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Reduced CA2–CA3 Hippocampal Subfield Volume Is Related to Depression and Normalized by l-DOPA in Newly Diagnosed Parkinson’s Disease

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Title
Reduced CA2–CA3 Hippocampal Subfield Volume Is Related to Depression and Normalized by l-DOPA in Newly Diagnosed Parkinson’s Disease
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Frontiers in Neurology, March 2017
DOI 10.3389/fneur.2017.00084
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Orsolya Györfi, Helga Nagy, Magdolna Bokor, Ahmed A. Moustafa, Ivana Rosenzweig, Oguz Kelemen, Szabolcs Kéri

Abstract

Hippocampal dysfunctions may play an important role in the non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease (PD), including depressive and cognitive symptoms. Fine structural alterations of the hippocampus and their relationship with symptoms and medication effects are unknown in newly diagnosed PD. We measured the volume of hippocampal subfields in 35 drug-naïve, newly diagnosed PD patients without cognitive impairment and 30 matched healthy control individuals. Assessments were performed when the patients did not receive medications and after a 24-week period of l-DOPA treatment. We obtained a T1-weighted 3D magnetization-prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo image at each assessment. FreeSurfer v6.0 was used for image analysis. Results revealed a selectively decreased CA2-CA3 volume in non-medicated PD patients, which was normalized after the 24-week treatment period. Higher depressive symptoms were associated with smaller CA2-CA3 volumes. These results indicate that the CA2-CA3 subfield is structurally affected in the earliest stage of PD in the absence of cognitive impairment. This structural anomaly, normalized by l-DOPA, is related to depressive non-motor symptoms.

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Unknown 55 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 24%
Student > Bachelor 8 15%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 11%
Researcher 5 9%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 8 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 12 22%
Psychology 7 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Other 9 16%
Unknown 13 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 11 April 2017.
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#3,090,536
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#2,181
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