ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2013
Critical involvement of the motor cortex in the pathophysiology and treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07024875 (Precision Neuroimaging of Parkinson's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 68 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Precision Neuroimaging of Parkinson's Disease
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neuronal substrates of motor impairment after subcortical ischemic stroke: a functional neuroimaging meta-analysis.Brain structure & function · 2025Pooled it
- Exercise sustains motor function in Parkinson's disease: Evidence from 109 randomized controlled trials on over 4,600 patients.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Motor Memory Consolidation Deficits in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Journal of Parkinson's disease · 2023Pooled it
- Polymorphisms of the dopamine metabolic and signaling pathways are associated with susceptibility to motor levodopa-induced complications (MLIC) in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022Pooled it
- Abnormalities of regional brain function in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.Scientific reports · 2017Pooled it
- Bilateral intermittent theta burst stimulation over the primary motor cortex improves motor and affective symptoms via thalamic network reintegration in mid-stage Parkinson's disease.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026Trial
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- Emergence of Task-Related Motor Cortical Dysfunction in Mice with Progressive Parkinsonism.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Mapping the Silent Onset of Parkinson's Disease: Monoamine Imaging in the Era of the Race for Preclinical Intervention.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- Plasticity-Induced Motor Recovery of Bilateral Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled, Crossover Trial.Neurology and therapy · 2026Article
- Movement-related activity in the internal globus pallidus of the parkinsonian macaque.Journal of neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal dynamics of clinical and neurophysiological changes in parkinson's disease over four and a half years.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Unique nigral and cortical pathways implicated by epigenomic and transcriptional analyses in rotenone Parkinson's model.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- Parkinsonism disrupts cortical function by dysregulating oscillatory, network and synaptic activity of parvalbumin positive interneurons.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Article
- The improved thalamo-cortical spiking network model of deep brain stimulation.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2025Article
- Elucidating the role of APOE ε4 gene variants in the clinical manifestation of Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Computational analysis of two novel deep brain stimulation pulsing patterns on a thalamocortical network model of Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in network physiology · 2025Article
- Deep Brain Stimulation restores information processing in parkinsonian cortical networks.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Neurocircuitry basis of motor cortex-related analgesia as an emerging approach for chronic pain management.Nature. Mental health · 2024Article
- Noradrenergic alterations in Parkinson's disease: a combined 11C-yohimbine PET/neuromelanin MRI study.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
This review examines the involvement of the motor cortex in Parkinson's disease (PD), a debilitating movement disorder typified by degeneration of dopamine cells of the substantia nigra. While much of PD research has focused on the caudate/putamen, many aspects of motor cortex function are abnormal in PD patients and in animal models of PD, implicating motor cortex involvement in disease symptoms and their treatment. Herein, we discuss several lines of evidence to support this hypothesis. Dopamine depletion alters regional metabolism in the motor cortex and also reduces interneuron activity, causing a breakdown in intracortical inhibition. This leads to functional reorganization of motor maps and excessive corticostriatal synchrony when movement is initiated. Recent work suggests that electrical stimulation of the motor cortex provides a clinical benefit for PD patients. Based on extant research, we identify a number of unanswered questions regarding the motor cortex in PD and argue that a better understanding of the contribution of the motor cortex to PD symptoms will facilitate the development of novel therapeutic approaches.
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