Relationships between striatal dopamine denervation and frontal executive tests in Parkinson's disease |
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Authors: | Marié R M Barré L Dupuy B Viader F Defer G Baron J C |
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Affiliation: | INSERM U. 320, Cyceron, Services de Neurologie Vastel et Déjérine, CHU de Caen, France. |
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Abstract: | Indirect evidence from human and monkey investigations supports the idea that impaired frontal tasks in Parkinson's disease (PD) may result from striato-frontal disruption caused by dopamine (DA) denervation of the caudate nucleus. To directly investigate this hypothesis, we used PET with 11C-S-Nomifensine (11C-S-NMF), a sensitive marker of striatal DA denervation, in 10 non-demented PD patients in whom two frontal executive tests, the object alternation (OA) and the conditional associative learning (CAL) tasks, thought to reflect mainly set-shifting/inhibition and planning, respectively, were given. In addition, the central executive function of verbal working memory was assessed with the Brown Peterson paradigm (BPP). We found a highly significant correlation between right caudate 11C-S-NMF specific binding and OA performance, less significant and reverse-direction correlations between CAL performance and putamen 11C-S-NMF binding, and no significant correlation with BPP performance. Thus, caudate DA denervation may subtend poor set-shifting/inhibition process in PD. Our results also point to distinct and complex relationships between striatal DA and specific frontal tasks. |
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