2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane and Cognitive-Dysfunction

2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane has been researched along with Cognitive-Dysfunction* in 18 studies

Reviews

1 review(s) available for 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane and Cognitive-Dysfunction

ArticleYear
Clinical validity of presynaptic dopaminergic imaging with 
    Neurobiology of aging, 2017, Volume: 52

    The use of biomarkers (BMs) for accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been proposed by recent diagnostic criteria; however, their maturity is not sufficient to grant implementation in the clinical routine. A proper diagnostic process requires not only confirmation of the disease but also the exclusion of similar disorders entering differential diagnosis, like dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This review is aimed at evaluating the clinical validity of

    Topics: 3-Iodobenzylguanidine; Alzheimer Disease; Biomarkers; Cognitive Dysfunction; Diagnosis, Differential; Heart; Humans; Iodine Radioisotopes; Lewy Body Disease; Nortropanes; Radionuclide Imaging; Radiopharmaceuticals; Reproducibility of Results; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

2017

Trials

1 trial(s) available for 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane and Cognitive-Dysfunction

ArticleYear
Diagnostic and prognostic value of EEG in prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies.
    Neurology, 2020, 08-11, Volume: 95, Issue:6

    Early biomarkers for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are lacking. To determine whether EEG differentiates the prodromal phase of DLB from other causes of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and whether EEG is predictive for time to conversion from MCI to DLB, we compared EEGs and clinical follow-up of patients with MCI due to DLB with those of patients with MCI due to Alzheimer disease (MCI-AD).. We compared 37 patients with MCI who developed DLB during follow-up or had an abnormal. The visual EEG score was higher in MCI-DLB (score >2 in 60%) compared to MCI-AD (score >2 in 8%,. Profound EEG abnormalities are already present in the prodromal stage of DLB and have diagnostic and prognostic value.. This study provides Class III evidence that EEG abnormalities are more common in MCI-DLB than MCI-AD.

    Topics: Aged; Alzheimer Disease; Amyloid beta-Peptides; Cognitive Dysfunction; Diagnosis, Differential; Disease Progression; Early Diagnosis; Electroencephalography; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Fourier Analysis; Humans; Iodine Radioisotopes; Lewy Body Disease; Male; Middle Aged; Netherlands; Peptide Fragments; Prospective Studies; Radiopharmaceuticals; Symptom Assessment; tau Proteins; Time Factors; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2020

Other Studies

16 other study(ies) available for 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane and Cognitive-Dysfunction

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Serial Nigrostriatal Dopaminergic Imaging in Mild Cognitive Impairment With Lewy Bodies, Alzheimer Disease, and Age-Matched Controls.
    Neurology, 2023, 09-19, Volume: 101, Issue:12

    Progressive nigrostriatal pathway degeneration occurs in individuals with dementia with Lewy bodies (LB). Our objective was to investigate whether repeat 123[I]-N-(3-fluoropropyl)-2β-carboxymethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl) nortropane (FP-CIT) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) can identify progressive dopaminergic loss in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) with Lewy bodies (MCI-LB).. Individuals with MCI-LB and MCI due to Alzheimer disease (MCI-AD) underwent comprehensive clinical assessment, 123[I]-FP-CIT SPECT at baseline and annual reviews, and baseline cardiac. We recruited 20 individuals with MCI-AD, 11 with possible MCI-LB, 25 with probable MCI-LB, and 29 age-matched controls. The mean time between baseline and the final image was 1.6 years (SD = 0.9, range 1.0-4.3). The annual estimated change in SBR was 0.23 for controls (95% CI -0.07 to 0.53), -0.09 (-0.55 to 0.36) for MCI-AD, -0.50 (-1.03 to 0.04) for possible MCI-LB, and -0.48 (-0.89 to -0.06) for probable MCI-LB. The median annual percentage change in SBR in MCI-LB was -5.6% (95% CI -8.2% to -2.9%) and 2.1% (-3.5% to 8.0%) for MCI-AD. The extrapolated time for a normal scan to become abnormal was 6 years. Controls and MCI-AD showed no significant change in dopaminergic binding over time. The mean test-retest variation in controls was 12% (SD 5.5%), which cautions against overinterpretation of small changes on repeat scanning.. Progressive dopaminergic loss in the striatum is detectable using 123[I]-FP-CIT SPECT in MCI-LB at a group level. In clinical practice, individual change in striatal 123[I]-FP-CIT uptake seems to be of limited diagnostic value because of high test-retest variation.. This study provides Class II evidence that longitudinal declines in striatal uptake measured using 123[I]-FP-CIT SPECT are associated with MCI due to Lewy body disease but not MCI due to Alzheimer disease.

    Topics: Aged; Alzheimer Disease; Cognitive Dysfunction; Dopaminergic Imaging; Humans; Lewy Body Disease; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2023
DATScan in Mild Cognitive Impairment: Some Answers but More Questions.
    Neurology, 2023, 09-19, Volume: 101, Issue:12

    Topics: Cognitive Dysfunction; Humans; Nortropanes

2023
Accuracy of Cardiac Innervation Scintigraphy for Mild Cognitive Impairment With Lewy Bodies.
    Neurology, 2021, 06-08, Volume: 96, Issue:23

    To provide evidence that cardiac I-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine sympathetic innervation imaging (MIBG) scintigraphy differentiates probable mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies (MCI-LB) from mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease (MCI-AD), we scanned patients with MCI and obtained consensus clinical diagnoses of their MCI subtype. We also performed baseline FP-CIT scans to compare the accuracy of MIBG and FP-CIT.. We conducted a prospective cohort study into the accuracy of cardiac MIBG scintigraphy in the diagnosis of MCI-LB. Follow-up clinical assessment was used to diagnose MCI-AD (no core features of MCI-LB and normal FP-CIT), probable MCI-LB (2 or more core features, or 1 core feature with abnormal FP-CIT), or possible MCI-LB (1 core feature or abnormal FP-CIT). For the comparison between MIBG and FP-CIT, only core clinical features were used for diagnosis.. We recruited 95 people with mild cognitive impairment. Cardiac MIBG was abnormal in 22/37 probable and 2/15 possible MCI-LB cases and normal in 38/43 MCI-AD cases. The sensitivity in probable MCI-LB was 59% (95% confidence interval [CI], 42%-75%), specificity 88% (75%-96%), and accuracy 75% (64%-84%). The positive likelihood ratio was 5.1 and negative likelihood ratio 0.46. With symptom-only diagnoses, the accuracies were 79% for MIBG (95% CI, 68%-87%) and 76% for FP-CIT (95% CI, 65%-85%).. Cardiac MIBG appears useful in early disease, with an abnormal scan highly suggestive of MCI-LB. Validation in a multicenter setting is justified.. This study provides Class I evidence that cardiac MIBG distinguishes MCI-LB from MCI-AD.

    Topics: 3-Iodobenzylguanidine; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer Disease; Cognitive Dysfunction; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Heart; Humans; Lewy Body Disease; Male; Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2021
Processing speed is related to striatal dopamine transporter availability in Parkinson's disease.
    NeuroImage. Clinical, 2020, Volume: 26

    Parkinson's disease (PD) affects the integrity of the dopamine and serotonin system, and is characterized by a plethora of different symptoms, including cognitive impairments of which the pathophysiology is not yet fully elucidated.. Investigate the role of the integrity of the dopaminergic and serotonergic system in cognitive functioning in early-stage PD using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) combined with the radiotracer. We studied the association between cognitive functions and dopamine transporter (DAT) availability in the caudate nucleus and putamen - as a proxy for striatal dopaminergic integrity - and serotonin transporter (SERT) availability as a proxy for serotonergic integrity in the thalamus and hippocampus using bootstrapped multiple regression. One-hundred-and-twenty-nine (129) PD patients underwent a. We showed a positive association between DAT availability in the head of the caudate nucleus and the Stroop Color Word Task - card I (reading words; β = 0.32, P = 0.001) and a positive association between DAT availability in the anterior putamen and the Trail Making Test part A (connecting consecutively numbered circles; β = 0.25, P = 0.02). These associations remained after adjusting for motor symptom severity or volume of the region-of-interest and were most pronounced in medication-naïve PD patients. There were no associations between cognitive performance and SERT availability in the thalamus or hippocampus.. We interpret these results as a role for striatal dopamine - and its PD-related decline - in aspects of processing speed.

    Topics: Aged; Cognition; Cognitive Dysfunction; Corpus Striatum; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Parkinson Disease; Radiopharmaceuticals; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2020
Diagnostic accuracy of dopaminergic imaging in prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies.
    Psychological medicine, 2019, Volume: 49, Issue:3

    Dopaminergic imaging has high diagnostic accuracy for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) at the dementia stage. We report the first investigation of dopaminergic imaging at the prodromal stage.. We recruited 75 patients over 60 with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 33 with probable MCI with Lewy body disease (MCI-LB), 15 with possible MCI-LB and 27 with MCI with Alzheimer's disease. All underwent detailed clinical, neurological and neuropsychological assessments and FP-CIT [123I-N-fluoropropyl-2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl)] dopaminergic imaging. FP-CIT scans were blindly rated by a consensus panel and classified as normal or abnormal.. The sensitivity of visually rated FP-CIT imaging to detect combined possible or probable MCI-LB was 54.2% [95% confidence interval (CI) 39.2-68.6], with a specificity of 89.0% (95% CI 70.8-97.6) and a likelihood ratio for MCI-LB of 4.9, indicating that FP-CIT may be a clinically important test in MCI where any characteristic symptoms of Lewy body (LB) disease are present. The sensitivity in probable MCI-LB was 61.0% (95% CI 42.5-77.4) and in possible MCI-LB was 40.0% (95% CI 16.4-67.7).. Dopaminergic imaging had high specificity at the pre-dementia stage and gave a clinically important increase in diagnostic confidence and so should be considered in all patients with MCI who have any of the diagnostic symptoms of DLB. As expected, the sensitivity was lower in MCI-LB than in established DLB, although over 50% still had an abnormal scan. Accurate diagnosis of LB disease is important to enable early optimal treatment for LB symptoms.

    Topics: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer Disease; Cognitive Dysfunction; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Humans; Lewy Body Disease; Male; Neuroimaging; Sensitivity and Specificity; Tomography, Emission-Computed; Tropanes

2019
    Annals of nuclear medicine, 2019, Volume: 33, Issue:6

    I-123-2β-Carbomethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl)-N-(3-fluoropropyl)nortropane (FP-CIT) imaging is an established biomarker used in the diagnosis of Lewy body disease. Images are often reported with the aid of striatal binding ratios (SBRs), comparing uptake to a normal database via Z scores. It is well known that SBRs are age dependent. However, previous studies cover wide age ranges between 20 and 80 years, rather than focusing on older adults. Typically a linear relationship is reported, but some authors have suggested that SBRs do not decline as rapidly in old age. Commercial software packages usually adjust the SBR Z score to attempt to compensate for age-related decline, but the model used varies. Ensuring age correction is appropriate for older adults is important, given that the majority of patients referred for FP-CIT scans are aged over 60 years. We examined the relationship of SBR with age in older adults and the effect of age correction using research scans from 123 adults over 60 years of age.. Twenty-nine healthy older adults and twenty-three with MCI due to Alzheimer's disease were included as controls, i.e. individuals with no evidence of Lewy body disease. Their ages ranged from 60 to 92 years (mean 76; SD 7.9). SBRs and Z scores were calculated using BRASS (Hermes Medical) and DaTQUANT (GE Healthcare). SBRs were plotted against age and linear mixed effect models applied. We tested the effect of removing age correction in BRASS using an independent dataset of 71 older adults with dementia or mild cognitive impairment.. The slopes of the linear fits between SBR and age per year were - 0.007 (p = 0.30) with BRASS and - 0.004 (p = 0.35) with DaTQUANT. The slopes are smaller than reported in the literature and show no statistically significant difference from zero. Switching age correction off in BRASS in the test subjects reduced Z scores by approximately 1 standard deviation at 80 years of age.. We found no statistically significant age-related decline in SBR in adults over 60 years of age without Lewy body disease. Commercial software packages that apply a fixed rate of age correction may be overcorrecting for age in older adults, which could contribute to misdiagnosis.

    Topics: Aged; Aging; Alzheimer Disease; Case-Control Studies; Cognitive Dysfunction; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neostriatum; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2019
Detection of decreased striatal dopamine transporter availability by
    Asian journal of psychiatry, 2019, Volume: 42

    Topics: Adult; Carbon Monoxide Poisoning; Cognitive Dysfunction; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Globus Pallidus; Humans; Parkinson Disease, Secondary; Suicide, Attempted; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2019
Speech difficulties in early de novo patients with Parkinson's disease.
    Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2019, Volume: 64

    Speech difficulties are a common debilitating feature of Parkinson's disease and we aimed to investigate whether speech difficulties are associated with striatal dopaminergic deficits and faster disease progression.. Using the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative database, 143 early de novo Parkinson's disease patients with speech difficulties were identified and matched 1:1 with 143 Parkinson's disease patients without speech difficulties for age, disease duration and motor symptom severity. We investigated differences in clinical features and striatal [. Speech difficulties were more common in patients with an akinetic-rigid motor phenotype compared to those with a tremor-dominant phenotype. Parkinson's disease patients with speech difficulties had lower resting tremor (P = 0.027), higher autonomic dysfunction (P = 0.034), increased daytime sleepiness (ESS; P = 0.048), and a higher prevalence of REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) symptoms (P = 0.007) compared to those without speech difficulties. Parkinson's disease patients with speech difficulties had significantly lower [. Speech difficulties are associated with greater autonomic dysfunction, sleep disturbances and striatal dopaminergic deficit, and can serve as a predictor of faster cognitive decline in early Parkinson's disease.

    Topics: Aged; Autonomic Nervous System Diseases; Cognitive Dysfunction; Disease Progression; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neostriatum; Parkinson Disease; REM Sleep Behavior Disorder; Sleepiness; Speech Disorders; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tremor; Tropanes

2019
Clinical implications of early caudate dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.
    Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2019, Volume: 90, Issue:10

    Although not typical of Parkinson's disease (PD), caudate dopaminergic dysfunction can occur in early stages of the disease. However, its frequency and longitudinal implications in large cohorts of recently diagnosed patients remain to be established. We investigated the occurrence of caudate dopaminergic dysfunction in the very early phases of PD (<2 years from diagnosis) using. Patients with PD and healthy controls were identified from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI) database. We defined a clinically significant caudate dysfunction as. At baseline, 51.6% of 397 patients had normal caudate dopamine transporter binding, 26.0% had unilateral caudate involvement, 22.4% had bilaterally impaired caudate.Compared with those with a baseline normal caudate function, at the4-year follow-up patients with a baseline bilateral caudate involvement showed a higher frequency of cognitive impairment (p<0.001) and depression (p<0.001), and worse cognitive (p<0.001), depression (<0.05) and gait (<0.001) ratings. Significant caudate involvement was observed in 83.9% of the population after 4 years (unilateral 22.5%, bilateral 61.4%).. Early significant caudate dopaminergic denervation was found in half of the cases in the PPMI series. Baseline bilateral caudate involvement was associated with increased risk of developing cognitive impairment, depression and gait problems over the next 4 years.

    Topics: Aged; Case-Control Studies; Caudate Nucleus; Cognitive Dysfunction; Depression; Disease Progression; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Gait Disorders, Neurologic; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Parkinson Disease; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2019
Cognitive decline in association with hyposmia in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder: a prospective 2-year follow-up study.
    European journal of neurology, 2019, Volume: 26, Issue:11

    The aim was to analyze the characteristics and progression of cognitive dysfunction in non-demented idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (iRBD) patients with baseline olfactory function.. From a prospective polysomnography-confirmed iRBD cohort, 25 patients (16 patients in 2-year follow-up) and 13 normal controls were included. Initial and 2-year follow-up cognitive functions were analyzed with olfactory function and. Idiopathic RBD patients had impaired attention, memory and executive function compared to controls. Baseline cognitive tests were comparable between the iRBD subgroups with and without hyposmia.. Hyposmia may be a predictive sign of cognitive decline in iRBD patients.

    Topics: Aged; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Cognitive Dysfunction; Executive Function; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Memory Disorders; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Olfaction Disorders; Polysomnography; Predictive Value of Tests; Prospective Studies; Psychomotor Performance; REM Sleep Behavior Disorder; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2019
Neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive profile in mild cognitive impairment with Lewy bodies.
    Psychological medicine, 2018, Volume: 48, Issue:14

    The accurate clinical characterisation of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is becoming increasingly important. The aim of this study was to compare the neuropsychiatric symptoms and cognitive profile of MCI with Lewy bodies (MCI-LB) with Alzheimer's disease MCI (MCI-AD).. Participants were ⩾60 years old with MCI. Each had a thorough clinical and neuropsychological assessment and 2β-carbomethoxy-3β-(4-iodophenyl)-N-(3-fluoropropyl)-nortropane single photon emission computed tomography FP-CIT SPECT). MCI-LB was diagnosed if two or more diagnostic features of dementia with Lewy bodies were present (visual hallucinations, cognitive fluctuations, motor parkinsonism, rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder or positive FP-CIT SPECT). A Lewy body Neuropsychiatric Supportive Symptom Count (LBNSSC) was calculated based on the presence or absence of the supportive neuropsychiatric symptoms defined by the 2017 DLB diagnostic criteria: non-visual hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, depression and apathy.. MCI-LB (n = 41) had a higher LBNSSC than MCI-AD (n = 24; 1.8 ± 1.1 v. 0.7 ± 0.9, p = 0.001). 67% of MCI-LB had two or more of those symptoms, compared with 16% of MCI-AD (Likelihood ratio = 4.2, p < 0.001). MCI-LB subjects scored lower on tests of attention, visuospatial function and verbal fluency. However, cognitive test scores alone did not accurately differentiate MCI-LB from MCI-AD.. MCI-LB is associated with neuropsychiatric symptoms and a cognitive profile similar to established DLB. This supports the concept of identifying MCI-LB based on the presence of core diagnostic features of DLB and abnormal FP-CIT SPECT imaging. The presence of supportive neuropsychiatric clinical features identified in the 2017 DLB diagnostic criteria was helpful in differentiating between MCI-LB and MCI-AD.

    Topics: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Alzheimer Disease; Cognitive Dysfunction; Female; Humans; Lewy Bodies; Lewy Body Disease; Male; Middle Aged; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2018
Effect of striatal dopamine depletion on cognition in de novo Parkinson's disease.
    Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2018, Volume: 51

    To investigate the relationship between the sub-regional pattern of striatal dopamine depletion and cognitive impairment in early-stage Parkinson's disease (PD), and determine the effect of striatal dopamine density on cognitive prognosis.. Patients with drug-naïve non-demented PD were divided into mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI; n = 129) and cognitively normal (PD-CogN; n = 182) groups. Using quantification of the dopamine transporter (DAT) availability in each striatal sub-region with. The PD-MCI group exhibited more severely decreased DAT availability in all the striatal sub-regions compared to the PD-CogN group, although there was no significant difference in PD duration. The DAT availability in the caudate, anterior putamen, and ventral striatum was directly associated with attention/working memory, frontal/executive, and visuospatial functions, while the DAT availability of the posterior putamen was not. However, the baseline DAT availability of the striatal sub-regions did not influence the cognitive decline or cognitive status in the longitudinal cognitive assessment.. Our results suggest that striatal DAT availability may determine MCI in patients with de novo PD. Dopamine loss in the associative and limbic striatum is closely linked to cognitive deficits in early-stage PD, although it does not affect cognitive prognosis.

    Topics: Aged; Cognitive Dysfunction; Corpus Striatum; Disease Progression; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Parkinson Disease; Positron-Emission Tomography; Tropanes

2018
Neuropsychological Test Performance in Parkinsonism Without Dopaminergic Deficiency on [123I]-FP-CIT SPECT Imaging.
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS, 2018, Volume: 24, Issue:6

    To examine neuropsychological test performance among individuals clinically diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD) without evidence of dopaminergic deficiency on [123]I-CIT single photon emission computed tomography imaging.. Data were obtained from the Parkinson's Progression Marker Initiative. The sample included 59 participants with scans without evidence of dopaminergic deficiency (SWEDD), 412 with PD, and 114 healthy controls (HC). Tests included Judgment of Line Orientation, Letter-Number Sequencing, Symbol Digit Modalities, Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised, and Letter and Category Fluency. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to compare standardized scores between the groups.. There was a statistically significant difference in performances between the groups, F(14,1155)=5.04; p<.001; partial η2=.058. Pairwise comparisons revealed significant differences in Category Fluency between SWEDD (M=0.22; SD=1.08) and HC (M=0.86; SD=1.15) and in Symbol Digit Modalities Test performance between SWEDD (M=45.09; SD=11.54) and HC (M=51.75; SD=9.79). No significant differences between SWEDD and PD were found. Using established criteria, approximately one in four participants in the SWEDD and PD groups met criteria for mild cognitive impairment (MCI).. Individuals with SWEDD demonstrate significantly worse mental processing speed and semantic fluency than HC. The neuropsychological test performances and rates of MCI were similar between the SWEDD group and PD groups, which may reflect a common pathology outside of the nigrostriatal pathway. (JINS, 2018, 24, 646-651).

    Topics: Aged; Cognitive Dysfunction; Dopamine; Humans; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Parkinson Disease; Retrospective Studies; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2018
Cognitive performance correlates with the degree of dopaminergic degeneration in the associative part of the striatum in non-demented Parkinson's patients.
    Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996), 2017, Volume: 124, Issue:9

    Parkinson's disease (PD) patients show cognitive deficits that are relevant in terms of prognosis and quality of life. Degeneration of striatal dopaminergic afferents proceeds from dorsal/caudal to anterior/ventral and is discussed to account for some of these symptoms. Treatment with dopamine (DA) has differential effects on cognitive dysfunctions, improving some and worsening others. We hypothesized that cognitive performance during the dopaminergic OFF state correlates with DAT availability in the associative striatum. 16 PD patients underwent motor and cognitive examination ON and OFF DA. Global cognition was measured using the Montréal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test and executive functioning using a Stroop test. Nigrostriatal dopaminergic innervation was characterized with [

    Topics: Adult; Aged; Brain Mapping; Cognition; Cognitive Dysfunction; Cohort Studies; Corpus Striatum; Dopamine; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Executive Function; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Nerve Degeneration; Neuropsychological Tests; Parkinson Disease; Radiopharmaceuticals; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2017
Cognitive performances and DAT imaging in early Parkinson's disease with mild cognitive impairment: a preliminary study.
    Acta neurologica Scandinavica, 2015, Volume: 131, Issue:5

    Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a common feature in Parkinson's disease (PD). We performed an exploratory study to investigate dopaminergic nigrostriatal innervation and its cognitive correlates in early untreated PD patients with MCI as compared to cognitively intact patients.. A consecutive series of 34-de-novo, drug-naïve patients with PD were enrolled. They underwent [123-I] FP-CIT SPECT and comprehensive neuropsychological battery. MCI was identified in 15 of 34 patients with PD.. The two groups did not show any statistically significant difference in age, sex, disease duration, education, lateralization, and H&Y and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale scores. Logistic regression analysis showed that UPDRS-III was weakly associated with MCI (P = 0.034). Partial correlation analysis controlling for UPDRS-III and age suggested that in PD patients with MCI reduced V3″ values in the more affected caudate were correlated with reduced performances in frontal assessment battery, Trail Making Test: part B minus Part A and copy task of the Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test. Reduced V3″ values in the more and less affected putamen were significantly related with reduced performance in frontal assessment battery and in copy task of Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test, respectively. No correlation was found between neuropsychological scores and DAT availability in PD patients without MCI.. Although preliminary, our results suggest that striatal dopamine depletion may contribute to some cognitive deficit in early never treated PD patients with MCI.

    Topics: Aged; Cognitive Dysfunction; Corpus Striatum; Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Parkinson Disease; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tropanes

2015
Diagnostic accuracy of statistical pattern recognition of electroencephalogram registration in evaluation of cognitive impairment and dementia.
    Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders, 2012, Volume: 34, Issue:1

    There is still a need for simple, noninvasive, and inexpensive methods to diagnose the causes of cognitive impairment and dementia. In this study, contemporary statistical methods were used to classify the clinical cases of cognitive impairment based on electroencephalograms (EEG).. An EEG database was established from seven different groups of subjects with cognitive impairment and dementia as well as healthy controls. A classifier was created for each possible pair of groups using statistical pattern recognition (SPR).. A good-to-excellent separation was found when differentiating cases of degenerative disorders from controls, vascular disorders, and depression but this was less so when the likelihood of comorbidity was high.. Using EEG with SPR seems to be a reliable method for diagnosing the causes of cognitive impairment and dementia, but comorbidity must be taken into account.

    Topics: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Area Under Curve; Cognitive Dysfunction; Dementia; Electroencephalography; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Neuropsychological Tests; Nortropanes; Pattern Recognition, Automated; Radiopharmaceuticals; Reproducibility of Results; ROC Curve; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tomography, X-Ray Computed

2012