ArticleThe Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences2020
Topography of Cholinergic Changes in Dementia With Lewy Bodies and Key Neural Network Hubs.
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- Dynamic functional connectivity is related to cognitive performance of prodromal Lewy body dementia.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Article
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- Cholinergic network disruptions on cognitive function across the spectrum of cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease.Journal of neurology · 2025Article
- A spatial covarianceJournal of neurology · 2025Article
- Topography of Cholinergic Nerve Terminal Vulnerability and Balance Self-Efficacy in Parkinson's Disease.Journal of integrative neuroscience · 2024Observational
- Visual dysfunction in dementia with Lewy bodies.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2024Review
- Cognitive dysfunction in animal models of human lewy-body dementia.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Review
- Atrophy of the Cholinergic Basal Forebrain can Detect Presynaptic Cholinergic Loss in Parkinson's Disease.Annals of neurology · 2023Article
- Challenges and innovations in brain PET analysis of neurodegenerative disorders: a mini-review on partial volume effects, small brain region studies, and reference region selection.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Differential cholinergic systems' changes in progressive supranuclear palsy versus Parkinson's disease: an exploratory analysis.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2022Article
- Molecular Imaging in Parkinsonian Disorders-What's New and Hot?Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Altered Cholinergic Innervation in De Novo Parkinson's Disease with and Without Cognitive Impairment.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesThe authors investigated the topography of cholinergic vulnerability in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) [
methodsFive elderly participants with DLB (mean age, 77.8 years [SD=4.2]) and 21 elderly healthy control subjects (mean age, 73.62 years [SD=8.37]) underwent clinical assessment and [
resultsCompared with the healthy control group, reduced VAChT binding in patients with DLB demonstrated nondiffuse regionally distinct and prominent reductions in bilateral opercula and anterior cingulate to mid-cingulate cortices, bilateral insula, right (more than left) lateral geniculate nuclei, pulvinar, right proximal optic radiation, bilateral anterior and superior thalami, and posterior hippocampal fimbria and fornices.
conclusionsThe topography of cholinergic vulnerability in DLB comprises key neural hubs involved in tonic alertness (cingulo-opercular), saliency (insula), visual attention (visual thalamus), and spatial navigation (fimbria/fornix) networks. The distinct denervation pattern suggests an important cholinergic role in specific clinical disease-defining features, such as cognitive fluctuations, visuoperceptual abnormalities causing visual hallucinations, visuospatial changes, and loss of balance caused by DLB.
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