Imaging of dopamine in PD and implications for motor and neuropsychiatric manifestations of PD
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by dopamine depletion in the putamen, which leads to motor dysfunction. As the disease progresses, a substantial degree of dopamine depletion also occurs in caudate and nucleus accumbens. This may explain a number of neuropsychiatric manifestations, includin...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-07-01
|
Series: | Frontiers in Neurology |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2013.00090/full |