2010
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e3181d55f61
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Neurotransmitter changes in dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia in vivo

Abstract: Patients with dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson disease dementia share the same dopaminergic and cholinergic deficit profile in the brain and seem to represent 2 sides of the same coin in a continuum of Lewy body diseases. Cholinergic deficits seem to be crucial for the development of dementia in addition to motor symptoms. The spatial congruence of cholinergic deficits and energy hypometabolism argues for cortical deafferentation due to the degeneration of projection fibers from the basal forebrain.

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“…Corticopetal dopaminergic pathways mainly project to the frontal cortex. In PD, reduced dopaminergic and cholinergic transmission has been demonstrated in a pattern coinciding well with the frontal and posterior clusters demonstrated in the present work 42. As such, the present findings in the PD group could, hypothetically, be construed as an effect of reduced dopaminergic (the frontal cluster) and reduced cholinergic transmission (the posterior cluster) in accordance with the dual syndrome hypothesis.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Corticopetal dopaminergic pathways mainly project to the frontal cortex. In PD, reduced dopaminergic and cholinergic transmission has been demonstrated in a pattern coinciding well with the frontal and posterior clusters demonstrated in the present work 42. As such, the present findings in the PD group could, hypothetically, be construed as an effect of reduced dopaminergic (the frontal cluster) and reduced cholinergic transmission (the posterior cluster) in accordance with the dual syndrome hypothesis.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…DLB and PDD are associated with severe cholinergic deafferentiation of the neocortex, especially in parietooccipital regions. This is congruent with 18 F-FDG PET findings of posterior hypometabolism in dementia (37).…”
Section: Pd and Cognitive Impairmentsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…While the dopaminergic degeneration has been widely documented to affect the striatum of patients with DLB (Walker et al, 2004;Klein et al, 2010), a cholinergic network alteration involving the striatum has been postulated in the Lewy body disease spectrum of disorders (Langlais et al, 1993) but its mechanism is still poorly understood (Bohnen and Albin, 2011). In this setting, our finding of an association between higher PiB retention and higher atrophy rates in the caudate and putamen nuclei suggest an accelerated subcortical neuronal injury involving the global PiB SUVR (x-axes) and regional grey matter annualized log Jacobian (y-axes) in patients with DLB, after adjusting for age.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%