Cholinergic changes in Lewy body disease: implications for presentation, progression and subtypes

N Okkels, MJ Grothe, JP Taylor, SG Hasselbalch… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Cholinergic degeneration is significant in Lewy body disease, including Parkinson's
disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder. Extensive …

Imaging the limbic system in Parkinson's disease—a review of limbic pathology and clinical symptoms

M Banwinkler, H Theis, S Prange, T van Eimeren - Brain sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The limbic system describes a complex of brain structures central for memory, learning, as
well as goal directed and emotional behavior. In addition to pathological studies, recent …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Integrity and Cognition in Parkinson's Disease: A Reappraisal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence

NM Slater, TR Melzer, DJ Myall… - Movement …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive impairment is a well‐recognized and debilitating symptom of Parkinson's disease
(PD). Degradation in the cortical cholinergic system is thought to be a key contributor. Both …

[HTML][HTML] Spherical means-based free-water volume fraction from diffusion MRI increases non-linearly with age in the white matter of the healthy human brain

T Pieciak, G París, D Beck, II Maximov, A Tristán-Vega… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
The term free-water volume fraction (FWVF) refers to the signal fraction that could be found
as the cerebrospinal fluid of the brain, which has been demonstrated as a sensitive measure …

Basal forebrain integrity, cholinergic innervation and cognition in idiopathic Parkinson's disease

SJ Crowley, P Kanel, S Roytman, NI Bohnen… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Most individuals with Parkinson's disease experience cognitive decline. Mounting evidence
suggests this is partially caused by cholinergic denervation due to α-synuclein pathology in …

Free water imaging of the cholinergic system in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease

J Schumacher, NJ Ray, CA Hamilton… - Alzheimer's & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
INTRODUCTION Degeneration of cortical cholinergic projections from the nucleus basalis of
Meynert (NBM) is characteristic of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Alzheimer's …

Cholinergic nucleus degeneration and its association with gait impairment in Parkinson's disease

X Zhang, M Wang, SY Lee, Y Yue, Z Chen… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background The contribution of cholinergic degeneration to gait disturbance in Parkinson's
disease (PD) is increasingly recognized, yet its relationship with dopaminergic-resistant gait …

Quantifying neuroinflammation within deep gray matter in small vessel disease using diffusion tensor based free-water imaging: a longitudinal study

Y Sun, X Han, Z Li, Y Qiu, Y Hu, Y Zhang… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Employing free water (FW) imaging, a cutting-edge diffusion MRI technique, we
assessed neuroinflammation within deep gray matter (DGM) in small vessel disease (SVD) …

Cholinergic basal forebrain system degeneration underlies postural instability/gait difficulty and attention impairment in Parkinson's disease

C Wu, H Wu, C Zhou, X Guan, T Guo… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose The specific pathophysiological mechanisms underlying postural
instability/gait difficulty (PIGD) and cognitive function in Parkinson's disease (PD) remain …