Abstract
Background
Longitudinal measures of structural brain changes using MRI in relation to clinical features and progression patterns in PD have been assessed in previous studies, but few were conducted in well-defined and large cohorts, including prospective clinical assessments of both motor and non-motor symptoms.
Objective
We aimed to identify brain volumetric changes characterizing PD patients, and determine whether regional brain volumetric characteristics at baseline can predict motor, psycho-behavioral and cognitive evolution at one year in a prospective cohort of PD patients.
Methods
In this multicentric 1 year longitudinal study, PD patients and healthy controls from the MPI-R2* cohort were assessed for demographical, clinical and brain volumetric characteristics. Distinct subgroups of PD patients according to motor, cognitive and psycho-behavioral evolution were identified at the end of follow-up.
Results
One hundred and fifty PD patients and 73 control subjects were included in our analysis. Over one year, there was no significant difference in volume variations between PD and control subjects, regardless of the brain region considered. However, we observed a reduction in posterior cingulate cortex volume at baseline in PD patients with motor deterioration at one year (p = 0.017). We also observed a bilateral reduction of the volume of the amygdala (p = 0.015 and p = 0.041) and hippocampus (p = 0.015 and p = 0.053) at baseline in patients with psycho-behavioral deterioration, regardless of age, dopaminergic treatment and center.
Conclusion
Brain volumetric characteristics at baseline may predict clinical trajectories at 1 year in PD as posterior cingulate cortex atrophy was associated with motor decline, while amygdala and hippocampus atrophy were associated with psycho-behavioral decline.
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Supplementary file2 Box plots representation of posterior cingulate cortex volumes in parkinsonian patients with motor impairment vs parkinsonian patients without motor impairment. Considering univariate analysis, effect-size for PCC volumes in PD with motor impairment vs PD without motor impairment using box plots was moderate (− 0.41 [− 0.77; − 0.06]) according to Cohen who has defined effect size bounds as small (ES = 0.2), medium (ES = 0.5), and large (ES = 0.8) (PDF 216 KB)
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Supplementary file3 Univariate results concerning relations between clinical and volumetric changes between V1 and V2, for PD patients: the heatmap represents correlation coefficients intensity (Pearson or Spearman according to statistical distribution. LARS = Lille Apathy Rating Scale; HAM-D = Hamilton Depression scale; HAM-A = Hamilton Anxiety scale; MoCA = Montreal Cognitive Assessment; FOG-Q = Freezing Of Gate Questionnaire; ASBPD = Ardouin Scale of Behavior in Parkinson’s Disease; MDS-UPDRS = Movement Disorder’s Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale; LEDD = Levodopa Equivalent Daily Dose; H&Y = Hoehn & Yahr scale. L = left; R = Right. White = No correlation (− 0.2 < r < 0.2); Blue = Low to moderate inverse correlation (− 0.5 < r < − 0.2); Red = Low to moderate correlation (0.2 < r < 0.5) (PDF 55 KB)
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Supplementary file4 Scatter plots representing correlations between brain volume changes and clinical changes in PD patients over 1 year. ASBPD = Ardouin Scale of Behavior in Parkinson’s Disease; MDS-UPDRS = Movement Disorder’s Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (PDF 115 KB)
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Marques, A., Macias, E., Pereira, B. et al. Volumetric changes and clinical trajectories in Parkinson’s disease: a prospective multicentric study. J Neurol 270, 6033–6043 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11947-0
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