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Disrupted Nodal and Hub Organization Account for Brain Network Abnormalities in Parkinson’s Disease

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Title
Disrupted Nodal and Hub Organization Account for Brain Network Abnormalities in Parkinson’s Disease
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, November 2016
DOI 10.3389/fnagi.2016.00259
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Yuko Koshimori, Sang-Soo Cho, Marion Criaud, Leigh Christopher, Mark Jacobs, Christine Ghadery, Sarah Coakeley, Madeleine Harris, Romina Mizrahi, Clement Hamani, Anthony E. Lang, Sylvain Houle, Antonio P. Strafella

Abstract

The recent application of graph theory to brain networks promises to shed light on complex diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD). This study aimed to investigate functional changes in sensorimotor and cognitive networks in Parkinsonian patients, with a focus on inter- and intra-connectivity organization in the disease-associated nodal and hub regions using the graph theoretical analyses. Resting-state functional MRI data of a total of 65 participants, including 23 healthy controls (HCs) and 42 patients, were investigated in 120 nodes for local efficiency, betweenness centrality, and degree. Hub regions were identified in the HC and patient groups. We found nodal and hub changes in patients compared with HCs, including the right pre-supplementary motor area (SMA), left anterior insula, bilateral mid-insula, bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), and right caudate nucleus. In general, nodal regions within the sensorimotor network (i.e., right pre-SMA and right mid-insula) displayed weakened connectivity, with the former node associated with more severe bradykinesia, and impaired integration with default mode network regions. The left mid-insula also lost its hub properties in patients. Within the executive networks, the left anterior insular cortex lost its hub properties in patients, while a new hub region was identified in the right caudate nucleus, paralleled by an increased level of inter- and intra-connectivity in the bilateral DLPFC possibly representing compensatory mechanisms. These findings highlight the diffuse changes in nodal organization and regional hub disruption accounting for the distributed abnormalities across brain networks and the clinical manifestations of PD.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 23%
Researcher 12 15%
Student > Bachelor 7 9%
Other 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Other 14 18%
Unknown 15 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 23 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 13%
Engineering 6 8%
Psychology 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 5%
Other 8 10%
Unknown 23 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 November 2016.
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