{"id":13083,"date":"2018-03-05T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neurodegenerationresearch.eu\/?p=13083"},"modified":"2018-03-05T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T13:29:26","slug":"brain-disconnections-may-contribute-to-parkinsons-hallucinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurodegenerationresearch.eu\/sv\/2018\/03\/brain-disconnections-may-contribute-to-parkinsons-hallucinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain disconnections may contribute to Parkinson&#8217;s hallucinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that disconnections of brain areas involved in attention and visual processing may contribute to visual hallucinations in individuals with Parkinson&#8217;s disease, according to a new study published online in the journal <em>Radiology<\/em>. The disconnected brain areas seen on functional MRI (fMRI) may be valuable in predicting the development of visual hallucinations in patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Studies using fMRI to investigate visual hallucinations in patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease are rare and have been mainly limited to task-based methods using activities that involve visual stimulation or cognitive tasks. However, the authors note that the presence of visual hallucinations is strongly linked to the development of cognitive decline in patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease. Cognitive deficits may influence a patient&#8217;s ability to perform specific tasks during an fMRI exam.<\/p>\n<p>For this study, researchers used resting-state fMRI to examine the connectivity, or communication, between brain areas. The connectivity was measured in 15 patients with visual hallucinations, 40 patients without visual hallucinations, and 15 healthy controls by calculating the level of synchronization between activation patterns of different brain areas.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that in all the patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease, multiple brain areas communicated less with the rest of the brain as compared to the control group. However, in patients suffering from visual hallucinations, several additional brain areas showed this decreased connectivity with the rest of the brain, especially those important in maintaining attention and processing of visual information.<\/p>\n<p>While there are no direct therapeutic implications for patient care based on the research, the authors note that future studies could indicate whether techniques that could stimulate the areas with decreased connectivity could be helpful to treat visual hallucinations in people with Parkinson&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsna.org\/doi\/10.1148\/radiol.2017170438\">\u201cLoss of Functional Connectivity in Patients with Parkinson Disease and Visual Hallucinations\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reprinted from materials provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.rsna.org\/doi\/10.1148\/radiol.2017170438\">Radiological Society of North America<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that disconnections of brain areas involved in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neurodegenerationresearch.eu\/sv\/2018\/03\/brain-disconnections-may-contribute-to-parkinsons-hallucinations\/\">View Post<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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