Journal
JOURNAL OF PARKINSONS DISEASE
Volume 5, Issue 4, Pages 783-792Publisher
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JPD-150682
Keywords
Parkinson disease; cerebrospinal fluid; Mild cognitive impairment; alpha-synuclein; amyloid beta-peptides; tau Proteins
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Funding
- Swedish non-governmental and industry independent sources
- Alzheimerfonden
- Stiftelsen for alderssjukdomar
- Loo och Hans Ostermans stiftelse
- Lindhes Advokatbyra AB
- TEVA-Pharma
- BMBF
- EU
- Deutsche Parkinson Vereinigung
- Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Stifterverband fur die deutsche Wissenschaft
- Teva Pharmaceuticals
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- NINDS [P50 NS053488, R01NS065087]
- NIA [RO1AG031348]
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lundbeck Inc.
- Novartis
- GE Healthcare
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Merck Serono
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE [R01NS065087, P50NS053488] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG031348] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Background: Mild cognitive impairment and dementia are common, clinically important features of Parkinson's disease (PD). The underlying disease pathology is heterogeneous and not yet well characterized. Biomarkers for cognitive impairment in PD could aid in diagnostic and prognostic evaluation and in the development of new cognitive enhancing treatments. Objective: To examine the relationship between CSF markers and cognition in a large, multicenter, cohort study of early, untreated PD, and compare marker concentrations between PD patients with and without MCI and healthy, age-matched controls. Methods: 414 early, untreated PD (34% with mild cognitive impairment) and 189 healthy, cognitively intact controls with baseline neuropsychological testing and CSF abeta42, t-tau, p-tau181 and alpha-synuclein results were included. Multiple linear regression models were constructed with a composite cognition factor, or memory-, or visuospatial- or executive-attention domains as dependent variables, and CSF markers, demographic characteristics and MDS-UPDRS III score as predictors. Results: Lower alpha-synuclein was associated with reduced performance on the executive-attention domain and the composite cognition factor in the whole PD-group. Abeta42 was significantly decreased in PD with mild cognitive impairment compared with controls after adjusting for covariates, while values in PD without MCI were identical to healthy controls. Conclusions: The association between reduced CSF alpha-synuclein concentrations and cognition suggests that alpha-synuclein pathology contributes to early cognitive impairment in PD, in particular to executive-attentional dysfunction. Longitudinal analyses are needed to determine if this and other CSF biomarkers in early Parkinson's disease are associated with the risk of future cognitive decline and dementia.
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