Communications Biology (Jan 2021)

Organisational and neuromodulatory underpinnings of structural-functional connectivity decoupling in patients with Parkinson’s disease

  • Angeliki Zarkali,
  • Peter McColgan,
  • Louise-Ann Leyland,
  • Andrew J. Lees,
  • Geraint Rees,
  • Rimona S. Weil

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01622-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Zarkali et al. identify two organizational gradients to structural-functional connectivity decoupling in Parkinson’s disease and relate spatial patterns of decoupling to the expression of neurotransmitter receptors. This study provides a framework that explains the specific disorders of consciousness in Parkinson’s dementia and its related neurotransmitter system.