleski - Compr. Physiol, 2020 - researchgate.net
The basal ganglia represent an ancient part of the nervous system that have remained
organized in a similar way over the last 500 million years and are of importance for our …

Multimodal striatal neuromarkers in distinguishing parkinsonian variant of multiple system atrophy from idiopathic Parkinson's disease

H Pang, Z Yu, H Yu, M Chang, J Cao… - CNS Neuroscience …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To develop an automatic method of classification for parkinsonian variant of multiple
system atrophy (MSA‐P) and Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) in early to moderately …

GPER activation is effective in protecting against inflammation-induced nigral dopaminergic loss and motor function impairment

J Mendes-Oliveira, FL Campos, RA Videira… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence suggest that excessive inflammatory responses from overactivated
microglia play a critical role in Parkinson's disease (PD), contributing to, or exacerbating …