Frontal atrophy as a marker for dementia conversion in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate the cortical neural correlates of dementia conversion in Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI). We classified 112 patients with drug-naïve early stage PD meeting criteria for PD-MCI into either PD with dementia (PDD) converters (n = 34) or nonconverters (n = 78), depending on whether they developed dementia within 4 years of PD diagnosis. Cortical thickness analyses were performed in 34 PDD converters and 34 matched nonconverters. Additionally, a linear discriminant analysis was performed to distinguish PDD converters from nonconverters using cortical thickness of the regions that differed between the two groups. The PDD converters had higher frequencies of multiple domain MCI and amnestic MCI with storage failure, and poorer cognitive

SUBMITTER: Chung SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6865684 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature