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ArticleJournal of Parkinson's disease2025

Reduced volume of the mediodorsal and anteroventral thalamus is associated with anxiety in Parkinson's disease: A cross-sectional 7-tesla MRI study.

Guillaume Carey, Mark L Kuijf, Stijn Michielse, Amée F Wolters, Kathy Dujardin, Albert Fg Leentjens

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Guillaume CareySchool for Mental Health and Neurosciences (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0793-8205
Mark L KuijfSchool for Mental Health and Neurosciences (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Stijn MichielseSchool for Mental Health and Neurosciences (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-3930-8646
Amée F WoltersSchool for Mental Health and Neurosciences (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Kathy DujardinUniv. Lille, Inserm, CHU Lille, U1172 - LilNCog - Lille Neuroscience & Cognition, Lille, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0110-574X
Albert Fg LeentjensSchool for Mental Health and Neurosciences (MHeNS), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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BackgroundParkinson's disease (PD)-related anxiety occurs frequently and may be associated with imbalance between anxiety-related circuits. While the thalamus is a shared region of these circuits, its role in PD-related anxiety has not been explored so far.ObjectiveTo identify changes in volume of the thalamus and its subnuclei in patients with PD-related anxiety.MethodsCognitively intact PD patients (n = 105) were divided into two groups based on their score on the Parkinson anxiety scale (PAS): 31 PD patients had anxiety (Anx-PD) and 74 did not have anxiety (non-Anx-PD). Forty-five healthy control subjects were included. Participants underwent 7-Tesla MRI scanning. Using automatic segmentation, the volumes of the thalamus and its subnuclei were measured, compared between the groups and regressed on the PAS.ResultsThe volumes of the thalamus and its subnuclei did not significantly differ between the groups. However, in anxious PD patients, more severe anxiety was strongly associated with a smaller volume of the right medial thalamic subregion, specifically the right mediodorsal magnocellular nucleus and the right mediodorsal parvocellular nucleus (R = 0.63, ß

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AnxietyMediodorsal Thalamic NucleusParkinson DiseaseThalamusAgedCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle Agedanxietyfearmagnetic resonance imagingmediodorsalParkinsonthalamus

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