“…Previous studies have demonstrated that degenerated neurotransmitter systems in the cerebral cortex and brainstem in PD may represent an underlying cause of anxiety ( Walsh and Bennett, 2001 ; Bassetti, 2011 ; Prediger et al, 2019 ), though the possible neurologic explanations of anxiety in PD remain complicated and poorly understood ( Hurtado-Lorenzo et al, 2004 ; Bassetti, 2011 ). Furthermore, many tests have shown that 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions of the nigrostriatal circuit induce anxiety-like responses as measured by different paradigms of anxiety evaluation ( Tadaiesky et al, 2008 ; Li et al, 2012 ; Hui et al, 2015 ; Sun et al, 2015 ; Sun et al, 2018 ) and increase the firing rates of LHb neurons ( Wang et al, 2017 ; Zhang et al, 2019 ). These results supported the essential role of LHb in PD-associated anxiety.…”