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SUBMITTER: Zeighami Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4596689 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zeighami Yashar Y Ulla Miguel M Iturria-Medina Yasser Y Dadar Mahsa M Zhang Yu Y Larcher Kevin Michel-Herve KM Fonov Vladimir V Evans Alan C AC Collins D Louis DL Dagher Alain A
eLife 20150907
We mapped the distribution of atrophy in Parkinson's disease (PD) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and clinical data from 232 PD patients and 117 controls from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative. Deformation-based morphometry and independent component analysis identified PD-specific atrophy in the midbrain, basal ganglia, basal forebrain, medial temporal lobe, and discrete cortical regions. The degree of atrophy reflected clinical measures of disease severity. The spatial patte ...[more]