Parkinson’s psychosis (PDP) describes a spectrum of symptoms that may arise in Parkinson’s disease (PD) including visual hallucinations (VH). Imaging studies investigating the neural correlates of PDP have been inconsistent in their findings, due to differences in study design and limitations of scale. Here we use empirical Bayes harmonisation to pool together structural imaging data from multiple research groups into a large-scale mega-analysis, allowing us to apply new methodological approaches to identify cortical regions and networks involved in VH and their relation to receptor binding. Differences of cortical thickness and surface area show a wider cortical involvement underlying VH than previously recognised, including primary visual cortex and its surrounds, and the hippocampus, independent of its role in cognitive decline. Structural covariance analyses point to a strong involvement of the attentional control networks in PD-VH, while associations with receptor density maps suggest neurotransmitter loss may drive the cortical changes.
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Yes there is potential Competing Interest. Dr. Rimona Weil has received speaker honoraria from GE Healthcare. Prof. Hu reports funding/grant support from Parkinson’s UK, Oxford NIHR BRC, University of Oxford, CPT, Lab10X, NIHR, Michael J Fox Foundation, H2020 European Union, GE Healthcare and the PSP Association. She also received payment for Advisory Board attendance/consultancy for Biogen, Roche, CuraSen Therapeutics, Evidera, Manus Neurodynamica and the MJFF Digital Health Assessment Board, outside the submitted work. J-P.T. has received speaker honoraria from GE Healthcare and acted as consultant for Kwoya-Kirin and received funding from Sosei-Heptares. These have no association with the present publication. J-P.T reports funding/grant support from Newcastle NHIR BRC based at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University.
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Posted 08 Mar, 2021
Posted 08 Mar, 2021
Parkinson’s psychosis (PDP) describes a spectrum of symptoms that may arise in Parkinson’s disease (PD) including visual hallucinations (VH). Imaging studies investigating the neural correlates of PDP have been inconsistent in their findings, due to differences in study design and limitations of scale. Here we use empirical Bayes harmonisation to pool together structural imaging data from multiple research groups into a large-scale mega-analysis, allowing us to apply new methodological approaches to identify cortical regions and networks involved in VH and their relation to receptor binding. Differences of cortical thickness and surface area show a wider cortical involvement underlying VH than previously recognised, including primary visual cortex and its surrounds, and the hippocampus, independent of its role in cognitive decline. Structural covariance analyses point to a strong involvement of the attentional control networks in PD-VH, while associations with receptor density maps suggest neurotransmitter loss may drive the cortical changes.
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