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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020

Topological Abnormalities of Functional Brain Network in Early-Stage Parkinson's Disease Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Xiangbin Chen, Mengting Liu, Zhibing Wu, Hao Cheng

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Xiangbin ChenDepartment of TCM Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Mengting LiuSchool of Music, Jimei University, Xiamen, China.
Zhibing WuDepartment of TCM Internal Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Hao ChengDepartment of Ultrasonography, Shaanxi Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine · CNJimei University · CNXi'an Jiaotong University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent studies have demonstrated structural and functional alterations in Parkinson's disease (PD) with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). However, the topological patterns of functional brain networks in newly diagnosed PD patients with MCI are unclear so far. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and graph theory approaches to explore the functional brain network in 45 PD patients with MCI (PD-MCI), 22 PD patients without MCI (PD-nMCI), and 18 healthy controls (HC). We found that the PD-MCI, PD-nMCI, and HC groups exhibited a small-world architecture in the functional brain network. However, early-stage PD-MCI patients had decreased clustering coefficient, increased characteristic path length, and changed nodal centrality in the default mode network (DMN), control network (CN), somatomotor network (SMN), and visual network (VN), which might contribute to factors for MCI symptoms in PD patients. Our results demonstrated that PD-MCI patients were associated with disrupted topological organization in the functional network, thus providing a topological network insight into the role of information exchange in the underlying development of MCI symptoms in PD patients.

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fMRIgraph theorymild cognitive impairmentParkinson’s diseasesmall world

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