Functional connectivity comparison of the default mode network in non-depressed Parkinson disease and depressed Parkinson disease
2011
Examining the spontaneous activity to understand the neural mechanism of brain disorders and establish
neuroimaging-based disease-related biomarkers is a focus in recent resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) studies. The
present study hypothesized that resting activity in the default mode network (DMN), which was used for characterizing
the resting-state human brain might be different in patients with depressed Parkinson disease (dPD) compared with
non-depressed Parkinson disease (ndPD) patients. To test the hypothesis, we firstly employed the Group independent
component analysis (ICA) approach to isolate the DMN for the two groups by analyzing the resting-state fMRI data from
a group of 12 patients with dPD and a group of 12 age-matched ndPD subjects. Between-group comparison of the
functional connectivity in the DMN was then performed to examine the impact of depression on the intrinsic activity in
PD. We found 1) the core region from the network the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) show significant decreased
activity in dPD group compared with ndPD group; 2) the activity in MPFC has significant negative correlation with
behavioral measure; 3) the resting activity intensity of MPFC is suggested to be a promising biomarker for distinguishing
dPD from ndPD.
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