SynthesisHuman brain mapping2014
Functional neuroimaging of motor control in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis.
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Who cites it
103 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 175 citations in OpenAlex.
- Robot-assisted gait training for balance, mobility, and gait in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Pooled it
- Does Exercise Attenuate Disease Progression in People With Parkinson's Disease? A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses.Neurorehabilitation and neural repair · 2023Pooled it
- Brain Motor Network Changes in Parkinson's Disease: Evidence from Meta-Analytic Modeling.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2021Pooled it
- Coordinate based meta-analysis of motor functional imaging in Parkinson's: disease-specific patterns and modulation by dopamine replacement and deep brain stimulation.Brain imaging and behavior · 2020Pooled it
- White Matter Abnormalities in Patients With Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Brain alterations in children/adolescents with ADHD revisited: A neuroimaging meta-analysis of 96 structural and functional studies.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Consistent decreased activity in the putamen in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis and an independent validation of resting-state fMRI.GigaScience · 2018Pooled it
- Resting-state functional reorganization in Parkinson's disease: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2017Pooled 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
- Centrality of prefrontal and motor preparation cortices to Tourette Syndrome revealed by meta-analysis of task-based neuroimaging studies.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2017Pooled it
- Contribution of insula in Parkinson's disease: A quantitative meta-analysis study.Human brain mapping · 2016Pooled it
- A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on divergent thinking using activation likelihood estimation.Human brain mapping · 2015Pooled it
- The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Combined with Visual Cueing Training on Motor Function, Balance, and Gait Ability of Patients with Parkinson's Disease.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Trial
- Repeated sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation evaluation on fatigue and daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2017Trial
- Brain plasticity in Parkinson's disease with freezing of gait induced by action observation training.Journal of neurology · 2017Trial
- Acute Modulation of Brain Connectivity in Parkinson Disease after Automatic Mechanical Peripheral Stimulation: A Pilot Study.PloS one · 2015Trial
- Excess iron in deep gray matter is associated with cognitive and functional decline: The mediating role of white matter myelin.NeuroImage · 2026Article
- Multimodal Neuroimaging Reveals Distinct Characteristics of Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesias in de novo Parkinson's Disease Patients.Brain topography · 2026Article
- Parkinson's disease progression is shaped by longitudinal changes in cerebral compensation.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Article
- Nuclear Medicine Imaging Biomarkers in Parkinson's Disease: Past, Present, and Future Directions.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Functional neuroimaging has been widely used to study the activation patterns of the motor network in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), but these studies have yielded conflicting results. This meta-analysis of previous neuroimaging studies was performed to identify patterns of abnormal movement-related activation in PD that were consistent across studies. We applied activation likelihood estimation (ALE) of functional neuroimaging studies probing motor function in patients with PD. The meta-analysis encompassed data from 283 patients with PD reported in 24 functional neuroimaging studies and yielded consistent alterations in neural activity in patients with PD. Differences in cortical activation between PD patients and healthy controls converged in a left-lateralized fronto-parietal network comprising the presupplementary motor area, primary motor cortex, inferior parietal cortex, and superior parietal lobule. Both, increases as well as decreases in motor cortical activity, which were related to differences in movement timing and selection in the applied motor tasks, were reported in these cortical areas. In the basal ganglia, PD patients expressed a decrease of motor activation in the posterior motor putamen, which improved with dopaminergic medication. The likelihood of detecting a decrease in putaminal activity increased with motor impairment. This reduced motor activation of the posterior putamen across previous neuroimaging studies indicates that nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation affects neural processing in the denervated striatal motor territory. In contrast, fronto-parietal motor areas display both increases as well as decreases in movement related activation. This points to a more complex relationship between altered cortical physiology and nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation in PD.
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