Journal
JOURNAL OF PARKINSONS DISEASE
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 283-297Publisher
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/JPD-202166
Keywords
Entorhinal cortex; white matter; hippocampus; prefrontal cortex; dementia; executive function; memory
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- NINDS [R01 NS082386, K23 NS060660, T32-NS082128, UL1TR001427]
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This study aimed to statistically derive PD executive and memory phenotypes, comparing them on various disease and demographic variables, vascular risk factors, and specific neuroimaging variables related to executive and memory function. The clusters identified different structural gray and white matter patterns, with PD Executive showing less subcortical gray matter and white matter compared to PD Memory and PD Cognitively Well. These findings provide insights into phenotypic demographics, cognitive patterns, and structural brain profiles in individuals with PD.
Background: Some individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience working memory and inhibitory difficulties, others learning and memory difficulties, while some only minimal to no cognitive deficits for many years. Objective: To statistically derive PD executive and memory phenotypes, and compare PD phenotypes on disease and demographic variables, vascular risk factors, and specific neuroimaging variables with known associations to executive and memory function relative to non-PD peers. Methods: Non-demented individuals with PD (n = 116) and non-PD peers (n = 62) were recruited to complete neuropsychology measures, blood draw, and structural magnetic resonance imaging. Tests representing the cognitive domains of interest (4 executive function, 3 memory) were included in a k-means cluster analysis comprised of the PD participants. Resulting clusters were compared demographic and disease-related variables, vascular risk markers, gray/white regions of interest, and white matter connectivity between known regions involved in executive and memory functions (dorsolateral prefrontal cortices to caudate nuclei; entorhinal cortices to hippocampi). Results: Clusters showed: 1) PD Executive, n = 25; 2) PD Memory, n = 35; 3) PD Cognitively Well; n = 56. Even after disease variable corrections, PD Executive had less subcortical gray matter, white matter, and fewer bilateral dorsolateral-prefrontal cortex to caudate nucleus connections; PD Memory showed bilaterally reduced entorhinal-hippocampal connections. PD Cognitively Well showed only reduced putamen volume and right entorhinal cortex to hippocampi connections relative to non-PD peers. Groups did not statistically differ on cortical integrity measures or cerebrovascular disease markers. Conclusion: PD cognitive phenotypes showed different structural gray and white matter patterns. We discuss data relative to phenotype demographics, cognitive patterns, and structural brain profiles.
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