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ReviewCurrent neurology and neuroscience reports2017

Imaging the Etiology of Apathy, Anxiety, and Depression in Parkinson's Disease: Implication for Treatment.

Stephane Thobois, Stephane Prange, Véronique Sgambato-Faure, Léon Tremblay, Emmanuel Broussolle

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Review in Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Management of Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2025
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  2. Neuroimaging of Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2021
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  10. Behavioral disorders in Parkinson disease: current view.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025
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  17. Exploring depression in Parkinson's disease: an Italian Delphi Consensus on phenomenology, diagnosis, and management.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Stephane ThoboisUniversité de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Faculté de Médecine Lyon Sud Charles Mérieux, Lyon, France. stephane.thobois@chu-lyon.fr.
Stephane PrangeHospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Neurologique Pierre Wertheimer, Service de neurologie C, Centre Expert Parkinson, Lyon, France.
Véronique Sgambato-FaureUniversité de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Bron, France.
Léon TremblayUniversité de Lyon, Institut des Sciences Cognitives Marc Jeannerod, CNRS, UMR 5229, Bron, France.
Emmanuel BroussolleUniversité de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Faculté de Médecine Lyon Sud Charles Mérieux, Lyon, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apathy, depression, and anxiety are among the most important non-motor signs of Parkinson's disease (PD). This may be encountered at early stages of illness and represent a major source of burden. Understanding their pathophysiology is a major prerequisite for efficient therapeutic strategies. Anatomical and metabolic imaging studies have enabled a breakthrough by demonstrating that widespread abnormalities within the limbic circuits notably the orbitofrontal and anterior cingulate cortices, amygdala, thalamus, and ventral striatum are involved in the pathophysiology of depression, anxiety, and apathy in PD. Functional imaging has further shown that mesolimbic dopaminergic but also serotonergic lesions play a major role in the mechanisms of these three neuropsychiatric manifestations, which has direct therapeutic implications.

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ApathyAnxietyDepressionHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingParkinson DiseasePositron-Emission TomographyTreatment OutcomeAnxietyApathyBrain imagingDepressionDopamineLimbic systemSerotonin

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