Neuroscience letters · 2017
Precuneus degeneration and isolated apathy in patients with Parkinson's disease.
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Shin Jung Hwan, Shin Seong A, Lee Jee-Young, Nam Hyunwoo, Lim Jae-Sung, Kim Yu Kyeong
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INTRODUCTION: To investigate isolated apathy in a set of consecutively enrolled Parkinson's disease (PD) patients without dementia, depression, and significant motor response fluctuations, by conducting neuropsychological and neuroimaging analyses.
METHODS: One hundred twenty-four patients were eligible for inclusion in this study. Clinical information and data were collected from a predefined neuropsychological test battery, including the mini-mental status examination, apathy scale, geriatric depression scale, digit span test, Boston naming test, Seoul verbal learning test, controlled oral word association test, go-no-go test, and the Rey figure copy test. From matched groups of 10 non-apathetic and 12 apathetic patients in the initial cohort and 9 healthy controls, [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and volumetric magnetic resonance images were acquired.
RESULTS: Apathy was detected in 59.7% of the initial cohort. Apathetic patients had lower scores in the digit span forward, digit span backward, and immediate recall of verbal learning tests than did those without apathy (p <0.05). The results were unaffected by parkinsonian motor severity and medication dose. Neuroimaging analyses revealed precuneus atrophy and hypometabolism in patients with isolated apathy. These precuneus changes were well-correlated with apathy severity (p <0.001). Apathy severity was also positively correlated with gray matter volume in the superior frontal gyrus and cerebellar vermis, and with metabolism in the medial frontal and anterior cingulate regions (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: PD patients with isolated apathy showed attention and working memory dysfunction, and precuneus degeneration might be related to this distinctive nonmotor symptom in PD.
METHODS: One hundred twenty-four patients were eligible for inclusion in this study. Clinical information and data were collected from a predefined neuropsychological test battery, including the mini-mental status examination, apathy scale, geriatric depression scale, digit span test, Boston naming test, Seoul verbal learning test, controlled oral word association test, go-no-go test, and the Rey figure copy test. From matched groups of 10 non-apathetic and 12 apathetic patients in the initial cohort and 9 healthy controls, [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and volumetric magnetic resonance images were acquired.
RESULTS: Apathy was detected in 59.7% of the initial cohort. Apathetic patients had lower scores in the digit span forward, digit span backward, and immediate recall of verbal learning tests than did those without apathy (p <0.05). The results were unaffected by parkinsonian motor severity and medication dose. Neuroimaging analyses revealed precuneus atrophy and hypometabolism in patients with isolated apathy. These precuneus changes were well-correlated with apathy severity (p <0.001). Apathy severity was also positively correlated with gray matter volume in the superior frontal gyrus and cerebellar vermis, and with metabolism in the medial frontal and anterior cingulate regions (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: PD patients with isolated apathy showed attention and working memory dysfunction, and precuneus degeneration might be related to this distinctive nonmotor symptom in PD.