Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders Part I: Handbook of Clinical Neurology

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Obituary William C. Koller, MD, PhD 1945–2005

William C. Koller died unexpectedly on October 3, 2005, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, while this volume, which he was co-editing, was in preparation. Bill was born in Milwaukee on July 12, 1945, where he graduated with a BS degree from Marquette University in 1968. He went on to Northwestern University in Chicago, where he received a Masters degree in pharmacology in 1971, a PhD in pharmacology in 1974, and an MD in 1976. After completing his internship and residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, he held positions at the Rush Medical College, University of Illinois, Chicago VA, Hines VA, and Loyola University. In 1987, he was appointed Professor and Chairman of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where he remained until 1999, when he moved to the University of Miami and became the National Research Director for the National Parkinson Foundation. He subsequently moved on to direct the Movement Disorders clinical program at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and then to the University of North Carolina, where he laid the foundation for yet another superb clinical and academic program. Bill was a world-renowned neurologist who specialized in Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and related disorders. He published more than 270 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 160 review papers and numerous books. His research interests included the epidemiology and experimental therapeutics of parkinsonism and essential tremor, and his work contributed enormously to the current treatment of these disorders. His collaborations were worldwide and many current experts in movement disorders worked with him at one time or another. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Treasurer of the Movement Disorder Society (1999–2000), Executive Board Member of the Parkinson Study Group (1996–1999), President of WE MOVE (2001–2002), a founding member of the Tremor Research Group and founder of the International Tremor Foundation. Dr. Koller will be especially remembered for his humor, warmth and the youthful vigor and enthusiasm that he brought to his work. He was the consummate physician, befriending many of his patients who were encouraged to call him on his cell phone at any time. Whether lecturing in South America, fishing on the boat he shared with several colleagues, traveling with one of his sons to an international meeting or seeing patients in the clinic, Bill’s smile and the sparkle in his eye endeared him to all who knew him. The movement disorders community has lost a valued colleague, mentor and friend. He is survived by his wife and three sons. Kelly Lyons Matthew B. Stern

Photo courtesy of Professor Lindsey and the European Parkinson’s Disease Association.

Foreword

The Handbook of Clinical Neurology was started by Pierre Vinken and George Bruyn in the 1960s and continued under their stewardship until the second series concluded in 2002. This is the fifth volume in the new (third) series, for which we have assumed editorial responsibility. The series covers advances in clinical neurology and the neurosciences and includes a number of new topics. In order to provide insight to physiological and pathogenic mechanisms and a basis for new therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders, we have specifically ensured that the neurobiological aspects of the nervous system in health and disease are covered. During the last quarter-century, dramatic advances in the clinical and basic neurosciences have occurred, and those findings related to the subject matter of individual volumes are emphasized in them. The series will be available electronically on Elsevier’s Science Direct site, as well as in print form. It is our hope that this will make it more accessible to readers and also facilitate searches for specific information. The present volume deals with Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. This group of disorders constitutes one of the most common of neurodegenerative disorders and is assuming even greater importance with the aging of the population in developed countries. The volume has been edited by Professor William Koller (USA) and Professor Eldad Melamed (Israel). It is with particular sadness that we must record the sudden and untimely death of Professor Koller while the volume was coming to fruition. An experienced clinician, neuroscientist, author and editor, he was a friend of many of the contributors to this volume, as well as of the series editors, and we shall greatly miss him. It is our hope that he would have been proud of this volume, which he did so much to craft. As series editors, we reviewed all of the chapters in the volume and made suggestions for improvement, but we were delighted that the volume editors had produced such a scholarly and comprehensive account of the parkinsonian disorders, which should appeal to clinicians and neuroscientists alike. When the Handbook series was initiated in the 1960s, understanding of these disorders was poor, any genetic basis of them was speculative, several of the syndromes described here had not even been recognized, the prognosis was bleak and the therapeutic options were almost unchanged since the late Victorian era. Advances in understanding of the biochemical background of parkinsonism during the 1960s and early 1970s led to dramatic pharmacological advances in the management of Parkinson’s disease and profoundly altered the approach to other degenerative disorders of the nervous system. The pace of advances in the field has continued, and the exciting new insights being gained have mandated a need for a thorough but critical appraisal of recent developments so that future investigative approaches and therapeutic strategies are based on a solid foundation, the limits of our knowledge are clearly defined and an account is provided for practitioners of the clinical features and management of the various neurological disorders that present with parkinsonism. It has been a source of great satisfaction to us that two such eminent colleagues as the late William Koller and Professor Eldad Melamed agreed to serve as volume editors and have produced such an important compendium, and we thank them and the contributing authors for all their efforts. We also thank the editorial staff of the publisher, Elsevier B.V., and especially Ms Lynn Watt and Mr Michael Parkinson in Edinburgh for overseeing all stages in the preparation of this volume. Michael J. Aminoff François Boller Dick F. Swaab

Preface

James Parkinson described Parkinson’s disease in his memorable Essay on the Shaking Palsy in 1817. Since then, and particularly in recent years, there has been tremendous progress in our understanding of this complex and fascinating neurological disorder. Briefly, we have learned that it is not only manifest by motor symptoms but also that there is a whole range of non-motor features, including autonomic, psychiatric, cognitive and sensory impairments. We now know how to distinguish better clinically between Parkinson’s disease and the various parkinsonian syndromes. Likewise, it is now well established that in this disorder not only the substantia nigra but many other central as well as peripheral neuronal cell populations are involved. Novel diagnostic imaging technologies have become available. The nature of the Lewy body, the intracytoplasmic inclusion body that is a characteristic element of Parkinson’s disease pathology, is being unraveled. There are new insights in the etiology and pathogenesis of this illness. Experimental models are now available to understand better modes of neuronal cell death and help develop new therapeutic approaches. There has been dramatic progress in discovering the genetic causes of dominant and recessive forms of hereditary Parkinson’s disease with the identification of mutations in several genes. There is new knowledge in the intricate circuitry of the basal ganglia and the physiology of the connections in the healthy state and in Parkinson’s disease. There is more understanding of the role of dopamine and other neurotransmitters in the control and regulation of movement by the brain. All of the above led to the development of many novel pharmacological treatments to improve the motor as well as non-motor phenomena. There is better understanding of the mechanisms responsible for the complications caused by long-term levodopa administration. Futuristic approaches using deep brain stimulation with electrodes implanted in anatomically strategic central nervous system sites are now in common use to improve basic symptoms and the side-effects of levodopa therapy. Potentially effective neuroprotective strategies are in development to modify and slow disease progression. Likewise, cell replacement therapy with stem cells offers great promise. The best of experts in the field joined in this book and contributed chapters that make up an exciting coverage of all the exhilarating developments in the many aspects of Parkinson’s disease. This volume will certainly expand the current knowledge of its readers and it is also hoped that it will stimulate further research that will eventually lead to finding both the cause and the cure of this common and disabling neurological disorder. William C. Koller Eldad Melamed Dr. William Koller died suddenly, unexpectedly and prematurely on October 3, 2005, before this volume went to press. His loss is painful to all his friends and colleagues. His leadership, wisdom and expertise were the main driving force behind the creation of this very special book. It is the belief of all involved that Dr. Koller would have been pleased and proud of this volume in its final form. We hope it will be a tribute to his memory.

List of contributors

L. Alvarez Movement Disorders Unit, Centro Internacional de Restauracioń Neurolo´gica (CIREN), La Habana, Cuba M. Baker European Parkinson’s Disease Association (EPDA), Sevenoaks, Kent, UK Y. Balash Movement Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel E. R. Bauminger Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel M. F. Beal Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA P. J. Be´dard Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences, CHUL, Faculte´ de Me´dicine, Universite´ Laval, Quebec, Canada A. Berardelli Department of Neurological Sciences and Neuromed Institute, Universita` La Sapienza, Rome, Italy R. Betarbet Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA K. P. Bhatia Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK

R. Bhidayasiri The Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder Institute, Fountain Valley, CA, USA R. E. Breeze Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA C. Brefel-Courbon Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Investigation Centre and Department of Neurosciences, University Hospital, Toulouse, France D. J. Brooks MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK R. E. Burke Departments of Neurology and Pathology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA D. J. Burn Institute of Ageing and Health, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK M. G. Cerso´simo Program of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Hospital de Clıńicas, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina A. Chade The Parkinson’s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA, USA K. R. Chaudhuri Regional Movement Disorders Unit, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Y. Chen Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

K. L. Chou Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Brown University Medical School and NeuroHealth Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Warwick, RI, USA C. Colosimo Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Universita` La Sapienza, Rome, Italy Y. Compta Neurology Service, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain E. Cubo Unit of Neuroepidemiology, National Centre for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain B. Dass Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA M. R. DeLong Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA G. Deuschl Department of Neurology, Christian-AlbrechtsUniversity, Kiel, Germany V. Dhawan Regional Movement Disorders Unit, King’s College Hospital, London, UK The´re`se Di Paolo Centre de Recherche en Endocrinologie Molećulaire et Oncologique, CHUL, Faculte´ de Pharmacie, Universite´ Laval, Quebec, Canada R. Djaldetti Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel M. Emre Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey G. Fabbrini Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Universita` La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

C. Fox National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, CO, USA S. H. Fox Toronto Western Hospital, Movement Disorders Clinic, Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada J. Frank Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA C. R. Freed University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA A. Friedman Department of Neurology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland J. H. Friedman Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Brown University Medical School and NeuroHealth Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Warwick, RI, USA V. S. C. Fung Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia J. Galazka-Friedman Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland C. Gallagher Department of Neurobiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA D. M. Gash Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA G. Gerhardt Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA O. S. Gershanik Department of Neurology, Centro Neurolo´gico-Hospital Frances, Laboratory of Experimental Parkinsonism, ININFA-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina


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C. G. Goetz Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

J. S. Hui Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

J. G. Goldman Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

J. Jankovic Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

D. S. Goldstein Clinical Neurocardiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

P. Jenner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, King’s College, London, UK

J.-M. Gracies Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

M. Kasten The Parkinson’s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

J. T. Greenamyre Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

H. Kaufmann Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

J. Guridi Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Clinic and Medical School and Neuroscience Division, University of Navarra and CIMA, Pamplona, Spain T. D. Ha¨lbig Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA N. Hattori Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan M. A. Hely Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia C. Henchcliffe Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA B. Ho¨gl Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria X. Huang Departments of Neurology and Medicinal Chemistry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

W. C. Kollery Department of Neurology, University of North Carolina, NC, USAyDeceased. A. D. Korczyn Sieratzki Chair of Neurology, Tel-Aviv University Medical School, Ramat-Aviv, Israel J. H. Kordower Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA V. Koukouni Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK A. E. Lang Toronto Western Hospital, Movement Disorders Clinic, Division of Neurology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M. Leehey Department of Neurology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA A. J. Lees Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies, University College London, London, UK y

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F. A. Lenz Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Y. Mizuno Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

N. Lev Laboratory of Neuroscience and Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

H. Mochizuki Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

M. F. Lew Department of Neurology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA M. Lugassy Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA R. B. Mailman Departments of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, Neurology and Medicinal Chemistry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA C. Marin Laboratori de Neurologia Experimental, Fundacio´ Clıńic-Hospital Clıńic, Institut d’Investigacions Biome´diques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain P. Martıńez-Martıń Unit of Neuroepidemiology, National Centre for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain I. McKeith Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK K. St. P. McNaught Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA E. Melamed Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tiqva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel M. Merello Movement Disorders Section, Raul Carrea Institute for Neurological Research, FLENI, Buenos Aires, Argentina F. E. Micheli Program of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Hospital de Clıńicas, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

J. C. Mo¨ller Department of Neurology, Philipps-Universita¨t Marburg, Marburg, Germany J.-L. Montastruc Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Investigation Center, University Hospital, Toulouse, France E. B. Montgomery Jr National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA J. G. L. Morris Department of Neurology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia J. A. Obeso Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Clinic and Medical School and Neuroscience Division, University of Navarra and CIMA, Pamplona, Spain W. H. Oertel Department of Neurology, Philipps-Universita¨t Marburg, Marburg, Germany D. Offen Laboratory of Neuroscience and Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah-Tikva, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel F. Ory-Magne Department of Neurosciences, University Hospital, Toulouse, France B. Owler Department of Neurosurgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia D. P. Perl Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA R. F. Pfeiffer Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS S. Przedborski Departments of Neurology, Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA J. M. Rabey Department of Neurology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel A. Rajput Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada A. H. Rajput Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada L. O. Ramig Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Speech, and National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, CO, USA J. Rao Department of Neurology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA O. Rascol Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Clinical Investigation Centre and Department of Neurosciences, University Hospital, Toulouse, France J. Rasmussen Merstham Clinic, Redhill, Surrey, UK W. Regragui Department of Neurosciences, University Hospital, Toulouse, France P. F. Riederer Clinical Neurochemistry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, National Parkinson Foundation (USA) Center of Excellence Research Laboratories, University of Wu¨rzburg, Wu¨rzburg, Germany M. C. Rodrı´guez-Oroz Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Clinic and Medical School and Neuroscience Division, University of Navarra and CIMA, Pamplona, Spain C. Rouillard Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences, CHUL, Faculte´ de Me´dicine, Universite´ Laval, Quebec, Canada

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P. Samadi Centre de Recherche en Endocrinologie Molećulaire et Oncologie, CHUL, Faculte´ de Pharmacie, Universite´ Laval, Quebec, Canada S. Sapir Department of Communication Sciences and Disorder, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel A. H. V. Schapira University Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK J. Shahed Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Houston, TX, USA T. Slaoui Department of Neurosciences, University Hospital, Toulouse, France M. B. Stern Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA F. Stocchi Department of Neurology, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy N. P. Stover Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA C. M. Tanner The Parkinson’s Institute, Sunnyvale, CA, USA E. Tolosa Neurology Service, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain C. Trenkwalder Paracelsus Elena-Klinik, Center of Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders, Kassel, and University of Go¨ttingen, Go¨ttingen, Germany D. D. Truong The Parkinson’s and Movement Disorder Institute, Fountain Valley, CA, USA W. Tse Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

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J. Volkmann Department of Neurology, Christian-AlbrechtsUniversity, Kiel, Germany

T. Wichmann Department of Neurology and Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

H. C. Walker Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

M. B. H. Youdim Department of Pharmacology, Technion-Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Eve Topf and NPF Neurodegenerative Diseases Centers, Rappaport Family Research Institute, Haifa, Israel

R. H. Walker Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, and Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA R. L. Watts Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA D. Weintraub Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

W. M. Zawada Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA W. Zhou Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

Contents of Part I

Obituary vi Foreword vii Preface ix List of contributors xi

SECTION 1 Scientific foundation 1. Anatomy and physiology of the basal ganglia: relevance to Parkinson’s disease and related disorders Thomas Wichmann and Mahlon R. DeLong (Atlanta, GA, USA)

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2. Functional neurochemistry of the basal ganglia Pershia Samadi, Claude Rouillard, Paul J. B edard and Th er ese Di Paolo (Quebec, Canada)

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3. Neurophysiology of basal ganglia diseases Alfredo Berardelli (Rome, Italy)

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4. Dopamine receptor pharmacology Richard B. Mailman and Xuemei Huang (Chapel Hill, NC, USA)

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SECTION 2 General aspects of Parkinson’s disease 5. History of Parkinson’s disease Jennifer G. Goldman and Christopher G. Goetz (Chicago, IL, USA)

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6. Epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease Meike Kasten, Annabel Chade and Caroline M. Tanner (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)

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7. Neurochemistry of Parkinson’s disease Jayaraman Rao (New Orleans, LA, USA)

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8. The neuropathology of parkinsonism Daniel P. Perl (New York, NY, USA)

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9. Genetic aspects of Parkinson’s disease Yoshikuni Mizuno, Nobutaka Hattori and Hideki Mochizuki (Tokyo, Japan)

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10. Imaging Parkinson’s disease David J. Brooks (London, UK)

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11. Parkinson’s disease: animal models Ranjita Betarbet and J. Timothy Greenamyre (Atlanta, GA, USA)

SECTION 3

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Clinical aspects

12. Scales to measure parkinsonism Pablo Martıńez-Martıń and Esther Cubo (Madrid, Spain)

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13. Motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease Joohi Shahed and Joseph Jankovic (Houston, TX, USA)

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14. Autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease Horacio Kaufmann and David S. Goldstein (New York, NY and Bethesda, MD, USA)

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15. Sleep in Parkinson syndromes Claudia Trenkwalder and Birgit H€ ogl (Kassel and G€ ottingen, Germany and Innsbruck, Austria)

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16. Sensory symptoms in Parkinson’s disease Ruth Djaldetti and Eldad Melamed (Petah Tiqva and Tel Aviv, Israel)

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17. Speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease and the effects of pharmacological, surgical and speech treatment with emphasis on Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVTW) Lorraine Olson Ramig, Cynthia Fox and Shimon Sapir (Denver, CO and New York, NY, USA and Haifa, Israel) 18. Clinical features, pathophysiology and treatment of dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease Murat Emre (Istanbul, Turkey)

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19. Disorders of mood and affect in Parkinson’s disease Daniel Weintraub and Matthew B. Stern (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

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20. Neurobehavioral disorders in Parkinson’s disease Jose Martin Rabey (Ramat Aviv, Israel)

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21. Early detection of Parkinson’s disease Catherine Gallagher and Erwin B. Montgomery Jr (Madison, WI, USA)

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Etiology

22. Mitochondria in the etiology of Parkinson’s disease Anthony H. V. Schapira (London, UK)

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23. Iron as a trigger of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease Andrzej Friedman, Jolanta Galazka-Friedman and Erika R. Bauminger (Warsaw, Poland and Jerusalem, Israel)

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24. Oxidative stress and Parkinson’s disease Peter Jenner (London, UK)

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25. Neurotrophic factors and Parkinson’s disease Don M. Gash, Yan Chen and Greg Gerhardt (Lexington, KY, USA)

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26. Neuroinflammation and Parkinson’s disease Serge Przedborski (New York, NY, USA)

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27. Excitotoxicity Claire Henchcliffe and M. Flint Beal (New York, NY, USA)

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28. Protein-handling dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease Kevin St. P. McNaught (New York, NY, USA)

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29. Programmed cell death in Parkinson’s disease Robert E. Burke (New York, NY, USA)

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Subject index Color plate section

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Section 1 Scientific foundation

Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 83 (3rd series) Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, Part I W.C. Koller, E. Melamed, Editors # 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Chapter 1

Anatomy and physiology of the basal ganglia: relevance to Parkinson’s disease and related disorders THOMAS WICHMANN1,2 AND MAHLON R. DELONG1* 1

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Department of Neurology, and Yerkes National Primate Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

1.1. Circuit models 1.1.1. Overview The basal ganglia are a group of subcortical nuclei, including the neostriatum (caudate nucleus and putamen), the ventral striatum, the external and internal segments of the globus pallidus (GPe, GPi, respectively), the subthalamic nucleus (STN), and the substantia nigra pars reticulata and pars compacta (SNr, SNc, respectively). These structures neither receive direct sensory input nor have direct projections to spinal cord or brainstem motor neurons, but rather receive from, and project to, cerebral and brainstem areas with such direct relations. The basal ganglia are generally considered to be components of larger cortical–subcortical circuits which take origin from almost the entire cortex, and engage the basal ganglia and thalamus (Fig. 1.1). Throughout their subcortical course, these circuits are highly topographic and highly segregated. The basal ganglia–thalamocortical loops are arranged in functional modules, broadly grouped into motor, associative and limbic circuits, which appear to operate largely independent from one another. The striatum and STN are the primary entry points for cortical, brainstem and thalamic inputs into the basal ganglia. From these input nuclei, information is conveyed over multiple pathways to the principal basal ganglia output nuclei, GPi and SNr. Basal ganglia outflow from GPi and SNr is directed at frontal areas of the cerebral cortex (via the thalamus) and at various brainstem

structures (superior colliculus, pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), parvocellular reticular formation). 1.1.1.1. Histologic organization and discharge characteristics of basal ganglia neurons Each basal ganglia nucleus is histologically distinctive. The most abundant striatal cell type is the GABAergic medium spiny projection neuron, which represents 90–95% of all striatal neurons. These cells derive their name from the abundance of spines on their dendrites on to which inputs from the cerebral cortex as well as from the centromedian and parafascicular nuclei of the thalamus terminate. Medium spiny neurons receive additional intrinsic inputs from several classes of inhibitory striatal interneurons, including large cholinergic neurons and smaller cells containing somatostatin, neuropeptide Y, calbindin or nitric oxide synthetase, as well as extrinsic modulatory inputs from dopaminergic and serotonergic projections originating in the midbrain. The dopaminergic fibers terminate on the neck of the dendritic spines of striatal medium spiny neurons and are thus in a position to modulate corticostriatal information flow. In contrast to the heterogeneous composition of the striatum, the neuronal cell groups in GPe, GPi and SNr are homogeneous with few (if any) interneurons. Pallidal neurons are large and GABAergic neurons whose dendritic trees form flattened disks that are traversed orthogonally, and are contacted by, striatal efferents. The SNr is histologically similar to GPi. It contains GABAergic neurons, which interdigitate and interact

*Correspondence to: Mahlon R. DeLong, M.D., Emory University, Department of Neurology, Suite 6000, Woodruff Memorial Research Building, 101 Woodruff Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ1-404-727-9107, Fax: þ1-404-727-3157.

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Fig. 1.1. Diagrams demonstrating the anatomical connections within the basal ganglia circuitry (left), and changes in the activity of basal ganglia nuclei associated with the development of parkinsonism (right). GPe, external pallidal segment; STN, subthalamic nucleus; GPi, internal pallidal segment; SNr, substantia nigra pars reticulata; SNc, substantia nigra pars compacta; PPN, pedunculopontine nucleus; CM, centromedian nucleus of the thalamus; VA, ventral anterior nucleus of the thalamus; VL, ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus. Gray arrows denote excitatory connections, black arrows identify inhibitory connections.

with the dopaminergic cell groups of the neighboring SNc. The STN is a densely packed structure whose neurons, unlike those in the other basal ganglia nuclei, are excitatory and glutamatergic. Most of these cell types are also identifiable by electrophysiologic methods. Thus, striatal medium spiny neurons have low spontaneous discharge rates, but are activated by cortical inputs (Alexander and Crutcher, 1990; see below), or microstimulation (Alexander and DeLong, 1985a, b). Of the remaining striatal cell types, the cholinergic interneurons appear to correspond to a group of neurons with a low tonic firing rate, the socalled tonically active neurons. Primate GPe neurons, recorded in vivo, discharge spontaneously at rest in two different patterns, namely a high-frequency discharge pattern which is interrupted by pauses, and a low-frequency discharge pattern, accentuated by bursts, whereas GPi and SNr neurons fire more tonically at high frequencies (in the 60–80 spikes/s range; DeLong, 1971). The STN is composed of neurons with a firing rate in primates of about 20 spikes/s, and an irregular discharge pattern. Finally, the SNc consists of cells with a low tonic firing rate (around 5–10 spikes/s). Their discharge is frequently accentuated by short bursts or pauses of activity (Schultz and Romo, 1987), often in association with salient behavioral events (see below). 1.1.2. Inputs to the basal ganglia Of all basal ganglia structures, the striatum receives by far the most abundant cortical input to the basal ganglia.

These inputs impose a topographic organization upon the striatum (Alexander et al., 1986; Parent, 1990; Haber et al., 1995), and on the basal ganglia regions which receive input from it. In primates, projections from motor areas, including the somatosensory, motor and premotor cortices, terminate in the postcommissural putamen, prefrontal cortical areas project to the caudate nucleus and precommissural putamen and limbic projections terminate preferentially in the ventral striatum. The segregation between pathways traversing the basal ganglia has most recently been confirmed by viral tracer injections (Hoover and Strick, 1993, 1999; Middleton and Strick, 1997, 2002; Kelly and Strick, 2004). The relationship between corticostriatal and corticospinal projection neurons is somewhat uncertain, but these projections likely arise from different groups of cortical neurons. Electrophysiologic experiments in primates have shown that, in comparison to corticospinal projection neurons, corticostriatal projection neurons discharge at lower rates and have slower conduction velocities and much lower responsivity to somatosensory inputs (Bauswein et al., 1989; Turner and DeLong, 2000). More recent studies in rats have suggested an even more intricate corticostriatal projection pattern in which the source neurons of the corticostriatal projection may respect to a large degree the intrinsic basal ganglia organization into ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ pathways (Lei et al., 2004; discussed in section 1.1.3 below). The STN is the second major recipient of excitatory cortical inputs. Projections from the frontal lobe to the

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA STN are also topographically arranged (Hartmann-von Monakow et al., 1978; Nambu et al., 1996), and impose a functional topography on this nucleus which is similar to that imposed by inputs to the striatum. Afferents from the primary motor cortex reach the dorsolateral part of the STN, while afferents from premotor and supplementary motor areas innervate mainly the medial third of the nucleus (Takada et al., 2001). The prefrontal/limbic cortices project to the ventral and most medial portions of the STN. Topographically organized inputs to striatum and STN also arise from portions of the thalamus, particularly from those thalamic nuclei which receive basal ganglia output. In primates, the centromedian thalamic nucleus projects to the motor portions of putamen and STN, whereas the parafascicular nucleus projects to associative and limbic territories (Smith and Parent, 1986; Sadikot et al., 1992). Recent tracer injection studies have confirmed that there is a substantial projection to the basal ganglia from the ventrolateral (VL) and ventral anterior (VA) nuclei. The functional role of these (potential) feedback circuits is not known at this point. 1.1.3. ‘Direct’ and ‘indirect’ striatofugal pathways Striatal output influences the basal ganglia output nuclei, GPi and SNr, via two separate pathways, the so-called direct and indirect pathways. The direct pathway is a monosynaptic connection linking striatum with GPi and SNr, whereas the indirect pathway is a polysynaptic pathway which involves GPe and STN en route to GPi and SNr (Albin et al., 1989; Alexander and Crutcher, 1990). The concept of a dichotomy between direct and indirect pathways is strongly supported by anatomical and functional studies, which will be reviewed below. Recent studies have indicated that some of the striatofugal outputs collateralize to GPe, GPi and SNr, thus creating a hybrid of direct and indirect pathways. These results are based on reconstruction studies of cells whose axonal collaterals were labeled by juxtacellular injections of the tracer biotynilated dextrane amine (BDA). It is clear that such collaterals can be identified in both rodents and primates (Parent et al., 1995). However, even cells with extensive collaterals show a clear preference for one target (GPe or GPi/SNr) over the other, and it remains unclear what the functional significance of the lesser collaterals are. The direct pathway arises from a set of striatal neurons that project monosynaptically to neurons in GPi and SNr. These neurons are identifiable by their expression of the neuropeptides substance P and dynorphin, and by the fact that they carry dopamine

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D1-receptors on their dendrites and on their axon terminals in GPi and SNr. Dopamine D1-receptors on axon terminals strongly modulate GABA release from the striatonigral and striatopallidal pathways (Trevitt et al., 2002; Galvan et al., 2005). Recent studies in rodents have indicated that direct-pathway neurons receive input from a specific class of cortical neurons, which also project to the opposite striatum (Lei et al., 2004). It is not clear which information is carried by these ‘intratelencephalically’ projecting cells (‘IT cells’). In addition, direct-pathway neurons appear to be targeted specifically by efferents from the intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus (Sidibe and Smith, 1996; Parthasarathy and Graybiel, 1997). The indirect pathway arises from a different set of striatal neurons, which project primarily to GPe. These neurons preferentially express the neuropeptide enkephalin, as well as dopamine D2-receptors on their dendrites and axon terminals in GPe (Gerfen et al., 1990; Surmeier et al., 1996). Studies in monkeys, using the expression of the immediate early gene c-fos as a marker for activity, induced by electrical cortical stimulation, have indicated that there is a substantial preference of inputs from sensorimotor cortex to target indirect-pathway neurons in the striatum (Parthasarathy and Graybiel, 1997). Recent ultrastructural and tracing studies in rodents have suggested that indirect-pathway neurons receive cortical input primarily from cells that also project to the pyramidal tract (so-called ‘PT’ cells; see Lei et al., 2004). It is difficult to reconcile this result with the above-mentioned studies in non-human primates in which anatomical evidence for the same organization is lacking, and very few of the pyramidal tract projecting cells appeared electrophysiologically to project to the striatum as well (Bauswein et al., 1989; Turner and DeLong, 2000). The indirect pathway from striatum to GPi/SNr is completed by additional projections from GPe to STN, and from STN to GPi and SNr. There are also direct connections from GPe to GPi/SNr (Shink et al., 1996; Smith et al., 1998). Rather than being a simple information relay, it is clear that considerable processing occurs along the indirect pathway, particularly in the STN, where inputs arising from cortex appear to be integrated with inputs from GPe (Hartmann-von Monakow et al., 1978; Smith and Bolam, 1990; Nambu et al., 1996; Takada et al., 2001). The projection from striatal neurons which give rise to direct and indirect pathways are highly topographic (Shink et al., 1996; Smith et al., 1998). For instance, populations of GPe neurons which receive inputs from striatal sensorimotor, cognitive or limbic territory are connected with populations of neurons in the same functional territories of STN, and neurons in each of

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these regions, in turn, innervate the territories subserving the same functions in GPi and SNr (Shink et al., 1996; Smith et al., 1998). The current model of the basal ganglia–thalamocortical circuitry predicts that activation of striatal neurons that give rise to the direct pathway reduces inhibitory basal ganglia output from targeted neurons with subsequent disinhibition of related thalamocortical neurons. The net effect of this would be increased activity in appropriate cortical neurons. By contrast, activation of the striatal neurons that give rise to the indirect pathway would lead to increased (inhibitory) basal ganglia output on thalamocortical neurons. It is noteworthy that there are no convincing experimental studies to date which would demonstrate this point. Furthermore, it remains unclear how information from a given striatal location, transmitted over the direct and indirect pathways, is actually integrated at the level of the output nuclei, GPi and SNr. 1.1.4. The substantia nigra pars compacta The SNc does not directly participate in the transfer of information along the basal ganglia–thalamocortical pathways, but is part of the brainstem catecholaminergic systems, providing dopaminergic inputs to striatum and other targets. It receives input from other basal ganglia nuclei, including the neighboring SNr and STN (Celada et al., 1999; Iribe et al., 1999; Lee et al., 2004), as well as sources outside the basal ganglia, including the prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortices, the superior colliculus (Coizet et al., 2003; Comoli et al., 2003), the raphe nuclei and the PPN. Neurons in the SNc show a tonic pacemaker-like firing pattern. In studies combining behavioral monitoring with single-neuron recording, phasic bursts or pauses are found to be related to salient behavioral events that predict upcoming rewards (Hollerman and Schultz, 1998). Accordingly, current models of basal ganglia function ascribe dual roles to dopamine released in the striatum. One function of dopamine, related to phasic fluctuations of neuronal activity in the SNc, may be to provide reward-related signals to the striatum. This function will be discussed in greater detail in section 1.2, below. Another of the proposed roles is to provide a tonic background of dopamine which serves to modulate the balance between direct and indirect pathways. In this function, dopamine acts on D1-receptors preferentially located on medium spiny neurons that give rise to the direct pathway, and on D2-receptors, which are thought to be preferentially located on medium spiny neurons that give rise to the indirect pathway. The segregation of D1- and D2-receptors between direct and indirect pathways may not be as

strict as initially proposed (Surmeier et al., 1996; Aizman et al., 2000), but they still appear to regulate striatal output differentially. Striatal dopamine is thought to modulate the activity of GPi and SNr neurons via facilitation of transmission over the direct pathway and inhibition of transmission over the indirect pathway (Gerfen, 1995). The net effect of striatal dopamine release appears to be to reduce basal ganglia output to the thalamus and other targets. Dopamine may also more directly influence discharge patterns and rates locally in the STN, GPi and GPe. Dopamine is dendritically released in substantial quantities in the SNr. The dopamine supply to STN and GPi is much smaller. Dopamine receptors are known to exist in all of the extrastriatal basal ganglia. This may imply that some of the therapeutic effects of dopamine agonists, a group of drugs which is frequently used in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, may be explicable by actions on these extrastriatal receptors (Parent and Cossette, 2001). 1.1.5. Basal ganglia output The segregation of basal ganglia thalamocortical pathways is further maintained at the level of the basal ganglia output nuclei. For instance, in primates, the caudoventral motor territory of GPi projects almost exclusively to the posterior part of the VL nucleus which sends projections towards the supplementary motor area (Schell and Strick, 1984; Inase and Tanji, 1995), the primary motor cortex (M1) and premotor cortical areas (Hoover and Strick, 1993). Virus-tracing studies have revealed that the outflow from pallidal motor areas directed at cortical areas M1, premotor and supplementary motor area arise from separate populations of pallidothalamic and thalamocortical neurons (Hoover and Strick, 1993). Rostromedial associative areas of GPi project preferentially to the parvocellular part of the ventral anterior (VA) and the dorsal VL nucleus (VLc in macaques) (DeVito and Anderson, 1982; Sidibe et al., 1997), and may be transmitted in turn to prefrontal cortical areas (Goldman-Rakic and Porrino, 1985; Middleton and Strick, 1994), as well as motor and supplementary motor regions (Darian-Smith et al., 1990; Inase and Tanji, 1995). As mentioned above, these ‘basal ganglia-receiving’ areas of thalamus are also a source of input to the striatum. Although the overlap between motor and non-motor areas is probably greater in SNr than in GPi (Hedreen and DeLong, 1991), the SNr can be broadly subdivided into a dorsolateral sensorimotor and a ventromedial associative territory (Deniau and Thierry, 1997).

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA Projections from the medial SNr to the thalamus mostly terminate in the medial magnocellular division of the ventral anterior nucleus (VAmc) and the mediodorsal nucleus (MDmc) which, in turn, innervate anterior regions of the frontal lobe, including the principal sulcus and the orbital cortex in monkeys (Ilinsky et al., 1985). Neurons in the lateral SNr project preferentially to the lateral posterior region of VAmc and to parts of MD, which are predominantly related to posterior regions of the frontal lobe, including the frontal eye field and portions of the premotor cortex (Ilinsky et al., 1985). The SNr also sends projections to the PPN (Rye et al., 1988; Steininger et al., 1992). Additional projections reach the parvocellular reticular formation, a region whose neurons are directly connected with orofacial motor nuclei (von Krosigk et al., 1993), and the superior colliculus, which plays a critical role in the control of saccades and orienting behaviors (Wurtz and Hikosaka, 1986). Other output projections from the basal ganglia output nuclei arise mostly as collaterals from the pallidothalamic projection. Thus, prominent axon collaterals are sent in a segregated manner to the centromedian–parafasicular nucleus complex, which not only projects to cortex but also sends a substantial projection to the striatum (see above), constituting one of the many feedback circuits in the basal ganglia–thalamocortical circuitry (Sidibe et al., 1997). Additional pallidal axon collaterals reach the PPN of the midbrain (Harnois and Filion, 1982; Rye et al., 1988) which, in turn, gives rise to ascending projections to basal ganglia, thalamus and basal forebrain and to descending projections to pons, medulla and spinal cord (Inglis and Winn, 1995). The reciprocal connections between the PPN and the basal ganglia, as well as the fact that they share the thalamus as a common projection target, have given rise to the notion that the PPN should perhaps best be considered a portion of the basal ganglia circuitry itself (MenaSegovia et al., 2004).

1.2. Functional considerations 1.2.1. Methods to assess basal ganglia function The basal ganglia have undergone a remarkable expansion through evolution, paralleling that of related cortical areas. This may underline the fact that cortex and basal ganglia are closely related, and that the basal ganglia contribute in some critical (and evolutionary advantageous) way to cortical function. The fact that basal ganglia and cortex are anatomically and functionally closely related has made it difficult to assign specific functions to these structures which could be separated from those of related cortical areas.

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One source of information about the function of the basal ganglia has been the study of patients with basal ganglia disorders. The clinical outcome of these conditions is frequently a parkinsonian syndrome with akinesia (poverty of movement), bradykinesia (slowness of movement), tremor, rigidity, inflexible postural reflexes and impaired motor learning, or a hyperkinetic phenotype in which uncontrolled movement of limb(s) (chorea) or trunk is observed. Inferred from these observations is the view that the basal ganglia may control the overall amount of movement, and, more specifically, may participate in movement initiation, reflex gating, movement scaling and postural set. Another source of information regarding the function of the basal ganglia has been studies in animals in which the basal ganglia output nuclei are lesioned. Such lesions prolong movement times (bradykinesia) and result in agonist/antagonist co-contractions or in a postural flexion bias contralateral to the lesion (Ranson and Berry, 1941; MacLean, 1978; DeLong and Coyle, 1979; Horak and Anderson, 1984; Mink, 1996; Wenger et al., 1999). As in Parkinson’s disease, uncued movements appear to be more strongly impaired than cued movements. The inferred functions from these lesion experiments are that the basal ganglia may have a role in controlling movement scaling, that they may suppress antagonist activation, and that they may have a particular impact on internally generated movements. A puzzling aspect of these experiments is, however, that in most cases pallidal lesioning has, in fact, very little impact on motor performance, an observation that is confirmed by the recent experience with patients receiving GPi lesion as treatment of parkinsonism. The approach of using the results of diseases or lesions of the basal ganglia as a source of information regarding the function of these structures is problematic for several reasons. The most obvious problem is that the link between the lesion and the resulting deficit may be highly indirect. Thus, a lesion may non-specifically affect related brain circuitry which then results in the observed deficits. Given this scenario, the lesion effects may differ significantly from the physiologic functions of the lesioned structure. A second problem, specific to attempts to use deficits resulting from basal ganglia disorders in humans as source of information regarding the physiologic role of these structures, is that in most of these diseases pathology is present outside the basal ganglia, including cortex and brainstem, which may contribute to the development of clinical signs of the disease. Physiologic studies circumvent some of these issues by assessing in intact organisms the response properties of individual basal ganglia neurons with

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electrophysiologic single-cell recordings, or of whole sections of the circuitry with multielectrode recordings or functional imaging techniques. These techniques have resulted in some of the most detailed and testable hypotheses regarding basal ganglia function. In the following we will provide a brief overview of the most commonly proposed functions of the basal ganglia. 1.2.2. Scaling and focusing Some of the most commonly discussed functions of the basal ganglia are corollaries of the idea that activation of the direct pathway will reduce basal ganglia output, and thereby disinhibit thalamocortical circuits, while activation of the indirect pathway will result in the opposite. One of the proposed functions based on the dichotomy of direct and indirect pathways is the ‘scaling’ hypothesis, which states that the basal ganglia help to regulate specific kinematic parameters. There is, in fact, direct evidence that under some circumstances basal ganglia neurons respond in a graded manner to movement parameters such as the amplitude or direction of limb movement (Mitchell et al., 1987; Hamada et al., 1990; Turner et al., 1998). In addition, recent positron emission tomography (PET) studies in humans have demonstrated a relationship between pallidal activation and movement speed (Turner et al., 1998). In terms of the circuit models, scaling could be explained by an interplay between direct and indirect pathways in which influence of impulses reaching GPi (or SNr) early would allow movement, while the delayed impulses traveling via the indirect pathway would terminate movements, and, thus, control their scale. A second hypothesis based on the interaction of direct and indirect pathways is the idea that the basal ganglia may act to ‘focus’ cortical activation so that only intended movements are carried out while non-intended movements are suppressed (Mink, 1996; Boraud et al., 2000; Nambu et al., 2000). In terms of the circuit model, focusing would rely on the activation or suppression of different neurons in GPi/SNr in relation to unintended and intended movements. Neurons suppressed by activation of the direct pathway would permit intended movements, while neurons activated via the indirect pathway would inhibit unintended movements. Both hypotheses are generally supported by the finding that the GABAergic basal ganglia output neurons have a high discharge rate and, thus, provide tonic inhibition to the thalamic recipient nuclei. By this mechanism, they may suppress cortical activation. In addition, most studies have shown that most motorrelated responses in GPi and SNr are (initially)

increases in discharge, which would presumably increase the thalamic inhibition, and suppress movement, and that the ratio of neurons which are inhibited to those that are excited by movement increases in hypokinetic diseases (Boraud et al., 2000). However, in light of many of the newer physiologic and anatomic findings, scaling and focusing models of basal ganglia function appear to be overly simplistic. The most significant argument against both hypotheses is the fact that lesions of the basal ganglia output structures in otherwise healthy animals do not normally result in significant movement abnormalities, such as involuntary movements or inappropriately scaled motions. Another problem is that it is unclear which information is transmitted to the striatal source neurons of the direct and indirect pathways. Recent physiologic and anatomic studies (Bauswein et al., 1989; Turner and DeLong, 2000; Lei et al., 2004) have made it clear that these neurons very likely do not only receive strictly movementrelated inputs, and that inputs to direct and indirect pathway neurons may differ substantially. Additional (and perhaps related) problems are that many of the motor-related responses that can be recorded in the basal ganglia are multiphasic, and thus not strictly inhibitory or excitatory, and are strongly modulated by the experimental context under which the movements are performed (Gdowski et al., 2001), and the anatomic finding that direct and indirect pathways may not be as strictly separated as previously thought (see above). With regard to the focusing hypothesis, it has also been pointed out that most neuronal responses recorded in the basal ganglia in the context of movement occur late, often around the time of the first agonist burst in the electromyogram, so that it is difficult to see how these structures could be involved in meaningful action selection or suppression of competing movement. In addition, the ‘focusing’ argument is based on an anatomic model in which STN efferents diffusely innervate GPi in order to provide a level of background activity, which then can be regionally inhibited by direct-pathway actions, thus forming the ‘focus’. However, more recent anatomic work has shown that the STN–GPi interaction is more regionally specific than initially thought, so that the anatomic foundation of focusing may not hold (Shink et al., 1996; Smith et al., 1998). There is, of course, also no clear evidence that unselected motor programming occurs at the cortical level which would be in need of ‘focusing’ through the basal ganglia. 1.2.3. Contribution to internally generated movement Another function attributed to the basal ganglia is that they may contribute to the generation of internally

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA generated movements. This hypothesis is in large part based on findings in parkinsonian patients who often have greater deficits with internally generated rather than externally cued movements (Hocherman and Giladi, 1998). In fact, teaching patients to use external cues is a common procedure by which physical therapists help patients with parkinsonian freezing episodes partially to overcome their disability. Conceivably, some of the deficits with internally generated movements may also be generated at the cortical level, either as a non-specific consequence of reduced activation of cortical (premotor) areas involved in the generation of internally triggered movements, or as a consequence of cortical (rather than striatal) dopamine loss in Parkinson’s disease. However, the hypothesis that the basal ganglia in some way contribute to the generation of internally triggered movement remains attractive. To date there are no clear physiologic studies which would unequivocally demonstrate or rule out this potential role of the basal ganglia. 1.2.4. Learning 1.2.4.1. Procedural learning There is substantial evidence that the basal ganglia are involved in learning of procedures, habits and motor sequences. As mentioned above, a contribution of the basal ganglia in this type of learning can be inferred from the fact that patients with basal ganglia diseases frequently suffer from specific learning deficits. For instance, it is known that Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease patients differ fundamentally in their learning capacity. Although patients with Alzheimer’s disease have substantial difficulty memorizing explicit knowledge, they do not differ from controls in their performance in procedural learning tasks (Knowlton et al., 1996). Parkinsonian patients, on the other hand, perform at the level of controls in explicit learning tasks, but have great difficulty with procedural learning. A specific form of this type of learning, sequence learning, appears to be particularly affected by the disease (Nakamura et al., 2001). Although the studies in humans have not specifically addressed the possibility that some of the noted deficits may arise from dysfunction at cortical rather than subcortical areas, a specific involvement of the basal ganglia in sequence learning has been shown in primate experiments. These studies have suggested that the caudate nucleus may be particularly important in the acquisition of new sequence memories, while the putamen may have a greater role in the performance of learned sequences (Miyachi et al., 1997).

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1.2.4.2. Reward-based learning There is also considerable evidence that the basal ganglia are involved in reward-based learning. Central to this idea is the finding that dopamine neurons in the SNc discharge in a manner that provides a prediction error signal to the striatum (Schultz et al., 1998; Waelti et al., 2001). It has also been shown that SNc neurons appear to discharge at the detection of the earliest environmental predictor of upcoming reward (Schultz, 1998, 2000). According to the commonly discussed actor–critic models of learning, providing a surrogate predictive signal related to an upcoming reward to the striatum may solve the temporal difference problem, i.e. the fact that optimal learning requires instantaneous feedback, but that, in actuality, primary reinforcement is usually delayed. By providing precisely timed early predictive feedback, dopaminergic inputs to the striatum may optimize the efficiency of the process of learning. Subsequent to the discovery of the essential role of dopamine in learning, dopamine was found to have a substantial impact on long-term depression and longterm potentiation at corticostriatal synapses (Calabresi et al., 1999, 2000; Centonze et al., 1999, 2001). In addition, studies in rodents and primates (Jog et al., 1999; Courtemanche et al., 2003) have suggested that striatal output neurons change their discharge characteristics in behavioral tasks that require learning. A problem related to the proposed role of the SNc in learning is that it remains unclear how the error prediction or reward signals are generated in the SNc. Given the very early timing of these signals in relation to the upcoming reward, it seems unlikely that the input to the SNc from the other basal ganglia structures such as the SNr or STN could be responsible. Other inputs such as those from the orbitofrontal cortex or a recently described input from the superior colliculus (Coizet et al., 2003; Comoli et al., 2003) may be in a better position to provide such early indicators of upcoming rewards. 1.2.5. The possible role of oscillatory basal ganglia activity In recent years, many studies have demonstrated that individual basal ganglia neurons or ensembles of such cells have oscillatory discharge properties, ranging in frequency from ultraslow oscillations with periods lasting seconds to minutes (Wichmann et al., 2002; Ruskin et al., 2003), recorded in single cells, to oscillations at very high frequencies (300 Hz or more; see Foffani et al., 2003), recorded as local field potentials (LFPs) in human patients undergoing stereotactic

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implantation of leads for deep brain stimulation (DBS) into the STN or GPi which can also be used to record LFPs in the target regions (Brown et al., 2001). The origin of any of these oscillatory phenomena is still unclear. There is evidence that they may arise from local circuit interactions (Plenz and Kitai, 1999; Bevan et al., 2002) or through long-range interactions between cortex and basal ganglia (Magill et al., 2001, 2004; Bevan et al., 2002; Gatev and Wichmann, 2003; Sharott et al., 2005). In fact, a recent analysis of the corticobasal ganglia interaction, using the technique of event-related spectral perturbation (Makeig et al., 2004), has demonstrated that basal ganglia discharge appears to be embedded in a large-scale frequency context which spans at least seconds of cortical activity, and may involve frequencies ranging from delta to beta bands (Gatev and Wichmann, unpublished). While oscillations at low frequencies may be the result of direct connections between individual neurons (perhaps best demonstrated by the coculture experiments of Plenz and Kitai, 1999), oscillations at higher frequencies (certainly above 50/s) are very likely not mediated by single neuronal interactions, but may represent resonances that engage larger portions (and multiple neurons) of the basal ganglia– thalamocortical network. LFP recordings in patients have been particularly instructive in the study of oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia. These recordings, done in patients with Parkinson’s disease, have shown that there is a preponderance of oscillatory LFP activity in the 0–30 Hz range in the parkinsonian state (see also below), which can be reversed by treatment with levodopa. Levodopa treatment enhances high-frequency oscillations (above 60 Hz) instead (Brown et al., 2001; Brown, 2003), resulting in the proposal that low-frequency oscillations may be antikinetic, while oscillations at frequencies above 50–60 Hz may be a normal phenomenon, and may act to allow movement, i.e. be prokinetic (Brown, 2003). The general role of oscillations as a mode of communication in the basal ganglia remains speculative, particularly due to the fact that virtually no data are available from normal individuals.

1.3. Circuit models of Parkinson’s disease 1.3.1. Rate changes The afore-mentioned models have helped in the understanding of the pathophysiology of movement disorders. Only one of them, Parkinson’s disease, will be discussed here in some detail. Parkinson’s disease is the most common hypokinetic disorder. It is characterized by progressive degeneration of brain cells,

including areas in the brainstem, midbrain, olfactory tubercle and cortex (Braak et al., 2003). Most of the movement abnormalities seen in parkinsonism are due to degeneration of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal projection, resulting clinically in the combination of akinesia (poverty of movement), bradykinesia (slowness), rigidity (muscle stiffness) and a 4–6 Hz lowfrequency tremor at rest. The study of circuit changes in parkinsonism has been facilitated by the development of the primate model of parkinsonism induced by treatment with 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). Monkeys treated with this toxin develop a behavioral and pathologic phenotype that closely mimics Parkinson’s disease in humans (Burns et al., 1983; Forno et al., 1993). Early studies in MPTP-treated primates have indicated that metabolic activity (as measured with the 2-deoxy-glucose technique) is increased in both pallidal segments (Crossman et al., 1985, Schwartzman and Alexander, 1985). This was interpreted as evidence for increased activity of the first portion of the indirect pathway (the striatum–GPe connection) as well as the STN–GPi pathway, or, alternatively, as evidence for increased activity via the projections from the STN to GPi and GPe. Subsequent microelectrode recordings of neuronal activity in the primate MPTPmodel of parkinsonism showed directly that neuronal discharge is reduced in GPe, and increased in the STN and GPi, as compared to normal controls (see Fig. 1.1, right side, and Miller and DeLong, 1987; Filion et al., 1988; Bergman et al., 1994). Some of these findings have been supported by studies in parkinsonian patients undergoing microelectrode recording-guided neurosurgical interventions (Vitek et al., 1993; Dogali et al., 1994; Lozano et al., 1996). More recently, experiments in MPTP-treated monkeys have suggested that SNr neurons are also hyperactive in parkinsonism (Wichmann et al., 1999). The changes in discharge rates in the basal ganglia have been interpreted as indicating that striatal dopamine depletion leads to increased activity of striatal neurons of the indirect pathway, resulting in inhibition of GPe, and subsequent disinhibition of STN and GPi/ SNr. It is likely that other structures and feedback loops, such as those involving the PPN and thalamic nuclei (see above) may enhance or ameliorate the abnormalities of discharge in the basal ganglia output nuclei. PET studies in parkinsonian patients have consistently shown reduced activation of motor and premotor areas (Ceballos-Baumann and Brooks, 1997; Eidelberg and Edwards, 2000), which may be a consequence of altered discharge in the basal ganglia output nuclei.

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA Apart from their possible involvement in feedback circuits, brainstem areas such as the PPN may also be directly involved in the development of parkinsonian signs, particularly akinesia. Changes in PPN activity have not been explored directly in parkinsonian monkeys. According to the afore-mentioned circuit models, one would expect a decrease in PPN activity in parkinsonism, but there is at least one report in rodents indicating the opposite (Breit et al., 2001). Lesions of this nucleus in normal monkeys are known to result in akinesia and bradykinesia (Kojima et al., 1997; MunroDavies et al., 1999), while activation of the PPN by local injections of the GABA-A receptor antagonist bicuculline ameliorate parkinsonian signs in MPTPtreated monkeys (Nandi et al., 2002). One of the possible explanations for these findings is that PPN interacts locally with other brainstem areas to modulate the degree of movement. Another possible explanation is that activation or inactivation of the PPN interferes with the glutamatergic drive on to SNc neurons from the PPN. For instance, lesioning may reduce the excitatory input from PPN to the SNc, perhaps resulting in a reduction of striatal dopamine release. To date, a reduction of striatal dopamine release after PPN lesions, or reversibility of hypokinesia by dopaminergic drugs, has not been shown. Further support for the hypothesis that PPN inactivation acts via the intercalated SNc to induce bradykinesia and akinesia comes from studies in which the proparkinsonian consequences of MPTP treatment in monkeys were partially avoided by prelesioning of the PPN (Takada et al., 2000). These studies were interpreted to indicate a role of excitotoxic glutamate release from PPN terminals in MPTP-related death of dopamine cells in the SNc. The general pathophysiologic model in which overactivity along the indirect pathway is a major contributor to the development of parkinsonism is supported by the demonstration that lesions of STN, GPi or SNr in MPTP-treated primates reverse some or all signs of parkinsonism (Bergman et al., 1990; Lieberman et al., 1999; Wichmann et al., 2001). Over the last decade, these results have revitalized interest in functional neurosurgical approaches as treatments of Parkinson’s disease. This was first employed in the form of GPi lesions (pallidotomy) (Laitinen et al., 1992; Dogali et al., 1995; Lozano et al., 1995; Baron et al., 1996) and, more recently, with STN lesions (Gill and Heywood, 1997; Alvarez et al., 2001). In addition, highfrequency DBS of STN or GPi has been shown to reverse parkinsonian signs (Starr et al., 1998; see below). PET studies in pallidotomy patients and in patients with DBS of the STN or GPi have shown that frontal motor areas whose metabolic activity was reduced in the parkinsonian state became active again

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after the procedure (Ceballos-Bauman et al., 1994; Eidelberg et al., 1996; Eidelberg and Edwards, 2000). Although the rate-based circuit models of parkinsonism have had tremendous value in generating testable hypotheses, detailed studies of the results of lesions in human patients with parkinsonism have brought to light several findings that are incompatible with the models. For instance, lesions of the VA/VL nuclei of the thalamus do not lead to parkinsonism, as would be predicted by the model, and are, in fact, beneficial in the treatment of tremor and rigidity (Tasker et al., 1997; Giller et al., 1998). Similarly, lesions of GPi in the setting of parkinsonism improve all aspects of Parkinson’s disease without producing dyskinesias or other obvious detrimental effects. In fact, these procedures are highly effective in reducing drug-induced dyskinesias (Dogali et al., 1995; Rabey et al., 1995; Baron et al., 1996). In contrast to the hypokinetic features of parkinsonism, dyskinesias appear to arise from pathologic reduction in basal ganglia outflow (Papa et al., 1999), and thus should not respond to but are made worse by further reduction of pallidal outflow (Marsden and Obeso, 1994). 1.3.2. Pattern changes These seemingly paradoxical findings may be explained by the realization that parkinsonism may result, in part, from changes in basal ganglia activity other than altered discharge rates. Such additional changes may include altered processing of proprioceptive input, as well as abnormal timing, patterning and synchronization of discharge that introduces errors and non-specific noise into the thalamocortical signal. Altered discharge patterns (Figs. 1.2 and 1.3) and synchronization between neighboring neurons have been extensively documented in parkinsonian monkeys and patients. For instance, neuronal responses to passive limb manipulations in STN, GPi and thalamus (Miller and DeLong, 1987; Filion et al., 1988; Bergman et al., 1994) have been shown to occur more often, to be more pronounced and to have widened receptive fields after treatment with MPTP. In addition, the proportion of neurons showing increased discharge in response to somatosensory inputs increases, supporting the view that somatosensory processing is fundamentally altered in this disease (Boraud et al., 2000). There is also a marked change in the synchronization of discharge between neurons in the basal ganglia. In contrast to the virtual absence of synchronized discharge of such neurons in normal monkeys (Wichmann et al., 1994), a substantial proportion of neighboring neurons in globus pallidus and STN discharge in unison in parkinsonian primates (Bergman et al., 1994).

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The proportion of cells in STN, GPi and SNr which discharge in oscillatory or non-oscillatory bursts is also greatly increased in parkinsonism (Figs. 1.2 and 1.3; Miller and DeLong, 1987; Filion and Tremblay, 1991; Bergman et al., 1994; Soares et al., 2004). Oscillatory burst discharge patterns are relatively rare in the normal basal ganglia, but are often seen in conjunction with tremor, which may reflect tremor-related proprioceptive input or a more active participation of the basal ganglia in the generation of tremor. As mentioned above, other forms of oscillations may involve not single cells, but larger portions of the basal ganglia thalamocortical network. Such oscillations are now recordable in patients with Parkinson’s disease, using LFP recordings from implanted DBS electrodes, as described in section 1.2.5 of this chapter. These studies have pinpointed oscillations in STN and GPi at low frequencies (below 30 Hz) as being

particularly disruptive for movement (‘antikinetic’; see Brown, 2003). The therapeutic benefits of GPi and STN lesions suggest that in Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders the total lack of basal ganglia output is more tolerable than disruptive abnormal output on brainstem and thalamocortical systems. Functional imaging studies have demonstrated that the surgical interventions do not necessarily normalize cortical motor mechanisms in parkinsonian subjects, but rather may allow the intact portions of the thalamocortical and brainstem system to compensate more effectively for the loss of the basal ganglia contribution to movement. A related mechanism may be at work in DBS treatments for Parkinson’s disease. DBS is a highly effective treatment modality for this disorder (Obeso et al., 1997; Starr et al., 1998; Olanow et al., 2000; Ashkan et al., 2004; Lozano and Mahant, 2004). Despite the similarity in the results of lesions and

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Fig. 1.3. Summary representation of changes in discharge rates (A), the neuron’s tendency to discharge in burst, expressed as the number of spikes occurring in bursts as compared to the total number of spikes (B), and changes in the proportion of cells with significant autocorrelation peaks suggesting oscillatory discharge in the 3–8 Hz range (C) and in the 8–15 Hz range (D). GPe, globus pallidus externus; STN, subthalamic nucleus; GPi, globus pallidus internus; MPTP, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6tetrahydropyridine. Data from Soares et al. (2004).

DBS interventions, there is evidence that DBS works not through inactivation, but through true stimulation of fibers and neurons in the vicinity of the stimulating electrode (Hashimoto et al., 2003; Brown et al., 2004; McIntyre et al., 2004), which may alter the oscillatory characteristics of basal ganglia output (Brown et al., 2004). Basal ganglia output is clearly not normalized in patients who are successfully treated with DBS. Rather, it seems that the disease-related abnormalities of basal ganglia output are modulated by stimulation in a way that is less disruptive.

1.4. Conclusion Recent studies of basal ganglia anatomy and physiology have resulted in a more refined view of the intricate networks in which these structures are involved and the functions with which they may be concerned. Yet, the explosion of anatomic and physiologic knowledge has also resulted in the realization that previous models of the basal ganglia circuitry were simplistic in detail and scope. Meaningful revisions of these models require incorporation of the many newly discovered or emphasized intrinsic and extrinsic connections of these nuclei, and a more dynamic view of these structures, which

appear to interact with cortex over long time scales and a wide range of frequencies which may not always rely simply on connections between individual neurons, but may involve larger ensembles of cells, which may be engaged on information exchange via oscillatory interactions. In addition, future updates of the models will have to incorporate the newly gained knowledge regarding the types of information which reach the basal ganglia, and how they are incorporated into basal ganglia activity. Detailed knowledge of these network aspects of basal ganglia function will help to a better understanding of the many diseases which result from basal ganglia dysfunction.

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Chapter 2

Functional neurochemistry of the basal ganglia PERSHIA SAMADI1,2, CLAUDE ROUILLARD2, PAUL J. BE´DARD2 AND THE´RE`SE DI PAOLO1* 1

Centre de Recherche en Endocrinologie Molećulaire et Oncologique, CHUL, Faculte´ de Pharmacie, and 2 Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences, CHUL, Faculte´ de Me´dicine, Universite´ Laval, Que´bec, Canada

Proper execution of voluntary movements results from the correct processing of feedback loops involving the cortex, thalamus and basal ganglia (BG). The BG include a subset of subcortical structures involved in a variety of processes including motor behavior and also motor learning and memory process (Graybiel et al., 1994; Graybiel, 1998; Packard and Knowlton, 2002). The BG are located in the basal telencephalon and consist of interconnected structures. The dorsal division of the BG is associated with motor and associative functions and consists of the striatum, including the caudate nucleus and putamen; the globus pallidus or pallidum which comprises the internal (GPi) and external (GPe) regions; the subthalamic nucleus (STN); and the substantia nigra divided into two main parts, the pars compacta (SNc) and pars reticulata (SNr). The ventral division of the BG is associated with limbic functions and consists of the ventral striatum and nucleus accumbens, the ventral pallidum and ventral tegmental area (Blandini et al., 2000; Bolam et al., 2000; Parent et al., 2000).

2.1. Functional basal ganglia circuit The striatum, the input structure of the BG, receives two major inputs: 1. a massive excitatory glutamatergic projection from most areas of the cerebral cortex organized in a highly topographical manner, and 2. a dopaminergic projection from the SNc (Parent et al., 1995b, 2000; Smith et al., 1998; Bolam et al., 2000). The striatum also receives glutamatergic inputs from the amygdala, the hippocampus and the centromedian–

parafascicular thalamic complex (Parent et al., 2000; Smith et al., 2004) and serotoninergic afferents from the raphe and caudal linear nuclei (Parent et al., 1995b; Blandini et al., 2000). In addition, the activity of the BG components in controlling movements is modulated by the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) (Delwaide et al., 2000; Parent et al., 2000). The mammalian striatum has two anatomical compartments: the striosomes (patches) and the matrix with distinct chemical compositions and connections (Graybiel et al., 2000; Prensa and Parent, 2001; Levesque et al., 2004). High densities of m opioid receptor binding and low levels of acetylcholinesterase staining define striosomes, while the matrix has high levels of the Ca2þ-binding protein, calbindin (Graybiel and Ragsdale, 1978). Striosomes express a higher density of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptor compared to the matrix (Waldvogel et al., 1999). The areas of cortex associated with the limbic system innervate striosomes whereas the neocortical inputs to the matrix originate from the association and sensorimotor cortices, which innervate medial and lateral parts of the striatum, respectively (Graybiel et al., 2000). It has been suggested that the balance of activity between the matrix and striosomal compartments has an important role in the modulation of BG motor functions (Graybiel et al., 2000). The principal output nuclei of the BG are SNr and GPi (Parent and Hazrati, 1995a, b; Parent et al., 2000). These nuclei, SNr and GPi, tonically inhibit the ventral anterior and ventral lateral (VA/VL) motor nuclei of the thalamus, thereby reducing excitatory thalamic innervation of cortical motor areas (Alexander and Crutcher, 1990). Movement occurs when the

*Correspondence to: Dr The´re`se Di Paolo, Molecular Endocrinology and Oncology Research Center, Laval University Medical Center (CHUL), 2705 Laurier Boulevard, Que´bec PQ, G1V 4G2, Canada. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: 418654-2296; Fax: 418-654-2761.

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thalamus is disinhibited, facilitating excitation of cortical motor areas and resulting in increased motor output to the brainstem and spinal cord (Pollack, 2001). According to the current model for the organization of the BG, the cortical information is received by striatal medium spiny neurons. These neurons relay this information to the SNr and GPi via direct and indirect pathways. In the direct pathway, GABA containing medium spiny neurons project directly to the output nuclei (SNr-GPi). These striatonigral neurons also express dopamine D1 receptors, the neuropeptides substance P (SP) and dynorphin (Dyn). Stimulation of the direct pathway inhibits the target neurons in SNr-GPi, thus facilitating the thalamocortical activity by disinhibition of the thalamus. This facilitatory action of the direct pathway is modulated by the indirect pathway. In the indirect pathway, the GABAergic medium spiny neurons project indirectly to the output nuclei via a complex network interconnecting the GPe and STN. These GABAergic medium spiny neurons express dopamine D2 receptors and the neuropeptide enkephalin (Enk) and project directly to the GPe (striatopallidal neurons). The GPe sends GABAergic projections to the STN or sends direct projections to the SNr-GPi (Alexander and Crutcher, 1990; Wichmann and DeLong, 1996; Bolam et al., 2000; Parent et al., 2000; Hornykiewicz, 2001). The segregation of the striatonigral (direct) and striatopallidal (indirect) pathways is not complete; indeed, striatonigral neurons give minor axon collaterals to the globus pallidus (GPe in primates) (Kawaguchi et al., 1990). A subpopulation of GPe neurons sends an inhibitory feedback selectively to the striatal GABAergic interneurons. Cortical input is also received by these inhibitory interneurons, which in turn innervate medium spiny neurons. Thus, by synchronizing the activity of medium spiny neurons, these neurons are in the position to modulate the flow of cortical information through the BG (Bolam et al., 2000). Disinhibition of STN by pallidal projection neurons leads to glutamate-mediated excitation of the output nuclei. Consequently, inhibitory control over the thalamus increases and motor activity decreases. The STN sends projection neurons to GPe and output nuclei of the BG. Besides inhibitory GABAergic neurons from GPe, the STN also receives inhibitory projections from ventral pallidum and nucleus accumbens, excitatory input from PPN, parafascicular nucleus of the thalamus, the sensory motor cortex and dopaminergic inputs from SNc. In the current models of BG circuitry, the STN holds a strategic position in the circuitry (Alexander and Crutcher, 1990; Wichmann and DeLong, 1996; Smith et al., 1998; Bolam et al., 2000; Parent et al., 2000; Hornykiewicz, 2001).

Voluntary movement is mediated by a balanced activity of the direct and indirect pathways. In contrast, imbalance in the activity of these two pathways and the resulting alterations in the output nuclei are thought to account for the hypo- and hyperkinetic features of BG disorders (Be´dard et al., 1999; Parent et al., 2000). The major connections of the BG structures are summarized in Fig. 2.1.

2.2. Chemical transmission systems in the basal ganglia More than 99% of all synapse in the brain use chemical transmission, referred to as fast and slow synaptic transmission (Greengard, 2001). Neuronal activity in the BG is under the control of different neurotransmitter systems that regulate the duration and intensity of cellular communications. In recent years, it has become clear that information exchange at the synapse is bi-directional. In classical anterogade signaling neuronal information coded by the action potential is transmitted through a chemical synapse in the anterograde direction by release of neurotransmitters, neuropeptides and neuromodulators from the presynaptic terminal. The transmitter molecules then diffuse across the synaptic cleft and bind to their receptors on the postsynaptic cell membrane. This in turn activates the receptors, leading to immediate changes in membrane potential as well as long-term structural and metabolic changes in the postsynaptic cell. This form of transmission has the important property of amplification and, by the discharge of just one synaptic vesicle, several thousand molecules of transmitter stored in that vesicle are released. Because of the rapid dynamic of synthesis and release, much of the small transmitter molecules in the neuron must be synthesized at the terminal. In contrast, the protein precursors of neuroactive peptides are only synthesized in the cell body where they are packaged in dense-core vesicles and transported anterogradely from the cell body to the terminals. The co-release of several neuroactive substances on to appropriate postsynaptic receptors allows an extraordinary diversity of information to be transferred in a single synaptic action (Kandel et al., 2000). In recently discovered retrograde signaling, the postsynaptic cell provides a variety of retrograde signals either constitutively or triggered by synaptic activity on the postsynaptic neuron. The retrograde signaling could occur through: (1) signaling by membrane-permeant factors; (2) signaling by secreted factors; and (3) signaling by membranebound factors. The retrograde signaling is now recognized as a mechanism of synaptic regulation in the brain where it plays a critical role in the differentiation

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Fig. 2.1. Major circuits of the basal ganglia. GPi, internal globus pallidus; GPe, external globus pallidus; PPN, pedonculopontine tegmental nucleus; STN, subthalamic nucleus; SNc, substantia nigra pars compacta; SNr, substantia nigra pars reticulata; 5-HT, serotonin; DA, dopamine; Glu, glutamate; GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid; ACh, acetylcholine; Enk, enkephalin; Dyn, dynorphin; SP, substance P.

and maintenance of presynaptic cells, as well as in the formation, maturation and plasticity of the synapse (Fitzsimonds and Poo, 1998; Tao and Poo, 2001; Alger, 2002). Transmitters are removed from the synaptic cleft by three different mechanisms: diffusion, enzymatic degradation and reuptake by specific neurotransmitter transporters (Kandel et al., 2000). The processing and storage of motor information in the BG depend on the signal transduction induced by different neurotransmitters and neuromodulators. Table 2.1 summarizes the most important of these chemical messengers in the BG.

2.3. Dopamine The mesostriatal dopaminergic pathway is composed of: (1) the dorsal part, corresponding to the dopaminergic nigrostriatal projection of the SNc; and (2) the ventral part, corresponding to the dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area, which terminates in the ventral striatum (Parent et al., 1995b). The role of dopamine as the main neurotransmitter in the functional organization of the BG is drawn from the severe motor disturbances resulting from the degeneration of the nigrostriatal pathway in Parkinson’s disease (PD)

(Marsden, 1984). Dopaminergic innervation of the STN and GPi originating from the SNc has been also demonstrated (Cossette et al., 1999). Dopaminergic and glutamatergic systems interact closely at the level of medium spiny neurons. Dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons synapse mainly on to the necks of dendritic spines of medium spiny projection neurons (Smith and Bolam, 1990b; Hanley and Bolam, 1997) whereas glutamatergic cortical afferents synapse specifically on the head of the same dendritic spines (Smith et al., 1994). These findings suggest that glutamate activates medium spiny neurons while dopamine released from the nigrostriatal terminal acts on dopamine receptors within the synapse and extrasynaptic sites to modulate striatal glutamatergic input (Starr, 1995; Yung et al., 1995; Pollack, 2001). In addition, recent studies suggest that dopamine may also modulate striatal interneuron activity. Since the activity of medium spiny neurons is also finely regulated by interneurons, by modulating the activity of these interneurons dopamine exerts an indirect but potent control on the striatal output neurons (Bracci et al., 2002; Centonze et al., 2003b). Therefore, dopamine, by providing strong modulation of striatal neuronal activity, plays an important role in the control of the whole BG circuitry and ensures voluntary movements.

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Table 2.1 Major neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in the basal ganglia and their receptors Neurotransmitter/neuromodulator

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2.3.1. Dopamine biosynthesis, reuptake and degradation The precursors of dopamine, phenylalanine and tyrosine, but not dopamine itself, are able to cross the blood–brain barrier. The biosynthesis of dopamine takes place within the cytosol of nerve terminals in two steps. First, tyrosine is converted to levodopa (l-dihydroxyphenylalanine) by the enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase, which is present in catecholaminecontaining neurons. Then, dopamine is synthesized from decarboxylation of levodopa by the enzyme

dopa-decarboxylase, also known as aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC). Dopamine is finally degraded by the activity of monoamine oxidase (MAO) and aldehyde dehydrogenase to dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC). Dopamine can also be metabolized by the enzymatic activity of catechol-Omethyltransferase to form 3-methoxytryptamine. DOPAC and 3-methoxytryptamine are then degraded to form homovanillic acid (Webster, 2001b; von Bohlen und Halbach and Dermietzel, 2002). The summary of the synthesis, transport and degradation of dopamine is illustrated in Fig. 2.2.

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The dopamine transporters, which are key factors in the control of extracellular dopamine concentrations, can be classified into two main families: (1) the monoamine vesicular transporter (VMAT2) and (2) plasma membrane transporter (dopamine transporter (DAT)). VMAT2 is distinct from VMAT1 in the adrenal medulla and is responsible for packaging dopamine and other monoamines from cytoplasm into synaptic vesicles. Reduction of VMAT2 binding in the nigrostriatal system has been demonstrated in animal models of PD (Vander Borght et al., 1995; Kilbourn et al., 2000), and has also been reported in patients with PD (Frey et al., 1996). The vesicular monoamine uptake, including dopamine, involves the exchange of lumenal Hþ for cytoplasmic transmitters by HþATPase located in the vesicular membrane (Piccini, 2003). DAT is responsible for the uptake of dopamine from the extracellular space into the cytoplasm (Piccini, 2003). Like other monoamine transporters, DAT is a transmembrane protein, containing 12 putative domains. The mechanism by which DAT mediates dopamine uptake involves sequential binding and

cotransport of two Naþ ions and one Cl ion generated by the plasma membrane Naþ/Kþ-ATPase (Torres et al., 2003). DAT functions are regulated by presynaptic receptors, protein kinases and membrane trafficking and changes in DAT levels can clearly alter motor activity (Marshall and Grosset, 2003; Schenk et al., 200; Uhl, 2003). Agents that alter protein kinase C (PKC), inositol triphosphate (PI3) kinase and mitogen and signal-regulated kinase (MEK1 and 2) alter DAT function (Vrindavanam et al., 1996; Carvelli et al., 2002; Uhl, 2003). Transporters can also function in reverse and they possess channel-like activity (Torres et al., 2003). Since PD is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, neuroimaging techniques that reflect the conversion of levodopa to dopamine through aromatic AADC, VMAT2 and DAT, can be used to evaluate the status of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system (Brooks et al., 2003). Furthermore, DAT and VMAT2 localization provides markers for presynaptic dopaminergic loss in parkinsonism and allows parkinsonism to be differentiated from other movement disorders without presynaptic dopaminergic loss, such as essential tremor,

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vascular pseudoparkinsonism and psychogenic parkinsonism (Marshall and Grosset, 2003). 2.3.2. Receptors and signal transduction Dopamine receptors belong to the seven transmembranelike G-protein-coupled receptor superfamily. According to the similarity of a-subunits, G-proteins are divided into four main families: Gas/olf, Gai/o, Gaq/11 and Ga12/13. Each family preferentially regulates specific classes of effector molecules, for example Gas/olf and Gai/o are positively and negatively coupled to adenylyl cyclase, respectively (Cabrera-Vera et al., 2003). To date, five distinct dopamine receptors subtypes (D1–D5) have been isolated and characterized (Missale et al., 1998). These receptors are classified into two main families: D1-like (D1 and D5) and D2-like (D2–D4) dopamine receptors, based on positive (D1) or negative (D2) coupling to adenylyl cyclase and the regulation of intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels (Kebabian and Calne, 1979; Missale et al., 1998). Dopamine, through activation of D1-like receptors and cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) phosphorylates a key component of dopaminergic signaling in medium spiny neurons, the dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein (DARPP-32) at threonine 34 (Thr-34). The phosphorylation converts DARPP-32 from an inactive molecule into an inhibitor of protein phosphatase1 (PP-1), which controls the state of phosphorylation and activity of numerous physiologically important effectors, including transcription factors such as cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB), fos-family, ion channels and ionotropic receptors. Conversely, activation of D2-like receptors counteracts the effect of D1-like receptors on phosphorylation of DARPP32 at Thr-34 by activating PP-2B and by reducing cAMP levels (Nishi et al., 1997; Greengard, 2001). D1-like receptors could also act on inositol phosphate production and mobilization of intracellular Ca2þ (Undie et al., 1994). On the other hand, D2-like receptors suppress N-type Ca2þ currents (Yan et al., 1997). Although D1 and D2 receptors in the striatum appear to be largely segregated, there is evidence of co-localization of D1 and D2 receptors on medium spiny neurons (Surmeier et al., 1996; Aizman et al., 2000), the collateralization of striatofugal axons (Parent et al., 1995a, 2000), and the presence of D2 receptors on striatal interneurons (Betarbet et al., 1997). D1 receptors may be exclusively localized on postsynaptic elements in striatal medium spiny neurons (Hersch et al., 1995; Caille et al., 1996), while D2 receptors are reported to be localized on pre- and postsynaptic elements, including corticostriatal terminals (Hersch et al., 1995; Wang and Pickel, 2002).

Recent studies revealed that dopamine selectively inhibits particular subsets of corticostriatal afferents via activation of D2 receptors on glutamatergic presynaptic terminals (Bamford et al., 2004). Inactivation of L-type voltage-dependent Ca2þ channels is a main mechanism involved in the D2 receptor-mediated inhibition of striatopallidal neuronal activity (HernandezLopez et al., 2000). GABAergic interneurons which have dense arborization and contact several striatal neurons, including interneurons themselves, also express D2 receptors (Delle Donne et al., 1997). It has been shown that D2 receptors cause presynaptic inhibition of both GABAergic and cholinergic interneurons (Pisani et al., 2000). By a mechanism of alternative splicing, the D2 receptor genes encode two isoforms, D2L and D2S (Usiello et al., 2000). These two isoforms have different functions in vivo; D2S is principally a D2 presynaptic autoreceptor, while D2L acts mainly at postsynaptic sites (Usiello et al., 2000). The D3 receptor has a higher expression in nucleus accumbens while is less expressed in the dorsal striatum (Levesque et al., 1992; Missale et al., 1998). Moderate levels of D4 receptor expression in dorsal striatum with greater abundance in striosome than in matrix has been shown (Rivera et al., 2002b). It has been reported that D4 receptors are located on corticostriatal projections to the dorsal and ventral striatum (Tarazi et al., 1998). The expression of D5 receptor in the striatum has been demonstrated (Yan and Surmeier, 1997; Rivera et al., 2002a) and is reported to be preferentially expressed in striatal interneurons (Rivera et al., 2002a). A variety of G-proteins, ion channels and second messenger systems modulated by dopamine receptor activation can induce both immediate and long-term changes in cell physiology (Sealfon and Olanow, 2000). Dopamine D1 and D2 receptors on striatal medium spiny neurons serve to modulate glutamatemediated activity (Calabresi et al., 2000a). The D1 receptor activation produces different effects on Ca2þ currents, reducing N- and P-type but enhancing L-type conductances (Surmeier et al., 1995). Dopamine potentiates NMDA-induced currents in medium spiny neurons by enhancement of L-type Ca2þ conductances and the cAMP-dependent PKA and PKC cascades (Smart, 1997; Cepeda et al., 1998). Recently, it has been reported that the D1 and D5 dopamine receptor activation induces long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) in distinct subtypes of striatal neurons and could exert distinct roles in motor activity and corticostriatal synaptic plasticity (Centonze et al., 2003a). According to these studies, while LTP induction requires the stimulation of the D1-PKA pathway in the

FUNCTIONAL NEUROCHEMISTRY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA medium spiny neurons, LTD depends on the activation of D5-PKA signaling in a neuronal subtype other than medium spiny neurons (Centonze et al., 2003a). The homo- and heterodimerization of G-proteincoupled receptor can generate numerous possibilities in the regulation of their function (Bouvier, 2001). Dopamine D2 receptor homodimerization (Lee et al., 2003) and also heterodimerization of D2/D3 (Maggio et al., 2003), dopamine/somatostatin (Rocheville et al., 2000) and dopamine/adenosine (Franco et al., 2000) receptor families have been shown. These receptor homo- and heterodimerizations might be involved in the development of neuronal plasticity contributing to learning and memory (Franco et al., 2000).

2.4. Glutamate The striatum receives glutamatergic projections from the cortex and the thalamus. The corticostriatal afferents are the main extrinsic pathways of the BG and they are highly topographic and impose a functional compartmentation of striatal regions. The STN is the principal intrinsic glutamatergic structure of these brain nuclei. Despite its relatively small size, the STN is currently considered as one of the main driving forces of the BG (Parent et al., 1995b; Parent, 2002).

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2.4.1. Glutamate biosynthesis and reuptake L-glutamic acid or glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. Glutamate cannot cross the blood–brain barrier and therefore it is synthesized locally from glucose via pyruvate, the Krebs cycle, the transmission of a-oxoglutamate or by deamination of glutamine in nerve terminals. Glutamate is then accumulated in synaptic vesicles (Dickenson, 2001; von Bohlen und Halbach and Dermietzel, 2002). After release, the high-affinity membrane transporters remove glutamate from the synapse into the nerve terminals or into the adjacent glial cells. The imported glutamate in glial cells is converted to glutamine by glutamine synthetase. Glutamine is then released from the glial cells by glutamine transporter for subsequent uptake by glutamate nerve terminals. Glutamine is then transformed into glutamate by neuronal mitochondrial glutaminase (Dickenson, 2001; von Bohlen und Halbach and Dermietzel, 2002). The summary of the synthesis, transport and degradation of glutamate is illustrated in Fig. 2.3. The storage of glutamate in synaptic vesicles requires the presence of vesicular glutamate transporter (VGLUT), which is independent of Naþ and Kþ and requires Hþ-ATPase exchange (Danbolt, 2001; Montana et al., 2004). Three isoforms of VGLUT have

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been identified in glutamatergic neurons and also in subpopulations of GABAergic, cholinergic and monoaminergic neurons (Bai et al., 2001; Fremeau et al., 2002; Gras et al., 2002; Dal Bo et al., 2004). The cotransmission of glutamate in dopamine neurons may provide novel insight into pathophysiological processes that underlie PD (Plaitakis and Shashidharan, 2000; Dal Bo et al., 2004). Furthermore the glial cells, astrocytes, could modulate synaptic transmission by releasing glutamate in a Ca2þ-dependent manner (Kang et al., 1998) and recent studies suggest that VGLUTs also play a functional role in exocytotic glutamate release from astrocytes (Montana et al., 2004). The only rapid way to remove the glutamate released from nerve terminals by exocytosis is the reuptake of glutamate from the extracellular space. Until now, a family of five high-affinity uptakes of the excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) have been identified (Danbolt, 2001). These cytoplasmic membrane transporters are located presynaptically in glutamatergic nerve terminals, postsynaptically in dendrites and spines and extrasynaptically in glial cells. The EAATs termed EAAT1–EAAT5 cotransport Naþ and Hþ into the cells in the exchange of Kþ and they are also called Naþ- and Kþ-coupled glutamate transporters. In addition, postsynaptic glutamate transporters have a relatively high associated Cl channel activity (Danbolt, 2001). In the rat striatum, glutamate aspartate transporter (GLAST, EAAT1) and GLT1 (EAAT2) are expressed in astrocytes and EAAC (EAAT3) in neurons (Danbolt, 2001). A lesion of glutamatergic corticostriatal projection has been shown to downregulate the GLT1 and GLAST (Levy et al., 1995a). However, nigrostriatal denervation in the rat model of PD does not affect GLT1 mRNA expression, although chronic levodopa treatment increases GLT1 mRNA and protein expression in this model. This effect is suggested to be a compensatory mechanism involving astrocytes in order to prevent neurotoxic overactivity of glutamate (Lievens et al., 2001; Robelet et al., 2004). Furthermore, it has recently been shown that the inhibitory influence of A2A receptor activation on glutamate uptake may be one of the putative mechanisms responsible for the neuroprotective effects of A2A receptor antagonists in the striatum (Popoli et al., 2002; Pintor et al., 2004). Accordingly, all these results indicate the important role of glutamate transporters in neurodegenerative processes that underlie PD. 2.4.2. Receptors and signal transduction Glutamate receptors (GluRs) are classified into two main groups of ionotropic or metabotropic receptors

based on their structure and mechanisms of action (Stone and Addae, 2002). 2.4.2.1. The ionotropic glutamate receptors These receptors are ligand-gated ion channels (Glu-sensitive) and open on activation, allowing the influx of Naþ, Kþ and/or Ca2þ, which subsequently mediate fast excitatory synaptic transmission. Three subtypes of ionotropic glutamate receptors have been identified: N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA), a-amino-3-hydroxy-5methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) and kainate (Dingledine and McBain, 1999; Dickenson, 2001; von Bohlen und Halbach and Dermietzel, 2002). The NMDA receptors consist of a combination of at least four subunits belonging to three families: NMDA R1 (NR1), NMDA R2 (NR2A, NR2B, NR2C and NR2D) and NR3A (Mori and Mishina, 1995; Das et al., 1998; Laube et al., 1998). NR1 subunits are ubiquitous to all NMDA receptors and are necessary for their function. In addition to the conventional agonist-binding site occupied by glutamate, the binding of glycine at a co-agonist site is required for receptor activation (Kleckner and Dingledine, 1988). Additionally, unlike the non-NMDA receptor channels, NMDA receptor channels are physiologically blocked by Mg2þ at resting membrane potential and the NMDA channel opening requires simultaneous occurrence of neurotransmitter binding and membrane depolarization. In addition, the receptor is highly permeable to Ca2þ, a well-known second messenger able to activate multiple signaling cascades and long-lasting changes in regulation of gene expression (Ghosh and Greenberg, 1995; Finkbeiner and Greenberg, 1998). These unique properties of NMDA receptors indicate their important physiological functions such as synaptic plasticity and synapse formation, which determine learning and memory (Yamakura and Shimoji, 1999). The AMPA receptors are hetero-oligomeric proteins made of the subunits GluR1–GluR4. Each receptor complex is thought to contain four subunits (Rosenmund et al., 1998). Finally, the kainate receptors are heteromeric combinations of the high-affinity kainite-binding subunits (GluR5–7 and Kainate1–2) (Hollmann and Heinemann, 1994). The AMPA and kainate receptors have permeability to Naþ and Kþ and, based on the RNAediting sites, some of them are permeable to Ca2þ (Gu et al., 1996). Striatal ionotropic glutamate receptors could regulate mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades that contribute to the development of neuroplasticity (Wang et al., 2004). Electrical or chemical stimulation of corticostriatal pathways induce phosphorylation of ERK1/2, which is one of the MAPK subfamilies in striatal neurons involved in response to glutamate (Sgambato et al., 1998). Activation

FUNCTIONAL NEUROCHEMISTRY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA of all three subtypes of ionotropic glutamate receptors is believed to possess the ability to phosphorylate ERK1/2 (Wang et al., 2004). Pharmacological activation of NMDA receptors strongly increases ERK1/2 activation in striatal neurons and this effect is sensitive to NMDA receptor antagonists (Perkinton et al., 2002; Mao et al., 2004). The NMDA receptor is believed to initiate its activation of ERK1/2 via Ca2þ influx since the absence or low concentrations of extracellular Ca2þ impair NMDA activation of ERK1/2 (Perkinton et al., 2002). Ca2þ-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CAMKII), a major Ca2þ-sensitive kinase, relays Ca2þ signals in the postsynaptic NMDA receptor complex (Wang et al., 2004). Interestingly, more recent studies reveal that the CAMKII hyperphosphorylated state plays a causal role in the pathophysiology of parkinsonian motor disability and in the maladaptive striatal plasticity after dopamine denervation (Picconi et al., 2004). 2.4.2.2. The metabotropic glutamate receptors The metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) belong to G-protein-coupled receptor family 3, which also includes GABAB receptors. These receptors modulate excitatory synaptic transmission by at least two mechanisms: first, an inhibition of glutamate release from afferent nerve terminals, and second, a regulation of the activity of voltage-dependent ion channels or ionotropic glutamate receptors (particularly NMDA receptors) at postsynaptic sites (Picconi et al., 2002). The mGlu receptors are classified into three groups. Group I, including mGluR1 and 5, are positively linked to the activation of phospholipase C and PI3 hydrolysis via Gq. Their activation leads to an increase in intracellular Ca2þ levels, stimulation of PKC, potentiation of L-type voltage-dependent Ca2þ channels and inhibition of Kþ conductances that generally mediate postsynaptic excitatory effect (Conn and Pin, 1997; Gubellini et al., 2004). Group II (mGluR2, 3) and group III (mGluR4, 6–8) mGlu receptors are negatively coupled to adenylyl cyclase via Gi/Go, or pertusis toxin-sensitive G-protein, respectively. Their activation inhibits the formation of cAMP and also exerts an inhibitory action on L-N and P/Q type of voltage-dependent Ca2þ channels and activates hyperpolarizing Kþ conductance. In addition, pharmacological blockade of mGluR1 or mGluR5, or pharmacological activation of mGluR2/3 or mGluR4/7/8, produces neuroprotection shown in a variety of central nervous system (CNS) disorder models (Bruno et al., 2001). These receptors are generally found presynaptically where they exert an inhibitory action on the release of glutamate and other neurotransmitters (Cartmell and Schoepp, 2000; Gubellini et al., 2004).

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Furthermore, mGlu receptors also have the potential to regulate the MAPK pathway. It has been shown that intracaudate injection of a group I mGlu receptor agonist upregulates ERK1/2 phosphorylation (Choe and Wang, 2001). However, currently there are no available data regarding the influence of group II and III mGlu receptors on striatal MAPK cascades (Wang et al., 2004). The interaction between mGlu receptors and other G-protein-coupled receptors, in particular dopamine, adenosine and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, has also been demonstrated (Pin and Acher, 2002; Moldrich and Beart, 2003; Gubellini et al., 2004). 2.4.2.3. Glutamate receptors in the BG NR1 subunit mRNA is expressed in the striatum, STN and SNc, whereas in globus pallidus (GPe, GPi and ventral pallidum) and SNr the mRNA expression of NR1 subunit is less intense (Ravenscroft and Brotchie, 2000). Although all striatal neurons express NMDAR2 receptors, their subunit expressions are different among various neuronal populations. NR2B mRNA is expressed prominently over all striatal neurons (caudate and putamen). NR2A mRNA is of relatively lower abundance in the striatum. While no labeling for NR2A is observed on somatostatinergic and cholinergic interneurons, it is expressed over glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) 67 immunoreactive neurons. NR2D mRNA expression has been observed strongly in the globus pallidus (GPe and GPi) and moderately in the striatum. NR2C mRNA is expressed weakly all over striatal neurons, except for a moderate expression in cholinergic interneurons (Kosinski et al., 1998; Kuppenbender et al., 2000; Smith et al., 2001). As the NMDA receptor complex represents a key molecular element in motor abnormalities in PD, the pattern of NMDA receptor expression should be considered for therapeutic approaches targeting specific NMDA receptor subtypes in PD. In the human striatum, which is enriched in AMPA receptors, both striatal output projection neurons and large interneurons express GluR1, GluR2 and GluR3 subunits. However, the GluR4 subunit expression is restricted to a small population of large and mediumsized neurons (Bernard et al., 1996; Tomiyama et al., 1997; Smith et al., 2001). AMPA and NMDA receptor subunits are also expressed at subthalamopallidal glutamatergic synapses in the globus pallidus (Clarke and Bolam, 1998). In the monkey striatum kainate receptors (GluR6/7 and kainate-2) are expressed intracellularly in presynaptic glutamatergic terminals and may control glutamate release from the thalamus and cerebral cortex. Postsynaptic kainate receptors are also expressed in

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dendrite and spine throughout the striatum (Charara et al., 1999; Kieval et al., 2001). On the other hand, more than 60% of pre- and postsynaptic plasma membrane kainate receptors are expressed extrasynaptically (Kieval et al., 2001). The roles of kainate receptors in the striatum and the exact mechanism by which kainic acid has toxic effects on striatal projection neurons are still poorly understood. However, it has been demonstrated that the activation of presynaptic kainate receptors like postsynaptic kainate receptors may lead to increased Naþ and Ca2þ conductances and consequently to the depolarization of nerve terminals. This could facilitate the opening of voltage-dependent Ca2þ channels and potentiate glutamate release with excitotoxic effects (Perkinton and Sihra, 1999). Other studies have demonstrated that kainate receptors in the monkey striatum could downregulate GABAergic synaptic transmission indirectly via release of adenosine (acting on A2A receptors) (Chergui et al., 2000). Since kainate receptors are also expressed extrasynaptically and their metabotropic-like functions have also been reported (Rodriguez-Moreno and Lerma, 1998), it was suggested that these receptors probably mediate slow modulatory effects rather than fast synaptic transmission (Kieval et al., 2001). Recent studies reveal that the density of kainate receptors is increased in the striatum of 6hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) rats (Tarazi et al., 2000). Interestingly, AMPA and kainate receptor antagonists, but not NMDA antagonists, are known to protect dopaminergic terminals of rat striatum against 1-methyl-4phenylpyridinium ion (MPPþ) toxicity. Further investigations in animal models of PD are needed to clarify the role of these receptors in PD. The group I mGlu receptors, mGluR1 and mGluR5, are expressed by striatal medium spiny neurons and by subpopulations of interneurons, including cholinergic interneurons (Testa et al., 1994, 1995, 1998; Smith et al., 2000; Pisani et al., 2001). Recent studies demonstrated the presynaptic localization of mGluR5 at dopaminergic synapses and also in glutamatergic terminals, preferentially in thalamostriatal over corticostriatal afferents (Paquet and Smith, 2003). The localization of group I mGlu receptors not only at glutamatergic but also at GABAergic striatal synapses in GPe, GPi and SNr has been shown (Hanson and Smith, 1999). Since mGlu receptors have high affinity for glutamate, a small amount of spilled-over neurotransmitter could be one of the sources that activate these receptors. Other possibilities are extrasynaptic diffusion of glutamate released from astrocytes or, under certain circumstances, glutamate released from striatal terminals (Smith et al., 2001). At GABAergic synapses, these postsynaptic mGlu receptors could regulate GABA currents in pallidal or SNr neurons either

by changing membrane excitability through modulation of Ca2þ and Kþ channels (Conn and Pin, 1997) or via direct physical interactions with GABAA or GABAB receptors (Smith et al., 2001). At STN synapses in GPe and GPi, activation of presynaptic mGluR1 and 5 by glutamate released from overactive STN could lead to increased activity of BG output nuclei through various mechanisms, including potentiation of ionotropic glutamatergic transmission and reduction of Kþ conductances (Smith et al., 2001). Therefore, antagonists of group I mGlu receptors has been suggested as a potential target to reduce the overactivity of pallidal neurons generated by STN in PD (Pisani et al., 1997; Ossowska et al., 2002; Picconi et al., 2002). Activation of mGluR5 (group I) could reduce striatal dopamine uptake by phosphorylation of the transporter through activation of CAMKII and PKC (Page et al., 2001). This regulatory interaction demonstrates that the two glutamatergic and dopaminergic systems interact closely in the striatum and glutamate can potentially regulate dopaminergic transmission. Group II and III mGlu receptors are mostly found presynaptically on corticostriatal glutamatergic terminals. Furthermore, regarding the high expression of group II mGluRs in STN neurons and the inhibitory action of these receptors on glutamate release, the selective agonists of group II mGlu receptors could have a beneficial effect in PD by reducing the hyperactivity of excitatory corticostriatal and subthalamopallidal neurons that is developed after dopaminergic denervation (Rouse et al., 2000; Ossowska et al., 2002). Accordingly, the alleviation of akinesia after activation of group III mGluRs in reserpine-treated rats has been demonstrated (MacInnes et al., 2004). Although pallidal neurons do not express group II mGlu receptor mRNA, the mGluR4 and mGluR7 (group III) are expressed in GABAergic striatopallidal neurons (Bradley et al., 1999). The group III mGluRs at striatopallidal synapses are thought to play a role in modulating GABAergic transmission at these synapses (Smith et al., 2000) and the selective agonist of these receptors could be a target to reduce the parkinsonian syndrome by attenuation of overactivity of the striato-GPe pathway. The mGluR2/3 also promote the synthesis and release of neurotrophic factors in astrocytes (Bruno et al., 2001). Indeed, these results suggest that appropriate therapeutic interventions with mGlu receptors may alleviate the symptoms of PD and also delay the progress of neurodegeneration in this movement disorder.

2.5. Gamma-aminobutyric acid The amino acid GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the CNS, including the BG. The principal

FUNCTIONAL NEUROCHEMISTRY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA neurons in the striatum, i.e. about 77–97.7%, are medium spiny projection neurons, which utilize GABA as a transmitter (Tepper et al., 2004). These GABAergic medium spiny neurons are innervated by glutamatergic, dopaminergic and GABAergic afferent fibers and the interaction between these inputs at the striatal level plays an important role in the regulation of the BG function and in the pathophysiology of PD. The remaining neurons in the striatum are various types of interneurons thought to play an important role in the processing of information in the striatum. These interneurons have been classified, based on cell diameters, neurochemistry and physiology, into one population of large cholinergic interneurons and at least three types of medium GABAergic interneurons (Kawaguchi et al., 1995). The two types of GABAergic interneurons colocalize the Ca2þ-binding protein, parvalbumin or calretinin and the third class contains somatostatin, neuropeptide Y, the enzyme nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphatase (NADPH-d) or nitric oxide synthase (NOS) (Kawaguchi et al., 1995; Cicchetti et al., 2000). NOS-containing neurons receive synaptic inputs from parvalbuminergic interneurons and innervate striatal output neurons (Morello et al., 1997). Calretinin interneurons seem to modulate striatal local circuits in response to inputs from striatal and cortical neurons (Figueredo-Cardenas et al., 1997). Moreover, GABA is also the transmitter utilized by GPe and the output nuclei of the BG (SNr-GPi). A recent study revealed that in primates, but not in rodents, GABA is synthesized more in striosome than in matrix (Levesque et al., 2004). Accordingly, it was suggested that GABA may have a greater inhibitory effect on the processing of limbic information than sensorimotor information which is processed in the striosome and matrix, respectively (Levesque et al., 2004). 2.5.1. GABA biosynthesis, transport and degradation GABA is synthesized by decarboxylation of glutamate, a reaction catalyzed by the enzyme GAD (Olsen and Delorey, 1999). GAD exists in two different isoforms, termed GAD65 and GAD67, which differ in their size, cofactor association and subcellular distribution (Augood et al., 1995). The majority of medium spiny neurons highly express GAD65 mRNA while the GABAergic interneurons are preferentially enriched in GAD67 mRNA (Mercugliano et al., 1992). Within nerve terminals, GABA, like other neurotransmitters, is stored in synaptic vesicles before its release into the synaptic cleft (McIntire et al., 1997). The storage of GABA into vesicles is dependent on

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the vesicular GABA transporter containing 520 amino acids with 10 transmembrane domains (McIntire et al., 1997; Jin et al., 2003). The transport of GABA into secretory vesicles relies on the electrochemical proton gradient created by the Hþ-ATPase (Takamori et al., 2000; Piccini, 2003). Specific high-affinity Naþ/Cl-dependent transporters in both GABAergic and glial cells regulate the maintenance of the extracellular levels of GABA (Masson et al., 1999). Four distinct genes encoding GABA transporters (GATs) have been identified (Conti et al., 2004). These transporters mediate GABA uptake, terminating GABA’s action and regulating GABA’s diffusion to neighboring synapses. In the rat BG, the globus pallidus, STN and substantia nigra show high expression of GAT-1 mRNA and also dense labeling for GAT-1 protein, whereas the dorsal striatum, caudate and putamen show moderate and light labeling for GAT-1 mRNA and protein, respectively (Yasumi et al., 1997). The expression of GAT-1 protein by GABAergic interneurons, containing GAD67 mRNA, is also shown in dorsal striatum (Augood et al., 1995). Another study in the monkey BG demonstrates dense labeling of GAT-1 in GPe and GPi, moderate labeling in STN and substantia nigra and low labeling in the dorsal striatum (Wang and Ong, 1999). Interestingly, the human glutamatergic STN neurons, coexpressing parvalbumin and/or calretinin, are also enriched in mRNA encoding GAT-1. This indicates that the STN neurons may be able to accumulate synaptically released GABA via interaction with this brain specific high-affinity GABA uptake protein, in the vicinity of their terminal projections. This effect may be considered as a potential non-dopaminergic target for therapy in PD (Augood et al., 1999). Expression of GATs, as for glutamate transporters, is regulated by different factors, including phosphorylation of the transporter protein by PKA and PKC, transcription and activity-dependent trafficking of transporter protein between the cytosol and plasma membrane (Bernstein and Quick, 1999; Schousboe, 2003). GABA is inactivated by transamination with alphaketoglutarate. This reaction is catalyzed by the mitochondrial enzyme 4-aminobutyrate aminotransferase (GABA transaminase; GABA-T). In this process the amino group from GABA is transferred on to alphaketoglutarate, producing glutamate and succinic acid semialdehyde. The latter is further metabolized to form succinic acid, which is an intermediate of the Krebs cycle. The glutamate formed from the degeneration of GABA is then converted into glutamine by the cytosolic enzyme glutamine synthetase. GABA-T is also present in the mitochondria of glial cells and glial glutamine

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is an important precursor for both glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons (Olsen and Delorey, 1999; Farrant, 2001; von Bohlen und Halbach and Dermietzel, 2002). A summary of the synthesis, transport and degradation of GABA is illustrated in Fig. 2.4. 2.5.2. Receptors and signal transduction Three types of receptors, termed GABAA, GABAB and GABAC, mediate the effect of GABA in the CNS. Although GABAA and GABAB are present in the BG, there is no evidence for the existence of GABAC in these structures. The fast inhibitory synaptic transmission results from the stimulation of ionotropic chloride-gated GABAA and GABAC receptor channels (Macdonald and Olsen, 1994; Johnston, 1996). GABAA receptors are defined by their sensitivity to the antagonist bicuculline whereas GABAC receptors are insensitive to this antagonist. These ionotropic GABA receptors are composed of a heteromeric structure consisting of five subunits assembled from a group of 18 different subunits, which have been characterized in mammalian brain (Barnard et al., 1998; Waldvogel et al., 2004). The GABAA receptor possesses three different binding sites. The first one binds

GABA, the second one is a specific binding site for benzodiazepines and the third binding site is specific for barbiturates. The two latter sites seem to be absent from the GABAC receptor (Mehta and Ticku, 1999; Smith et al., 2001). Metabotropic GABAB receptors belong to the family of G-protein-coupled receptors and mediate slow inhibitory synaptic transmission via an increase in Kþ currents (Bettler et al., 1998; Galvan et al., 2004). Activation of GABAB receptor via G-protein can also reduce Ca2þ conductance and inhibit adenylyl cyclase (Bormann, 1988; Smith et al., 2000). Functional GABAB receptors are heterodimers of GABABR1 subunit and GABABR2 subunit. This heterodimerization is important in receptor folding and transport to the cell surface and is also necessary for agonist binding to GABAB receptors (Jones et al., 1998; White et al., 1998). GABA-mediated inhibition in the striatum arises from axon collaterals of spiny projection neurons (Parent and Hazrati, 1995a; Wu et al., 2000; Tunstall et al., 2002), GABAergic interneurons (Bolam et al., 2000; Cicchetti et al., 2000), GPe (Kita et al., 1999) and SNr (Hanley and Bolam, 1997). Activation of spiny neurons rarely triggers synaptic transmission in other nearby neurons (Tunstall et al., 2002) whereas action

FUNCTIONAL NEUROCHEMISTRY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA potentials evoked by interneurons are capable of producing stronger GABA-mediated synaptic transmission in spiny neurons (Koos and Tepper, 1999). Hence, it was suggested that most of the strong inhibition of medium spiny neurons is principally controlled by GABAergic interneurons even though there are many times more collateral synapses with medium spiny neurons than interneurons (Kita, 1993; Tepper et al., 2004). A recent study reports that dopamine plays a critical role in the modulation of striatal interneurons activity through postsynaptic dopamine D5 receptors and presynaptic dopamine D2 receptors located on GABAergic nerve terminals (Centonze et al., 2003b). This study demonstrates that both isoforms of dopamine D2 receptors, D2L and D2S, are involved in the presynaptic inhibition of dopamine on GABA transmission. More recently, it has been demonstrated that GABAA receptor stimulation is able to rescue the locomotor deficits of the dopamine D2 R/ mice, suggesting that this receptor interacts with GABAA receptors to control the motor circuits in the BG (An et al., 2004). In addition, the dopamine D5 receptor physically interacts with the ionotropic GABAA receptor. In cells coexpressing the two receptors, the D5-mediated stimulation of adenylyl cyclase was inhibited by GABAA, while the GABAinduced chloride current was decreased by the activation of the dopamine receptor, indicating reciprocal receptor cross-talk (Liu et al., 2000). The inhibitory postsynaptic potential induced by the collateral of the medium spiny neurons could attenuate or block the transient effects of nearby corticostriatal or thalamostriatal excitatory postsynaptic potentials. Therefore, these axon collaterals, by attenuating glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic potentials, may play an important role in Ca2þ-dependent changes in the synaptic efficacy of corticostriatal or thalamostriatal synapses. It seems that GABAB receptors are involved in the presynaptic regulation of glutamate release (Calabresi et al., 1991, 2000a; Tepper et al., 2004). Activation of GABAA receptors by synaptically released GABA causes a fast membrane depolarization in striatal neurons via chloride conductance. The synaptic depolarizing effect of this inhibitory transmitter is due to the high resting potential of medium spiny neurons (–80 mV) (Calabresi et al., 2000a). In addition, synaptically released GABA exerts a feedback control on its own release in the striatum via presynaptic GABAB receptors and it may also be able to reduce GABA-mediated depolarizing synaptic potentials (Calabresi et al., 1991). Accordingly, it was suggested that feedback inhibition by axon collaterals also plays a significant role in the information-processing operation of the striatum (Tunstall et al., 2002). However, the functional role of this feedback inhibition by axon

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collaterals in the striatum is complex and remains to be better clarified (Tepper et al., 2004). 2.5.2.1. GABAA receptors in the BG The distribution of GABAA receptors in the BG of human and monkey in normal and parkinsonian conditions has been reported using benzodiazepine-binding studies with GABAA receptor. These studies demonstrated that GABAA/benzodiazepine receptors are distributed in caudate and putamen according to the patch and matrix compartments (Waldvogel et al., 1998, 1999). In human BG, GABAA receptors are found in highest concentrations on the GABAergic interneurons of the striatum and on the output neurons of the globus pallidus and SNr (Waldvogel et al., 2004). It has been suggested that presynaptic GABAA receptors in the globus pallidus may be involved in the modulation of release of GABA (Waldvogel et al., 1998; Smith et al., 2001). In 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) parkinsonian monkeys, the density of GABAA/benzodiazepine-binding sites is decreased in the medial anterior part of the caudate and putamen and it remains unchanged after treatment with pulsatile or continuous dopamine D1 receptor agonist (Calon et al., 1999). In dorsal striatum, GABAA/benzodiazepine-binding sites remained reduced in parkinsonian monkeys treated with long-acting dopamine D2 receptor agonist, but was not significantly lower than untreated MPTP monkeys (Calon et al., 1999). The effects of the GABAA receptor are suggested to be postsynaptic and are thought to be mediated by striatal interneurons containing parvalbumin (Koos and Tepper, 1999) or by a striatonigral feedback loop (Smolders et al., 1995). The density of GABAA/benzodiazepine-binding sites in the globus pallidus is lower than in the striatum and is more important in GPe than in GPi (Waldvogel et al., 1998, 1999). After MPTP treatment in the primate animal model of PD, the density of GABAA/benzodiazepine-binding sites is increased and decreased, respectively, in GPi and GPe (Robertson et al., 1990; Calon et al., 1995, 1999). The current model of BG circuitry is consistent with the hypoactivity of the striatonigral and hyperactivity of striatopallidal pathways after degeneration of dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons in PD. Interestingly, cabergoline, the longacting dopamine D2 agonist, but not SKF 82958, the dopamine D1 agonist, could reverse the increased level of GABAA/benzodiazepine-binding in GPi of MPTP monkeys (Calon et al., 1999). The pattern of GABAA receptor expression in the SNr is similar to that in the GPi and treatment with MPTP in monkeys increases the level of GABAA/benzodiazepine-binding sites in the SNr (Smith et al., 2001).

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STN neurons also demonstrate strong immunoreactivity for GABAA receptor subunits in rats and monkeys (Smith et al., 2001). Indeed, infusion of the GABAA receptor agonist, muscimol, into the STN has a beneficial effect in the symptomatic relief in patients with advanced PD (Levy et al., 2001). 2.5.2.2. GABAB receptors in the BG GABAB receptors are expressed by most neurons in the BG. Both the R1 and R2 subunits of the GABAB are distributed throughout the monkey and human striatum. Most striatal interneurons containing parvalbumin or calretinin, 50% of those containing neuropeptide Y and 80% of cholinergic interneurons express GABAB receptor and generally these interneurons are more strongly labeled than medium spiny neurons (Charara et al., 2000; Waldvogel et al., 2004). These GABAB receptors are located at a presynaptic location to medium spiny neurons either on GABAergic terminals or on GABAergic interneurons (Nisenbaum et al., 1993; Waldvogel et al., 2004). In addition GABAB receptors are also located on glutamatergic terminals in the striatum and it has been suggested that these presynaptic GABAB receptors could modulate the release of glutamate and dopamine (Nisenbaum et al., 1992, 1993; Smith et al., 2000; Waldvogel et al., 2004). In monkeys, following treatment with MPTP and dopaminergic agents, no changes in the density of GABAB receptors were seen in the striatum (Calon et al., 2000c). GABAB R1 and GABAB R2 are also localized over 90% of the neurons of the globus pallidus, SNr and SNc (Waldvogel et al., 2004). In the substantia nigra, dopaminergic neurons in the SNc were more intensely labeled for GABAB receptors than GABAergic neurons in the SNr (Charara et al., 2000) and it has been shown that the release of dopamine is modulated by GABA receptors (Waldvogel et al., 2004). Moreover, in MPTP monkeys a significant decrease in GABAB receptors is seen in SNc, suggesting that SNc neurons express GABAB receptors, whereas no change is seen in the SNr of these parkinsonian monkeys (Calon et al., 2000c). There is also evidence that GABAB receptors can control the release of glutamate as well as GABA in the SNr (Shen and Johnson, 1997). In the globus pallidus, the postsynaptic GABAB receptors may also be involved in modulating synaptic transmission in addition to the GABAA-mediated inhibitory effect (Smith et al., 2000). Furthermore, localization of the presynaptic GABAB receptors in GPe and GPi has been demonstrated (Smith et al., 2000). Consistent with these morphological results, functional studies showed that activation of GABAB receptors in the globus pallidus reduces the release of GABA and glu-

tamate by activating presynaptic auto- and heteroreceptors and hyperpolarizes pallidal neurons by activating postsynaptic receptors (Chen et al., 2002, 2004a). In MPTP parkinsonian monkeys, the level of GABAB receptors is significantly increased in the GPi. However, no changes have been seen in the GPe (Calon et al., 2000c). GABAB receptors are also expressed by subthalamic terminals and glutamatergic afferents to STN neurons (Charara et al., 2000; Galvan et al., 2004). It is thought that GABAB receptor stimulation could modulate the postsynaptic response to glutamate through presynaptic receptors (Chen et al., 2004a). In addition, GABAB receptors may control the activity of STN neurons by presynaptic inhibition of neurotransmitter release from extrinsic and/or intrinsic glutamatergic terminals (Smith et al., 2001). Electrophysiological studies demonstrated that GABAB receptors modulate glutamate release in the STN (Shen and Johnson, 2001). Therefore, therapeutic agents such as GABAB receptor agonists could have beneficial effects in PD by attenuating the hyperactivity of STN neurons. Indeed, the application of baclofen was found to decrease the evoked synaptic currents mediated by glutamate in the SNr (Shen and Johnson, 1997). Because GABAB R1 and GABAB R2 need to dimerize to form a functional receptor, it is expected that these two subtypes display a similar pattern of distribution. Recent studies in the primate BG demonstrate that the distribution of GABAB R2 is largely consistent with that of GABAB R1. However, there are some exceptions. For example, low expression levels of GABAB R2 compared with GABAB R1 are found in the striatum, or a larger proportion of presynaptic elements labeled for GABAB R1 than GABAB R2 are found in the globus pallidus and substantia nigra. This raises the hypothesis that other mechanisms may relay the formation of functional GABAB receptors in specific regions of BG (Charara et al., 2004).

2.6. Acetylcholine Striatal cholinergic interneurons, also called tonically active neurons, fire tonically and do not exhibit long periods of silence (Zhou et al., 2002). These neurons are indispensable in controlling striatal neuronal activity and extrapyramidal motor movement. Evidence indicates that the imbalance between dopaminergic and cholinergic systems is one of the neurochemical bases that play a fundamental role for movement abnormalities observed in PD (Di Chiara et al., 1994; Kaneko et al., 2000; Saka et al., 2002). The almost exclusive source of acetylcholine in the striatum originates from interneurons (Parent et al.,

FUNCTIONAL NEUROCHEMISTRY OF THE BASAL GANGLIA 1995b). Nevertheless, a large proportion of BG neurons appear to receive a prominent cholinergic input from the upper-brainstem neurons (Parent et al., 1995b). The cholinergic interneurons, which account for 50 years > 39 years > 50 years > 12 years All ages > 39 years All ages 55 years

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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE estimates as high as 780/100 000 have been reported in Sydney, Australia (Chan et al., 2005). Comparison of prevalence studies worldwide suggests that PD may be more common in the developed world. Because there are many methodological differences among studies, as well as differences in culture and health care among countries, this observation must be viewed with caution. Importantly, crude prevalence rates cannot be compared directly, since different age groups were surveyed, and the age distribution in the underlying populations differ. Longevity increases the number of PD cases one can expect in a population. While age adjustment reduces differences across populations, the range of estimated PD prevalence remains broad. Comparisons of prevalence for PD from different populations can also reflect the relationship between prevalence and methodology used. For example, apparent age-specific prevalence differences among studies may actually be quite similar when data are re-evaluated according to the same diagnostic criteria (Anderson et al., 1998). In one study, PD prevalence has been estimated at two time points. In southwestern Finland, PD prevalence appears to be increasing in men and in rural areas in 1992 as compared to 1971 (Kuopio et al., 1999). Because ascertainment methods were similar at both time points, this may reflect a true difference in prevalence in this region, possibly the result of changes in exposure to risk factors. Lending more credence to this is the observation that similar changes in incidence were observed, making it less likely that the prevalence changes are due to improved survival of persons with PD in 1992. 6.2.2.1. Age Although PD is rare before age 40, after age 50 the prevalence rises almost exponentially (Kurland, 1958; Brewis et al., 1966; Jenkins, 1966; Marttila and Rinne, 1967; Kessler, 1972a, b; Rosati et al., 1980; Harada et al., 1983; Li et al., 1985; Schoenberg et al., 1985, 1988; Sutcliffe et al., 1985; Ashok et al., 1986; Mutch et al., 1986; Shi, 1987; Acosta et al., 1989; Mayeux et al., 1992, 1995; Morgante et al., 1992; Tanner et al., 1992; Wang et al., 1994; Morens et al., 1996a). By the eighth decade, estimated prevalence in European and North American populations is between 1000 and 3000 cases per 100 000 population. Although differences in the age distributions in these populations, diagnostic criteria, ascertainment methods, access to health care or disease survival rates may explain much of this variation, international variation in PD frequency is seen even after adjusting for many of these inconsistencies (Zhang and Roman, 1993). Risk factors, which may vary geogra-

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phically, include both genetic differences in disease susceptibility and exposure to causative and protective environmental factors. Although PD is intimately related to aging, it has been well documented that its underlying process is distinct from natural aging (McGeer et al., 1988; Fearnley and Lees, 1991; Gibb and Lees, 1991). An age-determined process, such as an acquired defect in cellular metabolism, or a process requiring a long period of time to manifest – as might result from prolonged toxicant exposure or the cumulative effects of many individual injuries to nerve cells – might cause a similar pattern. It is also possible that both age-related vulnerability and time-dependent processes explain the late-life preponderance of PD. 6.2.2.2. Gender Men are diagnosed with PD about twice as often as women, irrespective of geographic location or race (Tanner and Goldman, 1996; Baldereschi et al., 2000). This pattern is seen in both prevalence and incidence studies. In a meta-analysis of seven incidence studies, men were found to have a 1.5-times greater relative risk for PD than women (Wooten et al., 2004). This increased risk in men may reflect biological differences between men and women, such as the effects of sex hormones or X-chromosome-linked susceptibility genes. Alternatively, culturally determined differences in male and female behavior, with associated differences in exposure to risk factors, could explain the pattern. The latter hypothesis is supported by a large Finnish study showing a dramatic increase in the male-to-female relative risk from 0.9 in 1971 to 1.9 in 1992 (Kuopio et al., 1999). Others have suggested that hormonal differences between men and women explain these differences, although the relationship does not appear to be a simple one (see also section 6.3.7). Further epidemiologic studies, along with experimental laboratory studies, will be necessary to determine whether men are at greater risk for PD. 6.2.2.3. Race Although there are a surprising number of observations in the literature suggesting whites are at increased risk for PD, it has been thought that lower rates in non-whites might be related to socioeconomic or cultural differences, leading to ascertainment bias (Kessler, 1972a, b; Tanner and Goldman, 1996). Nevertheless, two multiracial population-based studies estimating the incidence of PD in upper West-Side Manhattan (Mayeux et al., 1995) and in Northern California (Van Den Eeden et al., 2003) suggest racial differences in PD incidence. In the Manhattan study, African-American women had lower rates, but African-American men had higher

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rates than whites (Mayeux et al., 1995). The Northern California study, a much larger evaluation of PD incidence, showed a lower frequency of PD in both men and women of African or Asian descent than in nonHispanic whites (Van Den Eeden et al., 2003). Results remain equivocal in both studies, however, as even in this large study the numbers of non-whites were low and between-group confidence intervals for race-specific PD incidence overlapped. If there are true differences in PD risk among groups defined by race or ethnicity, this may reflect differences in biologic susceptibility. For example, mutations in the LRRK2 gene account for about 2% of parkinsonism in northern European populations, but 15–20% in persons of Ashkenazi Jewish and North African origin (LeSage et al., 2005; Ozelius et al., 2006). Others have suggested that dermal melanin may protect against PD by trapping potential neurotoxins before they reach the brain (Mars and Larsson, 1999). Because dermal melanin is regularly sloughed with keratinized skin, persons with more dermal melanin may be protected from the passage of toxicant compounds into the central nervous system. Alternatively, differences in non-genetic risk factors may explain differences among populations. For example, PD prevalence is high in the Inuit population of Greenland (Wermuth et al., 2004). This population is at risk for dietary and other exposures to persistent organic pollutants (Dewailly et al., 1999), agents suggested to be risk factors for PD.

ently across gender or age groups in a selected group of otherwise healthy clinical trial participants (Marras et al., 2005a). In other clinical trial populations, mortality has been higher than expected, however (Hely et al., 1999; Lees et al., 2001; Fall et al., 2003). Among participants in the DATATOP study, severity, rate of worsening of parkinsonism and response to levodopa are related to survival (Marras et al., 2005b), suggesting that differences in these factors among studies may also account for the observed differences in PD-related mortality among these studies.

6.3. Risk factors for Parkinson’s disease 6.3.1. Introduction to epidemiologic clues The demographic studies reviewed in the previous section may provide clues to the causes of PD (Table 6.3). Demographic differences in the frequency of PD, particularly differences in PD incidence, may be the result of ascertainment bias. Alternatively, differences in risk factors for PD among different demographic groups may explain these patterns. Some of these possibilities have been discussed above. Disease clusters, representing more than the expected number of new cases of PD at a certain time and/or in a certain place, are

Table 6.3 Factors associated with the risk of Parkinson’s disease in one or more studies

6.2.3. Mortality Studying mortality of PD based on information from death certificates is problematic because PD is a chronic disorder that is not the direct cause of death; thus, the frequency of the disease can be underestimated from such evaluations. Compared to persons of the same age and gender, mortality is increased approximately twofold among individuals with PD (Di Rocco et al., 1996; Morens et al., 1996a; Louis et al., 1997; Morgante et al., 2000). An observed north–south gradient of decreasing PD mortality (Lilienfeld et al., 1990), although possibly reflecting true differences in regional mortality, could also be an artifact of differential access to medical care or death certificate completion inconsistencies among physicians (Pressley et al., 2005). Mortality in a clinical trial population may be affected by the influence of the health benefit obtained from participating in the study. After a 13-year followup, results from the DATATOP cohort study show that the mortality rate was similar to that of the general population and that PD did not affect survival differ-

Factors directly associated Increasing age Male gender White race Drinking well water Diet: animal fat, milk, iron Obesity Hysterectomy and/or supplemental estrogen Midlife constipation Rapid-eye movement sleep disorder Physical and emotional stress Family history of Parkinson’s disease Rural residence Pesticides Farming Teaching/health care work Metals Factors inversely associated Smoking/tobacco Caffeine intake Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use Alcohol Greater physical activity

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE another type of pattern that may suggest a shared cause of disease and provide clues to the underlying etiology of all cases. An example is the cluster of parkinsonism in narcotics addicts caused by 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) exposure (Langston et al., 1983) (Fig. 6.1). MPTP induces parkinsonism that is similar to PD, with key symptoms that improve with levodopa treatment and a similar side-effect profile. Differences include the more rapid onset of symptoms in MPTP-induced parkinsonism than in PD, and possibly some differences in neuropathologic features as well. Although MPTP injection is clearly not a cause of most PD, investigation of this cluster provided an important animal model. Investigation of the mechanism of MPTP toxicity led to the hypothesis that toxicants may cause PD, and has focused interest on compounds with structural or functional similarities (Fig. 6.2). Other proposed clusters, such as the syndrome of motor neuron disease–parkinsonism–dementia in certain areas of the Western Pacific (Spencer, 1987) or several clusters in Canada (Kumar et al., 2004) have yet to reveal specific etiologic factors. Familial clusters are generally interpreted to indicate a genetic cause for disease, but certain patterns within families, such as temporal clustering of disease, may be more suggestive of shared environmental risks. A number of case-control studies have found increased PD risk if a first-degree relative has PD (Semchuk et al., 1993; Morano et al., 1994; Payami et al., 1994; Bonifati et al., 1995; DeMichele et al., 1996; Marder et al., 1996). Because persons with disease may be more aware of disease in relatives, these studies in part may reflect reporting bias. Elbaz et al. (2003a) showed evidence for family information bias whereby cases with PD are more likely to report a relative with PD than are control subjects, increasing the risk estimate CH3

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by 133%. Studies in twins do not support a genetic cause for typical age at PD onset, although genetic factors appear to be increased in those with younger age at onset (Duvoisin et al., 1981; Marsden, 1987; Marttila et al., 1988; Vieregge et al., 1992; Tanner and Goldman, 1994; Wirdefeldt et al., 2004). Many proposed risks for PD will be reviewed here. 6.3.2. Single genes causing parkinsonism Genetic defects responsible for parkinsonism have been identified in some families (Bonifati et al., 1995; Polymeropoulos et al., 1996, 1997; Hattori et al., 1998; Kitada et al., 1998; Paisan-Ruiz et al., 2004; Zimprich et al., 2004). In many of these cases, the clinical features resemble typical PD. However, within affected families there are often clinical features that are unusual for PD. At present, mutations in at least five genes have been firmly associated with parkinsonism: (1) a-synuclein (SNCA or PARK1; Polymeropoulos et al., 1997); (2) parkin (PRKN or PARK2; Kitada et al., 1998); (3) DJ-1 (DJ1 or PARK7; Bonifati et al., 2003); (4) PTEN-induced putative kinase I (PINK1 or PARK6; Polymeropoulos et al., 1997); and (5) leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 or dardarin (LRRK2 or PARK8; Paisan-Ruiz et al., 2004, Zimprich et al., 2004) (Table 6.4). PINK1 homozygous mutations have been reported to be an important cause of disease among Italian sporadic patients with early-onset parkinsonism, whereas the role of single heterozygous

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Table 6.4 Genes causing parkinsonism Locus/gene

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mutations is less clear (Bonifati et al., 2005). The LRRK2 G2019S mutation is the most common pathogenic mutation linked to parkinsonism, accounting for 1–2% of cases, including cases of not only younger but also older age at disease onset (Kay et al., 2006). Other candidate PD loci have been proposed, including putative disease-causing mutations in the ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCHL1) (Leroy et al., 1998) and in a nuclear receptor of subfamily 4 (NR4A2 or NURRI) (Le et al., 2003). These candidates do not map to known PD linkage regions, but polymorphisms in both genes have been associated with PD in some case-control studies (as reviewed by Bertram and Tanzi, 2005). The GSK3B polymorphism has been reported to alter transcription and splicing and interact with tau haplotypes to modify PD risk (Kwok et al., 2005). From an epidemiologic perspective, the monogenic causes of PD appear to constitute a proportion of cases worldwide. However, investigation of the protein products of these genes can further our understanding of the process of nerve cell death in parkinsonism. Investigation of these forms has emphasized the role of key proteins (like a-synuclein) and molecular pathways leading to neurodegeneration. Intriguingly, mitochondrial mechanisms, oxidative stress and protein clearance appear to be pathogenic in animal models derived both from toxicant and genetic forms of parkinsonism (Dawson and Dawson, 2003; DiMonte, 2003).

It is likely that years, and possibly even decades, pass between the time of risk factor exposure and the clinical onset of parkinsonism. Case-control studies are an efficient way to study proposed disease risk factors, particularly in relatively uncommon disorders, such as PD. Potential limitations to this design include biased recall, the lack of validation of exposure and, in prevalent studies, survivor bias. Prospective cohort studies, assessing risk factors in advance of disease, avoid many of the biases of case-control studies, but risk factor investigation is limited to those selected for study and diagnostic accuracy may be less certain. 6.3.3.1. Rural living, farming, well water Numerous studies worldwide have identified rural living, farming, gardening and drinking well water as risk factors for PD (Semchuk et al., 1991; Butterfield et al., 1993; Hubble et al., 1993a; Morano et al., 1994; Ferraz et al., 1996; Gorell et al., 1998; Marder et al., 1998; Zorzon et al., 2002; Korell and Tanner, 2005), but the results are somewhat inconsistent because of differences in the way the studies assessed the effects of rural living. Overall, risk of PD appears to be increased in rural dwellers – especially in the USA. Meta-analysis results (Priyadarshi et al., 2000) also support that risk factors include farm living and use of well water and pesticides. Although the specific associations are varied, the consistency of the general finding is remarkable.

6.3.3. Proposed environmental risk factors for Parkinson’s disease

6.3.3.2. Pesticides

Risk factor investigation in PD is challenging, as the time of life most important to investigate is not known.

Pesticide exposure is associated with an increased risk of PD in many reports. A meta-analysis of 19 published studies found a combined odds ratio (OR) of 1.94 (95%

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE confidence interval (CI) 1.49–2.53) for pesticide exposure (Priyadarshi et al., 2000). However, the category of pesticides is very broad, and includes chemicals with many different mechanisms of action. Only a few studies have identified specific compounds or compound classes, including herbicides, insecticides, alkylated phosphates, organochlorines, wood preservatives, dieldrin and paraquat (Firestone et al., 2005; Korell and Tanner, 2005). Most of these studies have been limited by very broad measures of exposure. In many studies, the proportion of exposed persons was low, little was known about specific exposures and validation of exposure was not possible. Gene–environment interaction may also be important, and those with impaired pesticide metabolism may be most vulnerable. A recent report (Elbaz et al., 2004) indicates an increased risk of PD with pesticide exposure in normal metabolizers, and about twofold increase in risk with pesticide exposure for CYP2D6 poor metabolizers, and no effect of the metabolizing status on risk for PD without pesticide exposure. 6.3.3.3. Metals Iron has been shown to cause a higher susceptibility to oxidative stress in two ways. By depleting stores of glutathione, iron may have a role in the progression of parkinsonism associated with exposure to other chemicals that are metabolized to free radicals and/or contribute to the adverse effects of oxidative stress (Kaur et al., 2003). Also, since iron has a strong catalytic power to generate highly reactive hydroxyl radicals from iron (II) and hydrogen peroxide, increased levels of iron in the brain can increase oxidative stress (Fenton reaction). Excessive iron accumulation in the brain is also a potential risk for neuronal damage, which may be promoted by other triggering factors (Lan and Jiang, 1997). A combined high dietary intake of iron and manganese may increase the risk of developing PD (Powers et al., 2003). Dietary intake of manganese alone does not seem to have toxic effects, except among individuals with liver failure (Hauser et al., 1994). Although dietary intake is the main source of non-occupational exposure to manganese, occupational exposure seems to be a more influential PD risk factor. Case-control studies suggest that occupational exposure to metals (Gorell et al., 2004; Racette et al., 2005) may be at increased risk of PD, although cohort studies have not replicated this (Fryzek et al., 2005; Fored et al., 2006). 6.3.3.4. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) PCBs are among the group of compounds classified as persistent environmental pollutants. In the USA, industrial use was common until 1977. Today, PCBs

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continue to cycle in the environment. Common sources of human exposure are fish and marine mammals, meat and dairy products. In laboratory studies, PCBs have been shown to reduce dopamine levels in the brain areas affected in PD (Seegal et al., 1986; Chu et al., 1996). The association between PCBs and PD has been studied in a blinded comparison of postmortem determinations of caudate PCB concentrations in PD patients and controls (Corrigan et al., 1998). PD brains had significantly higher levels of PCB congener 153, and several other congeners tended to be higher in PD caudate. Also increased in PD brains were the organochlorine pesticide dieldrin and the dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) metabolite 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(4-chlorophenyl)ethene (DDE). In a previous investigation, frontal cortex of PD patients and controls did not show differences in PCB or organochlorine levels. This regional specificity lends indirect support to an association between PCBs and PD. 6.3.3.5. Occupation Given the increasing evidence that environmental factors play a role in PD, there has been an increasing effort to identify occupational risk factors, but to date few have been identified. A higher frequency of PD has been reported among teachers and health care workers (Tsui et al., 1999). These findings were replicated in a casecontrol study in twin pairs discordant for PD (Tanner et al., 2003), and in very large occupational mortality studies in the USA (Schulte et al., 1996) and the UK (Coggon et al., 1995). It has been suggested that an infectious etiology could explain the increased risk in these occupational groups. Alternatively, these associations could be related to some other unrecognized occupation-associated risk factor, to premorbid personality characteristics predisposing to certain occupations (Menza, 2000) or to issues of study design, such as ascertainment bias or confounding by age or other factors. A higher frequency of PD has also been reported in carpenters and cleaners (Fall et al., 1999) and in workers chronically exposed to metals (Gorell et al., 2004). Welding has been proposed as a risk factor (Racette et al., 2005), but this finding is controversial (Fryzek et al., 2005), with recent results from a nationwide linkage study indicating no support for an association between welding and PD, or any other specific basal ganglia and movement disorders (Fored et al., 2006). Overall, results from the available studies are inconclusive, reported findings need confirmation and not all occupations have been evaluated. Differences within even one type of occupation make occupation groups heterogeneous and comparisons difficult. Querying occupation in such a way that it triggers exposure-specific questions as described by Stewart and Stewart (1994) may be more useful, but the potential

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misclassification of specific exposures will be appreciable and tend to bias effect measures toward the null – occupational exposures in community-based studies are rare, which compounds the problem (Tielemans et al., 1999). Ideally, in addition to asking about occupation and exposure, there should be a quantitative measure in exposure-response analyses – for most chronic diseases the exposure measure of choice is the level of exposure multiplied by the duration of exposure. The use of a single variable for primary lifetime occupation is problematic. Undoubtedly, most people work at a number of different jobs throughout their lives, and important associations may be missed or misclassified. A lifelong, job task-specific occupational history has the potential to provide more complete information, and direct interviews may improve historical accuracy. Studies within specific at-risk groups such as occupational cohorts can be important in clarifying whether there is a relationship between occupation and PD. 6.3.4. Diet, obesity, physical activity 6.3.4.1. Diet Diet is a very difficult exposure to measure both because of its complexity and the fact that most individuals have qualitatively relatively similar diets (Willett, 1990). Despite these challenges, several dietary factors have been associated with PD. Excess intake of dairy products has been associated with increased risk of PD in two large prospective cohorts (Chen et al., 2002b; Park et al., 2005). In a study of health professionals, whether the effect was due to calcium or milk could not be determined. Moreover, the risk was most marked in men, and not clearly observed in women. In the second study, PD incidence was more than twice as high in men drinking more than 16 ounces (approximately 450 grams) daily in midlife, compared to those who consumed no milk. This effect was independent of calcium. No women were included in this cohort. The reason for this association is unclear. One explanation is that milk may be a vehicle for potential neurotoxicants such as organochlorine pesticides or tetrahydroisoquinolines. Other studies suggested different dietary risk factors for PD. PD risk was mildly raised in association with high dietary iron intake, but the risk markedly increased with high intake of both iron and manganese (Powers et al., 2003). Another study (Scheider et al., 1997) indicated increased risk with high vitamin C, carotenoids and sweet food, including fruit intake, but the number of cases studied was small (n ¼ 57). Among those with

PD, homocysteinemia has been indicated as a potentially reversible risk factor for depression or cognitive decline (O’Suilleabhain et al., 2004). Studies of dietary antioxidant intake have been largely inconclusive. It is biologically plausible that dietary antioxidants may protect against nigral damage, analogous to their potential role in preventing heart disease and stroke (Rimm et al., 1993; Knekt et al., 1994, 1996; Gale et al., 1995). One prospective cohort study of 41 836 women indicated a significant protective effect seen for both vitamin C and manganese consumption; however, vitamin A intake was associated with an increased risk of PD (Cerhan et al., 1994). A sibpair study (Maher et al., 2002) reported a 3.2-year older mean age at onset for affected siblings who reported taking multivitamins. Protective effects were proposed for B vitamins and folate, because of their shared pathways with homocysteine and ability to lessen oxidative stress (Duan et al., 2002). Comparison of two large prospective cohorts (Chen et al., 2004a) with 415 cases indicated PD risks did not differ in relation to dietary intakes of B vitamins and folate (relative risk 1.0 (95% CI 0.7–1.5) comparing the lowest to the highest intake quintile in men and 1.3 (95% CI 0.8–2.3) in women). Dietary insufficiency has also been proposed as a risk factor for the development of PD, although evidence for this is indirect. In a 20–30-year follow-up of a cohort of ex-Far-East prisoners of war, who experienced severe dietary insufficiency between 1942 and 1945 (Gibberd and Simmonds, 1980), 24 PD cases were identified out of 4684 subjects, producing a crude prevalence rate of 512 per 100 000. This is particularly high considering the relatively young age of the cohort and the observation that 15 cases (63%) had disease onset under the age of 50 years. Emotional and physical stress has also been implicated in increased frequencies of PD in another study of prisoners of war (Page and Tanner, 2000), although a relationship to dietary insufficiency could not be determined. Certain exotic dietary exposures have been proposed to cause atypical forms of parkinsonism, including ingestion of indigenous species from Guam (Spencer, 1987; Murch et al., 2004), or the British West Indies (Champy et al., 2005), although these reports are controversial. 6.3.4.2. Obesity Conversely, oxidative stress may be increased by lipid consumption and higher caloric intake, and eating foods high in animal fat has been associated with increased risk of PD in several studies (Korell and Tanner, 2005). The link between measures of body composition and obesity and risk of PD is unclear.

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE A large study in Japanese-American men in Hawaii observed higher prevalence of PD with higher triceps skinfold thickness, subscapular skinfold thickness and body mass index (Abbott et al., 2002). A similar analysis in the Nurses’ Health and the Health Professionals’ study did not find an association between body mass index and risk of PD but, among never smokers, both waist circumference and waist–hip ratio showed significantly positive associations with PD risk as compared to smokers (Chen et al., 2004b). 6.3.4.3. Physical activity Animal models have also been used to study the role of physical activity in PD. Results of studies of forced limb use in 6-hydroxydopamine-injected rats (Cohen et al., 2003) suggest that preinjury forced limb use can prevent the behavioral and neurochemical deficits. In treadmill tests of MPTP-injected rats (Tillerson et al., 2003), exercise following the nigrostriatal damage ameliorated related motor symptoms and neurochemical deficits. Physical activity in epidemiological studies includes cohort results by Chen et al. (2005a) that show either that higher levels of physical activity may lower the risk of PD in men, or that men predisposed to PD tend to avoid strenuous activity in their early adult years. A significantly lower level of physical activity was present before diagnosis (men, 12 years prior; women, 2–4 years prior), and there was a sustained decrease in physical activity after diagnosis. Case-control studies, however, have shown inconsistent results. In one Chinese hospital-based study investigating risk factors for classic-onset versus youngonset PD, the duration of exercise was substantially longer in the young-onset group than in controls or in the classic-onset PD group (Tsai et al., 2002). In another small study assessing the lifetime physical activity via sports/leisure activity and participation using visual analog scales, there was no difference in lifetime physical activity between cases and controls; however, there was a greater decline in activity after age 50 years in those with PD (Fertl et al., 1993). In a nested case-control study of male Harvard students, moderate physical activity was associated with a lower risk of PD, but this association was not seen at higher levels of physical activity (Sasco et al., 1992). 6.3.5. Inflammation, infection, head trauma, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) 6.3.5.1. Inflammation Several lines of evidence support the idea that inflammation is involved in the pathogenesis of PD (Hirsch et al., 2003). Postmortem analyses showed gliosis

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and clustering of microglial cells around nerve cells in 3 subjects who had presented with MPTP-induced parkinsonism 3–16 years earlier (Langston et al., 1999). In cell culture experiments injection of lipopolysaccharides (LPS), which activate glia, killed dopaminergic neurons in mixed neuron–glia but not in pure neuron cultures (Bronstein et al., 1995). In an animal model, a single intranigral injection of LPS damaged dopaminergic but not serotonergic or GABAergic neurons (Herrera et al., 2000; Gao et al., 2002). Application of dexamethasone before LPS injection prevented the loss of catecholaminergic content, tyrosine hydroxylase activity and immunostaining, and the microglia-macrophage activation seen previously (Castano et al., 2002). Human studies revealed elevated cytokine levels, which induce glia activation, in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid of PD patients compared to controls (Nagatsu et al., 2000). Additionally, increased expression of tumor necrosis factor-a, interleukin-b and interferon-g was observed in the substantia nigra of PD patients (Boka et al., 1994; Hunot et al., 1999). In recent epidemiologic studies, intake of NSAIDs was inversely associated with PD risk (Chen et al., 2003); more detailed analysis indicated that the association was significant for ibuprofen but not other NSAIDs (Chen et al., 2005b). Higher levels of uric acid, a potent antioxidant, during midlife were associated with a 40% reduced risk of PD in one prospective cohort (Davis et al., 1996). This observation was recently replicated in a nested case-control study in the health professional prospective cohort study (Weisskopf et al., 2006, unpublished; see Ascherio et al., 2006 for abstract). However, uric acid levels can be increased by several agents inversely associated with PD, including alcohol, caffeine and aspirin, as well as by levodopa. Further studies are needed to determine whether this is a primary or secondary association. 6.3.5.2. Infections The observation that encephalitis lethargica often resulted in parkinsonism during the influenza pandemic of the early 1900s suggested a possible infectious etiology for PD. Since that time, however, clinical and neuropathological criteria have clearly differentiated postencephalitic parkinsonism from typical idiopathic PD. Although subsequent studies have been unable to identify an infectious agent in PD (Marttila et al., 1977; Wang et al., 1993), a number of studies have continued to suggest that infection may play a role in idiopathic PD. As described previously, increased PD frequency in health care workers and teachers has been linked to infection (Schulte et al.,

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1996). One study observed elevated coronavirus antibody levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of PD patients, supporting a possible link of PD with coronavirus infections (Fazzini et al., 1992), a common cause of respiratory infections. Another study noticed reduced risk for PD associated with most viral childhood infections, especially measles (Sasco and Paffenbarger, 1985); both studies await replication. The soil pathogen Nocardia asteroides causes a levodoparesponsive movement disorder and nigral degeneration in mice (Kobbata and Beaman, 1991), but a serologic case-control study did not support its role in human PD (Hubble et al., 1995).

the association between NSAID use and PD risk in humans. An inverse association of NSAID use with risk of PD has been observed in two prospective studies for non-aspirin NSAIDs, as well as for aspirin (Abbott et al., 2003; Chen et al., 2003). Interestingly, in a cross-sectional study of 1258 PD cases and 6638 controls from the General Practice Research Database, this inverse association was again observed for men, but not women, in whom non-aspirin NSAID use was associated with a higher risk of PD (Hernan et al., 2006). Whether this reflects a characteristic of the study population or method, or a true gender difference in risk, will require studies in other populations.

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Previous head trauma has been associated with PD in numerous case-control studies (Bharucha et al., 1986; Tanner et al., 1987; Stern, 1991; Semchuk et al., 1993; Van Den Eeden et al., 2000; Bower et al., 2003). Head injury can trigger an inflammatory cascade, or conceivably disrupt the blood–brain barrier, increasing risk of exposure to toxicants or infectious agents. In a sibpair study (Maher et al., 2002) and a study of twin pairs concordant for PD (Goldman et al., 2006), the sibling with younger-onset PD was more likely to have sustained a head injury. In twins discordant for PD, a previous head injury with amnesia or loss of consciousness was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk of PD. Significant head injury is rare, however, and there may be a latency up to 30 years between injury and PD diagnosis, minimizing the chance that disease-related disability caused the injury (Factor and Weiner, 1991; Seidler et al., 1996; Taylor et al., 1999). Severity of head injury is likely to be important and there may be a dose effect; there is no association with PD and mild head injury without loss of consciousness. Nevertheless, medical record validation suggests that this is a real association, not explained by recall bias. 6.3.5.4. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs Inflammatory mechanisms appear to contribute to neurodegeneration in PD, and animal studies suggest that NSAIDs have neuroprotective properties (McGeer and McGeer, 2004) by reducing general inflammation. Studies of Alzheimer’s disease have shown that the regular use of NSAIDs may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s in humans (Breitner and Zandi, 2001, in t’ Veld et al., 2001; McGeer and McGeer, 2004). The similarities in the pathogenetic background of PD and Alzheimer’s disease and animal data suggesting that anti-inflammatory drugs may protect against PD (Ferger et al., 1999) have encouraged investigation of

Although there are a number of health risks associated with smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol, cigarette, coffee and alcohol intakes are all inversely associated with risk for developing PD, suggesting they may be neuroprotective agents. 6.3.6.1. Smoking Not smoking cigarettes is the most consistently observed risk factor for PD. An inverse association between cigarette smoking and PD has been observed in studies spanning more than 30 years, involving diverse populations and including several large prospective investigations (Doll et al., 1994; Grandinetti et al., 1994; Benedetti et al., 2000; Willems-Giesbergen et al., 2000). A meta-analysis (Hernan et al., 2002a) indicated a 40% reduced risk of PD in smokers. Three basic categories of smoking were evaluated: ever smoking, past smoking and current smoking behavior. Long duration (highest pack/year) correlated with dose, and smoking more than 5 years prior to PD onset was not protective; recent smoking appeared more protective. Other research suggests cigarette smoking, on average, appears to lower the risk of developing PD by about half (Sugita et al., 2001). This inverse association has been reported in nearly every population studied over more than 30 years (Quik, 2004), and a recent study in a population characterized by a high prevalence of occupational pesticide exposure confirms an inverse correlation between cigarette smoking and PD in this potentially ‘high-risk’ group as well (Galanaud et al., 2005). One report suggests the inverse association of smoking and PD is only present in those with a specific monoamine oxidase-B allele (Checkoway et al., 1998), although this was not replicated (Hernan et al., 2002b), and other single observations suggest other interactions of genes and smoking (Tan et al., 2002).

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE Non-smoking behavior in people fated to develop PD may be the result of a lower reward of smoking due to low dopaminergic tone, a genetically conferred decreased propensity to smoke or a premorbid personality (Menza, 2000). Indeed, the personalities of those who have gone on to develop PD have been described as shy, cautious, inflexible, punctual and depressive (Hubble et al., 1993b); such persons may be less likely to smoke or drink. In contrast, indirect evidence against this theory derives from a study in twin pairs discordant for PD (Tanner et al., 2002). The twins without PD had smoked more than their brothers. Despite a high correlation for smoking in monozygotic twin pairs, this difference was more marked in the monozygotic pairs, known to be remarkably similar in personality. Similar results have been reported in other studies of twins (Bharucha et al., 1986) and siblings (Scott et al., 2005) discordant for PD. If there is a biologic effect of smoking, whether this is due to nicotine or a combustion product is not known. Indirect evidence supporting a role for nicotine is provided by the observation that PD was less commonly reported among users of smokeless tobacco in a large prospective cohort (O’Reilly et al., 2005). Animal studies suggest that nicotine may protect against experimental parkinsonism (Janson and Moller, 1993; Prasad et al., 1994) (Table 6.5). Nicotine has been found to protect against transection-induced and MPTP-induced dopaminergic neuronal cell loss in rodent substantia nigra (Janson and Moller, 1993; Prasad et al., 1994). In addition, nicotine has antioxidant properties (Ferger et al., 1998), and increases striatal trophic factors (Maggio et al., 1997). Alternatively, smoking may afford indirect protection by inducing peripheral detoxifying enzymes, or by reducing bioactivation of protoxins. This latter hypothesis is supported by the observation that cigarette smoking reduces monoamine oxidase-B activity in humans (Fowler et al., 1996). Table 6.5 Cigarette smoking and Parkinson’s disease: some possible biologic mechanisms Nicotine Blocks nigral cell loss (hemitransection, MPTP) Increases growth factors Cigarette smoke Reduces MAO-B activity Gene–environment interaction of smoking and MAO-B allele Complex mixture of combustion products – other actions? MPTP, 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine; monoamine oxidase B.

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Assuming smoking is neuroprotective, one might expect it to delay the onset of PD and improve the course of the disease in people already affected. Neither hypothesis has yet been proven. Two studies compared clinical features and did not find differences between smokers and non-smokers (Alves et al., 2004; Papapetropoulos et al., 2005). Although a study by Kuopio et al. (1999) reported the mean age at onset in ever-smoking men was significantly higher than in never-smoking men, results of four other studies assessing age at onset of PD in relation to smoking status (Haack et al., 1981; Rajput et al., 1987; Morens et al., 1996b; Levy et al., 2002, De Reuck et al., 2005) revealed the same or a younger age of PD onset in smokers. Interestingly, however, in several prospective cohort studies, survival of those persons with PD who continue to smoke cigarettes appears to be similar to, or even somewhat better than, survival of nonsmokers with PD (Grandinetti et al., 1994; Elbaz et al., 2003b; Chen et al., 2006), in contrast to the typically increased mortality observed in cigarette smokers. This tantalizing preliminary information suggests that some aspect of smoking may not only modify disease risk, but also improve survival once PD is manifest. 6.3.6.2. Coffee and caffeine An inverse association of both coffee and caffeine consumption and PD has been reported in case-control and cohort studies (Fall et al., 1999; Benedetti et al,. 2000; Ross et al,. 2000; Ascherio et al., 2001; Paganini-Hill, 2001). For example, a longitudinal study and two case-control studies of incident PD cases provide provocative evidence that coffee drinking may be inversely associated with PD risk. A longitudinal study of Japanese-American men indicated greater use of coffee was inversely associated with PD risk in a dose-dependent fashion (Ross et al., 2000). A very provocative finding in the same cohort was that greater use of coffee was inversely associated with incidental Lewy bodies at postmortem (Ross et al., 1999). A similar dose-dependent inverse association between coffee drinking and PD was observed in two prospective studies (Benedetti et al., 2000; Willems-Giesbergen et al., 2000), and retrospectively an incident case-control study in Northern California (Nelson et al., 1999). In each case, the inverse association between PD and coffee drinking continued to be observed in multivariate analyses adjusting for cigarette smoking, alcohol use and other potential confounders. Similar associations had previously been reported in a few case-control studies of prevalent cases, but these results were inconsistent, and a dose–response gradient was not

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described (Tanner and Goldman, 1996, Checkoway and Nelson, 1999). The effect of coffee appears to differ between men and women, with a direct dose–response association in men (higher consumption associated with lower risk) but a U-shaped pattern in women, although fewer women have been studied. It has been suggested a potential interaction between hormone exposure, primarily estrogen, and caffeine consumption may mediate PD. In participants of the Cancer Prevention Study II, caffeine intake was associated with a significantly lower mortality of PD in men but not in women (Ascherio et al., 2004). In women, the association depended on estrogen use, with a relative risk for PD of 0.47 (95% CI 0.27–0.8) in caffeine consumers not using hormones and of 1.31 (95% CI 0.75–2.3) in hormone users. Caffeine may be neuroprotective through its antagonist action on the adenosine A2A-receptor (Chen et al., 2002a), which in laboratory studies, modulates dopaminergic neurotransmission (Popoli et al., 1991; Nehlig et al., 1992) and protects against striatal dopamine loss caused by MPTP (Richardson et al., 1997; Kanda et al., 1998). A2A-receptor antagonists are receiving increasing attention as potential treatments, in particular for on/off fluctuations and dyskinesia in combination with levodopa therapy (Xu et al., 2005), but also as a possible monotherapy in early-stage PD because of positive results from animal studies and a small clinical trial (Hauser et al., 2003; Jenner, 2003). 6.3.6.3. Alcohol Alcohol use has been found by some to be inversely associated with PD even after controlling for possible confounding by smoking (Hellenbrand et al., 1996; Fall et al., 1999; Paganini-Hill, 2001). A biologic explanation for this observation has not been articulated. One study found that fewer cases with PD had a diagnosis of alcoholism than controls (Benedetti et al., 2000). The variability across studies is great and, overall, the current evidence for an association between alcohol intake and risk of PD is weak. In the Nurses’ Health and the Health Professionals’ cohorts, no association between incidence of PD and overall alcohol consumption was observed (Hernan et al., 2003); however, an inverse association of beer (but not wine or liquor) consumption was seen. Comparison of alcoholics and non-alcoholics in a large database found comparable PD incidence in both groups (Hernan et al., 2004). Interestingly, in a stratified analysis for men and women separately, male alcoholics had a significantly lower incidence of PD whereas female alcoholics had a twofold increased

incidence. Low consumption of alcohol in PD has commonly been attributed to the reserved personality that has been observed prior to PD manifestation (Menza, 2000). 6.3.7. Gender As noted above, men appear to be at greater risk of developing PD than are women. This could reflect an intrinsic difference in risk, such as might be due to an X-chromosome-linked genetic characteristic or a sex hormone-related factor. Alternatively, genderdetermined differences in risk factor exposure may be the cause or a combination of biologic predisposition and differences in risk factors might explain this pattern. Benedetti et al. (2001) used a population-based case-control method to determine whether reproductive factors may influence PD risk in women. Hysterectomy with or without an oophorectomy and early menopause were associated with increased risk of PD (OR ¼ 3.36 and 2.18, respectively) and estrogen use after menopause was inversely associated with PD risk (OR ¼ 0.47), although the latter two differences were not statistically significant. Several subsequent casecontrol studies have similarly suggested that factors associated with estrogen deficiency such as hysterectomy and early menopause may increase PD risk (Currie et al., 2004; Ragonese et al., 2004). Recently, Popat et al. (2005) found that the association of postmenopausal hormone use with PD risk depended on the type of menopause. Among women with history of a hysterectomy with or without an oophorectomy, estrogen use alone was associated with a 2.6-fold increased risk and the risk of PD increased with increasing duration of estrogen use. In contrast, among women with natural menopause, no increased risk of PD was observed with hormone use. Gender may also determine the effects of risk or protective factors associated with PD. Women appear to have different risk profiles to at least some of the exposures linked to PD in men, as discussed in previous sections. Although the explanation for these differences is not known, investigation of the combined effects of risk factors may explain some of these differences. For example, in two prospective cohort studies, PD risk was influenced by the combined effects of caffeine consumption and supplemental estrogen use. Women using supplemental estrogens with low caffeine consumption were at a lower risk of PD, but this effect was attenuated or reversed in women who had a high caffeine consumption and were at higher risk of PD (Ascherio et al., 2003, 2004). Future studies including populations of women of

EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE sufficient size to allow the separate assessment of risk factors in women will be important to clarify the question of gender and PD risk.

6.4. Gene–environment interactions Research in the area of gene–environment interactions is complicated in that multiple genes and various environmental factors may combine to determine the level of risk for PD in any one individual. As described previously, several environmental factors, including pesticide and chemical exposure, have been consistently shown to modify the risk for PD in epidemiologic studies. If PD results from a combination of genetic and environmental factors, then an interaction of genetic factors with certain exposures could result in a high level of disease risk. For example, increased risk from an environmental toxin could be influenced by the genetically determined level of activity of metabolizing enzymes. Few gene–environment interactions have been investigated. One case-control study suggests that smoking history modifies the effect of family history on the risk for PD, such that the odds ratio is highest in those with a history of smoking and a family history of PD (OR 10.0; Elbaz et al., 2000). This is a surprising finding given the increasing body of evidence that smoking is negatively associated with the occurrence of PD. Other interactions have also been reported, including possible interactions between monoamine oxidase-B gene polymorphisms and smoking behavior. A reduced risk of PD with increasing number of pack-years of smoking was found in the presence of the G allele, whereas PD risk decreased with increasing pack-years smoked in the presence of the A allele (Checkoway et al., 1998). Interactions between xenobiotic metabolizing enzyme genotype and pesticide exposure in the risk of PD have also been studied (Menegon et al., 1998; Taylor et al., 2000). The association between pesticide exposure and PD may be modified by glutathione transferase P1 polymorphisms (Menegon et al., 1998). In a study of 96 patients and 95 controls, no overall difference in the distribution of glutathione S-transferase (GST) P1 genotypes was found between cases and controls. In those with pesticide exposure, however, the GST P1 AA genotype was associated with the lowest risk for PD. Confirmation of each of these observations in additional populations may provide important clues to disease etiology. Polymorphisms of many genes have been found to be associated with an increase or decrease in risk for PD in at least one or more studies. Unknown gene–gene or gene–environment interactions may produce misleading results if cases and controls are

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6.5. The future of Parkinson’s disease epidemiology An emerging direction of epidemiologic research in PD also deserves mention. Recent work involves investigation of those ‘at risk’ for PD, before disease is manifest. A variety of disorders may precede formal diagnosis of PD, including olfactory dysfunction, rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorders, QT or rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval prolongation on the electrocardiogram, adiposity and constipation. In vivo imaging of the dopamine transporter with (99mTc) TRODAT-1 (TRODAT) and olfactory testing have both been proposed as potential biomarkers in PD, and impaired smell recognition correlated with lower TRODAT uptake (Siderowf et al., 2005). Rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorder is strongly predictive of PD, and RBD patients have been shown to have impaired olfactory function compared to controls (Stiasny-Kolster et al., 2005). In addition to olfactory dysfunction and rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorders, a number of patients with PD and multiple system atrophy, have QT or QTc interval prolongation on the electrocardiogram. In one prospective cohort, these findings were highly predictive of PD incidence (LR White, personal communication). Although these QT or QTc interval abnormalities are likely related to autonomic dysfunction, the pathophysiology remains unknown (Deguchi et al., 2002). Other characteristics in midlife associated with increased PD risk include increased triceps skinfold thickness (Abbott et al., 2002) and constipation. Men with less than one bowel movement per day at midlife had a 4.1-fold excess incidence of PD when compared with men with more frequent bowel movements (Abbott et al., 2001). Taken together, these observations suggest that PD may begin decades before nervous system symptoms are observed. PD may be first a disorder of the peripheral autonomic nervous system. If an environmental trigger is involved, the gastrointestinal tract or the olfactory epithelium may be portals of entry. This hypothesis is indirectly supported by neuropathologic findings, suggesting that nigral pathology is a relatively late event in the pathogenesis of PD (Braak et al., 2004). Further studies to identify those at risk will be essential in determining the causes of PD, and methods for its prevention.

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In the next half-century, the average age of individuals in both developed and developing countries is expected to show a progressive increase. In the USA alone, this phenomenon of population aging is predicted to result in a three- to fourfold increase in PD frequency, or several million persons with the disease. The impact of PD can also be expected to affect disease-associated health expenditures, lost income and personal suffering. As described in this chapter, despite intensive research efforts during the past several decades, the cause (or causes) of typical PD remains unknown. Likely, PD will be understood to be multifactorial, and both genetic and environmental determinants will be important. For example, estimated lifetime penetrance in parkinsonism caused by LRRK2 in the Ashkenazi Jewish population is only about 30% (Ozelius et al., 2006). Both genetic and environmental factors may determine expression of this monogenic form of parkinsonism. Typical PD may similarly be due to many different combinations of genetic or environmental determinants. The investigation of possible gene–environment interaction in PD is just beginning. In the next decade, investigations involving careful characterization of genetic and environmental factors will be essential to defining the causes of PD.

Acknowledgments Drs Chade and Kasten are Michael J. Fox Foundation Fellows at The Parkinson’s Institute. Thank you to Jennifer Wright for editorial assistance.

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Chapter 7

Neurochemistry of Parkinson’s disease JAYARAMAN RAO* Department of Neurology, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA

7.1. Introduction Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. By now, it is common knowledge, not just to the scientists and medical professionals, but to millions of lay public, that dopamine deficiency is the major neurochemical problem in PD. Our understanding of the neurochemical abnormalities of PD began with the suggestion that dopamine might have regulating functions of its own (Blaschko, 1957) rather just being an intermediary product in the synthesis of norepinephrine and epinephrine from tyrosine. This suggestion was soon followed by the localization of dopamine not just in the periphery, but also in the brain of many animals (Montagu, 1957) and that 80% of dopamine in the brain is localized in the striatum (Bertler and Rosengren, 1959; Sano et al., 1959). It was the breakthrough observation of Carlsson and his associates (1957; Carlsson 2000, 2001) that the complete ptosis and lethargy of reserpinized animals improved dramatically after intravenous administration of dopa, but not 5-hydroxytryptophan, the precursor of serotonin (5-HT), that provided the first clue to our understanding of the neurochemical basis of PD. Sano is credited as the first to have attempted to treat PD with levodopa (Foley, 2000; Hornykiewicz, 2001b), albeit unsuccessfully, but the careful and methodic neurochemical, neuropathological and clinical studies of Ehringer, Birkmayer and Hornykiewicz (Hornykiewicz, 2001b) finally established the fact that PD is a dopamine-deficiency disorder. Research focused on dopamine metabolism and the biology of dopamine receptors that followed these early and pioneering studies linking dopamine deficiency and PD has led to the successful development of drugs that have decreased mortality and improved the quality of life

of patients with PD. This chapter will focus primarily on our current understanding of the neurochemical changes noted in PD and references to observations in normal and animal models of PD will be made when appropriate to clarify and complement the results in PD.

7.2. Neurochemistry of the basal ganglia in Parkinson’s disease 7.2.1. Neurochemistry of neurons of ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) 7.2.1.1. Neurotransmitter of neurons of VTA and SNpc 7.2.1.1.1. Site of maximum degeneration The pathognomonic feature of PD is the progressive degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons of the ventral midbrain. The mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons are classified into three groups: (1) the A9 group consists of densely packed cells in the SNpc; (2) the A10 group is located in the VTA of Tsai; and (3) the A8 group is located in the retrorubral regions of the midbrain (Bjorklund and Lindvall, 1984; Hirsch et al., 1988). Hassler (1938) divided SNpc into dorsal and ventral subdivisions and these two subdivisions were further divided into several subnuclei. A recent and much simpler classification of cell groups of dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra has identified the dopamine neurons to be located both in the calbindin D28K-rich ‘matrix’ regions and in five calbindin D28K-poor pockets of densely aggregated dopamine neurons called ‘nigrosomes’ (Damier et al., 1999a). In PD, 98% of the dopaminergic neurons in nigrosome 1, located in the ventrolateral tier of the SNpc and corresponding to

*Correspondence to: Jayaraman Rao, MD, Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: 1-504-842-3980; Fax: 1-504-8420041.

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the spedd, sped, spez and spev divisions of Hassler (1938), degenerate early (Damier et al., 1999b). As the disease worsens, there is a medial and dorsal spatiotemporal pattern of progression of degeneration, ultimately including the dopamine cells of VTA (A10) and the retrorubral nucleus (A8) (Damier et al., 1999b). 7.2.1.1.2. Melanized versus unmelanized neurons The dopamine neurons of VTA and SNpc contain cells that are densely melanized and cells that are nonmelanized. In SNpc 84–98% of cells are melanized and the ratio between the melanized and non-melanized neurons in VTA is about 50:50 (Kingsbury et al., 1999; Tong et al., 2000). Almost all of the melanized cells in SNpc and VTA express TH protein or mRNA (Hirsch et al., 1988; Tong et al., 2000). The melanized cells degenerate more than the non-melanized cells (Hirsch et al., 1988); accordingly, loss of neurons in VTA in PD is less severe than in SNpc (Tong et al., 2000). 7.2.1.1.3. Enzymes of dopamine synthesis The midbrain dopamine neurons express mRNA and protein of TH, the rate-limiting enzyme of dopamine synthesis, and are exclusively dopaminergic, since they lack the expression of dopamine b-hydroxylase and phenoxymethyltransferase (Bjorklund and Lindvall, 1984, Tong et al. 2000), enzymes that synthesize norepineprhine and epinephrine from dopamine respectively. In PD, all the typical phenotypic markers of dopaminergic system are decreased in both VTA and SNpc, but most intensely in the dopaminergic cells in SNpc. In control brains, TH mRNA is expressed densely in the neurons throughout the entire SNpc and VTA and the intensity of expression of TH mRNA appears to be the same in both the melanized and non-melanized cells (Kingsbury et al., 1999; Tong et al., 2000). In PD brains, the number of TH immunoreactive neurons is significantly decreased and the level of TH mRNA and protein in the surviving melanized neurons has been reported to be decreased (Javoy-Agid et al., 1990; Kastner et al., 1993) or demonstrating a compensatory increase (Joyce et al., 1997) or unchanged (Kingsbury et al., 1999; Tong et al., 2000). The surviving non-degenerating non-melanized cells of SNpc and VTA, however, show an increase in the intensity of TH mRNA expression (Kingsbury et al., 1999; Tong et al., 2000). These results suggest that the surviving nonmelanized neurons exhibit, at best, a minimal compensatory increase in TH expression, and an increased turnover of dopamine at the terminals may actually be one of the major mechanisms of compensation for the loss of dopamine in animal models of PD and in PD (Zigmond, 1997; Hornykiewicz, 2001a). Chronic administration of

levodopa during the life of these patients does not modify the pattern of expression of TH mRNA in the remaining melanized cells of SNpc and VTA, suggesting that chronic levodopa may not be neurotoxic (Kingsbury et al., 1999). Along with the reduction of TH mRNA and protein, levels of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), a cofactor of TH, and aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC), the enzyme that converts dopa to dopamine, are also decreased significantly in SNpc in PD (Nagatsu et al., 1984; Nagatsu and Ichinose, 1996, 1999). 7.2.1.1.4. Dopamine The level of dopamine in nigra is second only to that of the striatum (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). The soma of a SNpc DA cell is located in SNpc and the different afferent systems converge upon the dendrites of SNpc dopamine neurons that are located in substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNpr). Dopamine synthesized by SNpc neurons is released not only at the terminals in the striatum, but also in soma and the dendrites of SNpc neurons located in SNpr. In PD, there is 80% loss of dopamine in the nigra (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). 7.2.1.1.5. Vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) Vesicular transporters transport neurotransmitters into vesicles of nerve terminals and neuroendocrine cells and make them available for regulated release. VMAT1 is localized predominantly in the neuroendocrine cells, whereas VMAT2 is widely distributed in monoaminergic terminals and dendrites. In the dopaminergic nerve terminal, VMAT2 transports cytoplasmic dopamine into the vesicles. The extent of melanization of midbrain dopamine neurons is directly proportional to the extent of expression of VMAT2, since highly active VMAT2 will incorporate cytoplasmic dopamine more efficiently into the vesicle, thereby reducing the formation of neuromelanin. Cells that express VMAT2 less intensely are more vulnerable to neurotoxins (Miller et al., 1999). In concordance with these observations in animals, VMAT2 expression is low in SNpc and high in VTA, which corresponds not only to the ratio of melanized to non-melanized cells in the VTA and SNpc but also to the loss of increased number of cells in SNpc. VMAT2 expression is higher in VTA than SNpc and may be an indicator of relatively decreased vulnerability of cell death of VTA than SNpc (Liang et al., 2004). Striatal VMAT2 levels are significantly decreased in PD (Hornykiewicz, 1998, 2001). 7.2.1.1.6. Dopamine transporter Dopamine transporter (DAT) facilitates reuptake of 95% of dopamine in the synaptic cleft and ends dopamine neurotransmission (Uhl, 2003). DAT actively

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE participates in the somatodendritic release of dopamine by reversely transporting dopamine from the dendrite of a SNpc cell to the extracellular space (Falkenburger et al., 2001). Unlike TH, DAT is an important and specific marker for dopaminergic neurons (Uhl, 2003) and several DAT ligands have been developed as markers to measure the pattern of survival of dopaminergic neurons and their terminals. In primate and nigra, the extent of DAT expression is the highest in the melanized neurons of SNpc. The intensity of expression of DAT in primate and nigra is maximal at the caudal, ventral and lateral group of dopamine neurons and gradually decreases medially in the VTA regions (Uhl, 2003; Gonzalez-Hernandez et al., 2004). In PD, there is significant loss of DAT expression in the mesencephalic dopamine neurons and the pattern of loss is directly proportional to the intensity of expression of DAT in these cells. The SNpc cells that express DAT very densely are the most severely affected in PD, and those VTA neurons expressing DAT less intensely demonstrate a less severe pattern of degeneration. The dopamine-containing cells of the arcuate and the paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus, for example, express DAT less intensely and do not degenerate in PD (Uhl, 2003). These findings suggest that the intensity of expression of DAT may be a major factor for the vulnerability of dopamine cells to endogenous and exogenous neurotoxins (Uhl, 1998; Bannon, 2005). The conclusions are supported by the observations that mice that overexpress DAT are more vulnerable to neurotoxic effects of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), and DAT knockout mice are completely resistant to the neurotoxic effects of MPTP (Miller et al., 1999). 7.2.1.2. Neuropeptides of neurons of VTA and SNpc 7.2.1.2.1. Cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8) Among the different peptides synthesized from procholecystokinin, CCK-8 is the predominant peptide in the central nervous system. CCK colocalizes with dopamine in VTA and SNpc in rats, cats and monkeys (Artaud et al., 1989; Seroogy et al., 1989; Jayaraman et al., 1990; Sirinathsinghji et al., 1992) and significantly influences release of dopamine in the striatal regions. So far, mRNA for CCK has not been demonstrated in human midbrain dopamine neurons. The level of CCK is reported to be significantly decreased in MPTP-treated primates (Sirinathsinghji et al., 1992) or almost absent in PD brains (Studler et al., 1982) and it has also been proposed that the midbrain dopamine neurons of adult human brain may not express CCK at all (Palacios et al., 1989).

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7.2.1.2.2. Neurotensin In human brains, a high level of neurotensin has been noted in SN and other regions of the brain, similar to that of the distribution pattern seen in rats and monkeys (Manberg et al., 1982). Significant interactions between dopamine and neurotensin occur in the basal ganglia (Binder et al., 2001). Neurotensin mRNA is expressed by a small group of neurons in the ventral tegmental regions in rats (Jayaraman et al., 1990). In PD, neurotensin levels are high in SN and the neurotensinergic striatonigral projection neurons are the source of the high neurotensin levels in SN (Fernandez et al., 1995). 7.2.1.3. Receptors localized in dopamine neurons of SNpc 7.2.1.3.1. Neurotransmitter receptors 7.2.1.3.1.1. Dopamine receptors The diverse effects of dopamine are mediated by D1 and D2 subfamilies of dopamine receptors, which are members of the superfamily of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). The D1- and D5-receptor subtypes, belonging to the D1 class, are coupled to G-proteins Gs and Golf, resulting in an increase in adenylyl cyclase and cyclic adenosine monophosphate (AMP) levels postsynaptically. The D2 class consists of D2-, D3- and D4-receptors, which are coupled to the inhibitory Gi, Go class of G-proteins, result in a decrease in adenylyl cyclase and cyclic AMP levels, and modulate ion channels (Civelli et al., 1993; Missale et al., 1998; Gether, 2000). All the subtypes of dopamine receptors have been localized to the striatum. Earlier studies using in situ hybridization techniques could not detect any mRNA for D1- or D5-receptors in midbrain dopamine neurons but modern reverse transcriptase polymer chain reaction (RT-PCR) suggests that the non-dopaminergic cells of SNpr as well as dopamine neurons and/or the glial cells in SNpc may express the mRNA and protein for D1-receptor. In PD, the mRNA and protein level of D1-receptors is decreased in SNpc (Hurley et al. 2001). The D1-receptors are also preferentially localized in the terminals of striatonigral axons in human midbrain (Thibaut et al., 1990). D2-receptor mRNA and protein are expressed very densely by the dopamine neurons of SNpc in brain (Meador-Woodruff et al., 1994; Hurd et al., 2001). The D2-receptors, localized in the perikarya, dendrites and nigrostriatal terminals, play a significant role in dopamine synthesis and release at the nigral and striatal levels (Kalivas, 1993; Sesack et al., 1994). The D2receptor gene codes for two isoforms of D2-receptor proteins. The D2 long (D2L) form has an additional 29 amino acids in the third cytoplasmic loop when

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compared to the D2 short (D2S) form (Missale et al., 1998). In the dopaminergic neurons of SNpc, VTA and the A8 group, the D2S form is expressed solely (Khan et al., 1998). In PD, there is loss of D2-receptor expression in SNpc and VTA (Murray et al., 1995). The TH-positive neurons of SNpc and non-THpositive cells in SNpr express mRNA for D3-receptors (Gurevich and Joyce, 1999). The mRNA for D4(Matsuomoto, 1996) and D5-receptors (Choi et al., 1995; Khan et al., 2000) is expressed in SNpc. 7.2.1.3.1.2. Glutamate receptors Glutamate provides the excitatory input to almost the entire central nervous system and its effects are mediated through ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluR) and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) (Ozawa et al., 1998). The iGluRs are named after the agonist compound that elicits a specific physiological response and are called a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl4-isoxazole-propionic acid (AMPA), kainate receptor (KA), and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). The different glutamate receptors may have individual but overlapping contributions to neuronal excitability, long-term potentiation and depression, different components of memory mechanisms, epileptogenesis and excitotoxic cell death (Meldrum, 2000). 7.2.1.3.1.2.1. Ionotropic glutamate receptors Activation of AMPA receptors by glutamate mediates most of the fast, excitatory neurotransmission in the central nervous system. AMPA receptors, along with NMDA receptors, play an important role in long-term potentiation and depression mechanisms. The functions of KA receptors are being established. Like other ligandgated ion channels, the AMPA receptors are composed of several distinct subunits. GluR1–GluR4 (also known as GluRA–GluRD) are AMPA receptor subunits, which can assemble in various combinations to form functional receptors. Alternative splicing of the RNA of each of GluR1–GluR4 AMPA receptor subunits, termed ‘flip’ and ‘flop’, adds to the complexity in the composition of AMPA receptors (Sommer et al., 1990). Kainate is a powerful agonist of the AMPA receptors and five subtypes of kainate receptors (GluR5–7, KA1 and 2) have been recognized. The NMDA receptors are further classified into two subdivisions. The NR1 subunit exists in at least eight alternatively spliced variants (NR1a–h), which differ in their properties and distributions. Each of these subunits can combine with the NR1 subunit to form NMDA receptors. The other family of NMDA receptor subunits, NR2A–D, shows a much more restricted anatomic distribution (Ozawa et al., 1998). (a) AMPA/kainate receptors. In the primate midbrain, almost all TH-positive neurons of SNpc and VTA

express mRNA and protein for all the subtypes of GluRs. The intensity of expression of protein for GluRs, especially that of GluR2, is more prominent in the SNpc cells than TH-positive cells in VTA (Paquet et al., 1997). GluR1 immunoreactivity is decreased in rat and primate models of PD (Betarbet et al., 2000). (b) NMDA receptors. The intensity of expression of mRNA for NMDA receptors in SN is lower than in the striatum. The mRNA for NR1 and NR2D are the most abundant in the DA cells of SN. Low levels of mRNA for NR2A, NR2B and NR2C are expressed in all subdivisions of nigra (Counihan et al., 1998). NMDA receptors are highly permeable to Ca2þ. NMDA receptors may be responsible for mediating glutamate-induced excitotoxic damage and NMDA antagonists prevent excitotoxic damage in several models of neurodegeneration (Ozawa et al., 1998). Glutamate-induced excitotoxicity has been speculated to play a role in the continuing degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of SNpc. The pattern of distribution of different mRNAs for various NMDA subunits, however, does not account for the specific pattern of neuronal loss in SNpc in PD (Counihan et al., 1998). 7.2.1.3.1.2.2. Metabotropic glutamate receptors The mGluRs belong to the family C type of GPCR and are classified into three groups. Group I mGluRs, consisting of mGluR1 and mGluR5, stimulate phospholipase C (PLC) and increase levels of inositol triphosphate and intracellular calcium. In contrast, groups II (mGluR2 and mGluR3) and III (mGluR4–8) inhibit adenylyl cyclase and thus decrease cyclic AMP levels. Six of eight mGluRs are expressed in the brain; however, the overall intensity of expression of mRNAs for various subunits of mGluRs is very low in SNpc and SNpr (Testa et al., 1994). Among the group I mGluRs, the intensity of expression of mRNA for mGluR1 is denser than any other mGluR subunits (Testa et al., 1994; Kosinski et al., 1998a; Hubert et al., 2001; Smith et al., 2001). mGluR3 is expressed in moderate intensity in SNpc, but mGluR2 (Phillips et al., 2000); mGluR4mGluR8 is either very low or undetectable in SNpc (Testa et al., 1994; Kosinski et al., 1999). The role of mGluRs in PD remains to be established. 7.2.1.3.1.3. GABAergic receptors Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the commonest inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. The different nuclei of the basal ganglia have very high levels of GABA. GABA receptors are classified into ionotropic GABAA, GABAC receptors and metabotropic GABAB1, and GABAB2 receptors. All the subtypes of GABA receptors are localized in all the subnuclei of the basal ganglia (Waldvogel et al., 2004). 7.2.1.3.1.3.1. Ionotropic receptors Similar to nicotinic, serotonergic and glycinergic receptors, the GABAA

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE receptors belong to the superfamily of the ligand-gated ion channel receptor (Sieghart and Sperk, 2002). GABAA receptor, a pentameric structure that forms a central Cl2 ion channel, is composed of a combination of different types of a, b, and g subunits. So far, 19 such subunits (a1–6, b1–3, g1–3, d, E, y, p and r1–3) have been cloned (Bormann, 2000; Sieghart and Sperk, 2002). In spite of the potential to form an enormous number of receptors through various combinations of these subunits, only very few well-established patterns have been identified so far (Okada et al., 2004a). For example, the commonest type of GABAA receptor consists of a combination of the a1, b2 and g2 subunits, constitutes 50% of all GABAA receptors in the brain, and is the classic benzodiazepine (BZ) receptor. In addition to the BZs, barbiturates, ethanol and neurosteroids also bind prominently to GABAA receptor-binding sites. The primate (Kultas-Ilinsky et al., 1998) and human (Petri et al., 2002) TH-positive SNpc neurons express the greatest number of the BZ1 subtype (made of a1, b2 and g2 subunits) of GABAA receptor. 7.2.1.3.1.3.2. Metabotropic receptors GABAB receptors couple to Ca2þ and Kþ channels via G-proteins and second-messenger systems; they are activated by baclofen and are resistant to drugs that modulate GABAA receptors. In midbrain, mRNA for GABAB1 is expressed by the melanized cells more prominently than GABAB2 (Berthele et al., 2001). In mice and primate models of PD, mRNA for GABAB receptors as well as GABAB receptor binding is significantly reduced in SN (Calon et al., 2001). 7.2.1.3.1.4. Serotonergic receptors There are seven different families of 5-HT receptors (5-HT1–5-HT7) and 14 different 5-HT receptors. All but the 5-HT3 family, which is a ligand-gated cation channel, are G-protein-linked metabotropic receptors (Barnes and Sharp, 1999). The protein of 5-HT receptors is found in the target sites of the terminals of the striatal output neurons, namely Gpe, SNpr. The mRNA for 5-HT1B is absent in the SNpc and pallidum. In PD, 5-HT2C receptor-binding levels are increased in SNpr by 108% when compared to controls (Fox and Brotchie, 2000). 7.2.1.3.1.5. Cholinergic receptors The ligand-gated ion channel nicotinic acetylcholinergic receptor (nAchR) family (Changeux et al., 1998; Klink et al., 2001) and the G-protein-coupled muscarinic acetylcholinergic receptor (mAchR) family (Caulfield and Birdsall, 1998) mediate the cholinergic effects of the central nervous system. All the subnuclei of the basal ganglia express significant density of various nAchRs and mAchRs. 7.2.1.3.1.5.1. Ionotropic (Nicotinic) receptors The ionotropic nAchR has a pentameric structure consisting

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of two copies of one of eight a subunits, a2–a9, separated by a copy of one of the three b subunits and/or g subunit (Changeux et al., 1998). The mRNAs for a3–7 subunits and b2–4 subunits have been localized to the SN and VTA. The a7 expression may be more prominent in VTA than in SN. The a4b2-containing nAchR, a receptor with very high binding affinity to nicotine, is very densely expressed in SNpc and these receptors are found on the dopaminergic terminals in the striatum (Changeux et al., 1998; Klink et al., 2001). The b2 subunit is expressed in all VTA and SN neurons and plays a major role in nicotine addiction and cognition (Maskos et al., 2005). Nicotinic receptors in the basal ganglia appear to be mostly located in the presynaptic nerve terminals and facilitate the release of dopamine in the striatum. 3 H-nicotine has very high binding affinity to a4 and b2 subunits of the nicotinic receptors. 3H-nicotine binding is significantly reduced (65–75%) in SN regions in PD, especially in its lateral regions (Perry et al., 1995) Since nicotinic receptors are most commonly expressed in the nigrostriatal dopaminergic terminals, there is also a concomitant decrease in 3H-nicotine binding sites (47–67%) in the striatum in PD (Court et al., 2000). In MPTP primate models of PD and in PD, the level of mRNA for a4, a7 and b2 is normal in SN, but the level of expression of b3 mRNA is decreased (Martin-Ruiz et al., 2002). Accordingly, the protein levels of these subunits in the putamen are also normal in PD. In addition there is a significant loss of a3/a6 binding (Kulak et al., 2002), but an increase in a7 binding in the dorsolateral striatum in MPTP models of PD (Kulak and Schneider, 2004) and in PD (Guan et al., 2002). In PD, the SNpc neurons are capable of expressing mRNA and protein of many of the subunits of nAchRs in nigra and the striatum; the molecular machinery that is required to assemble these subunits into a functioning nAchR is defective (Martin-Ruiz et al., 2002). 7.2.1.3.1.5.2. Metabotropic (Muscarinic) receptors The five distinct subtypes of mAchRs are members of the family A group of the GPCR superfamily. The m1, m3 and m5 receptors are functionally related and are coupled to Gaq11 and Ga13 subtypes of Gproteins, which lead to activation of PLC and phospholipase D (PLD). The m2 and m4 couple to the inhibitory Gi and Go proteins, leading to inhibition of adenylyl cyclase and a decrease in cyclic AMP levels (Caulfield and Birdsall, 1998). The dopaminergic neurons in SN are one of few sites in the brain with m5 mRNA (Weiner et al., 1990) and with no other reported receptor subtypes. Although there are only very low levels of m5 protein, this receptor might be localized on nigrostriatal terminals, because dopamine release in striatum is recognized to

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be regulated by a muscarinic receptor (Yasuda et al., 1993). The role played by mAchRs in PD remains to be explored further. 7.2.1.3.1.6. Adenosine receptors Methlyxanthine-sensitive adenosine receptors A1 and A2A are localized within several nuclei of the basal ganglia. The lowest level of A2 mRNA is noted in SNpc and A2 receptors. mRNA levels are increased in SNpr, but not in SNpc in PD (Hurley et al., 2000). 7.2.1.3.2. Peptidergic receptors 7.2.1.3.2.1. Opioid receptors The different opioid peptides of the brain are derived from genes encoding proopiomelanocortin, proenkephalin and prodynorphin. These peptides interact with m, k and d receptors. The distribution pattern of these receptors in the brain varies between animals and within different regions of the brain. For example, when compared to the distribution pattern in rat brain, in brain k receptors are more densely distributed and d opioid receptors are less prominent (Peckys and Landwehrmeyer, 1999). The mRNA for m opioid receptors are very low or even absent in the dopamine neurons of SNpc and VTA, but the protein for m opioid receptors localized in the terminals of striatonigral direct pathway are dense in SNpc and VTA. The dopamine neurons of SNpc and VTA in midbrain do not express any mRNA for d opioid receptors (Peckys and Landwehrmeyer, 1999). The mRNA for dynorphin-sensitive k opioid receptors is densely expressed by the melanized dopaminergic neurons of SNpc and VTA and protein for the receptors is expressed on the dopaminergic perikarya and the terminals in the striatum. In PD, along with a significant decrease in melanized neurons, the mRNA for k opioid receptor and protein are significantly decreased (Yamada et al., 1997). 7.2.1.3.2.2. Substance P (SP) receptors The different tachykinin peptides are derived from preprotachykinin I (PPT I), II (PPT II) and III (PPT III), but peptides encoded by PPT I and PPT II only are found in the central nervous system (Pennefather et al., 2004). The dopamine neurons of SNpc or the VTA do not express mRNAs for SP or any other related tachykinin peptides (Warden and Young, 1988). Interestingly, even though greater levels of SP are found in SN than any other nucleus in the rat brain (Severini et al., 2002) the presence of tachykinin receptors in these dopamine neurons has been difficult to demonstrate. The G-protein-coupled tachykinin receptors are of three types: (1) SP-sensitive neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor; (2) neurokinin A-sensitive NK-2 receptor;

and (3) neurokinin B-sensitive NK-3 receptor. Among the three types of tachykinin receptors, a high percentage of the dopamine neurons of SNpc and VTA in rats (Futami et al., 1998) and human brain (Whitty et al., 1997) express NK-1. The SNpc neurons of rats also express NK-3 (Chen et al., 1998) and NK-2 types of receptors (Bannon and Whitty, 1995). SP receptor binding is not decreased in PD (Fernandez et al., 1994). 7.2.1.3.2.3. Neurotensin receptors Three different neurotensin receptors have been cloned. The neurotensin-1 subtype (NTS1) is the predominant receptor in the brain and the basal ganglia. The neurotensin-2 subtype (NTS2) is distributed in the brain but not in the basal ganglia. The role played by NTS3 remains to be established (Vincent et al., 1999). NTS1 has very high affinity to neurotensin when compared to NTS2 and the vast majority of melanized and nonmelanized dopaminergic cells of SNpc and VTA in midbrain express mRNA for NTS1 (Nicot et al., 1995). The NTS-1 receptors are expressed more densely in poorly melanized cells in SNpc and VTA than those cells that are highly melanized (Yamada et al., 1995) and, in PD, NTS1 mRNA and neurotensin receptor binding are significantly reduced in SNpc (Uhl et al., 1984; Chinaglia et al., 1990; Fernandez et al., 1994). 7.2.1.3.2.4. Cholecystokinin receptors The CCK-1 and CCK-2 receptors belong to the GPCR superfamily. The CCK-1 receptor is considered predominantly ‘alimentary’ and is localized in SNpc (Mercer and Beart, 2004). The mRNA of CCK-2 receptor, the ‘brain’ receptor of CCK, is expressed in the dopamine neurons of the midbrain (Honda et al., 1993) and CCK-2 receptor protein in the dopamine terminals in the nucleus accumbens and the glutamatergic corticostriate terminals in the striatum. There is a lack of information about the nature of CCK receptor expression in nigra in experimental models of PD or in PD. 7.2.1.3.2.5. Cannabinoid receptors Tetrahydracannabinol mediates its addictive and psychoactive properties through the G-protein-linked cannabinoid receptors that are distributed diffusely within the brain and especially in the basal ganglia (Howlett et al., 2002). The cannabinoid receptors are classified into CB1- and CB2-receptors. The presence of CB2-receptors within the brain has not been established, but CB1-receptors are expressed by all the nuclei of the basal ganglia (Howlett et al., 2002). The mRNA and protein for CB1-receptors are expressed in the melanized TH-positive neurons of SNpc and VTA and their levels are reported to be unaltered in the substantia nigra of PD (Hurley et al., 2003a).

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 7.2.1.4. Neuromelanin and metallic ions 7.2.1.4.1. Neuromelanin One of the most characteristic features of the dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra is that they contain neuromelanin. Neuromelanin shares several biochemical characteristics with cutaneous melanin (Fedorow et al., 2005) but has 10 times more affinity to iron than cutaneous melanin (Double et al., 2003). Neuromelanin is distributed mostly in cells that synthesize dopamine and norepinephrine, but not epinephrine. Levodopa is the precursor of neuromelanin and it is derived from dopamine, dopaquinone and their oxidized products and from catecholamines that are not stored in the vesicles (Sulzer et al., 2000). Tetrabenazine and reserpine, drugs that block incorporation of dopamine in the presynaptic vesicles, increase accumulation of neuromelanin and overexpression of VMAT2, which facilitates the incorporation of cytoplasmic dopamine into the vesicles, decreasing neuromelanin synthesis (Sulzer et al., 2000). Neuromelanin concentration in SN is undetectable during the first decade and may reach a value of 3.7 mg/mg in the eighties, and in PD the level of neuromelanin decreases significantly (Zecca et al., 2002b). Even though highly melanized dopamine neurons of SNpc and VTA degenerate the most, the precise role played by neuromelanin in these neurons is unknown. Neuromelanin is proposed to play a role in the neurodegenerative process of dopamine and locus ceruleus neurons in PD; however, even amidst a densely degenerating group of nigral cells in the ventral and lateral nigrosome regions of SNpc, pigmented neurons do survive. In SNpc nigrosomes 98% of the melanized cells degenerate, whereas even though almost all locus ceruleus neurons contain neuromelanin, only about 50–63% of melanized cells of locus ceruleus degenerate in PD. The SNpc dopamine neurons of rats, unlike mice and primates, do not contain neuromelanin (Fedorow et al., 2005). Even in the absence of neuromelanin, administration of rotenone in rats, but not MPTP, causes significant degeneration of the mesencephalic dopamine neurons (Betarbet et al., 2000), providing additional support to the concept that neuromelanin may not be required for neurodegeneration in this animal model of PD. The most important function of neuromelanin may be to store and regulate iron, copper, zinc and manganese ions which play an important role in the normal function of TH and cytochrome a, b and c within the catecholaminergic neurons (Zecca et al., 2002a). It has been proposed that neuromelanin may actually play a neuroprotective role in normal brain by preferentially sequestering pesticides, MPTP, paraquat and other neurotoxins, iron and other metallic ions for a

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significant duration, but when this storage capacity exceeds or decompensates, then iron and pesticides may act as neurotoxic factors (Sulzer et al., 2000; Zecca et al. 2002a, Zucca et al., 2004). 7.2.1.4.2. Neuromelanin and iron There is a general tendency for a gradual metallization of neuromelanin with increasing age. Some of the metallic ions may play a much greater role in the degeneration of SNpc and VTA dopamine neurons than others. Along with copper, zinc and manganese, iron plays an important role in the normal functions of TH. Iron accumulates in neuromelanin and is required for the synthesis of neuromelanin since iron-chelating agents block the synthesis of neuromelanin (Sulzer et al., 2000). The level of iron in SN of control brains is 20 ng/mg in the first year of life and then may increase to 200 ng/mg until 40 years of age, paralleling the gradual increase of neuromelanin in the dopamine cells (Zecca et al., 2002a). The concentration of iron in neuromelanin is greater than copper and zinc and iron levels are higher in neuromelanin in PD than controls (Zecca et al., 2002a). In PD patients there may be a 30–35% increase in iron in SN (Dexter et al., 1991). Iron-related protein dysfunctions have been noted in PD. In MPTP mouse models of PD (Fillebeen et al., 1999) and in PD (Faucheux et al., 1995) levels of lactotransferrin, an iron-binding protein that has more affinity to iron than transferrin, as well as levels of lactotransferrin receptors, are increased, suggesting that more iron may be actively and preferentially transported into SN in PD patients than in controls (Double et al., 2000). Accumulation of iron in SNpc has been speculated to play a major role in the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of SN via oxidative reaction through Fenton pathway (Berg et al., 2001; Zucca et al., 2004). Recent studies also suggest the possibility that iron accumulation may be a consequence of dopaminergic cell death since, at least in MPTP models of PD, dopaminergic cell death precedes iron accumulation (He et al., 2003). 7.2.1.4.3. Neuromelanin and copper Besides iron, zinc, copper and manganese ions are also found in neuromelanin (Zecca et al., 2002a). Copper plays an important role as a cofactor of the antioxidant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase I as well as cytochrome c oxidase, ceruloplasmin and copper-dependent transcription factors (Uauy et al., 1998). Glutathione is involved in the intracellular transport of copper (Harris, 2003), and even low doses of copper may be adequate to promote aggregation of a-synuclein and, more importantly, amyloid precursor protein and prion protein (Rasia et al., 2005). In control brains the intensity of expression

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of mRNA for Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase is higher in the melanized than in non-melanized dopamine neurons of the midbrain (Zhang et al., 1993). In MPTP models of PD and in PD mRNA for Cu-Zn, superoxide dismutase is significantly decreased (Kunikowska and Jenner, 2003). 7.2.1.4.4. Neuromelanin and zinc Zinc is the second most common element, after calcium, in the brain and the zinc levels are the highest in the brain than any other organ (Weiss et al., 2000). Zinc plays an important role in the proper functioning of zinc-dependent enzymes (e.g. the antioxidant Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase), transcription factors (e.g. zinc fingers) and the neuroprotective metallothioneins (Berg and Shi, 1996, Frederickson et al., 2005). Zinc is packaged into the presynaptic vesicles and released into the synaptic cleft by the glutamatergic neurons of the cerebral cortex and the amygdaloid complex (also called ‘gluzinergic’ neuron or zinc-enriched neuron) and GABAergic and glycinergic neurons in the spinal cord where it can alter the excitability of potentially several types of receptors (Frederickson et al., 2005). An excess amount of free zinc is neurotoxic and plays a role in glutamate-induced excitotoxicity (Weiss et al., 2000). Although the potential role of zinc in the formation of b-amyloid plaque and in motor neuron disease is widely recognized (Frederickson et al., 2005), zinc’s role in the pathogenesis of PD remains to be established. Zinc levels are increased by 50–54% in SN of PD and 18–35% in the caudate nucleus and lateral putamen of PD (Dexter et al., 1991). The source of increased levels of zinc in SN in PD is not known. The dense thalamostriate, cerebral cortical, pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) and subthalamic nucleus (STN) glutamatergic inputs to the SN and the striatonigral GABAergic synaptic endings have not been identified, so far, to release zinc at their terminals, raising the possibility of an altered homeostasis of zinc in SN as the source of the higher zinc level noted in PD. Zinc, along with several other metals, is sequestrated in neuromelanin (Zecca et al., 2002a). The mRNA for copper/zinc superoxide dismutase is significantly higher in the melanized cells of SNpc (Zhang et al., 1993), which are more vulnerable to degeneration than the non-melanized cells, and in PD the mRNA for Cu/Zn SOD is significantly decreased (Kunikowska and Jenner, 2003). 7.2.1.4.5. Neuromelanin and manganese Manganese is present ubiquitously in the body and brain and is essential for the functions of numerous enzymes, metalloproteins and free-radical scavenging in the mitochondria (Dobson et al., 2004). Within the basal ganglia

the SN, putamen and GP contain high levels of manganese (Dobson et al., 2004). Manganese is mostly concentrated in the mitochondria (Maynard and Cotzias, 1955) and is an important component of the manganese superoxide dismutase enzyme. Experimental overload of manganese in neonatal rats does not increase the levels of mitochondrial manganese any further, indicating the possibility that, in case of a higher level of intracellular manganese, it may be diverted to other sources of storage. In neurons that contain neuromelanin, manganese is stored in neuromelanin (Zecca et al., 2002a). Manganese level in SN of PD is unchanged (Dexter et al., 1991) and the level of manganese superoxide dismutase is normal in sporadic PD (Shimoda-Matsubayashi et al., 1997). In manganese toxicity, however, manganese accumulates not just in GP and striatum, but also in SN. High levels of manganese can trigger oxidative stress and a-synuclein fibrillary deposits (Uversky et al., 2001; Dobson et al., 2004). 7.2.1.5. Neurochemistry of VTA and SNpc afferents The various inputs to the mesencephalic dopamine neurons are organized compactly and topographically in a reticulate fashion in SNpr. The physiology of the dopamine neuron is regulated by many of these neurotransmitters and neuropeptides that are released in the terminals of the afferents and by the receptors that are localized in the dopamine neurons. The pattern of release of the neuropeptides and transmitters is profoundly affected, in turn, by somatodendritically released dopamine. In PD the loss of dopamine in SNpc is >80% parallel to the level of loss in the striatum. How progressive loss of dopamine influences the normal physiological activity and the neurochemistry of these afferents and how these various afferents, in turn, modulate the degenerating as well as the surviving dopamine neurons has not been studied in detail. 7.2.1.5.1. Neurotransmitters of VTA and SNpc afferents 7.2.1.5.1.1. Glutamatergic afferents The mesencephalic dopamine neurons receive glutamatergic inputs from the STN, cerebral cortex and the PPN. The glutamatergic terminals express both D1- and D2-receptors and make direct synaptic contacts on the dendritic portion of dopamine neurons. Dendritically released dopamine exerts an inhibitory effect on the dopamine receptor-mediated glutamate release. In dopamine-denervated states, as after 6hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injections, loss of dopamine and stimulation of dopamine receptors on the glutamatergic terminals result in an increased level of glutamate in the nigra (Morari et al., 1998). Using a

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE chronic MPTP model of PD in mice, it has been proposed that in the early and presymptomatic stage of the disease, glutamate released by a hyperactive STN may stimulate dopamine neurons to fire in a bursting fashion instead of the normal pattern of firing randomly, and that the burst firing pattern may release more dopamine in the striatum to compensate for the loss of dopamine in the striatum (Bezard and Gross, 1998). In PD, however, glutamate level in SN is normal (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). 7.2.1.5.1.2. GABAergic afferents The midbrain dopaminergic neurons directly influence the GABAergic output neurons of both direct and indirect pathways. The mRNA for glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) 67 and GABA level is increased in the dorsolateral striatum in animal models of PD as well as in PD (Kish et al., 1986; Soghomonian et al., 1994). The increase in GAD mRNA level is noted selectively in the preproenkephalin A (PPE A)-containing GABAergic neurons of the indirect pathway and not the SP/dynorphin-containing GABAergic direct pathway (Soghomonian and Laprade, 1997) and accordingly, GABA levels in SN are within normal limits in PD (Kish et al., 1986). 7.2.1.5.1.3. Cholinergic afferents The PPN is the major source of cholinergic input to the VTA and SN (Garcia-Rill, 1991). Cholinergic neurons located, especially at the rostral pole of PPN, send mostly ipsilateral projections to SN and the VTA receives bilateral projections from the cholinergic neurons of PPN. The PPN cholinergic neurons that project to the dopaminergic neurons of VTA and SN also project to the thalamus and contain SP and NADPH-diaphorase (Oakman et al., 1999). Significant loss of SP-containing neurons of PPN has been observed in PD (Halliday et al., 1990b). The many subtypes of mAchRs localized to the soma and the terminals of the PPN cholinergic fibers regulate the release of dopamine in the mesencephalon and the striatum by the dopaminergic neurons of VTA and STN (Miller and Blaha, 2005). 7.2.1.5.1.4. Serotonergic afferents Among the different nuclei of the basal ganglia, the substantia nigra receives the heaviest serotonergic innervations (Tork, 1990; Parent et al., 1995). Axons from dorsal raphe nucleus terminate more densely in the caudal and lateral third than the rostral and medial substantia nigra corresponding to the region of substantia nigra that degenerates the earliest in PD and is vulnerable to the mitochondrial toxins MPTP and rotenone (Damier et al., 1999b; Betarbet et al. 2000). The DRN neurons that project to the nigra also project to the striatum by axon collaterals (van der Kooy and Hattori, 1980). In PD, 5-HT levels are decreased in substantia nigra (Hornykiewicz, 1998).

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7.2.1.5.1.5. Histaminergic afferents The only source of neuronal histamine in the brain is the tuberomammillary complex in the caudal and lateral hypothalamus (Schwartz et al., 1991; Haas and Panula, 2003). Histamine plays a major role in alertness, hibernation, feeding and memory (Brown et al., 2001). The tuberomamillary nucleus provides dense histaminergic fibers to many areas of the brain and all the nuclei of the basal ganglia. The large neurons of the tuberomammillary nucleus, which provide the histaminergic input to the nigra, degenerate in multiple system atrophy but not in PD (Nakamura et al., 1996). The histamine levels are significantly increased in SNpc in PD (Anitchik et al., 2000). 7.2.1.5.2. Neuropeptides of VTA and SNpc afferents 7.2.1.5.2.1. Opioids The medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway, which express different opioid peptides derived from prodynorphin, terminate densely in SN. The rat nigra demonstrates the highest concentration of prodynorphin-derived peptides (Zamir et al., 1984). Among these opioid peptides, in rat SN, a-neoendorphin concentration is the highest, followed by other peptides of prodynorphin. Met and Leu enkephalins are also found in SN, but they are derived solely from the processing of prodynorphin. The molar ratio of DynA1–17: DynA1–8 is 1:1 in the striatum of rat, monkey and human, but it is 1:6 in monkey nigra and 1:16 in rat nigra (Dores and Akil, 1985). In MPTP primate models of PD, met-enkephalin levels are low in SN but the levels of all other opioid peptides are normal (Zamir et al., 1984). 7.2.1.5.2.2. Substance P The axons of medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway that contain peptides derived from PPT terminate diffusely in SN. In PD, the level of SP in SN has been reported to be increased (Grafe et al., 1985) or decreased (Tenuvuo et al., 1990; Perez-Otano et al., 1992). Several animal models of PD also demonstrate inconclusive reports concerning the level of SP in SN (Betarbet and Greenamyre, 2004). The level of expression of mRNA and protein for SP in SN and other target sites of the direct pathway may be dependent on the extent of dopamine denervation and dopamine denervation hypersensitivity of D1-receptors, since a loss of dopamine 80% is associated with an increased level of SP in the striatum and internal segment of GP (GPi: de Ceballos et al., 1993). 7.2.1.5.2.3. Neurotensin Neurotensin levels are twice as high in SNpc and SNpr (Fernandez et al., 1995) and the medium spiny neurons

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in the striatum that express mRNA for neurotensin may be the source of the high levels of neurotensin noted in SN (Castel et al., 1993a). 7.2.1.6. What is preserved in VTA and SNpc? Even though there is a profound loss of dopamine neurons of SNpc, SN neurons that contain calbindin 28 (Yamada et al., 1990; Lavoie and Parent, 1991) and calretinin (Mouatt-Prigent et al., 1994) are preserved in primate models of PD and in PD. In MPTP-induced animal models of PD the dopaminergic cells that project directly to GPi may be preserved (Schneider and Dacko, 1991). A small percentage of SNpc cells are recognized to synthesize GABA and they may be interneurons (Hebb and Robertson, 2002). The TH-positive and non-TH-positive neurons of SNpc also synthesize acetylcholinesterase (Emmett and Greenfield, 2005) and several other enzymes and release these enzymes in the striatum (Greenfield et al., 1983). The nature of involvement of the GABAergic neurons of SNpc and acetylcholinesterase in PD remains to be established. The SNpr contains mostly parvalbumin/GABAergic neurons and they degenerate in progressive supranuclear palsy, but not in PD (Hardman et al., 1996). 7.2.2. Neurochemistry of the striatum in Parkinson’s disease 7.2.2.1. Neurochemistry of striatal afferents 7.2.2.1.1. Neurotransmitters of striatal afferents 7.2.2.1.1.1. Dopamine 7.2.2.1.1.1.1. Pattern of loss The level of dopamine in the striatum represents 80% of all dopamine in the brain (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). The terminals of the A8, A9 and A10 groups of mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons are the source of dopamine in the striatum. The A10 group of VTA dopamine neurons project to the limbic striatum and the dopamine terminals from the A9 groups of dopamine neurons from the SNpc complex provide the dopamine supply to the caudate and putamen. The dopamine nerve fibers from the A8 group project diffusely to the striatum and to many other extrastriatal regions in the rat brain (Deutch et al., 1988; Francois et al., 1999) and are recognized to degenerate in PD (Hirsch et al., 1988). In normal brain, dopamine is distributed unevenly and heterogeneously into TH-rich matrix and TH-poor striosomal compartments (Holt et al., 1997; Prensa et al., 2000). In PD, dopamine levels as well as levels of all the markers of dopaminergic system are significantly decreased. Neurochemical and immunocytochemical

studies show that TH, BH4, guanosine triphosphate cyclohydralase I, VMAT2 and DAT levels are decreased in the striatum in PD (Nagatsu et al., 1984; Nagatsu and Ichinose, 1999; Hornykiewicz, 2001a). The activity and protein level of TH are much lower than AADC and the level of DAT is much lower than VMAT2 (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). This would suggest that the capacity of the dopaminergic terminal to synthesize levodopa from tyrosine is more severely affected than its capacity to convert exogenously administered levodopa to dopamine. This also suggests that in animal models of PD and in PD the rate-limiting enzyme for the synthesis of dopamine shifts from TH to AADC (Lee et al., 2000). In early stages, dopamine depletion is more severe in the dorsolateral putamen and the motor striatum than the caudate nucleus or the nucleus accumbens (Kish et al., 1988). This is consistent with the observation that the earliest dopamine cells to degenerate are localized in the ventrolateral tier of SNpc that projects to the dorsolateral motor striatum. This pattern also coincides with the upregulation of D2-receptors in putamen in the early stages (Rinne et al., 1995; Kaasinen et al., 2000). Nevertheless, as the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons progresses dorsally and medially, dopamine depletion spreads more medially and ultimately the dopamine level decreases in the entire dorsal and ventral striatum. Loss of dopamine within the striatum is denser than other monoamines. The >80% loss of dopamine in the striatum is accompanied by a 50% decrease in 5-HT levels and the level of norepinephrine is unchanged from that of the control levels (Wilson et al., 1996). 7.2.2.1.1.1.2. Compensatory mechanisms in dopamine-denervated striatum It has been estimated that the signs and symptoms of PD are not noted until there is a degeneration of >50% of midbrain dopamine neurons and 80% loss of dopamine in the striatum. Several mechanisms that may be in play simultaneously compensate for the loss of dopamine in the striatum in early stages of PD. Unilateral lesioning of nigrostriatal system with 6-OHDA in rats suggests that, after a loss of 50% dopaminergic neurons in the nigra, there is a compensatory increase in dopamine synthesis and turnover by the remaining dopamine terminals in the striatum and at the dendritic levels in the nigra. The postsynaptic denervation hypersensitivity of dopamine receptors occurs only after a loss of 90% of dopamine in the striatum (Hefti et al., 1980). In order to compensate for loss of dopamine in the striatum, during the early stages of dopamine denervation, the activity of AADC may be upregulated. The upregulated AADC activity will result in an increased synthesis of dopamine and lower levels of DAT

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE expression and activity due to loss of dopamine terminals will decrease reuptake of dopamine (Lee et al., 2000). A combination of these two factors, along with an increase in volume transmission, will facilitate an increase in the synaptic dopamine levels and may be adequate to compensate for the loss of dopamine during the early preclinical phase of the disease. The continuing denervation due to progressive dopamine neuronal loss, however, applies further demands on these compensatory mechanisms. Besides the upregulation of AADC in dopamine terminals, exogenously administered levodopa may be converted into dopamine in the striatum by a group of neurons designated as D cells (Ikemoto, 2004). The D cells express only AADC, but not TH or tryptophan hydroxylase, and are distributed diffusely in the brain (Jaeger et al., 1984). Within the striatum, D cells are more prominently dispersed in the nucleus accumbens than the putamen or caudate nucleus (Ikemoto, 2004). The number of D cells increases after 6-OHDA in rats and administration of levodopa results in an increased synthesis of dopamine, presumably by the newly formed cells that contain AADC (Mura et al., 1995). Levodopa is converted into dopamine not only by dopamine terminals in dopamine-denervated striatum, but also by AADC found in serotonergic terminals and in several types of interneuron within the striatum (Melamed et al., 1980; Arai et al., 1991; Lopez-Real et al., 2003). Yet another level of compensation may be reflected by the induction of dopamine-synthesizing enzymes in neurons that are strictly intrinsic to the striatum and normally do not express these enzymes. Acute and severe depletion of striatal dopamine in rats and primates results in the appearance of AADC and TH-immunoreactive neurons in the striatum (Tashiro et al., 1989; Tashiro et al., 1990; Meredith et al., 1999). The number of these neurons increases in MPTP models of PD in primates, indicating that these striatal dopamine neurons are generated as a consequence of striatal dopamine denervation (Betarbet et al., 1997). In primate and striatum, two types of neurons exhibit TH immunoreactivity (Prensa et al., 2000). Most of these newly formed TH-positive neurons in striatum bear significant similarities to morphological and neurochemical properties of a GABAergic interneuron (Cossette et al., 2005) and express GluR1 and AMPA receptors (Betarbet and Greenamyre, 1999) and mRNA for DAT, suggesting that dopamine is transported actively into these neurons (Betarbet et al., 1997). In spite of these all-out reparative efforts, these presynaptic compensatory mechanisms are inadequate to reverse the widespread, severe and continuing loss of dopamine in the striatum. The progressive difficulties to store and deliver smooth levels of dopamine at

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the synaptic cleft lead to the emergence of the uncompensated and symptomatic phase of the disease and subsequently to the on–off, yo-yo phenomenon and predictable and unpredictable wearing-off phenomena noted in PD. 7.2.2.1.1.2. Glutamate Glutamate is the principal excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain. Within the basal ganglia circuitry, it plays a prominent role in the physiology of the cerebral cortex, striatum, GP, STN, SN and the thalamus. The highest level of glutamate is in the striatum (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). The striatum receives an extensive glutamatergic projection from virtually all areas of the neocortex centromedian and parafascicular thalamic nuclei amygdaloid nuclei and the STN. Neurochemical studies in striatum have shown a significant increase in glutamate levels, especially in the dorsolateral striatum, in a pattern that coincides with the pattern of severe loss of dopamine in the dorsolateral quadrant of the putamen (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). Several mechanisms may underlie such an increase in glutamate levels in the striatum. The corticostriate terminals express D2-receptors and, on acute stimulation by either dopamine or D2- but not D1-selective dopamine agonists, inhibit the release of glutamate in the striatum. During dopamine denervation, D2-receptor-mediated inhibition is lost, resulting in increased levels of glutamate in the striatum (Morari et al., 1998). In 6-OHDA models of PD in rats, chronic levodopa administration results in a significant increase in the levels of extracellular glutamate and an increased expression of glutamate transporter 1 in the glial cells (Robelet et al., 2004). In addition to the enhanced levels of extracellular glutamate, dopamine denervation and levodopa treatment result in an increased tyrosine and serine phosphorylation of NR2B and possibly the NR2A subunits of the glutamate receptors and glutamate receptor mediated postsynaptic signaling mechanisms (Oh et al., 1999; Chase and Oh, 2000). These factors collectively contribute to an increased glutamate transmission that may lead to dyskinesia. These observations may support the hypothesis that many of the signs and symptoms of advanced stages of PD may be driven by an increase in glutamate in the striatum (Carlsson and Carlsson, 1990; Schimdt, 1998). 7.2.2.1.1.3. Serotonin The striatum receives less dense 5-HT innervations than the substantia nigra and the GP. The nucleus accumbens and the ventro- and dorsomedial limbic striatum receive denser 5-HT innervations than the associative striatum and the dorsolateral motor striatum (Lavoie and Parent, 1990). The 5-HT terminals are dense in the TH-rich compartment compared to the TH-poor striosomes,

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suggesting that the limbic and non-limbic compartments of the striatum may be influenced by different serotonergic mechanisms (Lavoie and Parent, 1990). The striatal 5-HT levels are decreased (40%) in PD – more so in the depressed PD patients than in the nondepressed patients (Kish, 2003). The decreased levels of 5-HT may be more prominent in the caudate nucleus than in the putamen. In the early stages of PD, 5-HT level is reduced to 35% but as the disease progresses and in late stages the loss of 5-HT may reach 50%. This observation suggests that the contribution of serotonergic dysfunction becomes more severe as the disease progresses. 7.2.2.1.1.4. Histamine The tuberomamillary nucleus is the sole source of neuronal histamine in the brain. The level of histamine is significantly increased in the striatum in PD (Rinne et al., 2002). 7.2.2.1.2. Neuropeptides of striatal afferents 7.2.2.1.2.1. Cholecystokinin The peptide CCK, originally recognized as a peptide of the gastrointestinal system, is present more abundantly in the brain than in the intestine (Beinfeld, 2001). Among all regions of the brain, levels of CCK are highest in the caudate nucleus followed by the cerebral cortex (Beinfeld et al., 1981). The corticostriate neurons that express CCK (Morino et al., 1994) promote the release of glutamate in the striatum (Snyder et al., 1993). Yet another source of CCK to the striatum may be the midline thalamic nuclei that project to the nucleus accumbens and the limbic striatum (Hu and Jayaraman, 1987). The striatal CCK levels are not altered in MPTP-induced models of PD in marmosets (Taquet et al., 1988). In PD, CCK-8 level has been reported to be unchanged (Fernandez et al., 1992) or slightly increased (Hornykiewicz, 1998). 7.2.2.1.2.2. Other peptides Axons that demonstrate immunoreactivity to several other peptides have been observed in the striatum (Hu and Jayaraman, 1987). Details of these potential sources of peptides to the striatum remain to be established. 7.2.2.2. Neurochemistry of striatal neurons in Parkinson’s disease The striatum consists of at least five types of neuron. The medium spiny GABAergic neurons are the output neurons and constitute 85% of the cells in the striatum. The interneurons constitute about 10–15% of the cells of the striatum. The GABA/calretinin-positive cells constitute 10% of striatal neurons, and the GABA/neuropeptide Y (NPY)/somatostatin (SOM)/NASDPH cells

about 2.5%. The large cholinergic aspiny interneurons and the GABA/parvalbumin neurons are about 1% or less (Cicchetti et al., 1998). The different types of interneuron form the intricate microcircuitry that, along with the afferent inputs, regulates the medium spiny output neurons of the striatum. The exceptionally high levels of acetylcholine and acetylcholinesterase and GABA within striatum are mostly derived from the large aspiny cholinergic interneuron, the GABAergic interneurons and the output neurons of the striatum respectively. 7.2.2.2.1. Striatal interneurons 7.2.2.2.1.1. GABA interneurons 7.2.2.2.1.1.1. GABA/calretinin The medium and large-sized aspiny GABAergic interneurons that also co-express calretinin is the most common type of interneuron in the striatum (Cicchetti et al., 1998, 2000). These neurons also express AMPA receptors prominently. The anatomical connectivity, neurophysiology and neurochemical characterization of these neurons remain to be defined further. 7.2.2.2.1.1.2. GABA/parvalbumin Large and medium-sized aspiny neurons that stain for GABA and parvalbumin are the second most common type of interneurons in the striatum (Cicchetti et al., 1998, 2000). Parvalbumin levels are markedly decreased in the nigra, but not in the striatum in MPTP-induced mouse models of PD (Muramatsu et al., 2003). 7.2.2.2.1.1.3. GABA/NPY/SOM/NOS The type of interneurons that express GABA, the peptides NPY and SOM as well as the enzyme NADPH-diaphorase constitute about 1% of interneurons in the striatum (Cicchetti et al., 2000). (a) Neuropeptide Y. The number of NPY neurons as well as the grain density of NPY mRNA per cell are increased in PD and this upregulation may be due to dopamine denervation (Canizzaro et al., 2003). (b) Somatostatin. The levels of SOM expression is increased by glutamatergic stimulation and decreased by haloperidol, a predominantly D2 dopaminergic receptor blocker but not clozaril, a D4-blocker (Chesselet et al., 1995). SOM levels are increased in the dorsolateral putamen rather than in the ventromedial striatum in control striatum and this dorsolateral to ventromedial gradient is lost in PD (Eve et al., 1997). (c) NADPH-diaphorase. The enzymes NADPHdiaphorase and neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) distinctly colocalize within the same neurons in the brain (Dawson et al., 1991). The enzyme nNOS synthesizes the neurotransmitter nitric oxide (NO) and also free radicals through the perioxynitrite mechanisms and cause nigral neurotoxicity (Przedborski et al.,

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 1996). Although levels of NOS increase 5 h after MPTP and subsequently decrease significantly in SN, the increased levels of NOS precede dopaminergic cell death (Muramatsu et al., 2003). The level of NOS is unchanged throughout the striatum in MPTP-induced PD models in mice. In PD, striatal interneurons that express NADPH-diaphorase are preserved (Mufson and Brandabur, 1994) and NOS mRNA in the striatum is decreased (Eve et al., 1998). 7.2.2.2.1.2. Cholinergic interneurons The giant aspiny interneurons constitute 2% of total striatal neurons (Zhou et al., 2002) and are the exclusive source of cholinergic innervation to the striatum. These large cholinergic interneurons receive mostly glutamatergic input from the cerebral cortex and less prominent dopaminergic input from SN and VTA (Zhou et al., 2002). The cholinergic terminals of these neurons ramify extensively and synapse predominantly on the direct and indirect output neurons of the striatum and the GABA/parvalbumin interneurons (Pisani et al., 2003). These cholinergic neurons are tonically active, fire at about 5 Hz, and pause their tonic firing on conditioned motor task, facilitating dopamine release during this pause (Zhou et al., 2002). After MPTP injection in primates, the large aspiny cholinergic neurons as well as GPi neurons develop an oscillatory firing rate similar to that of tremor frequencies noted in animal models of PD and PD (Raz et al., 2001), suggesting that the cholinergic interneurons may be an important component in the genesis of tremors in PD. A profound loss of striatal cholinergic interneurons has been observed in progressive supranuclear palsy, schizophrenia and in rotenone models of PD (Hoglinger et al., 2003), but not in PD. 7.2.2.2.2. Striatal output neurons The output neurons are the medium spiny neurons, which constitute >85% of cells in the striatum. All major afferents with their different transmitters converge upon the dendrites of the medium spiny neurons and influence each other. Based on neuroanatomical connectivity and neurochemical features the output neurons of the striatum have been classified into two groups. The medium spiny neuron that expresses GABA, D2-, A2A-receptors and enkephalin (PPE A) projects to GPe and indirectly to the GPi via the STN, forming the indirect pathway. The spiny neuron that expresses GABA, D1-receptors, opioid peptide dynorphin (PPE B) and SP (PPT) and projects directly to GPi and SNpr forms the direct pathway. Currently one of the major controversies in our understanding of the organization of the striatal output

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system is whether the striatal direct and indirect pathways are derived from two distinct but segregated neuronal populations or whether the molecular pathways of these two output systems are colocalized within a single striatal output neuron. There is considerable evidence to suggest that these two sets of output neurons are in most part segregated (Gerfen et al., 1990; Le Moine and Bloch, 1995; Aubert et al., 2000). In monkey striatum, the colocalization pattern is high for D1 and SP mRNA (91–99%) and D2-receptor and PPE A (96–99%). D1 and D2 are colocalized (2–5%) rarely (Aubert et al., 2000). In striatum, 66% of the medium-sized spiny output neurons express enkephalin, 58% of the spiny neurons express SP mRNA, and in 15–30%, these two peptides may be colocalized (Nisbet et al., 1995). Studies in striatal cell culture and in slices of neostriatum and nucleus accumbens from adult rats, however, have clearly demonstrated that in virtually all of the output neurons, D1-, D2- and/or D3-receptors are colocalized. The key factor that dictates which one of the three colocalized dopaminergic receptors would be activated is dependent on how the dopaminergic agent alters the sodium channel current and excitability (Surmeier et al., 1992, 1993; Lester et al., 1993; Surmeier and Kitai, 1993; Ridray et al., 1998; Schwartz et al., 1998; Aizman et al., 2000). 7.2.2.2.2.1. Medium spiny neurons of the indirect pathway 7.2.2.2.2.1.1. Neurotransmitter of the medium spiny neurons of the indirect pathway (a) GABA. GABA innervation to the striatum is almost totally derived from neurons intrinsic to the striatum. The spiny efferent neurons of the striatum are GABAergic and send collaterals to the dendrites and axons of other spiny neurons. Three different subtypes of interneurons synthesize and release GABA. GABA levels are high in all nuclei of the basal ganglia. In PD, GABA levels in the striatum are higher than control, especially in the dorsolateral striatum. The increased level of GABA in the dorsolateral putamen, along with an increased glutamate level in this region, is inversely proportional to the loss of dopamine in the motor striatum (Kish et al., 1986; Hornykiewicz, 2001a). Two isoforms of GAD, namely GAD67 and GAD65, are involved in GABA synthesis (Lindefors, 1993). GAD67 is responsible for most of GABA synthesized at the cytoplasmic level in neurons and GAD65 may be involved in the synthesis of GABA for vesicular release (Soghomonian and Martin, 1998). Dopamine denervation leads to a significant increase in GAD67 and GAD65 mRNA and GABA level in the

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striatum: this increase is selectively noted in the indirect pathway, but not the direct pathway (Soghomonian and Laprade, 1997). Whether the three different types of GABAergic interneuron also contribute to the increase in the striatal level of GABA is not known. 7.2.2.2.2.1.2. Neuropeptides of the medium spiny neurons of the indirect pathway (a) Enkephalin. The medium spiny neurons that constitute the indirect pathway and project to GPe express enkephalin. Experimental dopamine denervation by any method results in an increase in the levels of enkephalin in the indirect pathway. Administration of 6-OHDA (Engber et al., 1991), MPTP (Herrero et al., 1995), reserpine (Jaber et al., 1992) and haloperidol (Jaber et al., 1994) leads to an increased expression of PPE A mRNA levels. The elevated enkephalin levels may continue to remain elevated even after administration of levodopa (Salin et al., 1997; Tel et al., 2002; Gross et al., 2003), or may even elevate the PPE A level further (Pirker et al., 2001). The increased expression of enkephalin in the indirect pathway is due to D2 denervation and an increased corticostriate glutamate transmission (Campbell and Bjorklund, 1994), since continuous but not pulsatile administration of D2/D3 agonists (Morissette et al., 1999; Tel et al., 2002) and AMPA antagonists (Perier et al., 2002) or cortical ablation (Uhl et al., 1988) decrease or normalize the levels of enkephalin in the indirect pathway. In PD, enkephalin levels are higher in the indirect pathway (Nisbet et al., 1995). 7.2.2.2.2.2. Medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway 7.2.2.2.2.2.1. Neurotransmitter of the medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway (a) GABA. Dopamine denervation leads to a significant increase in GAD67 and GAD65 mRNA and GABA level in the striatum. This increase is selectively noted in the indirect pathway, but not the direct pathway (Soghomonian and Laprade, 1997). 7.2.2.2.2.2.2. Neuropeptides of the medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway (a) Preprotachykinin (substance P). The different tachykinin peptides are derived from PPT I, PPT II and PPT III, but only peptides encoded by PPT I and PPT II are found in the brain (Pennefather et al., 2004). The PPT I gene encodes for a, b and g-PPT mRNA and among these, b-PPT is the predominant tachykinin mRNA that is expressed in the output neurons of the striatum (Bannon et al., 1992). The b-PPT generates SP, neurokinin A, neurokinin A (3–10) and neuropeptide K (Helke et al., 1990). The peptide neurokinin B is encoded by the PPT II gene. Among these peptides, a majority of spiny output neurons of the direct pathway express SP densely and a small number

of the spiny output neurons express mRNA for neurokinin B that is derived from the PPT II gene. The striatum also demonstrates diffuse and dense SP, neurokinin A and neuropeptide K immunoreactive axon collaterals of the SP output neurons of the direct pathway. SP mRNA is not expressed in any other nucleus of the basal ganglia (Warden and Young, 1988). Experimental dopamine denervation leads to a decreased level of expression of SP mRNA (PerezOtano et al., 1992; Tel et al., 2002), especially in symptomatic animals (Wade and Schneider, 2004). In PD, a decrease in the expression of PPT mRNA is noted in the output neurons of the striatum (Rinne et al., 1984; Tenovuo et al., 1984; Fernandez et al., 1994; Levy et al., 1995) and this decrease is reversed by dopamine D1 agonists (Morissette et al., 1999). In MPTP primate models of PD, SP immunoreactivity is prominent more in the matrix than striosomes, and this pattern is a reversal of a normal pattern of a high SP immunoreactivity in striosomes than matrix regions (Betarbet and Greenamyre, 2004). (b) Preproenkephalin B (dynorphin). The mediumsized spiny striatal output neurons express mRNA for PPE B (preprodynorphin). The mRNA of PPE B codes for prodynorphin. Prodynorphin codes for three opioid peptide domains: neoendorphin, dynorphin A 1–17 and dynorphin B. Further processing of these three peptide domains results in the synthesis of other members of the dynorphin peptide family, namely a- and bneoendorphin, dynorphin A 1–17, dynorphin A 1–8, dynorphin B and leu-enkephalin (Zamir et al., 1984). All of these peptides are found in the primate striatum and in an equal molar ratio. The molar ratio of dynorphin A 1–17 and dynorphin A 1–8 is also 1:1 in primate striatum, whereas in rat striatum, dynorphin A 1–8 is the predominant peptide (Dores and Akil, 1985). In non-dyskinetic MPTP models of PD and in PD, the level of mRNA for preprodynorphin is within normal limits. The emergence of dyskinesia, however, is associated with a dramatic increase in the expression of mRNA for preprodynorphin in mice and primate models of PD as well as in PD (Tel et al., 2002). Recent studies show that PPE B, a precursor for dynorphin, may be increased 185% in the direct spiny neurons that project to GPi directly in PD patients and animals with dyskinesia (Henry et al., 2003). Accordingly, the D1-mediated second-messenger system is also enhanced in dyskinetic models of PD (Gerfen, 2003). Even though a high expression of mRNA for preprodynorphin has been recognized, the pattern of processing of the high levels of prodynorphin and the molar ratio of the different peptides of the dynorphin family in dyskinetic animals and in PD brains have not yet been studied.

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE (c) Neurotensin. The basal level of neurotensin mRNA expression in striatal neurons is low and the levels of mRNA for neurotensin/neuromedin N increase significantly after neurochemical manipulation (Castel et al., 1993b; Merchant et al., 1994; Zahm et al., 1998). A distinct neurotensinergic projection from the medium spiny neurons of the putamen and the accumbens may form yet another component of the striatonigral pathway in rats (Sugimoto and Mizuno, 1987; Castel et al., 1993a) and possibly in human brains (Faull et al., 1989; Fernandez et al., 1994). In rats, the mRNA level of neurotensin is modified by both D1and D2-receptors (Sugimoto and Mizuno, 1987; Castel et al., 1994). In PD, neurotensin levels are normal in the striatum and GP, but are twofold higher in SNpc and VTA (Fernandez et al., 1995). 7.2.2.3. Receptors for neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the striatal interneurons and output neurons in Parkinson’s disease 7.2.2.3.1. Neurotransmitter receptors 7.2.2.3.1.1. Dopamine receptors 7.2.2.3.1.1.1. D1-receptor The striatum shows the maximum expression of D1-receptors in the brain (Dearry et al., 1990; Hurd et al., 2001). D1-receptor mRNA is more densely expressed in the nucleus accumbens and the medial caudate nucleus than the lateral regions of the putamen, thereby suggesting a pattern of decreasing intensity from a medial to lateral direction in human brain. The mRNA for D1-receptor is expressed in the GABA/SP output neurons that project directly to GPi and SNr. Recent studies suggest that in PD, D1-receptor mRNA levels may be increased in selective regions of the nucleus accumbens and that D1-receptors may express denervation supersensitivity, as manifested by a 50% increase in the levels of Ga and Gg7, two proteins that are closely linked with D1-receptor-mediated transmission (Corvol et al., 2004) and the molecular cascades associated with D1-receptors (Gerfen, 2003; Aubert et al., 2005). 7.2.2.3.1.1.2. D5-receptor The D5-receptor exhibits 10-fold higher affinity to dopamine than the D1-receptor, indicating its important role in the functions of the basal ganglia and the brain (Sunahara et al., 1991). The medium spiny neurons and the large cholinergic interneurons of the striatum express mRNA for D5receptor (Rappaport et al., 1993) and the D5-receptor protein is expressed in the terminals of GABA/SP striatopallidal neurons. Immunocytochemical studies in rats clearly show that the D5-receptor is localized more prominently in all types of striatal interneurons than the output neurons. All of the large cholinergic

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aspiny interneurons express D5-receptor and the GABA/SOM and GABA/parvalbumin stain more intensely for D5-receptor than the GABA/calretinin interneurons (Rivera et al., 2002). How dopamine denervation affects the functions of the D5-receptor in experimental models of PD or PD is not known. 7.2.2.3.1.1.3. D2-receptor The D2-receptor gene codes for two isoforms of D2-receptor proteins. The D2L form has an additional 29 amino acids in the third cytoplasmic loop when compared to the D2S form (Missale et al., 1998). In striatum, the D2L is expressed more specifically and intensely by the GABA/enkephalin neurons of the indirect pathway (Khan et al., 1998). In the early and untreated stages of PD, there is upregulation of D2-receptor mRNA and receptor binding (Ryoo et al., 1998) in the dorsolateral striatum but not in the caudate nucleus (Rinne et al., 1995; Antonini et al., 1997; Kaasinen et al. 2000). This pattern of upregulation of D2-receptors corresponds to the pattern of dense loss of dopamine and increased levels of GABA and glutamate in the dorsolateral putamen but not in the caudate nucleus in early stages of PD (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). Levodopa treatment may normalize the upregulation (Guttman, 1987) and after 3–5 years and very advanced stages of the disease, D2-receptor stays downregulated significantly (Antonini et al., 1997). The downregulation of D2-receptors is related to chronic treatment with dopaminergic agonists, since even in very advanced stages the D2-receptor reverses to an upregulated state after withdrawal of dopaminergic drugs (Thobois et al., 2004). 7.2.2.3.1.1.4. D3-receptor The D3-receptor is expressed more densely in the limbic striatum than in other regions of the brain and the nucleus accumbens and the associative striatum shows the highest concentration of D3-receptors of all brain regions (Levant, 1997; Suzuki et al., 1998; Morissette et al., 1998). D3 mRNA is localized in the spiny neurons of nucleus accumbens that show colocalization of neurotensin and SP (Landwehrmeyer et al., 1993; Gurevich and Joyce, 1999). The mRNA for D3-receptor is colocalized with mRNAs for D1-receptor and SP in a large percentage of neurons of the nucleus accumbens (Schwartz et al., 1998). In an MPTP-induced model of primate PD and in PD, D3 expression is decreased by 40–45%, especially in the nucleus accumbens and the putamen, and the downregulation of D3 was especially noted in those PD patients who received treatment with dopaminergic agents for 10 years or more (Ryoo et al., 1998). The D3-receptor has been speculated to play a major role in cognitive, motivational and addictive behavior (Morissette et al., 1998; Sokoloff et al., 2001; Heidbreder et al., 2005). The loss of D3 stimulation may contribute to amotivational state and cognitive difficulties of PD and an excessive

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stimulation of D3-receptors by dopamine agonists with greater affinity to D3-receptors than D2-receptors may be responsible for obsessive and addictive behavior that has been observed in PD. 7.2.2.3.1.1.5. D4-receptor Among all the dopamine receptor subtypes, the D4-receptors exhibit the lowest intensity of expression in the striatum. D4-receptors are expressed in the soma, dendritic shaft and the spines of the medium spiny neurons of both direct and indirect pathways of the limbic striatum (Rivera et al., 2002). The different interneurons of the rat striatum are completely devoid of D4-receptors (Rivera et al., 2003). 7.2.2.3.1.2. Glutamate receptors 7.2.2.3.1.2.1. Ionotropic glutamate receptors (a) AMPA/kainate receptors. In striatum, AMPA receptor expression is higher than KA receptors. The medium spiny neurons and the large interneurons express mRNA for GluR1, GluR2/3, but the level of expression of GluR4 is less intense (Bernard et al., 1996). The mRNA (Tremblay et al., 1995) and protein (Betarbet et al., 2000) level of GluR1 is significantly increased in the anterior but not caudal regions of the striatum in rat and MPTP models of primate PD. In PD, the level of expression of mRNA for GluR1–4 is unaltered (Bernard et al., 1996). (b) NMDA receptors. NMDA receptors (NMDAR) are found throughout the basal ganglia but are most abundant in striatum (Albin et al., 1992; Ravenscroft and Brotchie, 2000; Smith et al., 2001). All striatal neurons express NMDA receptors (Kuppenbender et al., 2000). Among the different subtypes, the NR1 gene product shows an extremely widespread distribution over all types of striatal neurons, with moderate to intense staining in striatum, and lower but detectable levels in other nuclei of the basal ganglia. The mRNAs for the NR2 family of subunits are differentially distributed in basal ganglia structures. In the striatum, NR2B is the predominant subtype, but NR2A is also detectable. Within the striatum, differences in cellular expression of NR2-receptor subunit genes and isoforms have been described. Enkephalin-positive projection neurons have higher levels of NMDAR 1 and NR2B message than intrinsic SOM and cholinergic neurons. In contrast, the interneurons express NR2A and NR2D mRNA is preferentially expressed in the SP/D1-containing direct pathway than the enkephalin neurons. The interneurons also express NR2B, NR2C and NR2D subtypes prominently (Kuppenbender et al., 2000). In MPTP models of PD, the mRNA for NR1 and receptor binding does not change, but supersensitivity of NR1/2A/2B may be involved in the generation of dyskinesia (Calon et al., 2003a).

7.2.2.3.1.2.2. Metabotropic receptors In the striatum, all subtypes of mGluRs are expressed, but expression of mGluR5 is more prominent than other subtypes (Testa et al., 1995; Smith et al., 2001). Both SP and enkephalin-containing medium-sized projection neurons express mRNA and proteins for mGluR1 and mGluR5, but not the large cholinergic interneuron or the SOM-expressing interneurons of the striatum (Testa et al., 1995). Among the group II mGluRs, mGluR2 mRNA is mostly expressed in the large striatal interneurons, and mGluR3 mRNA in most striatal neurons. Only low levels of the group III family members are expressed in the striatum (Testa et al., 1994). 7.2.2.3.1.3. GABA receptors 7.2.2.3.1.3.1. Ionotropic receptors In the striatum, a4 and b3 subunits of GABAA receptors are the most prominently expressed but mRNA for a2, a3, b2, g2 and d is also moderately expressed (Kultas-Ilinsky et al., 1998). The intensity of receptor binding for GABAA receptor is unchanged in untreated and treated PD; however, striatal GABAA binding increases after patients develop the phenomenon of ‘wearing off ’ (Calon et al., 2003b). 7.2.2.3.1.3.2. Metabotropic receptors MPTP-induced dopamine denervation in mice and primates does not alter GABAB mRNA level or GABAB binding in the striatum, but in PD GABAB binding is significantly reduced after the development of motor complications (Calon et al., 2003b). 7.2.2.3.1.4. Cholinergic receptors 7.2.2.3.1.4.1. Nicotinic receptors The mRNA for nAchRs has not been localized in any of the striatal neurons. As discussed earlier, the protein for nicotinic receptors, however, is distributed densely in the nigrostriatal terminals and they are significantly decreased in PD (Perry et al., 1995). 7.2.2.3.1.4.2. Muscarinic receptors All mAChR mRNAs and proteins have been detected in basal ganglia (Weiner et al., 1990; Bernard et al., 1992; Yan et al., 2001). The m1, m2 and m4 receptors account for the vast majority of striatal muscarinic binding sites (Levey et al., 1991; Hersch et al., 1994). The m4 subtype is the most abundant mAChR in neostriatum, accounting for 50% of total mAChR, and may be the key target for anticholinergic drugs used in movement disorders. The m4 immunoreactivity is dense in patches high in D1 and glutamate receptor subunit GluR1. The m4 mRNA and protein are present in about 70% of spiny neurons of striatum (Weiner et al., 1990; Bernard et al., 1992; Yan et al., 2001), particularly those that express SP. The m4 mRNA is also noted in 50% of D2/enkephalin spiny neurons of the striatum. The m1 subtype is

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE expressed in all of the spiny projection neurons, whereas the m2 receptor is expressed in the cholinergic interneurons only (Bernard et al., 1992; Yan et al., 2001). In PD, m1 and m2 receptor density is decreased in the dorsolateral striatum, in a region that demonstrates maximal intensity of dopamine denervation (Joyce, 1993). 7.2.2.3.1.5. Serotonergic receptors The mRNAs for 5-HT1A,1B/1D, 5-HT2A,2C, 5-HT3, 5-HT4,5-HT5 and 5-HT6 are predominantly localized postsynaptically in the GABAergic output neurons of the striatum and have significant interaction with the dopaminergic system. The mRNA for 5-HT2B and 5-HT7 receptors has not yet been localized to any nucleus of the basal ganglia (Barnes and Sharp, 1999). The 5-HT2C receptor is the most prominent receptor in the basal ganglia (Wolf and Schutz, 1997). The role played by 5-HT2A/C in the striatum has been studied in greater detail than any other groups of 5-HT receptors. The mRNA for 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C and 5-HT6 are localized in the medium spiny neurons of the striatum (Ward and Dorsa, 1996). Dopamine denervation induces, in both neonatal and adult animals, significant 5-HT hyperinnervation (Reader and Dewar, 1999), as evidenced by increased density of 5-HT terminals, increased serotonin turnover (Karstaedt et al., 1994) and upregulation of 5-HT2A receptors (Numan et al., 1995) postsynaptically in the medium spiny neurons of the striatum. para-choloramephtamine (Gresch and Walker, 1999a) and fenfluramine (Rouillard et al., 1996), drugs that release endogenous 5-HT, induce an increased PPT mRNA level in the medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway. 5-HT also facilitates the actions of dopamine on the SP-expressing medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway and increases SP mRNA level (Gresch and Walker, 1999b). Stimulation of striatal 5-HT2A/C receptors increases PPT mRNA (Walker et al., 1991, 1996; Gresch and Walker, 1999b) and 5-HT2A/C receptor antagonists decrease PPT mRNA level. Dopamine denervation decreases PPT mRNA level significantly and this decrease is reversed by 5-HT2A/C receptor agonists (Gresch and Walker, 1999a). These studies point to an important dopamine-facilitating role for the serotonergic system in the regulation of neuropeptides in the direct pathway. In animal models of PD, the level of expression of 5-HT1A (Frechilla et al., 2001), 5-HT1B and 5-HT2A is upregulated (Numan et al., 1995; Reader and Dewar, 1999). 7.2.2.3.1.6. Adenosine receptors Among the A1 and A2A adenosine receptors, the A1 adenosine receptor is expressed at the corticostriate terminals and when stimulated inhibits glutamate release. The A2A, which has a higher affinity to adenosine than A2B, is colocalized in virtually all of the medium spiny

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indirect output neurons of the striatum that also express D2 and PPT A mRNAs (Svenningsson et al., 1998). A2A agonists oppose the effects of D2 (Svenningsson et al., 1998). A small number of the large aspiny cholinergic interneurons also express A2A receptors (Kawaguchi, 1997). Levels of A2-receptor mRNA are significantly reduced in anterior, posterior and dorsal areas of caudate and putamen, but not in the nucleus accumbens in patients with PD who were treated with dopaminergic agents chronically (Hurley et al., 2000). In patients with severe dyskinesia, when compared to non-dyskinetic patients, however, the level of A2 mRNA is significantly increased in the putamen, but not in the GP (Calon et al., 2004). 7.2.2.3.1.7. Cannabinoid receptors CB1 receptor binding is increased in the caudate nucleus, but not in GPe or SN in PD and MPTPinduced PD in primates. Levodopa treatment reverses the increased binding (Lastres-Becker et al., 2001). 7.2.2.3.2. Peptidergic receptors 7.2.2.3.2.1. Opioid receptors The mRNA for dynorphin-sensitive k receptors is expressed more intensely in the striatum than m and d opioid receptors (Peckys and Landwehrmeyer, 1999). The mRNA for k receptors is expressed densely by the medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway (Spadoni et al., 2004) and when stimulated they alter the excitability of these neurons. The k-binding sites are downregulated in the striatum (and the nigra) in 6-OHDA-treated rats that are dyskinetic with chronic levodopa administration (Johansson et al., 2001). The mRNA for m opioid receptors is colocalized within the medium spiny neurons that express mRNA for preprodynorphin (Peckys and Landwehrmeyer, 1999). The d opioid receptors localized in the terminals of GABAergic fibers (Rawls and McGinty, 2000) regulate glutamate release. Dopamine denervation results in the downregulation of opioid receptors in the striatum, but m and d receptormediated G-protein activity may be enhanced (Chen et al., 2005). In PD, k agonists improve PD symptoms and m and d opioid receptor antagonists decrease dyskinesia. Morphine, an opioid agonist, reduces dyskinesia and increases akinesia (Berg et al., 1999). Naltrexone, a non-selective opioid receptor antagonist, inhibits the beneficial effects of levodopa and subsequently induces severe dyskinesia (Samadi et al., 2005). Studies using positron emission tomography scans suggest that, in PD, opioid receptor binding is significantly decreased in dyskinetic but not in non-dyskinetic patients (Piccini et al., 1997). Even though the levels of mRNA of PPE A and PPE B are significantly increased in

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levodopa-induced dyskinetic PD animals and in PD, it is not clear whether the increased levels are actually responsible for inducing dyskinesia or reflect chronic molecular changes resulting from dopamine denervation (Schneider et al., 1999; Quik et al., 2002; Samadi et al., 2003). The roles played by opioid and opioid receptors in PD are under intense scrutiny. 7.2.2.3.2.2. PPT receptors All three types of tachykinin receptors are expressed within the striatum. The SP-sensitive NK-1 is the most common type of tachykinin receptor expressed in the spiny output neurons (Mantyh et al., 1989), as well as in 95% of the GABA/SOM/NOS interneurons and the large aspiny cholinergic neurons. In PD there is a loss of NK-1 receptors in the putamen (Tenovuo et al., 1990; Fernandez et al., 1994). 7.2.2.3.2.3. Neurotensin receptors The medium-sized neurons of the striatum express mRNA and protein for NTS2 and NTS3/sortilin receptors (Sarret et al., 2003a, b). In MPTP mice models of PD (Tanji et al., 1999) and in PD (Chinaglia et al., 1990; Fernandez et al., 1994) 3H-neurotensin binding is significantly decreased in the nucleus accumbens, caudate nucleus and putamen. 7.2.2.3.2.4. Somatostatin receptors The mRNA for SOM receptors SSTR1–5 is localized to the striatum in human brain (Bruno et al., 1993), but cellular localization of these receptors within the striatum remains to be elaborated (Schindler et al., 1996). 7.2.2.3.2.5. NPY receptors There are five types of NPY receptor: Y1, Y2, Y4, Y5 and Y6. Even though a group of GABAergic striatal interneurons expresses NPY, very low or negligible levels of mRNA for the NPY1–5 receptors have been localized to the striatum (Gustafson et al., 1997; Parker and Herzog, 1999). 7.2.2.4. Chronic levodopa-induced dyskinesia and alterations of neuropeptide mRNAs in the striatal direct and indirect pathways Our understanding of the extraordinarily complex pattern of localization of numerous subtypes of receptors of different neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the dendrites, soma and axon terminals of individual neurons in the different nuclei of the basal ganglia and their interactions with levodopa and other drugs is incomplete and still evolving (Table 7.1). How dopamine denervation and chronic levodopa and other dopaminomimetic drugs affect the output of direct and indirect pathways and the rest of basal ganglia circuitry is under intense scrutiny. Although levodopa is

the drug of choice in the treatment of PD, aggressive and chronic use of levodopa eventually induces severe motor fluctuations in most patients. The incidence of motor fluctuations and dyskinesia may be higher in those patients receiving a higher dose of levodopa than in those receiving a lower dose (Fahn et al., 2004). Whereas the presynaptic difficulties in storing and delivering smooth levels of dopamine at the synaptic cleft may contribute to the on–off, yo-yo phenomenon and predictable and unpredictable wearingoff (de la Fuente-Fernandez et al., 2004), the disabling dyskinesias are associated with dopamine denervation hypersensitivity of D1-, D2-, NMDA and AMPA receptors in the medium spiny projection neurons of the direct and indirect pathways. An extensive literature about the molecular and neurochemical basis of levodopa-induced dyskinesia that has accumulated allows us to draw the following conclusions. 7.2.2.4.1. In normal (non-dopamine denervated) animals Even normal mice (Gross et al., 2003) and primates (Zeng et al., 2000); Pearce et al., 2001; Togasaki et al., 2005), if chronically treated with large but not low doses of levodopa, will develop peak dose dyskinesia. The occurrence of dyskinesia is associated with an increase in expression of enkephalin in the indirect pathway and a normal level of PPT/SP and PPE B (dynorphin) mRNA in the direct pathway (Gross et al., 2003; Zeng et al., 2000), suggesting that dyskinesia may be associated with peptidergic alterations in the indirect pathway alone. 7.2.2.4.2. In dopamine denervated but non-dyskinetic animals In MPTP-induced animal models of PD that are nondyskinetic, dopamine denervation leads to an upregulation of enkephalin expression in the medium spiny neurons of the indirect pathway and downregulation of PPT and PPE B in the direct pathway (Tel et al., 2002). The upregulation of enkephalin mRNA may occur even before the onset of motor deficits (Bezard et al., 2001). The increased expression of enkephalin in the indirect pathway in dyskinetic animals is due to D2 denervation and an increased glutamate transmission, since dopamine agonists (Morissette et al., 1999; Tel et al., 2002) and AMPA antagonists (Perier et al., 2002) normalize the levels of enkephalin in the indirect pathway. The increased expression in enkephalin mRNA in the indirect pathway in normal or dyskinetic animals stays increased even after chronic levodopa treatment (Westin et al., 2001; Tel et al., 2002; Gross et al., 2003), but is reversed by continuous administration of D2/D3 agonists (Tel et al., 2002).

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 7.2.2.4.3. In dopamine denervated and dyskinetic animals In 6-OHDA-treated rats (Cenci et al., 1998) and in MPTP-induced primate models of PD, the occurrence of dyskinesia after chronic levodopa treatment is associated with a very significant increase in dynorphin mRNA expression in the medium spiny neurons of the direct pathway but without any further increase in the enkephalin mRNA expression of the indirect pathway (Zeng et al., 2000; Gross et al., 2003). The prominent increased dynorphin expression in the direct pathway is correlated with the severity of dyskinesia in a dose- and duration-dependent fashion (Cenci et al., 1998; Gross et al., 2003). The dramatic increase in PPE B mRNA is directly related to an increased expression and supersensitivity of the D1-receptors, as evidenced by modified and enhanced signaling of D1-mediated molecular cascades (Gerfen et al., 2002; Gerfen, 2003; Aubert et al., 2005). Pulsatile stimulation by D1 agonists induces a significant increase in dynorphin expression and corrects the lowered expression of PPT (Morissette et al., 1999). The increased dynorphin level in the direct pathway is also associated with an increase in GABAA binding in GPi in primates (Calon et al., 2000).

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disabling dyskinesia occurring in PD after chronic levodopa treatment is associated with a cumulative effect of peptidergic changes in both the direct and indirect pathways. Dyskinesia is associated with chronic levodopa use; drugs that stimulate D2/D3-receptors (bromocriptine, cabergoline, pramipexole and ropinirole) reduce the incidence and severity of dyskinesia; drugs that stimulate D1-receptors (levodopa; SKF 82958) increase dyskinesia; drugs that block glutamatergic receptors (amantadine, MK 801) decrease dyskinesia, probably by acting through NMDA and AMPA receptors in both direct and indirect pathways. Currently available drugs that interact with opioid receptors have had conflicting results. The individual functions of the direct and indirect pathway are unknown and the mechanisms by which these peptidergic changes alter the functions of indirect and direct pathways and ultimately lead to disabling dyskinesia remain to be explored. 7.2.3. Neurochemistry of globus pallidus externa in Parkinson’s disease 7.2.3.1. Neurochemistry of GPe afferents 7.2.3.1.1. Neurotransmitters of GPe afferents

7.2.2.4.4. In non-Parkinson’s disease patients In non-PD humans, the use of large doses of levodopa chronically, for example, in patients with essential tremor, has not been recognized to induce dyskinesia. 7.2.2.4.5. In non-dyskinetic Parkinson’s disease patients Dopamine denervated but untreated or treated but nondyskinetic PD brains demonstrate, similar to 6-OHDA or MPTP-induced dopamine denervation states in primates, an increased expression of enkephalin in the indirect pathway and decreased expression of PPT and PPE B in the direct pathway (Nisbet et al., 1995). 7.2.2.4.6. In dyskinetic Parkinson’s disease patients The striatum of PD patients with dyskinesia, similar to all the animal models, demonstrates a significant increase in the levels of enkephalin in the spiny neurons of the indirect pathway (Calon et al., 2002) and a dramatic increase – up to 172% – in dynorphin mRNA levels (Henry et al., 2003) and lowered levels of PPT mRNA in spiny neurons of the direct pathway. 7.2.2.4.7. Summary The results from animal models of PD with or without dyskinesia correspond with the observations that the

7.2.3.1.1.1. Gaba The GPe is characterized by its very intense staining for enkephalin immunoreactivity. The major source of afferents to GPe is the topographically organized GABA/enkephalin fibers from the striatal spiny neurons of the indirect pathway. Dopamine denervation results in an increased expression of mRNA and protein and activity of GAD67, resulting in an increased synthesis and release of GABA in GPe by the GABA/enkephalin neurons of the indirect pathway (Soghomonian and Laprade, 1997). Consistent with these observations in animal models of PD, GABA level in GPe is slightly higher in PD (Kish et al., 1986). 7.2.3.1.1.2. Glutamate A glutamatergic input from the STN is the second largest source of afferent to GPe (Carpenter and Jayaraman, 1990) and probably is the source of glutamate observed in GPe. Glutamate levels are normal in GPe in PD (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). 7.2.3.1.1.3. Dopamine The GPe also receives a small projection from the midbrain dopamine neurons. The level of dopamine is low in GPe but 5–6 times higher than the level noted in GPi (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). In PD progressive degeneration of midbrain dopamine neurons leads to a loss of 80% of dopamine in GPe (Hornykiewicz, 2001a).

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Table 7.1 The pattern of expression of mRNA for receptors of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides in the basal ganglia Nucleus

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Morphology Neurotransmitter Peptide

Spiny GABA Enkephalin Neurotensin? Calbindin

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Spiny GABA Enkephalin Neurotensin? Calbindin

Calcium binding protein Enzymes

Spiny GABA SP/Dynorp Neurotensin? Calbindin

Large aspiny Acetylcholine

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Calretinin

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Aspiny GABA

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DA CCK/NT

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Neuropeptide receptors Opioid receptors þþþ þþþ

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NTS1 NTS2 NTS3

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Neurotensin receptors

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NPY receptors

Somatostatin receptors


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N

GPi

TuberoMamillary nuc.

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Basal ganglia Loss of DA > 5HT Normal NE Increased histamine Increased Glutamate Increased GABA

A11 Midbrain

VTA-SNpc Pons Brain stem Loss of NE = or > 5HT > DA Decreased Acetylcholine

Raphe-oral PPN

Medulla Locus ceruleus

NE

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DA 5HT Spinal cord Loss of NE = or > 5HT Normal DA

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 7.2.3.1.1.4. Serotonin Serotonergic innervation to GPe is less intense than GPi (Lavoie and Parent, 1990) and 5-HT levels are lower in GPe in MPTP models of PD (Pifl et al., 1991). 7.2.3.1.1.5. Acetylcholine The GPe receives a small cholinergic input from PPN (Garcia-Rill, 1991). The significance of cholinergic input in the regulation of GPe neurons remains to be explored. 7.2.3.1.2. Neuropeptide of GPe afferents 7.2.3.1.2.1. Enkephalin The GPe is characterized by the presence of dense immunoreactivity to enkephalin. The level of enkephalin in GPe is second only to that of striatum. Enkephalin immunoreactivity is derived from the striatopallidal projection of the indirect pathway as well as neurons that are intrinsic to GPe that also express GABA and enkephalin (Hoover and Marshall, 1999). In MPTP models of primate PD, along with an increased release of GABA, the level of enkephalin in GPe is also increased (Betarbet and Greenamyre, 2004). 7.2.3.2. Neurochemistry of GPe neurons Neurons intrinsic to GPe are of two types: those neurons that contain GABA and parvalbumin and project to STN, GPi and nigra and those that express GABA and PPE A (enkephalin) that project to the parvalbumin containing interneurons of the striatum (Bevan et al., 1998; Hoover and Marshall, 1999). Dopamine denervation by either 6-OHDA lesioning of nigra or by administration of D2-antagonists but not D1-antagonists increases GAD67 mRNA levels in both types of GPe neurons and this increase is reversed by STN lesioning (Billings and Marshall, 2004). In PD, GABA levels are increased in GPe (Kish et al., 1986). In control brains, the GPe neurons do not express mRNA for neurotensin. Dopamine denervation with

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6-OHDA, however, results in the expression of immunoreactivity for neurotensin in neurons of GP in rats (Martorana et al., 2003). The SP/dynorphin-containing axons of the direct pathway traverse through GPe, but neurons of GPe do not normally express mRNA for SP or for SP receptors. After 6-OHDA destruction of SN in rats, several neurons in GP in rats express immunoreactivity for SP (Martorana et al., 2003). 7.2.3.3. Neurochemistry of GPe receptors 7.2.3.3.1. Neurotransmitter receptors 7.2.3.3.1.1. Dopamine receptors D1 mRNA as well as D1-receptor protein from afferent terminals is expressed in the neurons and neurophil of GPe. The level of expression of D1 mRNA in control and PD is not altered (Hurley et al., 2001). D2-receptors are densely distributed in both types of GPe neuron and possibly in the nigropallidal terminals and play a significant role in the regulation of GAD67 in both types of pallidal neuron (Hoover and Marshall, 2004). In GPe, immunoreactivity for both D2S and D2L forms has been observed, but the immunoreactive pattern of D2L form shows a higher intensity than the D2S form (Khan et al., 1998). The striatal neurons express the D2L form more intensely than the D2S form (Khan et al., 1998). Terminals of the dense projections from the medium spiny neurons of the indirect pathway to GPe may be the source of the D2L immunoreactivity in GPe. GPe also receives a small but significant projection from SNpc, which expresses mainly the D2S form in their soma and axons, thereby suggesting that the nigropallidal projections may be the source of D2S immunoreactivity observed in GP. D3-receptor binding is low in both pallidal segments but it is upregulated after MPTP (Morissette et al., 1998).

Fig. 7.1. For full color figure, see plate section. Diagrammatic representation of neurochemical changes in PD. (See section 7.6.2.) The red dot/dashed line represents the degenerating dopaminergic nigrostriatal, mesostriatal and mesolimbic input. The blue dashed line represents the degeneration of the ascending serotoninergic projections from the oral raphe to the basal ganglia and the cerebral cortex. The red dotted line represents the degenerating ascending norepinephrinergic projections from locus ceruleus to the cerebral cortex. Note that the basal ganglia receive very little direct norepinephrinergic projection from locus ceruleus. The solid orange line represents an increased histaminergic input to the basal ganglia and the cortex. The descending purple dotted line represents the degeneration of the norepinephrinergic input from the locus ceruleus and A2/C2 to the spinal cord. The blue dashed line depicts the degeneration of serotoninergic input to the spinal cord from caudal raphe pallidus. The descending dopaminergic projection to the spinal cord from the hypothalamic A11 group of THpositive neurons, shown as a solid red line, does not degenerate in PD. The pattern of loss of cholinergic neurons is not shown in the figure. The text boxes show that the pattern of loss of various neurotransmitters varies at different levels of the PD brain.

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7.2.3.3.1.2. Glutamate receptors 7.2.3.3.1.2.1. Ionotropic (a) AMPA/kainate. Both pallidal segments express mRNA and protein for all GluRs, but only for KA1 and KA2 receptors among the kainate receptors (Smith et al., 2001). (b) NMDA. The mRNA and receptor protein for all subtypes of NMDA receptor have been identified in the GPe neurons, but the intensity of expression is significantly lower than the striatum (Kosinski et al., 1998b; Smith et al., 2001). NR1 gene product shows an extremely widespread distribution, wherease NR2D is most abundant in both pallidal segments (Kosinski et al., 1998b). 7.2.3.3.1.2.2. Metabotropic The intensity of expression of mRNA for different mGluRs in GPe is very low. Among the different subtypes, mGluR3 is expressed more intensely than the other subtypes (Testa et al., 1994). mGluR1 and mGluR5 was strongly immunolabeled in both pallidal segments as well as, preferentially, in the glutamatergic subthalamopallidal synapses. Group III mGluR may be expressed in the striatopallidal terminals (Smith et al., 2001). 7.2.3.3.1.3. GABAergic receptors 7.2.3.3.1.3.1. Ionotropic receptors In primate GPe, mRNA for a1, b2 and g2 subunits is expressed at high levels (Kultas-Ilinsky et al., 1998). All subunits other than b1 are expressed at a mild to moderate intensity. Increased GABAA binding is noted in GPe whereas GABAA binding is normal in untreated and treated PD patients, but the intensity of binding of GABAA receptors is increased after the onset of motor complications (Calon et al., 2003b). 7.2.3.3.1.3.2. Metabotropic receptors The level of GABAB binding and mRNA of GABAB receptor is unchanged in mice and primate models of PD, but in PD, GABAB binding is reduced in GPe once motor complications are manifest (Calon et al., 2003b). 7.2.3.3.1.4. Cholinergic receptors 7.2.3.3.1.4.1. Nicotinic receptors Autoradiographic studies using 125I-a conotoxin MII, which binds to the a6/a3 subtype of nicotinic receptors, demonstrate moderate intensity of binding in GPe and GPi (Quik et al., 2004). 7.2.3.3.1.4.2. Muscarinic receptors Receptor-binding studies suggest that all subtypes of mAchRs are present in human GPe (Piggott et al., 2002). In PD, the mAchR binding pattern is unchanged from that of control brains (Piggott et al., 2003). 7.2.3.3.1.5. Serotonin receptors The protein of 5-HT receptors is found in the target sites of the terminals of the striatal output neurons,

namely GPe and SNpr. The protein for 5-HT1A is localized to the somatodendritic portion of GP in rats and 5-HT1B receptors are localized in serotonergic axons (Riad et al., 2000). 7.2.3.3.1.6. Adenosine receptors The mRNA of A2-receptor is denser in the external segment of the GP than in the internal segment and the expression pattern of A2-receptors is unchanged in PD (Hurley et al., 2000; Calon et al., 2004). 7.2.3.3.2. Peptidergic receptors 7.2.3.3.2.1. Opioid receptors The GPe neurons express k (Ogura and Kita, 2000) and m receptors (Delfs et al., 1994). The d opioid receptors are located presynaptically in the GABAergic terminals (Stanford and Cooper, 1999) and along with m receptors regulate GABA release. In animal models of PD, m receptor binding is decreased and remains decreased even after reversal of dopamine denervation (Schroeder and Schneider, 2002). 7.2.3.3.2.2. Neurotensin receptors The protein for NTS2 receptor is found in GPe (Sarret et al., 2003a) and the level of NT receptor is decreased in PD (Fernandez et al., 1994). 7.2.4. Neurochemistry of subthalamic nucleus (STN) in PD 7.2.4.1. Neurochemistry of STN afferents 7.2.4.1.1. Gaba STN stains intensely for GABAergic immunoreactivity. The dense projections from GPe (Carpenter and Jayaraman, 1990) and a small but significant projection from PPN (Bevan and Bolam, 1995) provide the major source of GABAergic innervations to STN. A very small number of STN neurons are GABAergic interneurons and contribute to the GABAergic levels in STN. In PD, GABA level is normal in STN (Kish et al., 1986; Hornykiewicz, 2001a). 7.2.4.1.2. Glutamate The STN receives rich glutamatergic inputs from the cerebral cortex, thalamic intralaminar nuclei and the PPN (Parent and Hazrati, 1995). In PD, STN neurons are hyperactive and this hyperactivity has been proposed to be due to disinhibition of the GABAergic input from the indirect pathway and possibly due to increased activation of STN neurons by the glutamatergic projection from the cerebral cortex. In PD, glutamate levels are slightly increased in STN (Hornykiewicz, 1998).

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 7.2.4.1.3. Dopamine

7.2.4.3. Neurochemistry of STN receptors

The dopaminergic neurons of SNpc and possibly the A8 retrorubral nucleus send TH-immunopositive axons to the STN. There is a 50–65% loss of dopamine in MPTP-treated primates as well as in PD (Francois et al., 2000; Hornykiewicz, 2001a).

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7.2.4.1.4. Serotonin The STN receives serotonergic input from raphe (Lavoie and Parent, 1990). 7.2.4.1.5. Acetylcholine The STN demonstrates significant density of choline acetyltransferase immunoreactive terminals and the Ch5 group of PPN and Ch6 group provide the major cholinergic input to STN (Bevan and Bolam, 1995). In PD, cholinergic PPN neurons degenerate significantly. Since most of the cholinergic neurons send axon collaterals that terminate in multiple nuclei of the basal ganglia, it is logical to suspect that STN undergoes cholinergic denervation in PD. 7.2.4.2. Neurochemistry of STN neurons 7.2.4.2.1. Neurotransmitters of STN neurons 7.2.4.2.1.1. Gaba The STN consists mostly of projection neurons and a few interneurons (about 7.5% of the total population of STN neurons) that synthesize GABA are noted in selective regions of STN (Levesque and Parent, 2005).

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A combination of RT-PCR technique and ligand-binding studies in rats shows that the STN neurons express mRNA for dopamine receptors D1, D2 and D3, but not D4. STN neurons in basal ganglia, however, do not express mRNA for D1 or D2 subtypes of receptors, although a weak binding site only for D1-receptors has been observed (Augood et al., 2000). Receptor-binding studies suggest that all subtypes of dopamine receptor are present in rat STN and that 6-OHDA lesions have no effect on D1-receptors, increase the density of D2-receptors and decrease D3 density in STN (Flores et a1., 1999). 7.2.4.3.2. Glutamate receptors 7.2.4.3.2.1. Ionotropic receptors 7.2.4.3.2.1.1. AMPA/KA receptors The primate STN neurons express protein for GluR1 (Betarbet et al., 2000; Wang et al., 2000) and the level of GluR1 is unchanged in STN after MPTP treatment in primates (Betarbet et al., 2000). 7.2.4.3.2.2. Metabotropic receptors 7.2.4.3.2.2.1. NMDA receptors The STN neurons express all types of mGluR except mGluR4. The expression pattern of mGluR2 is more prominent in STN than any other basal ganglia structure in rats (Testa et al., 1994), but in STN the mRNA for mGLuR2 is expressed less intensely (Phillips et al., 2000). 7.2.4.3.3. GABA receptors

7.2.4.2.1.2. Glutamate The projection neurons of STN are glutamatergic. Almost all of the STN neurons also express either parvalbumin or calretinin (Hardman et al., 1997). Along with its connectivity with GPe, STN plays a major role as the pacemaker for the generation of normal and abnormal movements (Plenz and Kitai, 1999). The STN neurons are overactive in PD and this overactivity is mostly due to the loss of inhibitory input from GABAergic projections from GPe. The STN overactivity may also be due to a direct excitatory effect of the glutamatergic projections from the parafascicular nucleus of the thalamus and PPN (Hirsch et al., 2000). The increased stimulation of the inhibitory GABAergic pallidothalamic outflow pathway by the glutamatergic STN input has been considered to be responsible for the many clinical features of PD. In PD, glutamate level in STN is slightly higher than controls (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). The STN neurons degenerate significantly in PSP but not in PD (Hardman et al., 1997).

7.2.4.3.3.1. Ionotropic receptors Similar to GPe and GPi, the neurons of STN express a1, b2 and g2 subunits intensely: all other subunits are expressed with moderate to low intensity (KultasIlinsky et al., 1998). 7.2.4.3.3.2. Metabotropic receptors The mRNA for all subtypes of GABAB receptors is expressed by rat STN neurons (Johnston and Duty, 2003). GABAB receptor bindings are unchanged when compared to control in mice models of PD (Calon et al., 2003b). 7.2.4.3.4. Cholinergic receptors 7.2.4.3.4.1. Ionotropic (nicotinic) receptors The pattern of distribution of different subtypes of nicotinic receptors in STN needs to be established. A moderate to high density of a-bungarotoxin-binding sites has been observed in STN (Clarke et al., 1985; Schulz et al., 1991). Neurophysiologic studies suggest a limited role for nicotinic receptors in STN (Feger et al., 1979).

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7.2.4.3.4.2. Metabotropic (muscarinic) receptors Microiontophoretic injection of acetylcholine induces excitation of STN neurons and the excitation is blocked by antimuscarinic but not antinicotinic agents, suggesting an important role for muscarinic receptors in STN in comparison to nicotinic receptors. The subthalamus also expresses relatively high levels of m3 mRNA (Weiner et al., 1990) and protein (Levey et al., 1994). The neurons of the Ch5 and Ch6 group in the mesopontine tegmentum may be the source of the cholinergic input to STN. 7.2.4.3.5. Serotonin receptors The expression pattern of mRNA for 5-HT2C and 5-HT4 receptors is high and 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A mRNA is low in STN (Pompeiano et al., 1994). 5-HT2C and 5-HT4 may be colocalized within a single STN neuron and are involved in excitatory response of STN neurons (Xiang et al., 2005). 7.2.5. Neurochemistry of globus pallidus interna (GPi) in Parkinson’s disease 7.2.5.1. Neurochemistry of GPi afferents

cause increased excitation of the GABAergic neurons of GPi. In PD, glutamate level is normal or only slightly elevated in GPi (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). 7.2.5.1.1.3. Gaba The GABAergic neurons of GPe, in addition to providing dense projections to STN, also send a less intense projection to GPi. MPTP-induced dopamine denervation increases GAD67 mRNA levels in GPi neurons and this increase is reversed by levodopa treatment (Herrero et al., 1996). In PD, GABA level in GPi is increased (Kish et al., 1986; Hornykiewicz, 2001a). 7.2.5.1.1.4. Acetylcholine The GPi receives prominent cholinergic input from PPN (Garcia-Rill, 1991; Lavoie and Parent, 1994). The role played by acetylcholine in GPi remains to be established. 7.2.5.1.1.5. Serotonin The GPi stains more intensely for 5-HT-immunopositive terminals than GPe (Lavoie and Parent, 1990; Charara and Parent, 1994). In PD, the density of 5HT transporter binding is significantly decreased in GPi (Chinaglia et al., 1993).

7.2.5.1.1. Neurotransmitters of GPi afferents

7.2.5.1.2. Neuropeptides of GPi afferents

7.2.5.1.1.1. Dopamine Collaterals from the nigrostriatal fibers innervate GPi densely (Parent et al., 1990). The GPi also receives dopaminergic input from a select subgroup of SNpc neurons different from that of the nigrostriatal projections (Smith et al., 1989). GPi has denser dopamine innervation than GPe (Hornykiewicz, 2001a). The SNpc cells that project to the pallidal segments are resistant to MPTP (Parent et al., 1990; Schneider and Dacko, 1991). In PD, there is a 60% loss of dopamine in GPi (Jan et al., 2000; Hornykiewicz, 2001a). Although striatal dopamine levels may be decreased in early PD, the levels of dopamine in GPi may be increased in early stages of PD, as supported by an increase in 18F-dopa uptake in GPi and the levels decrease once motor fluctuations manifest (Brooks, 2003).

7.2.5.1.2.1. Substance P The neurons of GPi do not express any mRNA for tachykinin peptides or receptors, but demonstrate significant intensity of SP immunoreactive terminals derived from the direct pathway. The levels of SP are significantly increased in MPTP primate models of PD (Betarbet and Greenamyre, 2004) and in PD (de Ceballos et al., 1993).

7.2.5.1.1.2. Glutamate The dense glutamatergic nerve terminals observed in GPi are mostly derived from STN. The centromedian and parafascicular nuclei of the thalamus also contribute to the glutamatergic input to GPi (RouzaireDubois and Scarnati, 1987; Mouroux and Feger, 1993). The PPN, which projects to GPi more densely than GPe, consists of neurons that are glutamatergic, but it is not known whether PPN provides glutamate to GPi. The STN neurons are hyperactive in PD and the hyperactive STN neurons have been speculated to

7.2.5.2. Neurochemistry of GPi neurons

7.2.5.1.2.2. Dynorphin The concentration of opioid peptides processed from prodynorphin, especially that of a-neoendorphin, is high in GPi of control brains (Zamir et al., 1984). The levels of Met-enkephalin, processed from prodynorphin, are increased by threefold in GPi in PD (de Ceballos et al., 1993).

The GPi neurons are exclusively GABAergic (Smith et al., 1987). Parvalbumin may be colocalized in some of the GPi GABA neurons. MPTP-induced dopamine denervation results in an increased expression of mRNA for GAD67 in the GABAergic neurons of both GPe and GPi, but such an increased expression of GAD67 mRNA level is more prominent in GPi than GPe neurons (Soghomonian et al., 1994). In PD, GABA levels are increased in GPi (Hornykiewicz, 2001a).

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 7.2.5.3. Neurochemistry of GPi receptors 7.2.5.3.1. Neurotransmitter receptors 7.2.5.3.1.1. Dopamine receptors The GPi neurons do not express mRNA for D1-receptor, but a weak pattern of expression of D2 mRNA has been observed (Hurd et al., 2001). D1, D2 and D4 immunoreactivity is noted in GPi. The nigropallidal axons may be the source of the D2S immunoreactivity in GPi (Khan et al., 1998). 7.2.5.3.1.2. Glutamate receptors 7.2.5.3.1.2.1. Ionotropic receptors (a) AMPA/kainite. The GPi neurons express mRNA and protein for GluR1, GLuR2/3 and GluR4 subtypes, but among the kainate receptors, only for KA1 and KA2 receptors. The level of expression of mRNA and protein of only GluR1 but not other subtypes of GluRs is significantly decreased after 6-OHDA and MPTPinduced dopamine denervation in rats and primates as well as in PD (Bernard et al., 1996; Betarbet et al., 2000). (b) NMDA. The distribution pattern and intensity of expression of NMDA receptors in GPi are similar to those of GPe (Kosinski et al., 1998b). 7.2.5.3.1.2.2. Metabotropic receptors The pattern of expression of mGluRs in GPi may be very similar to that of GPe (Smith et al., 2001). 7.2.5.3.1.3. GABA receptors 7.8.9.1.2.3.1. Ionotropic receptors In GPi of primates, the distribution pattern of the different subunits of GABAA receptors is similar to that of GPe, with a high-intensity expression of mRNA for a1, b2 and g2 subunits and moderate to low intensity of expression of all other subunits. In PD, GABAA binding is moderately increased in GPi after the onset of dyskinesia and this increase is in conjunction with an increased expression of PPE A mRNA in the striatum (Calon and DiPaolo, 2002). 7.8.9.1.2.3.2. Metabotropic receptors In primate models of PD, GABAB binding is moderately increased in GPi after the onset of dyskinesia (Calon et al., 2003b). 7.2.5.3.1.4. Cholinergic receptors 7.2.5.3.1.4.1. Ionotropic (Nicotinic) receptors Receptor-binding studies using 125I-A85380, which has specific affinity for the a4b2 subtype of nicotinic receptors, show very little binding in human GPi (Quik et al., 2004). Autoradiographic studies using 125I-a conotoxin MII, which binds to the a6/a3 subtype of nicotinic receptors, show moderate intensity of binding in GPe and GPi (Quik et al., 2004).

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7.2.5.3.1.4.2. Metabotropic (muscarinic) receptors Among other basal ganglia structures, the m4 receptor protein is highly enriched in GPi. Because mAChR mRNAs are not detected in GPi (Weiner et al., 1990) the protein is probably synthesized and transported to the GABAergic terminals of the striatal projection neurons, which express m4 mRNA and protein (Yan et al., 2001). Another possibility, however, is that m4 is present on glutamatergic terminals derived from the subthalamus, which also expresses m4 mRNA. The mAChR-binding sites in GPi are substantially upregulated in PD, perhaps secondary to reduced cholinergic transmission from PPN (Griffiths et al., 1990). 7.2.5.3.1.5. Serotonin receptors The protein of 5-HT receptors is found in the target sites of the terminals of the striatal output neurons, including GPi (Barnes and Sharp, 1999). The 5HT2C subtype is denser in GPi than any other basal ganglia structure and this receptor is upregulated in PD (Nicholson and Brotchie, 2002). 7.2.5.3.1.6. Adenosine receptor The level of expression of mRNA for A2 is higher in GPe than GPi. A2-receptor levels are unchanged in GPi in PD (Calon et al., 2004). 7.2.5.3.2. Neuropeptide receptors 7.2.5.3.2.1. Opioid receptors The mRNA for m, but not k or d opioid receptor, has been localized to GPi neurons in human brains (Peckys and Landwehrmeyer, 1999). 7.2.5.3.2.2. Neurotensin receptors The protein for NTS2 receptor is found in GPi (Sarret et al., 2003a).

7.3. Neurochemistry of nuclei other than the basal ganglia in Parkinson’s disease 7.3.1. Spinal cord The spinal cord receives a mostly ipsilateral dopaminergic innervation specifically from the A11 group of dopamine neurons of the hypothalamus (Skagerberg and Lindvall, 1985), a noradrenergic projection from the locus ceruleus (Proudfit and Clark, 1991) and serotonergic afferents from the raphe system (Tork, 1990). Two small groups of TH-immunoreactive neurons intrinsic to the spinal cord are found, one at the level of the cervical enlargement that may be the spinal extension of the caudal medullary noradrenergic cells and another group exclusively at the first sacral segments that may be dopaminergic (Mouchet

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et al., 1986). The dopamine terminals are distributed diffusely throughout the laminae, but most intensely in the intermediolateral column, laminae III and IV, periependymal regions, sexually dimorphic cremaster nucleus and Onuf’s nucleus and the ventral horn of the rat, cat and monkey spinal cord (Holstege et al., 1996). The D1-receptors are localized in the ventral horn of the cervical and lumbar cord, suggesting a direct role for dopamine in the functions of motor neurons (Dubois et al., 1986). mRNA and the protein for D2-receptor are distributed in areas of the spinal cord that play a role in nociception, autonomic functions and sexually dimorphic motor neurons of the lumbosacral spinal cord (van Dijken et al., 1996). In PD, levels of norepinephrine and 5-HT are decreased, but not of dopamine (Scatton et al., 1986), consistent with the observation that >50% of neurons degenerate in locus ceruleus and the raphe system, but the hypothalamic dopaminergic neurons do not degenerate (see below). Lewy body formation and significant loss of neurons in the intermediolateral column of the cervical have also been observed in PD (Wakabayashi and Takahashi, 1997a, b). 7.3.2. Medullary catecholaminergic neurons The many groups of TH-immunopositive neurons at the level of rat and medulla oblongata (Kalia et al., 1985a, b; Saper et al., 1991) have been further defined to be either dopamine beta hydroxylase (DBH)-positive noradrenergic or phenylethanolamine N-transferase (PNMT)-positive adrenergic groups of cells. The ventrolateral A1/C1 group is closely linked to the nucleus ambiguus and the dorsomedial group of A2/C2 group is closely associated with the dorsomotor vagal nucleus and the nucleus solitarius. Significant numbers of neurons in these two groups are also heavily and lightly melanized cells (Saper et al., 1991; Gai et al., 1993). In PD among the noradrenergic A1 and A2 groups, lightly melanized neurons of A2 groups degenerate selectively and significantly (Saper et al., 1991) and the A1 group of noradrenergic neurons does not degenerate. Among the adrenergic neurons, although some investigators did not observe any degeneration (Saper et al., 1991), others noted a >50% loss of neurons in the C1 group (Gai et al., 1993). These observations suggest that the noradrenergic neurons in the medial regions of nucleus solitarius, which receive baroreceptor afferents from the carotid sinus (Saper et al., 1991), as well as the adrenergic sympathetic premotor neurons of the C1 group, degenerate significantly. Degeneration of the noradrenergic and adrenergic neurons of the medulla may be responsible for the severe autonomic manifestations of PD.

7.3.3. PPN and other nuclei of the cholinergic system Although PD is mostly considered a dopamine deficiency disease, recent studies have suggested that neurons of the cholinergic system also degenerate significantly. Several groups of neurons, extending from the pons to the forebrain, labeled intensely by choline acetyltransferase immunoreactivity, constitute the cholinergic system of the brain (cholinergic groups Ch1–Ch8) (Mesulam et al., 1984; Mufson et al., 1986). In PD, a marked degree of degeneration of neurons has been noted in almost all of the subnuclei of the cholinergic groups. 7.3.3.1. Pedunculopontine nucleus The PPN (Ch5 group) is located in the pontomesencephalic tegmentum. The rostral PPN is a part of the ascending reticular activating system that plays a role in cognitive and reward mechanisms (Inglis and Winn, 1995; Winn et al., 1997) and the caudal descending connections of PPN to the lower brainstem and the spinal cord play a major role as the mesencephalic locomotor center (Garcia-Rill, 1991; Pahapill and Lozano, 2000). Because of its intricate connections with the basal ganglia, it has been suggested that PPN should be included as a member of the basal ganglia family (Mena-Segovia et al., 2004). The PPN comprises the PPN compacta (PPNc) and PPN dissipata (PPNd) subdivisions. The PPNc contains large and medium-sized cholinergic neurons that constitute >60% of its cell population and PPNd consists of 25–75% of cholinergic cells (Pahapill and Lozano, 2000). These cholinergic neurons, unlike the cholinergic neurons in the forebrain Ch1–4 groups, do not express NGF receptor (NGFr) mRNA, but have a higher expression of NADPH than the forebrain cholinergic neurons (Mesulam et al., 1989). In PD, there is >50% loss of cholinergic neurons in lateral areas of PPNc (Hirsch et al. 1987; Jellinger, 1988; Zweig et al., 1989). The PPN also has neurons that express glutamate, GABA, dopamine and NADPH and it is not known whether the non-cholinergic neurons of PPN also degenerate in PD. 7.3.3.2. Nucleus basalis of Meynert (Ch4 group) Neurons of the Ch4 group are prominently labeled by markers of the cholinergic system and are the major source of cholinergic projections to the cerebral cortex (Mesulam et al., 1984). In PD, degeneration of Ch4 neurons is greater than in senile dementia of Alzheimer’s type (Candy et al., 1983). The percentage of loss of neurons in Ch4 in PD is reported to range between 37% and 68% (Rogers et al., 1985; Zarow et al., 2003).

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 7.3.3.3. Ch1–Ch3 groups Cholinergic neurons are distributed in the medial septal nucleus (Ch1) as well as in the vertical (Ch2) and the horizontal (Ch3) bands of the diagonal band of Broca. Along with the Ch4 group of Meynert neurons, the cholinergic neurons of Ch1–Ch3 also express mRNA for NGFr (Mufson and Kordower, 1989). In many cases of PD, there is a significant loss of neurons in the Ch1–Ch3 group of forebrain cholinergic neurons (Mufson and Kordower, 1989). Neurons of the lateral dorsal tegmental cholinergic group (Ch6 group) do not degenerate in PD (Hirsch et al., 1987) and it is not known whether cholinergic neurons of Ch8 of parabigeminal nucleus (Ch8 group) degenerate in PD. It is of interest to note that injection of MPTP does not result in loss of cholinergic neurons of nucleus basalis of Meynert, choline acetyltransferase or acetylcholinesterase immunoreactivity in the cerebral cortex (Garvey et al., 1986). It is not known whether MPTP causes degeneration of PPN and other brainstem cholinergic neurons. On the contrary, rotenone, an inhibitor of mitochondrial complex I similar to MPTP, causes diffuse degeneration of cholinergic neurons, including loss of neurons in PPN and the large aspiny cholinergic interneurons within the striatum (Hoglinger et al., 2003). 7.3.4. Locus ceruleus The locus ceruleus consists of 45 000–60 000 neurons (German et al., 1988; Baker et al., 1989). In PD, degeneration of locus ceruleus neurons is noted diffusely throughout the rostrocaudal extent of the nucleus (Chan-Palay and Asan, 1989; Chan-Palay, 1991). Even though almost all locus ceruleus neurons are melanized in the brain, only 60% of locus ceruleus neurons degenerate in PD (German et al., 1992) and the magnitude of loss is unrelated to the duration of the disease. The locus ceruleus is the major source of norepiephrine to the ipsilateral hypothalamus and the cerebral cortex. The different nuclei of the basal ganglia, especially the striatum, receive very few direct projections from locus ceruleus (Aston-Jones et al., 1995). A small noradrenergic projection from the medullary noradrenergic centers to the nucleus accumbens exists (Delfs et al., 1998). Noradrenergic terminals of locus ceruleus are present in the midbrain region and a loss of 80% of norepinephrine has been reported in SNpc in PD (Taquet et al., 1982). Even in advanced stages of PD, the loss of striatal norepinephrine is minimal when compared to dopamine and 5-HT (Wilson et al., 1996), suggesting a limited direct role for norepinephrine in striatal-mediated dysfunctions in PD. The larger decrease (>50%) of hypothalamic norepinephrine

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levels (Shannak et al., 1994) may contribute to the significant abnormalities of autonomic functions, attentional mechanisms and sleep–wake cycle noted in PD rather than the common motor manifestations of PD. 7.3.5. Raphe nucleus Based on neuronal connectivity the serotonergic system may be classified into several functionally distinct groups (Lowry, 2002). The dorsal raphe neurons (B5 group) that project to the basal ganglia are functionally distinct and respond to a group of cells that respond physiologically to altered muscle tone and sleep–wake and arousal states (Jacobs and Fornal, 1997). About 35% of neurons from the rostral and dorsal aspect of the dorsal raphe nucleus contribute to 80% of 5-HT in the different nuclei of the basal ganglia (Steinbusch et al., 1981). Consistent with the general pattern of a typical serotonergic neuron that sends afferents to functionally related targets by collateral branches, the dorsal raphe neurons provide the densest serotonergic projections to SN and of a gradually declining intensity to GPi, STN, GPe and the striatum by axon collaterals (Lavoie and Parent, 1990). Neuropathological studies using traditional techniques and immunocytochemical methods using antibodies specific to phenylalanine hydroxylase have confirmed that, in PD, the rostrally projecting system of dorsal raphe neurons degenerates the most (Halliday et al., 1990a; Paulus and Jellinger, 1991) and the degeneration of caudally projecting serotonergic neurons is less severe (Kovacs et al., 2003). The raphe neuron counts may be normal in the early stages of PD; the loss is significant in patients in late stages of PD but still not as severe as the dopaminergic neurons of SN. 7.3.6. Cerebellum Several lines of evidence suggest that the cerebellar functions may be influenced by the dopaminergic system. A reciprocal connection between the mesencephalic dopamine neurons and the cerebellum exists in rats (Perciavalle et al., 1989; Ikai et al., 1994) and TH and DAT immunoreactive fibers are present in the Purkinje and granule cell layers of the primate cerebellum and several other species of animals (Nelson et al., 1997; Melchitzky and Lewis, 2000). TH immunoreactivity is present in Purkinje cells of cerebellum and in mice TH-positive Purkinje cells are noted during the early stages of maturation of the cerebellum; the number of TH-positive cells increases during later stages (Fujii et al., 1994; Yew et al., 1995). The mRNA and protein for different subtypes of dopamine

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receptors have been localized to the cerebellar neurons (Bouthenet et al., 1991; Barili et al. 2000). This evidence strongly suggests a role for dopamine in the modulation of cerebellar functions. In PD, mRNA for TH, DAT, D1- and D3-, but not D2-receptors, is decreased in lobules IX and X (Hurley et al., 2003b). The cerebellum receives a prominent noradrenergic projection from the locus ceruleus. Along with a loss of >50% of locus ceruleus neurons in PD, the level of norepinephrine in the cerebellum of PD is significantly low (Kish et al., 1984).

decrease in the level of dopamine in the hypothalamus (Shannak et al., 1994). 3. The levels of peptides synthesized from proopiomelanocortin neurons, which are regulated by dopamine, are normal (Pique et al., 1985). The current evidence suggests that the hypothalamic dopamine neurons do not degenerate significantly in PD and the decrease of norepinephrine and 5-HT levels and not dopamine may contribute to some of the non-motor features that do not respond to traditional dopamine-promoting drugs in PD.

7.3.7. Hypothalamus

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Earlier studies have raised the possibility that hypothalamic pathology may contribute to hormonal as well as autonomic dysfunctions in PD. The presence of Lewy bodies in the tuberoinfundibular and lateral hypothalamic regions (Langston and Forno, 1978), decreased level of dopamine (Javoy-Agid et al., 1984) and alteration in dopamine-mediated release of growth hormone have been considered as indicators of hypothalamic dysfunction in PD. The arcuate nucleus and the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus are the two major subgroups of neurons that consist of TH-positive neurons that synthesize dopamine and exhibit DAT immunoreactivity (Spencer et al., 1985; Cerruti et al., 1993). A small proportion of cells in these two subnuclei also contain neuromelanin (Spencer et al., 1985). In the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, oxytocin and vasopressin are colocalized within the TH-positive neurons (Purba et al., 1994). Dopaminergic terminals from these two groups densely innervate the hypothalamic neurons that synthesize different peptides of the proopiomelanocortin family, vasopressin and oxytocin in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei, and gonadotrophic and growth hormone and their releasing factors in the tuberoinfundibular regions of the hypothalamus. Recent studies suggest that, in the hypothalamus of PD:

A significant number of amacrine and interplexiform cells in the retina are TH-, GABA- and NOS-positive (Nguyen-Legros, 1988; Crooks and Kolb, 1992; Andrade de Costa and Hokoc, 2003) and multiple dopamine receptors are distributed throughout the retina (Djamgoz et al., 1997; Nguyen-Legros et al., 1999). Dopamine plays a significant role in visual acuity, spatial sensitivity and color vision (Djamgoz et al., 1997). Injections of MPTP in mice produce dose-dependent but reversible loss of TH-positive amacrine but not cholinergic cells of the retina (Tatton et al., 1990). The level of retinal dopamine is decreased in untreated PD due to loss of TH-immunoreactive amacrine cells and dopamine level normalizes after levodopa administration (Harnois and DiPaolo, 1990).

1. Even though there is a slight loss in the number of oxytocin-expressing neurons, the number of TH-immunoreactive neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (Purba et al., 1994) as well as dopamine neurons of the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus is normal (Matzuk and Saper, 1985; Uhl, 2003). 2. A study of region-specific changes of levels of monoamines in the hypothalamus showed marked lowering of norepinephrine levels (>50%), a moderate decrease of 5-HT levels in the intermediate regions of the hypothalamus and an insignificant

7.3.9. Olfactory system Patients with PD suffer from hyposmia, a feature of PD that may actually precede the onset of motor dysfunction by several years (Berendse et al., 2001; Ponsen et al., 2004). Hyposmia is unrelated to the duration of the disease and is unaltered after levodopa treatment (Doty et al., 1988). Dopaminergic neurons are scattered in many areas of the olfactory bulb, but 98% of the TH-immunoreactive cells are located in and around the glomerular region (Smith et al., 1991). A recent study has demonstrated a 100% increase in the TH-immunoreactive cells in the olfactory bulb of PD patients (Huisman et al., 2004). The increase but not decrease in the number of TH cells in olfactory bulb in patients who have had long-term treatment with levodopa clearly suggests that levodopa is not toxic, at least to the dopaminergic neurons of the olfactory bulb. The precise function of dopamine in olfactory bulb remains to be established. It has been supposed that hyposmia noted in PD may be due to too much dopamine suppressing the sense of smell (Huisman et al., 2004). On the contrary, it has also been proposed that

NEUROCHEMISTRY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE hyposmia of PD may be due to a decrease in the motor component of olfaction – sniffing – and not due to abnormalities of the sensory component of olfaction – smelling (Sobel et al., 2001). 7.3.10. Other areas Significant loss of neurons and formation of Lewy body and ubiquitin filaments have been identified in the central and basolateral nuclei of the amygdale. This abnormality is more severe in patients with PD who are demented than in non-demented PD patients (Harding et al. 2002). A 30–40% loss of neurons in the caudal centromedianum (CM)–parafascicular (PF) complex of the thalamus has been reported. Of the PF neurons, there was a 50% loss of parvalbumin-positive neurons and 70% loss of non-parvalbumin-positive neurons in CM. The neurons of the dorsomedial nucleus, which is adjacent to the CM–PF complex, do not degenerate in PD (Henderson et al., 2000a, b). Loss of corticocortical projecting pyramidal neurons in the presupplementary motor area has also been recognized (MacDonald and Halliday, 2002). The cerebral cortex is a major destination site for noradrenergic, serotonergic and dopaminergic projections. The pattern of termination of projections from the monoaminergic brainstem nuclei varies from one cortical site to another. Progressive degeneration of neurons of locus ceruleus, dorsal raphe and the A8 and A10 dopaminergic system that project to the cerebral cortex via axon collaterals leads to decreased levels of monoamines in functionally different cortical areas in PD and MPTP-induced primate models of PD. In primate models of MPTP-induced PD, the gradient of loss of cerebral cortical monoamines is norepinephrine > 5-HT > dopamine (Pifl et al., 1991). The pattern of loss of monoamines in the cerebral cortex in primates is in contrast to the dopamine > 5-HT > norepineprhine pattern of loss of monoamines observed in the basal ganglia of PD. It is not unreasonable to consider that loss of monoamines in the cerebral cortex must be playing a major role in alertness, attentional and cognitive dysfunctions of PD.

7.4. Neurochemical alterations in neural tissue outside the central nervous system The Lewy body, a classic neuropathological hallmark of PD, is present prominently in SN, locus ceruleus and other brainstem nuclei that degenerate in PD. Ubiquitin and a-synuclein are the primary constituents of Lewy body, but proteins from many other sources are also incorporated into a Lewy body (Rao, 2003). Lewy body and a-synuclein-positive neurites are present

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in the sympathetic ganglion, enteric nervous system, sinoatrial node in the heart and cardiac plexus (Wakabayashi et al., 1990, 1993; Iwanaga et al., 1999; Okada et al., 2004b) and may contribute significantly to the cardiac (Goldstein et al., 2000), visceral and other autonomic dysfunctions that are very common in PD (Siddiqui et al., 2002).

7.5. Neurochemical alterations in non-neural tissue 7.5.1. Lymphocytes Peripheral lymphocytes do synthesize dopamine (Musso et al., 1996) and express D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5 dopamine receptors (Takahashi et al., 1992; Bondy et al., 1996; Nagai et al., 1996; Meredith et al., 2005), and in PD, the levels of TH, dopamine and DAT are decreased (Caronti et al., 1999, 2001). A significantly increased level of D1- and D2-receptors (Barbanti et al., 1999) and normal level of D5 have been noted in the peripheral lymphocytes of PD. The levels of D3-receptor, however, are decreased in direct proportion to the duration of the disease (Nagai et al. 1996). The lymphocytes also demonstrate a decrease in nicotinic but not muscarinic receptor-binding sites (Adem et al., 1986). Besides these receptor changes, several markers of apoptosis are also significantly altered in the lymphocytes of treated and untreated PD (Blandini et al., 2003, 2004). Measurements of markers of dopamine metabolism and apoptotic factors in the lymphocytes may become a potential tool for early diagnosis and monitoring the progression of PD in the future.

7.6. Conclusion The spectrum of clinical features of PD is due to progressive degeneration of midbrain dopaminergic neurons and other areas of the brain. The neurochemical alterations in PD can be broadly classified into three categories: (1) neurochemical changes in the basal ganglia; (2) neurochemical changes in the rest of the central nervous system; and (3) neurochemical changes in ‘non-neural’ tissue. 7.6.1. Neurochemical changes in the basal ganglia The neurochemical changes noted in the basal ganglia can be summarized as follows. 1. The profound loss of dopamine and its consequences observed, not just in the striatum, but also in both segments of GP and the STN, dominate the neurochemical pathology in the basal ganglia. Loss of >50% 5-HT in the striatum adds to the

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lenge, resulting in bradykinesia, bradyphrenia and amotivational state, the three salient features of PD. 7.6.2. Neurochemical changes in the rest of the central nervous system The neurochemical changes in PD are mostly, but not exclusively, in the basal ganglia. Even though dopamine denervation in the basal ganglia is the predominant feature of PD, it is important to emphasize that the decreased levels of monoamines in the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, brainstem and spinal cord could play an equally formidable role in PD. The decrease in norepinephrine level is >50% in PD. This decrease is not noted in the basal ganglia but is more prominent in the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, lower-brainstem nuclei and the spinal cord. The loss of norepinephrine to the cerebral cortex is compounded by the loss of serotonergic innervations to the cerebral cortex, hypothalamus and the basal ganglia and a higher level of histamine in the different nuclei of the basal ganglia (Fig. 7.1 on page 176). The common denominator among the locus ceruleus, raphe, and tuberomamillary and PPN systems is that these nuclei are organized into an ‘oral’ system that consists of neurons that are located rostrally within the nuclei, project rostrally and terminate predominantly in the hypothalamus, thalamic nuclei and in functionally diverse regions of the entire cerebral cortex. These nuclei also consist of a well-defined ‘caudal’ projection system that has intricate connections with the oculomotor nuclei, reticular formation, lower-brainstem autonomic centers and spinal cord. The noradrenergic system of locus ceruleus, the serotonergic system of raphe and the cholinergic system of the brainstem are individual components of the ascending reticular activating system and play an important role in alertness, attention, sleep–wake cycle, cognitive and reinforcement behavior. The histaminergic system has been speculated to play an equally important role in sleep–wake phenomena and hibernation. The caudal projection system has a profound influence on coordinated movements of the neck and the eyes, the motor and non-motor functions of the reticular formation, the brainstem autonomic centers and the outflow systems of the spinal cord. The attention, awake, alert and sleep, anxiety and several other non-motor manifestations of PD may be attributed to degenerations of neurons in the ‘oral’ system and degeneration of neurons in the caudal system may contribute to dysautonomia, oculomotor and balance dysfunctions.

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Other features that are common to the pattern of degeneration among these brainstem nuclei are: (1) the degree of loss of neurons in these nuclei is not as severe as in the dopaminergic neurons of SNpc and VTA; (2) both melanized and unmelanized neurons of the brainstem degenerate; and (3) in most, if not all, patients, the non-motor consequences resulting from degeneration of these brainstem neurons are not that severe in the early stages of the disease. However, as the disease progresses, disability arising from the non-motor manifestations are as severe as the motor dysfunctions and less responsive to traditional treatments. The observations summarized above also demand a re-evaluation of our medical approach to PD. The class of drugs that is most commonly used in the modern-day treatment of PD are drugs that promote dopaminergic transmission. A comprehensive and more aggressive treatment with the addition of those drugs that enhance noradrenergic, serotonergic and cholinergic neurotransmission may actually provide a more global improvement of both motor and non-motor features of human PD than our current approach. This point of view is strongly supported by the original observations of Carlsson and his associates (1957) that the improvement of ptosis and lethargy noted in reserpinized animals was ‘more complete and longer-lasting’ if a mixture of an equal amount of 5-hydroxytryptophan and dopa was administered rather than when dopa was administered alone. 7.6.3. Neurochemical changes in ‘non-neural’ tissues Even though degeneration of the dopaminergic neurons is the predominant feature of human PD, several groups of neurons outside the basal ganglia and neurites outside the brain as well as peripheral lymphocytes demonstrate significant degeneration and/or neurotransmitter changes that are parallel to the changes noted in SN. The etiologic factors that cause degeneration of the melanized nigral neurons appear not to be specific to the dopaminergic neurons of SN and VTA, but appear to induce neuronal loss in the entire monoaminergic system, the cholinergic system and even in extraneural tissue such as the lymphocytes. Since the original observation localizing dopamine in the central nervous system almost 50 years ago, our knowledge of the neurochemical basis of human PD has gradually evolved to enable us to develop a medical treatment for PD that has significantly reduced the mortality and morbidity of the disease.

Within the next few decades, the emerging more sensitive technologies will assist us to identify the cause(s) of human PD and to manipulate the molecular cascades involved in the nigral cell death to develop innovative treatment modes that are truly neuroprotective and neuroregenerative.

Acknowledgments This chapter is dedicated to Bill Koller. The author has been supported by the Grace and Tom Benson Parkinson’s disease research fund.

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The neuropathology of parkinsonism DANIEL P. PERL* Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

8.1. Introduction A variety of disorders of the nervous system result in parkinsonian symptoms. Virtually all involve damage to various components of the basal ganglia. Some of these conditions are rather common whereas others are exceedingly rare. Here, the neuropathologic features of many of these conditions will be summarized. First and foremost will be a discussion of the neuropathologic finding in cases of Parkinson’s disease, the prototype condition. Some of the other, better-characterized forms of parkinsonism will then be reviewed.

8.2. Parkinson’s disease (paralysis agitans) James Parkinson’s 1817 classic monograph An Essay on the Shaking Palsy is well known for its elegant description of the clinical features of the disorder that would ultimately bear his name (Parkinson, 1955, originally published 1817). However, it also includes Parkinson’s comment that he was reluctant to speculate on the nature and cause of the disease he was describing. This hesitation was caused by the fact that, as he noted, he was hampered ‘not having had the advantage, in a single case, of that light which anatomical examination yields’. At the time little neuropathologic expertise was available and it would be almost 100 years until some of the underlying anatomical features would first be identified. Indeed, in the later portion of the 19th century, Jean-Martin Charcot failed to find a characteristic abnormality in the brains of patients who had suffered from Parkinson’s disease. Based on his inability to recognize an identifiable neuropathologic lesion, Charcot began to lecture that Parkinson’s disease might be functional in nature. It was not until 1912 that Frederick Lewy first described the diagnostic

intranuclear inclusion body associated with Parkinson’s disease (Lewy, 1912). Interestingly, Lewy’s descriptions of the inclusions that bear his name were first seen in neurons of the substantia innominata and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus but in his original report he failed to recognize their presence in the substantia nigra pars compacta. It was not until 1919, in Tre´tiakoff’s thesis at the University of Paris (Tre´tiakoff, 1919), that the importance of involvement of the substantia nigra pars compacta in cases of Parkinson’s disease, especially with involvement by Lewy bodies, first became recognized. It would be many decades until the neuroanatomic and neurochemical details of basal ganglia structure and function would eventually become clarified, ultimately leading to the introduction of the primary form of therapy for the disease, levodopa, and then to other secondary forms of treatment that are currently in use. 8.2.1. Gross morphologic abnormalities In patients with Parkinson’s disease the gross external appearance of the brain does not reveal any distinguishing features. However, on further dissection of the specimen, the cut surface of the midbrain reveals a loss of pigmentation of the substantia nigra that is readily apparent (Fig. 8.1). This loss of pigmentation may be complete or, more commonly, partial. When some visible pigmentation remains in the substantia nigra aside from a lessening of the black coloration, there is typically some blurring of its edges. In such cases the observer may be forced to compare this appearance to that of a normal brain in order to verify the presence of pigmentary loss. The locus ceruleus is similarly depigmented in almost all cases. Importantly, the gross appearance of the globus pallidus, caudate nucleus and putamen remains intact and these important basal ganglia structures are

*Correspondence to: Daniel P. Perl, MD, Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1134, New York, NY 10029, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ1-212-241-7371, Fax: þ1-212-996-1343.

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Fig. 8.1. Gross appearance of the midbrain, two levels, in a case of Parkinson’s disease. Notice the lack of pigmentation of the substantia nigra pars compacta.

without significant shrinkage, discoloration or changes in consistency. 8.2.2. Microscopic features 8.2.2.1. Substantia nigra pars compacta Within the substantia nigra pars compacta there is dramatic loss of pigmented neurons. However, the neuronal loss is not complete and isolated neurons or groups of neurons will remain intact (Fig. 8.2). The neurons

that are lost are dopaminergic and provide input to the striatum by way of the nigrostriatal pathway. Within the remaining neurons, some will contain large spherical brightly eosinophilic inclusion bodies, which are referred to as Lewy bodies (see below). Neuromelanin pigment derived from neurons that have been lost will be found in the nearby neuropil where it is referred to as incontinent pigment. Additionally, some of this pigment will have been phagocytosed by local macrophages (Fig. 8.3). It appears that macrophages are incapable of fully breaking down the neuromelanin and this pigment will remain visible within the macrophage cytoplasm. Finally, within the substantia nigra one can identify a variable degree of gliosis, although reactive astrocytes are rarely encountered in the region, even when there is evidence of severe neuronal damage. 8.2.2.2. Locus ceruleus and other locations The pigmented neurons of the locus ceruleus undergo a process of neurodegeneration, incontinent pigment and Lewy body formation that is virtually identical to that seen in the substantia nigra pars compacta. Although Parkinson’s disease is generally considered to be a disorder of dopamineric neurons, these adrenergic neurons appear to go through a similar form of neurodegeneration. Furthermore, in cases of Parkinson’s disease

Fig. 8.2. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of substantia nigra pars compacta of a case of Parkinson’s disease (left panel) and control (right panel). Hematoxylin and eosin stain.

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Fig. 8.3. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of substantia nigra pars compacta of a case of Parkinson’s disease. Neuromelanin pigment is seen in the cytoplasm of macrophages and incontinent in the neuropil. Hematoxylin and eosin stain.

neurodegeneration and Lewy body formation are encountered in neurons of the basal forebrain (basal nucleus of Meynert), despite the fact that these cells are cholinergic and non-pigmented. A number of other brain regions show evidence of neurodegeneration in cases of Parkinson’s disease, including the olfactory bulbs, dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerves, amygdale and neocortex (see below). 8.2.2.3. Lewy bodies In Parkinson’s disease, Lewy bodies are encountered in some of the remaining intact neurons within areas of neurodegeneration. Identification of their presence in remaining pigmented neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta is considered to be essential to making a diagnosis of the disease. Lewy bodies are relatively large intracytoplasmic inclusions, measuring 4–30 mm in diameter. They have a rather uniform hyaline eosinophilic appearance and at times are surrounded by a halo of paler concentric rings (Fig. 8.4). The inclusions are usually solitary, although within the substantia nigra and, in particular, the locus ceruleus, multiple inclusions may be encountered within the same neuron. The number of Lewy bodies encountered in the substantia nigra does not correlate with the severity of disease or its duration. Indeed, in situations where there has been severe neuronal loss, there may be so few neurons remaining that only a few cells exist in which these lesions might be found. It is in such cases that one may be left with a clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and evidence of severe nigral neuronal loss, and yet be unable to identify a Lewy body.

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Fig. 8.4. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of neuron in the substantia nigra pars compacta of a case of Parkinson’s disease showing a Lewy body with prominent internal concentric ring formation. Hematoxylin and eosin stain.

In such a situation one is urged to exhibit patience and search with diligence as well as examine additional sections of substantia nigra and locus ceruleus in order to make the diagnosis. The locus ceruleus generally shows a less complete loss of neurons when compared to the substantia nigra and therefore is a good site to examine for the presence of Lewy bodies. If after careful examination of these sections a Lewy body still cannot be identified, then an alternative diagnosis must be considered. Lewy bodies are composed primarily of a-synuclein, a 140-amino-acid protein which is a normal constituent of the presynaptic apparatus (Spillantini et al., 1997). Immunohistochemical preparations using antibodies raised against a-synuclein typically show a ring of immunoreactivity at the periphery of the inclusion body (Fig. 8.5). Lewy bodies also stain for ubiquitin, indicating that the aggregated proteins have been tagged for degradation by the ubiquitin-proteosome system (McNaught et al., 2001; Dawson and Dawson, 2003; Snyder and Wolozin, 2004). The use of immunohistochemical preparations employing antibodies raised against either a-synuclein or ubiquitin has demonstrated that most cases of Parkinson’s disease show a rather widespread distribution of intraneuronal inclusions. Ultrastructurally, the central core of the inclusion consists of densely arranged filaments in association with electron-dense granular material (Forno, 1996). The outer ring of the Lewy body contains a radially arranged halo of 7–20 nm intermediate filaments along with electron-dense granular material and vesicular profiles. An additional finding encountered in areas of neurodegeneration is that of Lewy neurites. These are enlarged, dysmorphic neuronal processes (neurites) that stain for ubiquitin and a-synuclein and are found in regions undergoing neurodegeneration (Fig. 8.6).

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Fig. 8.5. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of neuron in the substantia nigra pars compacta of a case of Parkinson’s disease showing a Lewy body. a-Synuclein immunostain. Notice the peripheral decoration of the inclusion.

Fig. 8.6. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of amygdala of a case of Parkinson’s disease showing a Lewy body. a-Synuclein immunostain demonstrates Lewy bodies in neurons as well as Lewy neurites in the neuropil.

They are best seen in the substantia nigra pars compacta, dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, the nucleus basalis of Meynert and in the CA2–3 region of the hippocampus. In the process of the neuropathologic examination of brain specimens derived from elderly individuals, one encounters cases which display Lewy bodies within neurons of the substantia nigra but with no accompanying clinical history of a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease or even clinical reports of parkinsonian features being present. Such cases are typically associated with a more modest degree of neuronal loss in the substantia nigra. Indeed, in some cases accompanying evidence of neuronal loss may be difficult to demonstrate. These specimens are typically referred to as representing incidental Lewy body cases (Forno, 1969). It is generally felt that these represent individuals with preclinical forms of

Parkinson’s disease and that individuals showing these changes at the time of death had not yet accumulated a sufficient burden of neurodegeneration to attract clinical attention. It is further assumed that had such patients survived longer, they would have progressed to become more overtly symptomatic and been clinically diagnosed with the disorder. In recent years, Braak and colleagues (2003) studied the distribution of Lewy body formation and demonstrated a widespread pattern of involvement extending well beyond the usually cited pigmented neurons of the brainstem. They have also further defined the distribution of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in incidental Lewy body cases. By studying brains derived from large numbers of autopsies, they propose a progressive process of successive brain involvement by Parkinson’s disease pathology that they have classified into six sequential stages (Braak et al., 2003). The initial stage (stage 1) involves Lewy bodies that are confined to the dorsal motor nuclei of the vagus and glossopharygeal nerves of the medulla. Stage 2 demonstrates the features of stage 1 plus involvement of the caudal raphe nuclei and the locus ceruleus and subceruleus. Stage 3 shows the preceding pathology plus involvement of the substantia nigra pars compacta. Following this, stage 4 demonstrates involvement of transentorhinal cortex and CA2 of the hippocampus. Stages 5 and 6 demonstrate progressively increasing involvement of the neocortex. Importantly, their data indicate that this stepwise, progressively more widespread involvement is rather stereotypic with little variation among the numerous cases they examined (Del Tredici et al., 2002). These studies are based on a-synuclein immunostaining of numerous regions of autopsy-derived cases. All of the cases that had been clinically diagnosed as Parkinson’s disease were at least at stage 3, suggesting that the clinical features associated with the two earlier stages are either extremely subtle or truly silent clinically. The involvement of cerebral cortical neurons by Lewy bodies is a phenomenon that has become increasingly recognized through the ability to identify such lesions readily using immunohistochemical methods. These inclusions are referred to as cortical Lewy bodies and are difficult to locate using routine morphologic stains such as hematoxylin and eosin, but, using either antiubiquitin or a-synuclein antibodies, a very high percentage of cases of Parkinson’s disease will show evidence of some cortical Lewy body involvement. Indeed, some have claimed that involvement is universal if these lesions are carefully searched for (Hughes et al., 2001), In some cases the extent and distribution of cortical Lewy body formation are considerable and in such cases dementia is generally encountered clinically.

THE NEUROPATHOLOGY OF PARKINSONISM 8.2.3. Genetic forms of Parkinson’s disease In the vast majority of cases of Parkinson’s disease, the disease is considered to be sporadic and its etiology remains unknown, but on rare occasions the disease is encountered in a familial fashion and appears to be inherited as a simple mendelian trait. In such instances the age of onset tends to be younger than in the sporadic form and atypical clinical features are more commonly seen. In recent years, a number of genetic loci have been linked to the appearance of cases in such familial cases. These genetic loci are referred to as PARK1–PARK9 and these various familial forms are associated with either an autosomal-dominant or recessive inheritance pattern (West and Maidment, 2004). To date, only a small number of such cases have been subjected to autopsy and reported in the literature. In the coming years, further information regarding the neuropathologic substrate associated with each locus will yield important insights. In 1997, Polymeropolous et al. (1996, 1997) identified a mutation of the gene encoding for the protein asynuclein in a number of large families of Greek or Sicilian ancestry with autosomal-dominant Parkinson’s disease. With this information, it was subsequently determined that a-synuclein represents the major protein constituent of the Lewy body (Spillantini et al., 1997). Study of numerous cases of sporadic Parkinson’s disease has failed to show the presence of mutations within the asynuclein gene (Chan et al., 1998; Warner and Schapira, 1998). However, additional a-synuclein gene mutations have now been identified in other kindreds and these cases are collectively referred to as PARK1. Several of these cases have now undergone autopsy and degeneration of the substantia nigra pars compacta with Lewy bodies in remaining neurons has been described. In other cases dementia has also been noted and in these cases extensive, widespread Lewy body formation, including prominent involvement of the cerebral cortex, has been described. Mutations of the gene encoding parkin (PARK2) are associated with juvenile-onset parkinsonism (i.e., onset less than 30 years of age) and, although autopsies have shown evidence of nigrostriatal degeneration, this has been without the presence of Lewy bodies. Whether such cases should be referred to as examples of familial Parkinson’s disease is a matter of debate in the literature since, as noted above, the diagnosis of sporadic Parkinson’s disease requires the presence of this inclusion body. In other Parkinson’s disease kindreds, linkage has been made to another genetic locus (2p13 or PARK3) where inheritance is seen in an autosomal-dominant pattern. In these cases the onset of disease is approximately 60 years of age, with a tendency for demen-

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8.3. Postencephalitic parkinsonism In 1917–1918, Constantine Von Economo, an Austrian neurologist practicing in Vienna, began to notice patients who developed a form of encephalitis that was associated with extreme somnolence (Von Economo, 1931). The degree of somnolence was so severe that many of the patients affected by the disorder fell asleep in midsentence while talking, or while eating. The patients showed other signs and symptoms, including slowness of movement, psychiatric disturbances and a wide range of other neurologic abnormalities. Noting the prominent tendency to sleepiness, Von Economo referred to it as encephalitis lethargica. Soon after his initial description, numerous other cases began to be reported in additional locations in the world. Ultimately, the distribution of the disease spread until it was encountered in virtually every major city in the world. The disease was acutely fatal in about one-third of cases and at autopsy showed the typical features of viral encephalitis with perivascular inflammatory cell infiltrates accompanied by focal neuronal death with neuronophagia. The primary region affected by the acute encephalitis was the midbrain. Although the cause of the outbreak was never identified, it is presumed that the disease was due to a neurotropic virus. Although the pandemic of encephalitis lethargica temporally overlapped, to some degree, with the great influenza pandemic of 1917 (the ‘Spanish flu’), there is not convincing evidence that this form of highly fatal influenza virus was also responsible for the cases of encephalitis lethargica (Ravenholt and Foege, 1982). Encephalitis lethargica continued in repeated waves until about 1928, and was rarely seen thereafter. In all, it is estimated that approximately 1 million patients developed encephalitis lethargica worldwide. Of the two-thirds of patients who suffered from encephalitis lethargica and survived the acute attack, virtually all subsequently developed a severe chronic parkinsonian syndrome which is referred to as postencephalitic parkinsonism. The time interval between their recovery from the acute encephalitis to the development of parkinsonism varied from a few months to over 20 years. An interval of 1 or 2 years was said to have been

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typical. The clinical features of postencephalitic parkinsonism could include virtually any sign or symptom encountered in cases of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease. It had been claimed that the presence of oculogyric crises represented a distinguishing sign of postencephalitic parkinsonism; however, these may also be seen in some cases of Parkinson’s disease (Yahr, (1968)). The gross appearance of the brain in postencephalitic parkinsonism is indistinguishable from that of Parkinson’s disease, with apparent pallor of the substantia nigra and locus ceruleus. Microscopically, there is severe neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta and locus ceruleus. In the few surviving pigmented neurons one sees neurofibrillary tangles rather than Lewy bodies (Hallervorden, 1935; Greenfield and Bosanquet, 1953). Since these neurons are large and rounded, as opposed to the pyramidal shape of cerebral cortical neurons, these neurofibrillary tangles take on a swirling rounded configuration and are referred to as globoid tangles. As noted above, it is usually stated that Lewy bodies are not seen in postencephalitic parkinsonism cases, but this represents an oversimplification. Some cases of non-postencephalitic idiopathic Parkinson’s disease, especially when seen in the advanced elderly, may show some globoid tangles in nigral neurons (along with Lewy bodies). Similarly, there are well-documented cases of postencephalitic parkinsonism where both neurofibrillary tangles and Lewy bodies were noted in the pigmented neurons (Greenfield and Bosanquet, 1953). Nevertheless, the predominance of the neuronal inclusion pathology represents a reliable means by which these two entities may be distinguished. For patients with postencephalitic parkinsonism who have survived for many years there is a tendency to demonstrate extensive neurofibrillary tangle formation in the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and the neocortex, in general. The involvement by tangles in the neocortex tends to involve the superficial cortical layers, as opposed to the deeper-layer involvement that is seen in Alzheimer’s disease (Hof et al., 1992). With the passage of time, clinical examples of cases of postencephalitic parkinsonism have become quite rare and, similarly, postmortem diagnoses are now exceedingly uncommon. Nevertheless, occasional rare cases are still encountered and the possibility remains of another pandemic in the future.

had been considered to be separate neurologic conditions and this was an attempt to combine what had been a rather diverse nosology. The conditions included olivopontocerebellar atrophy, Shy–Drager syndrome and striatonigral degeneration. Although used by some, this attempt at a more encompassing nosology was, at the time, on somewhat shaky ground until the finding of Papp and Lantos that all of these disorders were linked by the presence of glial cytoplasmic inclusions (Papp et al., 1989). Based on this neuropathologic finding, the all-encompassing term ‘multiple system atrophy’ received biologic confirmation and is now rather widely accepted. Cases of MSA display various combinations of parkinsonism, cerebellar and pyramidal signs and/or autonomic failure. Clinically, patients with MSA are subclassified as having either predominantly parkinsonian features (referred to as MSA-P) or predominantly cerebellar dysfunction (referred to as MSA-C). The overwhelming majority of MSA patients show some features of parkinsonism and many will also display evidence of autonomic failure in the form of orthostatic hypotension, impotence and urinary problems. The gross appearance of the brain in cases of MSA will depend on the clinical predominance, with cases displaying predominantly parkinsonian features (that is, MSA-P) having shrinkage and gray-brown discoloration of the putamen (Fig. 8.7). Loss of pigmentation of the substantia nigra pars compacta and locus ceruleus is also generally noted. However, in cases with a clinical predominance of cerebellar dysfunction (MSA-C), there will be evident atrophy of the cerebellar cortex as well as a variable degree of atrophy of the cerebellar peduncles, the pons and inferior olives. Upon microscopic examination, there will be a variable degree of neuronal loss with accompanying gliosis in the areas of atrophy noted above. In the substantia

8.4. Multiple system atrophy ‘Multiple system atrophy’ (MSA) was a term that was introduced by Graham and Oppenheimer (1969) to refer collectively to several diverse hereditary and sporadic system degenerations involving aspects of the basal ganglia and other neuroanatomic sites. Previously, these

Fig. 8.7. Gross appearance of the cut surface of the basal ganglia in a case of multiple system atrophy showing graybrown discoloration of the putamen.

THE NEUROPATHOLOGY OF PARKINSONISM nigra pars compacta and locus ceruleus a variable degree of loss of pigmented neurons is noted and the extent of neuronal loss will correlate, more or less, with the prominence of the parkinsonian features. In cases of MSA-P there will also be neuronal loss and accompanying gliosis in the putamen, caudate and globus pallidus. MSA-C cases show loss of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum as well as the neurons of the inferior olives. Those cases with features of autonomic failure will demonstrate neuronal loss in the intermediate column of the thoracic portion of the spinal cord. Importantly, in all forms of MSA one will find a widespread distribution of glial cytoplasmic inclusions, otherwise known as Papp–Lantos inclusions. These small, argyrophilic inclusion bodies are encountered adjacent to the nuclei of oligodendroglial cells (Papp et al., 1989). They may be seen using a variety of silver impregnation stains but are commonly shown well with the Gallyas stain (Fig. 8.8). They are also well demonstrated with immunohistochemical preparations using antibodies against a-synuclein. They appear as sickle or triangularshaped bodies. They are typically found in the supplementary and primary motor cortex and its subcortical white matter and in the globus pallidus, putamen, cerebellar peduncles and basis pontis.

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This disorder is characterized by bradykinesia, muscular rigidity, axial dystonia and a supranuclear gaze palsy. In later life, dementia may commonly occur. Although early in the condition levodopa therapy may produce some improvement, its effects are short-lived and the condition subsequently progresses relentlessly.

The external appearance of the cerebral cortex of patients with progressive supranucelar palsy is either normal or shows a modest degree of frontal atrophy. Upon dissection of the brain the major abnormality seen is of the midbrain, where the aqueduct of Sylvius is dilated, as is the caudal aspect of the third ventricle. Although one generally appreciates a loss of pigmentation of the substantia nigra, the locus ceruleus is typically described as retaining a normal pigmentation. The superior cerebellar peduncles tend to be shrunken and gray in color, reflecting loss of myelin related to degeneration of neurons in the dentate nucleus. Microscopically, a number of regions show evidence of neuronal loss with accompanying gliosis. These include the globus pallidus, thalamus, subthalamic nucleus, periaqueductal gray matter and substantia nigra pars compacta. Additional areas may be affected, including the vestibular nuclei of the medulla and the dentate nucleus of the cerebellum. Silver impregnation stains, such as the modified Bielschowsky stain, show widespread neurofibrillary tangle formation in remaining neurons of those regions undergoing degeneration. These neurofibrillary tangles are different from those of Alzheimer’s disease in that they stain poorly with antiubiquitin antibodies and have ultrastructural differences. Within glial cells, astrocytes and, in particular, oligodendroglial cells of the cerebral white matter and the basal ganglia, one sees argyrophilic comma-shaped inclusion bodies using silver impregnation stains (Fig. 8.9). Such inclusion bodies, also referred to as coiled bodies, are immunoreactive using anti-tau antibodies. Because these inclusions do not stain with antibodies raised against a-synuclein, they may be differentiated from the Papp–Lantos bodies of multiple system atrophy.

Fig. 8.8. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of subcortical white matter showing numerous Papp– Lantos glial cytoplasmic inclusions in the case of multiple system atrophy. Gallyas stain.

Fig. 8.9. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of subthalamic nucleus, progressive supranuclear palsy, showing coiled bodies. Modified Bielschowsky stain.

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8.6. Carbon monoxide, manganese, methanol and other neurotoxin-induced forms of parkinsonism There are a number of regionally selective neurotoxins which are capable of inducing clinical parkinsonism. These are not to be confused with Parkinson’s disease and, with the exception of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) toxicity, do not lead to damage to the substantia nigra pars compacta with subsequent nigrostriatal denervation. Their mode of action relates to causing selective damage to other components of the basal ganglia, including the striatum and, in particular, the globus pallidus. This results in destruction of the downstream targets of the nigrostriatal pathways and thus leads to a form of parkinsonism that is relatively resistant to levodopa therapy. Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs primarily in situations where the burning of fuel occurs without adequate ventilation and/or incomplete combustion. In situations of acute carbon monoxide poisoning well-circumscribed bilateral softenings develop, most commonly of the inner segment of the globus pallidus. In cases with long-term survival following carbon monoxide poisoning, these areas of damage undergo cystic healing with the development of a parkinsonian syndrome (Lapresle and Fardeau, 1967). In situations with more severe poisoning, laminar necrosis of the cerebral cortex and loss of the Sommer’s sector of the hippocampi may also be seen and this is accompanied by more profound functional deficits. Manganese is an abundant metal in nature that is widely used in industrial processes. Manganese poisoning has been reported following heavy exposure primarily in association with the mining of manganese-containing ore and in smelting operations related to the production of hardened steel. Manganese selectively accumulates in the striatum and globus pallidus, where it can be identified in vivo as a hyperdense T1weighted image using magnetic resonance imaging. Clinically, manganese-induced parkinsonism is characterized by gait dysfunction with a propensity to fall backwards, bradykinesia, masked facies and dystonic features. At autopsy, the substantia nigra pars compacta remains intact whereas there is evidence of severe neuronal damage to the globus pallidus, especially its internal segment (Yamada et al., 1986). Some damage to the striatum is also reported. Methanol poisoning produces a variety of neurotoxic lesions to the putamen as well as a loss of retinal ganglion cells and damage to the cerebellar cortex (Halliday et al., 2002). In this context it is the selective bilateral hemorrhagic necrosis of the putamen that leads to

dystonia and parkinsonian features. Again, the neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta remain intact. MPTP represented a contaminant in the synthesis of synthetic heroin analogs that was inadvertently included in intravenous injections taken by a group of drug abusers. This led to the acute development of a parkinsonian syndrome. Autopsies of individuals who died after MPTP exposure showed evidence of severe neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta in the absence of Lewy body or neurofibrillary tangle formation in the remaining neurons (Forno et al., 1988). Other regions of the basal ganglia appear to remain intact in exposed individuals.

8.7. Parkinsonism–dementia complex of Guam Following the end of World War II, it was recognized that among the native Chamorro population living on the island of Guam in the western Pacific, there was a remarkable concentration of patients suffering from a form of neurodegeneration with features of all three age-related neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (Perl, 2001). The disease is referred to as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism–dementia complex (ALS/PDC) of Guam. Although it was originally described as two separate and distinct disorders, namely ALS and PDC of Guam, it remains unclear if this is indeed the case or if the condition represents a wide spectrum of a single disease entity with a broad range of clinical and pathologic manifestations. The cases of ALS seen on Guam are virtually indistinguishable clinically from the disorder as it is seen elsewhere in the world. Neuropathologically it is also virtually identical to ALS cases encountered in other populations except for the appearance of widespread and severe neurofibrillary tangle formation in the Guam cases, a feature that is not observed in ALS cases elsewhere (Malamud et al., 1961; Hirano and Zimmerman, 1962). The cases with PDC show evidence of bradykinesia, muscular rigidity and, to a lesser extent, resting tremor. This is accompanied by a progressive dementia typically presenting with short-term memory impairment, disorientation and inability to perform simple calculations. Neuropathologically, these cases show prominent cerebral atrophy accompanied by almost total loss of visible pigmentation of the substantia nigra and locus ceruleus. Microscopically, within the substantia nigra pars compacta and locus ceruleus the few remaining pigmented neurons contain globoid neurofibrillary tangles and not Lewy bodies (Fig. 8.10). In addition, there is extensive widespread neurofibrillary

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involvement by neurofibrillary tangles, there is little in the way of b-amyloid deposition in the Guam cases.

8.8. Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17

Fig. 8.10. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of neuron in substantia nigra pars compacta showing globoid neurofibrillary tangle, parkinsonism–dementia complex of Guam. Modified Bielschowsky stain.

tangle formation involving entorhinal cortex, hippocampus, neocortex, periaqueductal gray matter and dentate nucleus of the cerebellum. In some cases, the extent of involvement can be quite remarkable with, for example, virtually all pyramidal neurons of CA1 region of the hippocampus being involved (Fig. 8.11). The pattern of neurofibrillary tangle formation in the neocortex shows a predominance of involvement in the superficial layers (primarily layers II and III) as opposed to deeper layers (layers V and VI) (Hof et al., 1991). This pattern is distinctly different from what is seen in cases of Alzheimer’s disease where involvement favors the deeper layers. Finally, despite extensive

Fig. 8.11. For full color figure, see plate section. Photomicrograph of hippocampus, CA1 region of a case of parkinsonism–dementia complex of Guam showing virtually complete involvement by neurofibrillary tangles. Modified Bielschowsky stain.

Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 is a relatively recently characterized condition. It typically presents as early-onset (age 30–60 years) parkinsonism in a familial setting with an associated dementia. The parkinsonian features include bradykinesia, postural instability and rigidity. Patients with this condition are not prone to a resting tremor and they respond poorly to levodopa therapy. The associated dementia shows typical frontotemporal features, including non-fluent aphasia with so-called semantic dementia (episodic memory is preserved but semantic memory is severely impaired). Disinhibition and poor judgment may also be seen. In individual patients the dementing features may predominate while in others the parkinsonism represents the prominent clinical phenotype. As its name implies, frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 is a genetic disorder and is related to mutations of the tau gene (Goedert, 2005; Goedert and Jakes, 2005). A large number of different tau mutations have been reported in various families with this disorder. Interestingly, among affected members of families carrying forms of the disorder, the clinical manifestations may be either rather stereotyped or highly variable, despite the presence of a single specific tau mutation (Galariotis et al., 2005). The brains of affected patients show prominent frontotemporal atrophy with selective sparing of the parietal and occipital cortex. The atrophic regions show severe cerebral cortical thinning with symmetrically widened lateral ventricles and a variable degree of atrophy of the striatum and globus pallidus. Prominent atrophy of the amygdala and hippocampus may also be noted. Finally, there is loss of pigmentation of the substantia nigra and locus ceruleus that is visibly apparent. Histologically, the areas of atrophic cortex show neuronal loss and spongiosis of the neuropil with gliosis. Remaining neurons in these regions show prominent tau-positive inclusions which have the appearance of neurofibrillary tangles. Some cases have also shown the development of Pick bodies whereas others have shown tau-positive inclusions in astrocytes and oligodendroglial cells. Lewy bodies are not encountered in these cases.

8.9. General comments In past years, many of the diseases discussed in this chapter were identified and diagnosed by neuropathologists

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based on the presence and distribution of specific inclusion bodies, which were thought to define the diseases. The primary example of this is the Lewy body. Although the presence of Lewy bodies is required to make a diagnosis of sporadic Parkinson’s disease, Lewy bodies are encountered in association with a number of other conditions. As discussed above, there are other rare forms of genetically based Parkinson’s disease which may or may not demonstrate Lewy body formation. Whether such non-Lewy body forms of familial parkinsonism should still be called Parkinson’s disease or a separate disorder is a matter for debate (Calne and Mizuno, 2004; Forman et al., 2005). Such arguments boil down to the classic philosophic ‘splitter’ versus ‘lumper’ dichotomy and the relative importance one attaches to the presence of this marker of neuronal degeneration. More recently, attention has been focused on the protein constituents of such intracellular aggregates with the introduction of concepts that these individual disorders are examples of ‘synucleinopathies’ or ‘tauopathies’, depending on the primary protein that is found to have accumulated. Others have noted the conjugation of ubiquitin on virtually all such protein aggregates and have argued that dysfunction of the ubiquitin-proteosome machinery may underlie a basic inability to clear specific damaged proteins, leading to their accumulation. At the present time, it remains unclear which, if any, of these mechanisms represents the primary defect, increasing aggregation of damaged constituent proteins or their failure to be cleared by the ubiquitin-proteosome system. Nevertheless, this has opened the field to a long list of studies involving animal models and in vitro testing of these hypotheses. Some have argued that the accumulated proteins are toxic to neuronal function while others have claimed that they are secondary to neuronal damage itself. Finally, others have suggested that the protein inclusions actually represent a protective mechanism. It is anticipated that within a relatively short period of time a better understanding of these concepts will emerge. With this, it is anticipated that our approaches to diagnosis will be further and more rationally defined, based on a more functional pathogenetic basis. It is at that point that we will have truly fulfilled James Parkinson’s promise, made almost 185 years ago, to provide ‘that light which anatomical examination yields’.

Acknowledgments The author acknowledges research support from the National Institutes of Health (P01 AG-14382, P50 AG05138, P01 AG02219 and R01 NS045999).

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Genetic aspects of Parkinson’s disease YOSHIKUNI MIZUNO*, NOBUTAKA HATTORI AND HIDEKI MOCHIZUKI Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

9.1. Genetics of familial forms of Parkinson’s disease To date, 13 forms of familial Parkinson’s disease (PD) have been mapped to certain loci on chromosomes and they are designated as PARK1, PARK2, and so on (Table 9.1). PARK1, PARK4, PARK5, PARK8 and PARK11 are autosomal-dominant forms and PARK2, PARK6, PARK7 and PARK9 are autosomal-recessive forms. The causative genes have been identified in seven forms (a-synuclein, parkin, ubiquitin carboxyterminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), DJ-1, PINK1, leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), and ATP131A as the order of discovery). These discoveries contributed greatly to the understanding of molecular mechanism of nigral neuronal death in sporadic PD. Recent progress in familial forms of PD will be reviewed below. 9.1.1. Autosomal-dominant familial Parkinson’s disease due to a-synuclein mutations (PARK1) 9.1.1.1. Clinical features of PARK1 PARK1 is an autosomal-dominant familial PD caused by mutations of the a-synuclein gene. Clinical features were first described by Golbe et al. (1990), who reported two large, probably related, kindreds with autopsy-confirmed PD. The mode of inheritance was autosomal dominant. The researchers found 41 affected individuals in two kindreds. Both kindreds immigrated to the New Jersey/New York area between 1890 and 1920 from Contursi, a village in the hills of Salerno province in southern Italy (Golbe et al., 1990). Both kindreds had their common origin in a single small town in southern Italy, suggesting the common origin

of the two kindreds, and in fact this common origin was later confirmed. The average age of onset was 46.5 10.8 years (range 28–68, n ¼ 33). Death occurred at the age of 53.5 9.2 years (range 42–74, n ¼ 31). Tremor was not a predominant feature: 2 out of 41 affected patients examined had prominent tremor and only 8 had tremor at all. Otherwise, clinical features were typical of idiopathic PD. Dementia was said to be unusual, mild or late. Those patients treated with levodopa showed improvement in their parkinsonism and some of them developed motor fluctuations. Thus the age of onset in these kindreds was younger than that of sporadic PD and the disease duration was shorter. The causes of death were usually complications from PD. Golbe et al. reported 2 autopsied patients who showed severe neuronal loss in the substantia nigra with Lewy bodies in remaining neurons and in cell ghosts. Gliosis was marked. The locus ceruleus and dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus also showed mild to moderate cell loss with Lewy bodies. The substantia innominata revealed mild cell loss, moderate gliosis and numerous Lewy bodies. In 1996, Golbe et al. reported follow-up of this family. They were able to detect a total of 60 patients with average age of onset at 45.6 13.5 years (range 20–85 years). A mean course to death was 9.2 4.9 years (range 2–20 years). A segregation ratio was 40.1% for kindred members aged 50 years and older. The authors found a highly variable degree of dementia in many of the affected members. Markopoulou et al. (1995) reported a Greek-American kindred with clinically typical PD in 16 individuals in three generations. Clinical features were similar to those of the Contursi family with mean onset age in the 40s and mean survival time of 9 years. Golbe et al. (1996)

*Correspondence to: Yoshikuni Mizuno, MD, Department of Neurology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ3-3813-3111, Ext. 3807; Fax: þ3-5800-0547.

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Table 9.1 Loci of familial forms of Parkinson’s disease Name

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raised a possibility that the Contursi kindred and the Greek-American family shared a common ancestor. Dementia is not uncommon in PARK1. The autosomal-dominant family of the Basque country, Spain, reported by Zarranz et al. (2004) with Glu46Lys mutation of the a-synuclein gene showed parkinsonism and dementia. The age of onset was 50–65 years and the age at death 64–75 years; patients died before levodopa was available. Affected patients had dementia in addition to parkinsonism. Lewy bodies were found not only in brainstem nuclei but also in many cortical areas. Additional features included central hypoventilation, orthostatic hypotension, prominent myoclonus and urinary incontinence, which were described in 5 out of 9 siblings in an Australian family of Greek origin with Ala53Thr mutation of the a-synuclein gene reported by Spira et al. (2001). Autosomal-dominant PD due to triplication of the a-synuclein gene (Singleton et al., 2003) is also associated with parkinsonism and dementia (PARK4). Spellman (1962) reported an autosomal-dominant family with PD in the USA. Muenter et al. (1998) made extensive clinical studies on the family reported by Spellman (1962). The autosomal-dominant family reported by Waters and Miller (1994), that reported by Spellman (1962) and that reported by Muenter et al. (1998) were found to have a common ancestor and this group is called the Spellman–Muenter– Waters–Miller family or Iowan family. Clinical features of this large kindred consisted of levodoparesponsive parkinsonism and dementia. In autopsied patients, many cortical Lewy bodies were found and the pathological diagnosis suggested diffuse Lewy body disease. Thus dementia appears to be a frequent

feature of PD due to a-synuclein gene mutations. On the other hand, families with PD due to duplication of the a-synuclein gene reported by Chartier-Harlin et al. (2004) and Ibanez et al. (2004) were not associated with dementia. However, a family reported by Nishioka et al. (2006) showed dementia. 9.1.1.2. Genetics of PARK1 Polymeropoulos et al. (1996) did a genome scan using 140 genetic markers on the Contursi kindred. Genetic markers at the cytogenetic location 4q21–q23 showed linkage to the disease phenotype with a Zmax (maximum logarithm of the likelihood ratio for linkage score, lod score) of 6.00 for marker D4S2380. This chromosome locus was close to the a-synuclein gene locus. The asynuclein gene locus had been mapped to 4q21.3–q22 (Campion et al., 1995; Chen et al., 1995; Shibasaki et al., 1995). Polymeropoulos et al. (1997) analyzed the Contursi family for a mutation in the a-synuclein gene and found an Ala53Thr (G209A) mutation, which was segregated with PD phenotype. They also found the same mutation in three Greek kindreds. The second mutation of the a-synuclein gene was reported by Kru¨ger et al. (1998), who analyzed a family of German origin with autosomal-dominant PD and found Ala30Pro (G88C) substitution; the ages of onset (52–56 years) were slightly older than those of the Contursi kindreds. The third mutation was reported by Zarranz et al. (2004); they found Glu46Lys (G188A) transition in the a-synuclein gene; clinical features were parkinsonism and dementia. Other interesting mutations are triplication (Singleton et al., 2003) and duplication (Chartier-Harlin et al., 2004; Ibanez et al., 2004; Nishioka et al., 2006) of the

GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE a-synuclein gene. Farrer et al. (1999) made a linkage analysis on the Spellman–Muenter–Waters–Miller kindred described before; they reported linkage of this kindred to the short arm of chromosome 4 that was named PARK4. But later on, Singleton et al. (2003) found triplication of the a-synuclein gene in the affected members of this family; the 1.5 Mb region, including introns on both sides of the a-synuclein gene, was triplicated in a tandem fashion. Therefore at the protein level, the amount of a-synuclein is expected to be twofold compared to the normal level. The 1.5 Mb region contains several genes, including the asynuclein gene. Thus PARK4 is caused by different mutations of the a-synuclein gene. Chartier-Harlin et al. (2004) and Ibanez et al. (2004) independently reported familial PD caused by duplication of the asynuclein gene. In these families, dementia was not a clinical feature and the neuropathological change was brainstem-type Lewy body disease. Mutations of the a-synuclein gene reported in the literature are shown in Fig. 9.1. Regarding polymorphisms, in the promoter region there is a complex dinucleotide repeat polymorphism (NACP-repeat 1, where NACP signifies non-amyloid component of the senile plaqueprecursor) (Kru¨ger et al., 1999; Chiba-Falek and Nussbaum, 2001); this repeat composition significantly influences the a-synuclein expression level (Chiba-Falek and Nussbaum, 2001; Holzmann et al., 2003). This dinucleotide repeat polymorphism was reported to be associated with an increased risk for sporadic PD (Kru¨ger et al., 1999; Farrer et al., 2001b; Holzmann et al., 2003; Tan et al., 2003; Pals et al., 2004).

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More recently, polymorphisms in intron 4 and 30 -flanking region were reported to be highly associated with increased risk for sporadic PD (Mueller et al., 2005; Mizuta et al., 2006). 9.1.1.3. Pathogenesis of PARK1 a-Synuclein is a natively unfolded brain-specific protein without a significant secondary structure, consisting of 140 amino acids (Weinreb et al., 1996). It appears to be related to neurotransmitter regulation; however, its exact function is not known. a-Synuclein has a tendency to self-aggregation and oligomer formation. Soluble oligomers ultimately form insoluble aggregates, which form a major component of Lewy bodies (Spillantini et al., 1997). The insoluble aggregate of a-synuclein is highly phosphorylated (Fujiwara et al., 2002). Mutant forms of a-synuclein (Ala30Pro, Glu46Lys, Ala53Thr) have an increased tendency for self-aggregation, and this may be reflected as an earlier age of onset compared to that of sporadic PD. Substitution of Ala53Thr is predicted to disrupt the a-helix and to extend the b-sheet structure; b-pleated sheets are involved in the self-aggregation of proteins leading to amyloid-like structures (Polymeropoulos et al., 1997). Substitution of Glu46Lys significantly increases the ability of a-synuclein to bind to negatively charged liposomes and increases the rate of filament assembly for aggregation to the same extent as the Ala53Thr mutation (Choi et al., 2004; Greenbaum et al., 2005). Thus a-synuclein oligomers and insoluble fibril formation appear to be the most important pathogenetic mechanism of nigral neuronal death in PARK1. El Agnaf et al. (1998) showed apoptotic death of neuroblastoma

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cells by self-aggregation and amyloid-like filament formation when mutated or wild-type a-synuclein proteins were also overexpressed or The lag time for the formation of precipitable aggregates was about 280 h for the wild-type protein, 180 h for the Ala30Pro mutant and only 100 h for the Ala53Thr mutant protein. Apoptotic cell death by a-synuclein overexpression is also supported by rat primary culture of dopaminergic cells (Zhou et al., 2000). a-Synuclein oligomers (protofibrils) increase the permeability of synaptic vesicles; Volles and Lansbury (2002) studied the effects of protofibrillar a-synuclein on vesicular permeability. They found that protofibrillar Ala30Pro, Ala53Thr and mouse variants had greater permeabilizing activities per mole than the wild-type protein. The leakage of vesicular contents induced by protofibrillar a-synuclein exhibited a strong preference for low-molecular-mass molecules such as dopamine, suggesting a pore-like mechanism for permeabilization. Enhanced release of dopamine from synaptic vesicles would induce oxidative damage in the nigral neurons. Substitution of Ala30Pro disrupts lipid binding of a-synuclein. a-Synuclein has seven unique 11-mer repeat sequences (Fig. 9.1), of which six amino acids, Lys-Thr-Lys-Glu-Gly-Val, are conserved (Maroteaux et al., 1988). These repeat sequences are important for a-helix formation and reversible lipid-binding function (Bussell and Eliezer, 2003). Transport of asynuclein is at least in part mediated by fast axonal flow by binding to transport vesicles. This vesicular binding takes place at the amino-terminal region, which includs the first three repeat sequences. The Ala30Pro mutation is located between the second and the third repeat (Fig. 9.1) and the presence of this mutation impairs vesicular binding of a-synuclein (Jensen et al., 1998). Thus a-synuclein proteins which cannot bind to transport vesicles are expected to undergo fibril formation and aggregation in the cytoplasm. a-Synuclein oligomers inhibit 26S proteasome activity by interacting with the 19S regulatory unit (Snyder et al., 2003) and inhibition of the proteasome enhances a-synuclein aggregates and dopaminergic neuronal death (Rideout et al., 2001). Thus a vicious cycle will be established within nigral neurons. There are differences in the metabolism of wild- and mutated-type a-synuclein. Bennett et al. (1999) reported that catabolism of mutated a-synuclein (Ala53Thr) by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway was 50% slower than that of the wild type in SH-SY5Y cells. Mutant a-synuclein proteins, when expressed in differentiated PC12 cells, decrease the activity of proteasome and increase sensitivity to mitochondria-

dependent apoptosis (Tanaka et al., 2001). Furthermore, A53T-mutated a-synuclein was reported to disrupt the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) and catecholaminergic synaptic vesicles (Stefanis et al., 2001). Impairment of the UPS is one of the most important molecular mechanisms for neurodegeneration. More recently, Cuervo et al. (2004) reported that wild-type a-synuclein was selectively translocated into lysosomes for degradation by the chaperone-mediated autophagy pathway. The pathogenic Ala53Thr and Ala30Pro asynuclein mutants bound to the receptor for this pathway on the lysosomal membrane, but appeared to act as uptake blockers, inhibiting both their own degradation and that of other substrates. These findings may underlie the toxic gain-of-function by the mutants. Familial PD caused by triplication of the a-synuclein gene (Singleton et al., 2003) indicates that overexpression of normal a-synuclein itself is sufficient to cause extensive neuronal degeneration not only in the substantia nigra but also in the cortical regions with diffuse Lewy body formation. Interestingly, before the discovery of this mutation, Gwinn-Hardy et al. (2000) had reported the presence of unusually highmolecular-weight a-synuclein in autopsied brains in a patient belonging to this family in which triplication of a-synuclein was discovered. Neurotoxic effects of overexpression of wild-type a-synuclein have been shown in many experimental conditions (Hashimoto et al., 1998; Giasson et al., 1999; Kirik et al., 2002; Yamada et al., 2004). Yamada et al. (2004) used the recombinant adeno-associated viral vector system for human a-synuclein gene transfer to rat substantia nigra and observed approximately 50% loss of dopaminergic neurons at 13 weeks after transfection; this was associated with phosphorylation of a-synuclein at Ser129 and activation of caspase-9 – findings common to human PD. Thus, by reviewing the literature, it is likely that PD-causing mutations of human a-synuclein more easily cause a-synuclein oligomer formation, cytotoxic b-sheet formation and insoluble aggregate formation compared to wild-type a-synuclein. In addition, an a-synuclein pore-like structure is more easily formed by mutant a-synucleins and such a pore-like structure damages synaptic vesicles, inducing the release of dopamine and subsequently causing oxidative damage. Such differences in the properties of mutated a-synuclein appear to account for the earlier onset of familial PD and more extensive neuronal damage. The molecular mechanism of nigral neuronal death in PARK1 is summarized in Fig. 9.2. As the molecular mechanism of a-synuclein toxicity against nigral neurons is being elucidated, many experimental trials to reverse nigral neurotoxicity by

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Fig. 9.2. Molecular mechanism of nigral neuronal death in PARK2. Mutated a-synuclein proteins have increased tendency for oligomer and aggregate formation. The oligomers impair mitochondrial and proteasome functions. As 26S proteasome is adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent and impairment of 26S proteasome enhances aggregation of a-synuclein, a vicious circle develops. Oligomers of a-synuclein induce release of dopamine, creating oxidative stress. Oxidative stress enhances a-synuclein oligomer formation. Thus another vicious circle develops. These reactions are repeated and eventually lead to nigral neurodegeneration. DA: dopamine.

overexpression of a-synuclein have been reported. Lo Bianco et al. (2004) reported that co-transfection of the parkin gene reduced a-synuclein-induced nigral neuronal death. We also confirmed that parkin was able to prevent neuronal death caused by a-synuclein overexpression (Yamada et al., 2005). Hsp70 (Auluck et al., 2005) and its enhancer, geldanamycin (McLean et al., 2004), were also reported to be neuroprotective against a-synuclein-induced nigral neuronal loss in a Drosophila model of PD. Hsp70 is a multipurpose stress response chaperone protein that mediates both refolding and degradation of misfolded proteins; it is able to block both a-synuclein toxicity and aggregation (Klucken et al., 2004). Rifampicin was also reported to inhibit a-synuclein fibrillation and to enhance disaggregation of exiting fibrils in vitro (Li et al., 2004). bSynuclein by lentivirus transfer was also effective in reducing nigral neuronal death in human-a-synuclein transgenic mice (Hashimoto et al., 2004). 9.1.2. Autosomal-recessive familial Parkinson’s disease due to parkin mutation (PARK2) 9.1.2.1. Clinical features of PARK2 PARK2 was first described as a distinct clinical entity by Yamamura et al. in 1973, who reported 16 patients (13 familial in five unrelated families and 3 sporadic cases); clinical features of 11 patients from the initial four families were essentially identical. Ages of onset were between 17 and 28 years in 10 out of 11 patients and 42 in the remaining one. Female preponderance

was noted (M:F ¼ 1:10); all the patients showed tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability. Sleep benefit, i.e., temporary improvement in parkinsonism after a nap or sleep, and dystonic postures in the feet during walking (talipes equinovarus) were characteristic features of their patients. Dementia was absent. Consanguineous marriage was seen in two families; none of the affected parents had parkinsonism, indicating an autosomal-recessive mode of inheritance. Later, Ishikawa and Tsuji (1996) and Yamamura et al. (1998) summarized clinical features (Table 9.2). Clinical features were thought to be initially uniform, i.e. onset usually before 40 years of age, gait disturbance more often than tremor as an initial symptom, manifesting four cardinal symptoms of PD, good response to levodopa and high incidence of levodopa-induced dyskinesia and motor fluctuations. Consanguineous marriage of the parents is not always documented. According to Matsumine et al. (1998a), consanguineous marriages were found in 9 out of 17 families linked to PARK2 locus, and Yamamura et al. (1998) reported consanguineous marriage in 16 out of 22 families. Periquet et al. (2001) reported a very low incidence of consanguinity, which was found in only four out of 36 families; all the families with consanguineous marriages had homozygous mutations and 28 out of 32 families without consanguineous marriages had compound heterozygous mutations of the parkin gene. Khan et al. (2003) also reported very low consanguinity, which was found in only one out of 16 families; among them, only 1

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Table 9.2 Clinical features of PARK2

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patient (no consanguinity) had homozygous mutation of the parkin gene, whereas all of the remaining patients had compound heterozygous mutations. The age of onset is usually before 50; however, since analysis of the parkin gene became possible, patients with later onset have been found. The highest age of onset with two mutations in parkin reported in the literature was 72 years (Lincolon et al., 2003); this patient, living in the USA, carried compound heterozygous mutations consisting of exon 4 deletion and a missense mutation in exon 7, Arg275Try, which is a relatively common mutation in the USA. The initial symptom is more often gait disturbance rather than rest tremor – 60% versus 30% (Yamamura et al., 1998). Usually gait disturbance starts on one side; therefore, patients drag one foot when they walk. Dystonia in the upper limb is rare, but can be seen. In addition, when the age of onset is young, pes equinovarus posture may develop while walking (Yamamura et al., 1998). Dystonia may be a presenting symptom when the age of onset is before 20 (Tassin et al., 2000; Khan et al., 2003); dystonia may be generalized or focal, such as writer’s cramp and/or blepharospasm. Cognitive impairment and autonomic symptoms are rare, but can be seen in some patients (Yamamura et al., 1973). Atypical features include brisk tendon reflexes (Yamamura et al., 1973, 1998; Ishikawa and Tsuji, 1996; Tassin et al., 1998), axonal and/or peripheral neuropathy (Tassin et al., 1998; Khan et al., 2003; Okuma et al., 2003), painful dystonia (Tassin et al.,

1998), dementia (Benbunan et al., 2004), psychosis and behavioral disorder (Khan et al., 2003). Plantar response is usually flexor. Regarding autonomic dysfunction, constipation is common but other disturbances are rare. Yamamura et al. (1998) reported hyperhidrosis in 10 out of their 43 patients. Other autonomic features include urinary urgency, impotence and orthostatic hypotension (Khan et al., 2003). An unusual clinical feature reported by Pramistaller et al. (2002) was hemiparkinsonism hemiatrophy in a 37-year-old woman carrying compound heterozygous missense mutation of Arg275Trp in exon 7 and duplication of exon 7. She showed left-sided hemiatrophy and hemiparkinsonism, which responded to levodopa. The age of onset was 29. Three Japanese patients from two families with exon 3–4 deletions showed cerebellar and pyramidal dysfunction in addition to parkinsonism (Kuroda et al., 2001). Since the mapping of PARK2 to the long arm of chromosome 6 at 6q25–27.2 (Matsumine et al., 1997) and subsequent molecular cloning of the causative gene as parkin (Kitada et al., 1998), the clinical diversity of PARK2 has been widely recognized. Response to levodopa is excellent; however, many patients develop drug-induced motor fluctuations and dyskinesia, particularly when the age of onset is young (Ishikawa and Tsuji, 1996; Yamamura et al., 1998). Progression is slow and if these patients are treated with levodopa, most can live an independent life for 30–40 years from the onset (Yamamura et al., 1998). Generally, early-onset PD patients with parkin

GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE mutations tend to have slower progression of the disease than age-matched early-onset PD patients without a parkin mutation (Rawal et al., 2003). Regarding the pathology of PARK2, Takahashi et al. (1994) reported a 67-year-old woman from a consanguineous family with early-onset familial parkinsonism. The patient had an onset of gait disturbance at age 10. She died of pontine infarct at age 67. Autopsy findings revealed severe depigmentation of the substantia nigra and the locus ceruleus. The medial part of the intermediate group and the ventrolateral group of the substantia nigra showed loss of pigmented neurons and gliosis, but the remaining parts of the nigra appeared intact. Lewy bodies could not be seen. The researchers noted that the apparently normal looking neurons were somewhat smaller and contained less neuromelanin. Locus ceruleus showed similar but less pronounced changes. The patient reported by Yamamura et al. (1998) died at age 52, 33 years after onset. This patient showed marked depigmentation of the substantia nigra, neuronal loss and gliosis without Lewy body formation. Locus ceruleus showed much milder neuronal loss. Other structures were uninvolved. The patient we examined had deletion of exon 4 parkin (Mori et al., 1998). This patient noted hand tremor at age 27 and died at age 62. The substantia nigra showed marked depigmentation. Interestingly, tau-positive tangles were seen in nigral neurons. Another patient with homozygous exon 4 deletion reported by Hayashi et al. (2000) showed fibrillary gliosis and mild depletion in non-pigmented neurons in the pars reticulata of the substantia nigra in addition to marked loss of pigmented neurons in the pars compacta of substantia nigra. Again, no Lewy bodies were found. The patient reported by Gouider-Khouja et al. (2003), who had homozygous 101–102AG deletion in exon 2, also did not show Lewy bodies. In contrast to the above findings, patients reported by Farrer et al. (2001a) are very interesting. This group reported two apparently autosomal-dominant families with parkin mutations. In family Ph, a 93-year-old woman who was a carrier of a 40 basepair deletion in exon 3 was neurologically normal. Her autopsy findings were also unremarkable, indicating that a carrier state of a parkin mutation does not necessarily cause PD. In family Pw, a 52-year-old man who had parkinsonism since the age of 41 and carried compound heterozygous mutations of parkin consisting of a 40 basepair deletion of exon 3 and a missense mutation in exon 7 (Arg275Try) came to autopsy. Neuropathologic examination revealed clear-cut loss of pigmented neurons and Lewy bodies as well as pale bodies in the substantia nigra and locus ceruleus. Neuropathological findings were essentially similar to those of sporadic

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PD. In this patient, truncated parkin protein originating from 40 basepair deletion in exon 3 was expressed in lymphoblastoid cells. Mutated parkin protein from missense mutation in exon 7 was also likely to be expressed in the brain. Therefore, the presence of parkin protein, even if mutated, may lead to Lewy body formation. Our patient with exon 4 deletion did not form Lewy bodies and parkin protein was totally absent from the brain (Shimura et al., 1999). The patient reported by Sasaki et al. (2004) with homozygous exon 3 deletion showed basophilic inclusion bodies, which were a-synuclein-positive, in the neuropils of the pedunculopontine nucleus; however, Lewy bodies were not detected. An additional interesting neuropathological observation with parkin mutation is the patient reported by van de Warrenburg et al. (2001). This patient was 18 years old when he first noted the onset of tremor in both legs. Later, full-blown parkinsonism appeared with gait disturbance and start hesitation. The patient died at age 75. Intelligence was normal at an examination at age 70. This patient carried compound heterozygous mutations of parkin consisting of exon 3 deletion and a missense mutation of Lys211Asn. The substantia nigra and locus ceruleus showed marked neuronal loss and gliosis without Lewy body formation. What is interesting is gliosis and demyelination found in the gracile fascicles. Clark’s nucleus in the spinal cord showed moderate neuronal loss. No tau accumulation was found in neurons; however, tau-positive thorn-shaped astrocytes were found in the caudate, putamen, subthalamic nucleus and nigra. Another interesting patient was reported by Morales et al. (2002). This patient was 82 years old when he died. He carried a single heterozygous missense mutation of the parkin protein consisting of Cys212Tyr. Clinical features were consistent with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and postmortem examination also showed typical changes of PSP with tau accumulation. This may be just a coincidental finding of PSP associated with heterozygous parkin mutation. However, it is interesting to note that in some parkin patients, tau accumulation was found in the brain (Mori et al., 1998; van de Warrenburg et al., 2001). The pattern of 18F-dopa positron emission tomography (PET) scan in PARK2 is different from that of sporadic PD. In sporadic PD, a predominant decrease of 18F-dopa uptake is seen in the putamen, and caudatal uptake is relatively preserved. But in PARK2, not only the putamen but also the caudate shows a marked decrease in uptake (Portman et al., 2001; Scherfler et al., 2004). In addition, Scherfler et al. (2004) reported a widespread decrease in 11C-racropride binding potential, a marker for dopamine receptor, in striatal, thalamic and cortical areas. They suggested that this decrease might be a direct consequence of the

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parkin genetic defect and that cortical reduction might contribute to the behavioral problems sometimes seen in parkin patients. [123I]FP-CIT (FP-CIT, N-[omega]fluoropropyl-2[beta]-carboxymethoxy-3[beta]-(4-[123I] iodophenyl)nortropane) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scanning showed essentially the same findings as 18F-dopa PET in parkin patients (Varrone et al., 2004). 9.1.2.2. Genetics of PARK2 PARK2 is caused by mutations of parkin. We discovered parkin in the following way. While we were studying genetic risk factors of sporadic PD, we found an autosomal-recessive young-onset familial PD, which was linked to the Mn superoxide dismutase (SOD) locus (Shimoda-Matsubayashi et al., 1996). The Mn SOD locus had been mapped to the long arm of choromosome 6 at 6q25 (Church et al., 1992). Then we did linkage analysis on 13 autosomal-recessive youngonset PD families and mapped the disease gene locus at 6q25.2–q27 (Matsumine et al., 1997). The maximum cumulative pairwise lod score was 7.26 at D6S305 (y ¼ 0.03) and 7.71 at D6S253 (y ¼ 0.02). Jones et al. (1998) confirmed the linkage of early-onset parkinsonism to 6q25.2–q27 in four different ethnic groups and Tassin et al. (1998) reported the presence of early-onset parkinsonism linked to the chromosome 6 locus in seven European and one Algerian families. While we were doing linkage analysis, we found a patient who showed deletion of one of the microsatellite markers, D6S305, which we were using in the linkage analysis (Matsumine et al., 1998a) (Fig. 9.3). We thought this microsatellite marker might be located within the disease gene. Using this microsatellite marker as the starting probe, we screened the Keio bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library, a comprehensive cDNA library of human genomes, and we were eventually able to clone a cDNA consisting of 2960 basepairs, of which 1395 basepairs constituted the protein-coding region (Kitada et al., 1998). The profile of parkin is summarized in Table 9.3. Parkin was the second largest gene after dystrophin; as

Fig. 9.3. An autosomal recessive-juvenile parkinsonism (ARJP) patient who lacked a microsatellite marker used in linkage analysis. The AR-JP patient indicated as a black circle showed absence of a band corresponding to the marker D6S305. Reproduced from Matsumine et al. (1998b).

Table 9.3 Profile of parkin Name

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it was a novel gene, we named it parkin. Gene product was of average size, consisting of 465 amino acids with a deduced molecular weight of 51 652. Parkin protein has a unique structure in that there is 30% homology in the amino acid sequence in the amino-terminal region and there are two Really Interesting New Gene (RING) finger structures near the carboxyl-terminal side. We found a large homozygous deletion expanding from exon 3 to 7 in one family and a homozygous deletion of exon 4 in another family. We studied an additional 12 families and found homozygous deletions of exon 3 in two families, exons 3–4 in three families, exon 4 in three families, exon 5 in two families and one basepair deletion in exon 5 in two families (Hattori et al., 1998b). We also found two families with a point mutation, Thr240Arg in one family and Gln311Stop in another family (Hattori et al. (1998a)). Since then, many kinds of mutations have been found, not only in Japan but also in many other countries; mutations reported include homozygous exonic deletions (Hattori et al., 1998b; Lu¨cking et al., 1998, 2000; Nisipeanu et al., 1999; Maruyama et al., 2000; Hedrich et al., 2001), exonic duplications and triplications (Lu¨cking et al., 2000; Kann et al., 2002; Poorkaj et al., 2004), point mutations (Hattori et al., 1998a; Abbas et al., 1999; Lu¨cking et al., 2000; Maruyama et al., 2000; Hedrich et al., 2001, 2002; Terrini et al., 2001; Wu et al., 2005), small deletions (Hattori et al., 1998b; Abbas et al., 1999; Lu¨cking et al., 2000; Munõz et al., 2000; Alvarez et al., 2001), homozygous and heterozygous insertions (Abbas et al., 1999; Lu¨cking et al., 2000), compound heterozygous mutations of various combinations of deletions and point mutations (Abbas et al., 1999; Lu¨cking et al., 2000; Maruyama et al., 2000; Bonifati et al., 2001; Periquet et al., 2001), single heterozygous mutations (Oliveira et al., 2003a), in which only one of the two parkin alleles had a mutation, and intronic mutations (Illarioshkin et al., 2003; Oliveira et al., 2003a; Bertoli-Avella et al., 2005). Intronic mutations

GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE may cause splice variants. Break points of exonic deletion mutations were not usually identified. They exist somewhere in introns. Clarimon et al. (2005) studied break points of homozygous exon 4 deletions in two families. In one of the families, the deletions involved 1069 basepairs in one allele and 1750 basepairs in another allele. In the second family, the deletion involved 156 203 basepairs, indicating that these mutations were not caused by a single founder mutation. Mutations reported in parkin are summarized in Figs. 9.4 and 9.5. Parkin mutations have now been seen worldwide, including in Japan (Hattori et al., 1998b), China (Wang et al., 2003), Taiwan-China (Lu et al., 2001; Wu et al., 2005), Korea (Jeon et al., 2001), Turkey

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countries; for instance, c.255delA in Spain (Munõz et al., 2002) and 40 basepair deletions in exon 3 and Arg275Trp missense mutations in the USA (Nichols et al., 2002). Hedrich et al. (2004b) made an extensive literature review collecting information on 379 parkin mutation carriers. They found mutational hot spots at exons 3 and 4 (exon rearrangements) and in exons 2 and 7, with most frequent mutations being 255/256delA in exon 2 and 924C>T in exon 7. Although PARK2 is an autosomal-recessive disease, consanguineous marriages are not frequent, as discussed above. Patients without consanguineous parental marriage frequently show compound heterozygous mutations (Periquet et al., 2001; Khan et al., 2003), suggesting that the prevalence of parkin mutation carriers may be more common than thought. But analysis of carrier state is by no means easy, because heterozygous deletion mutations cannot be detected by conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR); quantitative analysis of the gene dosage by real-time PCR, which is a time-consuming process, is necessary. A further interesting finding is that parkin mutations may be seen in apparently autosomal-dominant families (Klein et al., 2000; Lu¨cking et al., 2001; Kobayashi et al., 2003). Klein et al. (2000) reported a large kindred living in South Tyrol in Italy. They found 8 patients with a disease that was clinically indistinguishable from late-onset sporadic PD. Four of the 8 patients had compound heterozygous mutations of parkin (a large deletion involving exons 1–8 in one chromosome and one base deletion in exon 9 in another chromosome). The age of onset in these patients was 64, 49, 48 and 31, respectively. In contrast, 3 patients were heterozygous for a parkin mutation on one allele and apparently normal in other allele. The age of onset in these 3 patients was 60, 76 and 65, respectively. Two other patients did not carry a parkin mutation. Their age of onset was 55 and 75, respectively. The highest known age of onset with two parkin mutations is 64 and the highest known age of onset with one parkin mutation is 76. Apparently, patients with a single parkin mutation had higher age of onset. In these patients, the presence of a single mutation may have been a risk factor for sporadic PD. But confirmation is awaited for the neuropathological observations. All patients presented with tremor as the initial symptom. In contrast, Maruyama et al. (2000) reported on a pseudoautosomaldominant family. Affected patients were seen in three generations and homozygous deletion mutation of exon 4 was found, indicating that both parents were likely to have been carriers of exon 4 deletion. We also reported two apparently autosomal-dominant families with parkin mutations (Figs. 9.6 and 9.7;

Kobayashi et al., 2003). One of our families had multiple consanguineous marriages and carried homozygous exon 3 deletion. The affected members of the second family had homozygous deletion of exon 5. Therefore, apparent inheritance was autosomal dominant but the mode of pathogenesis was autosomal-recessive, in that all the affected members had homozygous deletions and unaffected members were heterozygotes. In the second family, there was no consanguineous marriage; it appeared to be extremely autosomal dominant until we did parkin analysis. As the mutational analysis of parkin progresses, the implication of single mutation has become an interesting topic. Single mutation refers to a carrier state of mutation, in that a mutation can be found in only one of the two alleles of parkin. Usually carriers are apparently normal, but at times they develop parkinsonism. The question is whether some single mutations may be sufficient to cause nigral neurodegeneration with a similar mechanism to double mutations of parkin, or whether single parkin mutations may predispose to late-onset sporadic PD. Foround et al. (2003) compared 41 patients who carried two mutations with 62 patients in whom only one mutation was found; mean age of onset was 41.3 years for the former and 56.3

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years in the latter group. However, the onset of age in patients with single mutations can be as early as in those with double mutations. Therefore, single mutations with parkinsonism may not always be sporadic late-onset PD. West et al. (2002a) analyzed 20 heterozygous patients and suggested the possibility of single mutations causing PD phenotype due to haploinsufficiency (where the mutant allele is negatively dominant, affecting the expression or function of the normal allele). Among the 16 families with parkin mutations reported by Oliveira et al. (2003a), single heterozygous mutations were found in 10 families. In these 10 families, mutations were concentrated in exon 7, in that six out of those 10 families showed a missense mutation in exon 7, one family showed missense mutations in exon 7 and 12 on the same chromosome, and the remaining three families showed 40 basepair deletion in exon 3. The age of onset in these patients, particularly those who had exon 7 mutations, was significantly older – 49.2 13.1 (exon 7 mutations) versus 31.5 11.2 years (non-exon 7 mutations); the highest age of onset among the former group was 71. The authors postulated that exon 7 heterozygous mutations may predispose to late-onset sporadic PD. Exon 7 is a mutational hot spot and the first RING is located here, and is a functionally important part of parkin protein. Therefore, a single mutation may have a neurotoxic effect on nigral neurons. Reduced uptake in the striatum was shown in parkin carriers by 18F-dopa PET study; Khan et al. (2005b) studied 13 parkin carrier subjects from families with known patients with parkin mutations by 18F-dopa PET scanning. Mean parkin

carrier caudate Ki value was 0.0120 0.003 (controls, 0.0153 0.0026, P ¼ 0.0008) and that of putamen 0.0126 0.0029 (controls 0.0169 0 0031, P ¼ 0.0022). Four out of 13 patients showed subtle extrapyramidal symptoms such as poor arm swing, facial masking, rest tremor or combinations of these. These patients were aged 30–69. Khan et al. suggested that parkin heterozygosity might contribute to late-onset PD. With regard to clinicogenetic correlation, no clear relationship has been found between the types of mutations and clinical features, except for the age of onset. Patients with point mutations tended to have later onset of age compared with those with deletion mutations (Abbas et al., 1999). This group divided their patients and patients from the literature into three groups according to the type of mutations: (1) patients with exonic mutations of parkin; (2) those with truncating mutations; and (3) those with missense mutations. The age of onset was 33.9 16.3 (range 7–58), 38.2 8.0 (range 27– 53) and 42.5 8.5 years (range 30–56), respectively. Thus there was a correlation with the type of mutation and the age of onset, but there are overlaps among these three groups. Probably patients with missense mutations have mutated parkin proteins in the brain. Regarding polymorphisms of the parkin gene, the following variations have been reported: Glu100His (Chen et al., 2003), His124His (Chen et al., 2003), Ser167Asn (Abbas et al., 1999; Wang et al., 1999), Arg271Ser (Chen et al., 2003), Ala339Ser (Chen et al., 2003), Arg366Try (Wang et al., 1999), Val380Leu (Abbas et al., 1999; Wang et al., 1999), Asp394Asn (Abbas et al., 1999),

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Arg402Try (Poorkaj et al., 2004), -258 T>G (West et al., 2002b), -324 A>G (Mata et al., 2002), -797 A>G (Mata et al., 2002) – the latter three polymorphisms are located in the promoter region – IVS2þ25T>C (West et al., 2002a), IVS3–20G>T (Oliveira et al., 2003a) and IVS7-35>G (West et al., 2002a) – the latter three polymorphisms are located in introns. None of these markers has been explicitly shown to be associated with increased or decreased risk for sporadic PD, although in some studies statistical differences were reported between frequency of PD and the type of polymorphism. Wang et al. (1999) reported lower frequency of Arg366Try polymorphic mutation in PD patients compared with controls (1.2 versus 4.4%). Mata et al. (2002) analyzed two single nucleotide polymorphisms (-324 A/G and -797 A/G) in the promoter regions and two previously described polymorphisms (Ser167Asn and Asp394Asn), but they found no association with sporadic PD. West et al. (2002b) reported genetic association of -258 T/G with sporadic PD; this is located in a promoter region of DNA that binds nuclear protein and functionally affects gene transcription. Lu¨cking et al. (2003) examined 194 patients with PD (92 familial and 102 sporadic) and 125 control subjects for the allele and genotype frequencies of Ser167Asn, Arg366Trp, Val380Leu and Asp394Asn polymorphisms. These authors found that homozygous Val380Leu was significantly associated with sporadic PD (P ¼0.008). There was also a trend toward an association of homozygous Asp394 with familial PD (P ¼ 0.07). Peng et al. (2003) found significantly higher genotype frequency of Ser167Asn in PD patients in China (17.3 versus 11.3%; P ¼ 0.04). On the other hand, Asn167 allele was more frequent in PD (46.6% versus 35.1%). However, Oliveira et al. (2003b) did not find any association with sporadic PD and seven common polymorphic variants of parkin. 9.1.2.3. Pathogenesis of PARK2 Parkin protein is more concentrated in the substantia nigra in human brain (Shimura et al., 1999; Solano et al., 2000), in contrast to rat brain, suggesting that it plays an important role in the survival of nigral neurons in humans. Solano et al. (2000) studied the expression of parkin, a-synuclein and UCH-L1 mRNA in 11 normal human brains using radiolabeled and digoxygenin-labeled cRNA probes. The expression of these three genes was predominantly neuronal. a-Synuclein and parkin mRNAs were expressed in a restricted number of brain regions, whereas UCH-L1 mRNA was more uniformly expressed throughout the

brain. The melanin-containing dopamine neurons of the substantia nigra had particularly robust expression. Because of the unique sequence of the parkin protein, we thought parkin was related to the UPS. The UPS is an important intracellular proteolysis system responsible for a wide variety of biologically important cellular processes, such as cell cycle progression, signaling cascades, developmental programs, the protein quality control system, DNA repair, apoptosis, signal transduction, transcription, metabolism, immunity and neurodegeneration (Hershko et al., 2000; Tanaka et al., 2004). The ubiquitin system consists of three enzymes: (1) a ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1); (2) a ubiquitinconjugating enzyme (E2); and (3) a ubiquitin-protein ligase (E3) (Fig. 9.8). Ubiquitin (Ub), consisting of 76 amino acid residues, is first activated ATP-dependently by an E1, forming a high-energy thioester bond between ubiquitin and an E1, and the activated ubiquitin is then transferred to an E2. Then the E2 and a target protein are attached to an E3 and ubiquitin is transferred to the target protein and is covalently attached through its C-terminal Gly residue to the E-NH2 group of the Lys residue on the target proteins. Finally, a polyubiquitin chain is formed by repeated reactions, through which another ubiquitin links a Lys residue at position 48 (Tanaka et al., 2004). Shimura et al. (2000) first reported that parkin was involved in protein degradation as an E3. Parkin interacted with UbcH7 and UbcH8, ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes, and high-molecular-weight polyubiquitinated protein smears were found by Western blotting when 26S proteasome activity was inhibited by a specific inhibitor, MG132, in cultured cells. Imai et al. (2000) confirmed that parkin was a RING-type E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase which binds to E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (UbcH7 and UbcH8), through its RING-IBR-RING motif. Zhang et al. (2000b) also confirmed that parkin was an E2-dependent ubiquitinprotein ligase and found that CDCrel-1 interacted with parkin, suggesting that CDCrel-1 might be a substrate for parkin. These findings suggest that accumulation of a protein or proteins that have to be polyubiquitylated by parkin as an E3 ligase may be responsible for the nigral degeneration in PARK2. In line with this, many parkin-interacting proteins have been reported in the literature, including a synaptic vesicle-associated protein, CDCrel-1 (Zhang et al., 2000b), a cytoskeletal protein, actin filament (Huynh et al., 2000), glycosylated a-synuclein (Shimura et al., 2001), an endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein, PAEL receptor (Imai et al., 2001), a Lewy body-associated protein, synphilin-1 (Chung et al., 2001), a synaptic vesicle

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protein, CASK (Fallon et al., 2002), a chaperon, HSP70 (Imai et al., 2002), a HSP70-binding protein, CHIP (Imai et al., 2002), microtubule-associated proteins, aand b-tubulin (Ren et al., 2003), a structural component of the mammalian aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase complex, p38 (Corti et al., 2003), Rpn10 subunit of 26S proteasome (Sakata et al., 2003), an apoptosis-regulating protein, cyclin E (Staropoli et al., 2003), a septin family protein, SEPT5_v2, known as cell division control-related protein 2 (Choi et al., 2003), expanded polyglutamine protein (Tsai et al., 2003), bcl-associated athanogene 5, BAG5 (Kalia et al., 2004), DJ-1 (Moore et al., 2005), LRRK2 (Smith et al., 2005), protein-1 (Ko et al., 2006) and 14-3-3Z (Sato et al., 2006). Most of these parkin-interacting proteins were polyubiquitylated in vitro studies, except for CASK and Rpn10. Parkin co-localized with CASK, but parkin did not ubiquitylate CASK, suggesting a targeting or scaffolding role for parkin within the postsynaptic complex (Fallon et al., 2002). Rpn10 is a subunit of the regulatory subunit of the 26S proteasome; Rpn10 binds to the ubiquitin-like domain of parkin, so that 26S protea-

some comes close to polyubiquitylated proteins that are going to be destroyed by 26S proteasome (Sakata et al., 2003). Parkin also ubiquitinylated itself and promoted its own degradation (Zhang et al., 2000b). Although many parkin-interacting proteins have been reported in the literature, none has yet been explicitly shown to be accumulated in increased amounts in the brains of PARK2 patients. Therefore, the molecular mechanism of nigral neuronal death in the absence of normal parkin remains unknown. Further studies are needed to elucidate this question. Another interesting aspect regarding the pathogenesis of nigral neurodegeneration in PARK2 is the involvement of oxidative damage. We observed extensive accumulation of iron in the substantia nigra of three brains with known parkin mutations (Takanashi et al., 2001). Iron is known to promote oxidative damage. CDCrel-1, a putative substrate for parkin as E3 ligase, is a member of the septin family predominantly expressed in synaptic vesicle membranes negatively regulating the release of neurotransmitters (Beites et al., 1999). Therefore, if CDCrel-1 accumulates because of loss

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of function of parkin as E3 ligase, it can increase cytoplasmic dopamine, which can induce oxidative damage. But accumulation of CDCrel-1 in parkin mutated brain has not yet been documented. Hyun et al. (2002) examined the effect of parkin overexpression on cellular levels of oxidative damage, antioxidant defenses, nitric oxide production and proteasomal enzyme activity. Increasingly, overexpression of parkin by gene transfection in cultured cells led to increased proteasomal activity, decreased levels of protein carbonyls, 3-nitrotyrosine-containing proteins and a trend to a reduction in ubiquitinated protein levels. Transfection of these cells with DNA encoding three mutant parkins (Del 3–5, T240R and Q311X) gave smaller increases in proteasomal activity and led to elevated levels of protein carbonyls and lipid peroxidation. Rises in levels of nitrated proteins and increased levels of NO2–/NO3– were also observed in cells transfected with mutant parkins, apparently because of increased levels of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. Hyun et al. concluded that the presence of mutant parkin in substantia nigra in juvenile parkinsonism might increase oxidative stress and nitric oxide production, sensitizing cells to death induced by other insults. In addition, parkin has an antiapoptotic activity in experimental conditions (Jiang et al., 2004) amd parkin mutations were reported to affect complex I activity in peripheral leukocytes (Muftuoglu et al., 2004). Questions as to which function of parkin is essential for the survival of nigral neurons and what kind of abnormal function of parkin is responsible for nigral neuronal death in PARK2 remain unanswered. Petrucelli et al. (2002) reported that overexpression of parkin reversed the proteasome dysfunction induced by a-synuclein overexpression and neuronal death in cultured neurons. Proteasome dysfunction has been implicated as one of the most important mechanisms of neuronal death in sporadic and a-synulcein-mutated PD. Haywood and Staveley (2004) produced asynuclein transgenic Drosophila; the transgenic fly showed loss of climbing ability and degeneration of ommantidial array in the eyes. Coexpression of parkin prevented these a-synuclein-induced damages. Lo Bianco et al. (2004) used lentiviral vector to overexpress a-synuclein locally in the substantia nigra in rat; coexpression of parkin rescued a-synuclein-induced nigral neuronal loss. We used adeno-assciated viral vector to overexpress a-synuclein in rat and observed essentially similar neuronal rescue by coexpression of parkin (Yamada et al., 2005). As the expression patterns of a-synuclein and parkin mRNAs are similar, parkin protein and a-synuclein may be involved in common pathways contributing to the pathophysiology of PD (Solano et al., 2000).

Parkin-deficient mice produced by Goldberg et al. (2003) exhibited nigrostriatal dysfunction without loss of dopaminergic neurons. These authors did quantitative in vivo microdialysis which showed an increase in extracellular dopamine concentration in the striatum of parkin–/– mice. Intracellular recordings of mediumsized striatal spiny neurons showed greater currents that were required to induce synaptic responses, suggesting a reduction in synaptic excitability in the absence of parkin. Steady-state levels of parkin-interacting proteins, CDCrel-1, synphilin-1 and a-synuclein were unaltered in parkin–/– brains. Rodent nigral neurons, which do not have neuromelanin, may not require parkin for their survival. 9.1.3. Autosomal-dominant familial Parkinson’s disease linked to chromosome 2 (PARK3) PARK3 is an autosomal-dominant familial PD linked to the short arm of chromosome 2 (2p13). Gasser et al. (1998) reported six families with late-onset parkinsonism. Clinical features are essentially similar to those of sporadic late-onset PD; the age of onset was 36–89 years. Interestingly, penetrance was 40%, suggesting that some apparently sporadic PD patients may represent PARK3. In two families out of six patients developed dementia. Autopsy findings in two of those families showed nigral neurodegeneration and neurofibirillary tangle formation in cortical neurons. The causative gene has not yet been identified. West et al. (2001) sequenced 14 genes in the candidate region, but could not find a disease-associated mutation. 9.1.4. Autosomal-dominant familial Parkinson’s disease due to triplication of a-synuclein (PARK4) PARK4 is an autosomal-dominant familial PD caused by triplication or duplication of the a-synuclein gene (Singleton et al., 2003). In the triplication family, clinical features are those of diffuse Lewy body disease, i.e. late onset, levodopa-responsive parkinsonism and dementia. The initial family, an autosomal-dominant family with PD in the USA, was reported by Spellman in 1962. Muenter et al. (1998) made extensive clinical studies on the family reported by Spellman (1962). The autosomal-dominant family later reported by Waters and Miller (1994) was found to be another branch of the kindred reported by Spellman and Muenter. Since then this family has been called the Spellman–Muenter–Waters–Miller family. In autopsied patients, many cortical Lewy bodies were found in addition to nigral neurodegeneration with Lewy body formation and the pathological diagnosis suggested diffuse Lewy body disease.

GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE This family was reported to be linked to the short arm of chromosome 4 (Farrer et al., 1999) but later, Singleton et al. (2003) found triplication of the a-synuclein gene in the affected members of this family; the 1.5 Mb region, including introns on both sides of the a-synuclein gene, was triplicated in a tandem fashion. Therefore, PARK4 should be reclassified as a form of PARK1. 9.1.5. Autosomal-dominant familial Parkinson’s disease due to UCH-L1 mutation (PARK5) 9.1.5.1. Clinical features of PARK5 PARK5 is an autosomal-dominant familial PD linked to the short arm of chromosome 4 (4p14–p15.1). To date only one family is reported (Leroy et al., 1998). Clinical features are very similar to those of late-onset sporadic PD, with the age of onset from 49 to 50 years. 9.1.5.2. Genetics of PARK5 The disease gene was reported as UCH-L1 (Leroy et al., 1998). Ile93Met missense mutation was found in the affected members of this family (Fig. 9.9). As only one family with this mutation was reported, the possibility of polymorphism for this mutation cannot be completely ruled out. Interestingly, Ser18Tyr polymorphism of UCH-L1 was associated with reduced risk of sporadic PD (Maraganore et al., 1999; Zhang et al., 2000a; Satoh and Kuroda, 2001; Elbaz et al., 2003). But there is still controversy about this issue (Mellick and Silburn, 2000). Deletion of exon 7 and 8 in mouse UCH-L1 causes gracile axonal dystrophy (gad) in mouse; this is an autosomal-recessive condition characterized by axonal degeneration and the formation of spheroid bodies in motor and sensory nerve terminals (Saigoh et al., 1999). 9.1.5.3. Pathogenesis of PARK5 UCH-L1 is an enzyme that cleaves carboxyterminal peptide bond of polyubiquitine chains. Thus UCH-L1 is an ubiquitin-recycling enzyme. Ubiquitin is an important protein to give proteins the signal for 26S 1

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proteasome degradation (Honore et al., 1991); UCH-L1 is a neuron-specific enzyme. Catalytic activity of Ile93Met-mutated UCH-L1 was reported to be half of the wild enzyme (Leroy et al., 1998). Thus it is expected that the supply of ubiquitin for 26S proteasome is reduced with this mutation. In addition, UCH-L1 undergoes dimerization and the dimers of UCH-L1 has a ubiquityl ligase activity (Liu et al., 2002). The natural substrate of UCH-L1 dimer as an E3 ligase is not known. The Ile93Met mutant form has increased ligase activity and the Ser18Tyr polymorphism, which may confer reduced risk for PD, has reduced ligase activity (Liu et al., 2002). Therefore, the dimerization of UCH-L1 appears to be related in some way to the pathogenesis of nigral neurodegeneration in PARK5 9.1.6. Autosomal-recessive familial Parkinson’s disease due to PINK1 mutations (PARK6) 9.1.6.1. Clinical features of PARK6 Clinical features of PARK6 are similar to those of PARK2, but the age of onset is somewhat older than that of PARK2. The age of onset of the original family studied by Valente et al. (2001) ranged from 32 to 48 years. Age of onset at 68 was also reported (Valente et al., 2002). Bentivoglio et al. (2001) studied 9 patients from three unrelated families with PARK6. Mean age at disease onset was 36 4.6 years. Clinical features were essentially similar to those of adult-onset sporadic PD. Dystonia and sleep benefit, which are common in young-onset PARK2, are not usually seen in PARK6 (Bentivoglio et al., 2001; Valente et al., 2002). But dystonia may be seen when the age of onset is young (Rohe et al., 2004). Cognition is normal (Bentivoglio et al., 2001). As with PARK2, 18F-dopa PET scan shows more extensive loss of uptake compared with sporadic PD. Khan et al. (2002) studied 4 patients who were homozygous for PARK6 and 3 asymptomatic relatives who were heterozygous for PARK6. The clinically affected

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PARK6 patients had 85% reduction in posterior dorsal putamen which was similar to that of sporadic PD, but they showed significantly greater involvement of head of caudate and anterior putamen. The group of asymptomatic PARK6 carriers showed a significant mean 20– 30% reduction in caudate and putamen. These changes are quite similar to those of PARK2-affected and carrier subjects (Portman et al., 2001; Scherfler et al., 2004). 9.1.6.2. Genetics of PARK6 PARK6 was delineated from other autosomal-recessive PD by linkage analysis; Valente et al. (2002) studied a large Sicilian family with four definitely affected members (the Marsala kindred). A genome-wide homozygosity screen and linkage analysis map-ped the disease locus at 1p35–p36 on chromosome 1. Then Hatano et al. (2004b) reported eight families, including three Japanese, two Taiwanese, one Turkish, one Israeli and one Philippine, linked to PARK6 locus with multipoint lod score of 9.88 at D1S2732. Valente et al. (2004a) identified PINK1 (PTENinduced kinase 1) as the causative gene for PARK6. They found two homozygous mutations affecting the PINK1 kinase domain in three consanguineous PARK6 families, a truncating nonsense mutation (W437X) and a missense mutation (Gly309Asg) at highly conserved amino acids. The cDNA of PINK1 comprises 1.8 kb with eight exons encoding a protein consisting of 581 amino acids. PINK1 is ubiquitously expressed in systemic organs as well as in brain. It is interesting to note that PINK1 is a mitochondrial protein (Valente et al., 2004a). Mitochondrial respiratory failure is an important pathogenetic factor in sporadic PD. PTEN stands for protein tyrosine phosphatase with homology to tensin and it is a tumor suppressor gene on chromosome

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GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE 9.1.6.3. Pathogenesis of PARK6 Functions of the PINK1 protein are not known. As it has a kinase domain, there must be proteins that are phosphorylated predominantly by PINK1 within mitochondria. But candidate substrates for PINK1 are not known. 9.1.7. Autosomal-recessive familial Parkinson’s disease due to DJ-1 mutation (PARK7) 9.1.7.1. Clinical features of PARK7 PARK7 is an autosomal-recessive young-onset familial PD linked to the short arm of chromosome 1 at 1p36 (van Duijin et al., 2001). Bonifati et al. (2002) reported additional families; clinical features were essentially similar to those of PARK2. The age of onset was younger than that of PARK6. Clinical features include levodopa-responsive parkinsonism of varying severity with levodopa-induced motor fluctuation and dyskinesia. Interestingly, 3 out of 4 patients in the original family showed psychiatric disturbances (anxiety attacks) (Dekker et al., 2003). Atypical clinical features include short statue and brachydactyly, which were found in a Dutch kindred (Dekker et al., 2004). 9.1.7.2. Genetics of PARK7 Van Duijin et al. (2001) identified a family with earlyonset parkinsonism with multiple consanguinity loops in a genetically isolated population. Homozygosity mapping resulted in significant evidence for linkage on chromosome 1p36. The region defining the disease haplotype could be separated, by 25 cM, from the more centromeric PARK6 locus on chromosome 1p35–36. Bonifati et al. (2003) found mutations in DJ-1 in patients with early-onset PD linked to 1p36; they

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found compound heterozygous mutations consisting of a 14 kb deletion from exon 1 to exon 5 and a Leu166Pro missense mutation. Genomic DNA of human DJ-1 comprises 9 exons spanning about 24 kb, in which 2–7 exons encode the 189-amino-acid protein (Taira et al., 2001). Exons 1a and 1b are spliced and non-coding. DJ-1 protein is ubiquitously expressed in the cytoplasm of brain. Hague et al. (2003) found two new mutations in DJ-1 (Arg98Gln and Ala104Thr) and additional heterozygous mutations (c.56delC c57G->A, IVS6-G->C); the second mutation could not be found. Abou-Sleiman et al. (2003) found two additional missense mutations (Met26Ileu, Asp149Ala). Hering et al. (2004) found a novel Glu64Asp mutation in a German family. DJ-1 mutations are rare. Abou-Sleiman et al. (2003) studied 185 unrelated young-onset (below the age of 40) PD patients and a separate cohort of 190 pathologically proven cases of PD. Estimated frequency of DJ-1 mutations was approximately 1% among young-onset cases. No mutations were found in their cohort of later-onset sporadic pathologically confirmed cases. Healy et al. (2004c) studied 39 autosomal-recessive families for DJ-1 mutations, but they could not find a case and Hedrich et al. (2004a) studied 100 early-onset cases and found only 2 patients with DJ-1 mutations; in contrast, parkin mutations were found in 17 of the same population. Ibanez et al. (2003) also failed to find a DJ-1 mutation in a large series of early-onset autosomal-recessive PD families. Lockhart et al. (2004) also failed to find a DL-1 mutation in 41 Taiwanese ethnic Chinese patients with early-onset parkin-negative PD patients. Tan et al. (2004) failed to find a DJ-1 mutation in Chinese, Malay and Indian cohorts. Mutations of DJ-1 reported in the literature are summarized in Fig. 9.11. Regarding the polymorphisms of DJ-1, Hague et al. (2003) reported seven non-coding variants in DJ-1. Eerola et al. (2003) studied the frequency of

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g.168–185del in Finnish sporadic PD patients; no significant change from the controls was found. Morris et al. (2003) also found no association with polymorphisms of DJ-1 with sporadic PD or with dementia with Lewy bodies, including the exon 1 deletion polymorphism. Clark et al. (2004) studied a cohort of 89 early-onset PD and found no disease-associated mutations; however, they found a polymorphism in the coding region in exon 5 (Arg98Gln), three polymorphisms in the 50 untranslated region (exon 1A/1B) and two polymorphisms in intronic regions (IVS1 and IVS5). Thus polymorphism of DJ-1 does not constitute a risk factor for sporadic PD. 9.1.8. Pathogenesis of PARK7 DJ-1 has been identified as a novel oncogene that transforms mouse NIH3T3 cells in cooperation with activated ras and maps them to 1p36.2-p36.3 (Nagakubo et al., 1997). This has been shown to be a hot spot of chromosome abnormalities in several tumor cells (Taira et al., 2001). The function of DJ-1 protein is not yet elucidated. In autopsied human brains, DJ-1 protein is mainly expressed in astrocytes and ubiquitously present in the brain (Bandopadhyay et al., 2004; Neumann et al., 2004). Interestingly DJ-1 protein was reported to colocalize with tau inclusions of tauopathies (Rizzu et al., 2004). Furthermore, tau inclusions in Pick disease, corticobasal degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy and Alzheimer’s disease were DJ-1 protein-positive (Neumann et al., 2004), indicating that DJ-1 protein is also present within neurons. DJ-1 protein undergoes dimer formation to become active (Honbou et al., 2003; Tao and Tong, 2003) and one of the PD-inducing point mutations, Leu166Pro, interferes with dimer formation (Wilson et al., 2003) and is more rapidly degraded than wild DJ-1 protein by UPS (Macedo et al., 2003; Miller et al., 2003) or by autoproteolysis (Gorner et al., 2004). Furthermore, this mutant DJ-1 protein is mislocalized to mitochondria; on the other hand, wild-type DJ-1 protein is ubiquitously localized within cells (Bonifati et al., 2003). Downregulation of endogenous DJ-1 protein of the neuronal cell line by siRNA was reported to enhance the cell death which was induced by oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and proteasome inhibition, but not by proapoptotic stimulus (Yokota et al., 2003). Furthermore, DJ-1 protein rescued the cell death caused by overexpression of Pael receptor, a putative substrate of Parkin. DJ-1 protein is readily oxidized at cysteine 106 and the oxidized DJ-1 protein relocalized to mitochondria (Canet-Aviles et al., 2004); this modification appears to be a molecular mechanism of the antioxidative property of DJ-1

protein. The Leu166Pro mutant DJ-1 protein has reduced antioxidative activity (Takahashi-Niki et al., 2004). DJ-1 protein expression is increased on oxidative stress induced by paraquat (Mitsumoto et al., 2001). Thus DJ-1 protein appears to be acting as an important antioxidant protein in the substantia nigra. It is interesting to note that parkin also has an antioxidative property (see section 9.1.2). As nigral neurons are exposed to high oxidative stress because of the presence of dopamine, the hypothesis that DJ-1 protein is acting as a strongly antioxidative protein appears to be a plausible one. Although no autopsy has been reported on PARK7, from the clinical features, the substantia nigra is probably the main lesion. Nondopaminergic neurons with low oxidative stress may not need DJ-1 protein. This hypothesis explains well selective nigral lesions despite the widespread absence of normal DJ-1 protein in PARK7 patients. 9.1.9. Autosomal-dominant familial Parkinson’s disease due to LRRK2 mutation (PARK8) 9.1.9.1. Clinical features of PARK8 The clinical features of PARK8 were first described by Nukada et al. in a Japanese journal in 1978. These authors described a large kindred with PD of autosomal dominant inheritance. The number of affected patients was 36 in five generations. Men and women were equally affected (men ¼ 18, women ¼ 18). The age of onset ranged from 38 to 68 years (mean 53). Later the mean age of onset was reported as 51 6 years, as the number of affected members increased (Funayama et al., 2002). Among the 10 patients in whom detailed examination was possible, the initial symptom was gait disturbance in 5 and rest tremor in 5. All of these 10 patients had three cardinal symptoms of PD: rest tremor, cogwheel rigidity and bradykinesia. At the time of evaluation, 1 patient was at stage V on the Hoehn and Yahr scale, 2 were at stage III, 5 were at stage II and 2 were at stage I. Eight of these 10 patients were being treated with levodopa with good response and the remaining 2 patients were being treated with an anticholinergic drug, which was also effective. Two of the 10 patients had motor fluctuations and two had psychiatric side-effects. Thus the clinical features of this family are very similar to those of sporadic PD, except for the slightly younger age of onset. No cognitive impairment was observed. Postmortem examination was performed on 4 patients and they showed pure nigral degeneration without Lewy body formation (Funayama et al., 2002). But later on another patient who came to autopsy showed nigral degeneration with Lewy bodies (K. Hasegawa, personal communication).

GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE The western Nebraska family (family D) reported by Wszolek et al. (1995) turned out to be PARK8. These researchers reported 18 patients (men ¼ 6, women ¼ 12) over five generations. The mode of inheritance was autosomal dominant. The age of onset was 48–78 years (mean 63). The initial symptom was bradykinesia or tremor. Four cardinal symptoms of PD were observed in most of the examined patients. No atypical features such as dementia, autonomic failure, pyramidal signs or cerebellar ataxia were seen. Patients showed good response to levodopa. One of the patients came to autopsy and showed nigral degeneration, gliosis and occasional Lewy bodies; no cortical Lewy bodies were seen. Later on 3 additional patients from this family were examined postmortem (Wszolek et al., 2004). The second patient showed total loss of pigmentation of the nigra and locus ceruleus with marked gliosis. Senile plaques were seen in frontal, temporal, parietal and entorhinal cortices, amygdala and hippocampus. Cortical Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites were also seen. The pathological diagnosis was consistent with diffuse Lewy body disease. The third patient showed nigral neuronal loss and gliosis: no Lewy bodies were found anywhere; instead neurofibrillary tangles and a few tau-positive glia were present in the basal forebrain, striatum, subthalamic nucleus and brainstem nuclei. The fourth patient showed marked neuronal loss and gliosis in the nigra and locus ceruleus. No Lewy bodies or tau-positive neurons were found in any place in the brain. The substantia nigra showed simple atrophy. Four different pathological findings in the same family are very interesting, indicating the difficulty of defining a disease entity by neuronal inclusions. Family A, reported by Denson and Wszolek in 1995, also turned out to be linked to the PARK8 locus (Zimprich et al., 2004a). Clinical features of this family included average age of onset at 51 years (range 35–60), tremor as the initial symptom in all affected patients examined, and four cardinal symptoms of PD. One of these patients showed distal muscle weakness, atrophy and the presence of fasciculation. All the patients responded well to levodopa. 9.1.9.2. Genetics of PARK8 Funayama et al. (2002) made a linkage analysis on the family reported by Nukada et al. (1978). They studied 15 affected and 12 unaffected patients and 4 spouses from this family, using 382 microsatellite markers covering chromosomes 1–22. They mapped the disease locus at 12p11.2–q13.1, 16-cM region of chromosome 12. The maximum multipoint lod score was 24.9 at D12S345. Then Zimprich et al. (2004b) did a linkage analysis on autosomal-dominant families living

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in western societies, including families A (Denson & Wszolek, 1995) and D (Wszolek et al., 1995), reported previously. Both of these families reached significant linkage on their own, with a combined maximum multipoint lod score of 3.33. The authors mapped the disease locus between a CA repeat polymorphism on genomic clone AC025253 and marker D12S1701. Then two groups (Paisan-Ruiz et al. (2004); Zimprich et al., 2004a) reported the discovery of the PARK8 gene almost simultaneously. Paisan-Ruiz et al. (2004) studied four autosomal-dominant families with PD in the Basque region of Spain and a family from the UK that each showed positive linkage to the PARK8 locus. Clinical phenotypes were remarkably similar to those of sporadic PD, with age of onset around 65 years. The researchers found two mutations that segregated with affected patients in a putative kinase domain-containing transcript, which contained 7449 basepair open-reading frame-encoding 2482 amino acids, including a leucine-rich repeat, a kinase domain, a Ras domain and a WD40 domain. They identified a variant, Arg1396Gly (Arg1441Gly according to the numbering of Zimprich et al., 2004b), in all the affected members in Basque families and Tyr1654Cys (Tyr1699Cys according to the numbering of Zimprich et al., 2004a) that was segregated with the affected members of the family in the UK. Arg1396Gly variants were found in 11 Spanish PD patients and in 10 Basque PD patients, of whom 6 had a positive family history for PD. They named this gene dardarin, which means tremor in the Basque dialect. Zimprich et al. (2004a) studied family A (Denson and Wszolek, 1995) and family D (Wszolek et al., 1995), reported previously. They sequenced a total of 29 genes in the candidate region. They found missense mutations in a large gene, LRRK2, in family A (Tyr1669Cys) and in family D (Arg1441Cys). Then they analyzed 44 additional families with PD. They found two additional missense and one putative splice site mutation (Ile1122Val; 3364A>G, Ile2020Thr; 6059T>C, Leu1114Leu; 3342A>G). The gene spanned over 144 kb with an open reading frame consisting of 7449 basepairs in 51 exons encoding 2527 amino acids with a molecular weight of 9 kD. The LRRK2 protein was expressed in most brain regions. The difference in the numbering system between that of Paisan-Ruiz et al. (2004) and Zimprich et al. (2004a) was ascribed to the fact that exon 6 was not included in the gene cloned by Paisan-Ruiz et al. (2004). Today the numbering system of Zimprich et al. (2004a) is used. Then Nichols et al. (2005) reported a novel mutation (Gly2019Ser) and analyzed the frequency of this

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mutation in 767 patients with PD from 358 multiplex families. Thirty-five individuals (5%) were either heterozygous (34) or homozygous (one) for the mutation, and had typical clinical findings of idiopathic PD. Then Di Fonzo et al. (2005) analyzed 61 unrelated families originating from Italy, Portugal and Brazil; they found the Gly2019Ser mutation in 4 of 61 (6.6%). Gilks et al. (2005) examined 482 sporadic PD patients for the Gly2019Ser mutation. They found this mutation in 8 (1.6%) patients. Mutations of LRRK2 reported in the literature are summarized in Fig. 9.12. 9.1.9.3. Pathogenesis of PARK8 LRRK2 belongs to the recently characterized Roco protein family; Roco protein is the name given to a family of proteins that contain both ROC and COR domains (Bosgraaf and Haastert, 2003). ROC stands for Ras (a group of guanosine triphosphate (GTP)binding small proteins) in complex proteins and belongs to the Ras/GTPase superfamily. COR stands for C-terminal of ROC and consists of 300–400 amino acids without any significant sequence homology to other known proteins. In many Roco proteins mitogeninduced kinase kinase kinase (MPKKK) domain follows after COR. Furthermore, in many Roco proteins the Roc domain is preceded by 3–16 leucine-rich repeats (Fig. 9.12). The WD domain after the MPKKK domain in LRRK2 represents a domain rich in tryptophan (W) and aspartate (D) repeats. The functions of most WD-repeat domains are poorly understood (Smith et al., 1999). The functions of Roco proteins are not well known; some of the Roco proteins are

related to signal transduction, cell proliferation, cell evolution, apoptosis, cell death, and so on (Bosgraaf and Haastert, 2003). The function of LRRK2 is also unknown. As with the MPKKK domain, it may be regulating phosphorylation of a-synuclein in some way. 9.1.10. Autosomal-recessive familial Parkinson’s disease linked to chromosome 1 (PARK9) PARK9 is an autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by levodopa-responsive parkinsonism, supranuclear gaze palsy, pyramidal sign and dementia, called Kufor–Rakeb syndrome. The age of onset is 10–20 years. The gene locus has been mapped to the short arm of chromosome 1 at 1p36 (Hampshire et al., 2001). Recently, Ramirez et al. (2006) identified mutations in a lysosomal ATPase gene, ATP13A. Neuropathological findings revealed neurodegeneration not only in the substantia nigra but also in the pyramidal tract, putamen and pallidum. 9.1.11. Parkinson’s disease linked to chromosome 1 (PARK10, Icelandic) The PARK10 locus was found by genome-wide scanning on familial as well as sporadic cases of PD living in Iceland (Hicks et al., 2002). Hicks et al. did a genome-wide scan on 117 Icelandic PD patients and 168 of their unaffected relatives within 51 families using 781 microsatellite markers. Allele-sharing, model-independent analysis of their results showed linkage to a region on chromosome 1p32 with a lod

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GENETIC ASPECTS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE score of 4.9. The researchers designated this region PARK10. The disease gene has not yet been identified. Thus clinical features are essentially similar to those of sporadic PD and the mean age of onset was 65.8 years. 9.1.12. Autosomal-dominant familial Parkinson’s disease linked to chromsome 2 (PARK11) PARK11 is an autosomal-dominant familial PD linked to the long arm of chromosome 2 at 2q36–q37 (Pankratz et al., 2003a). Clinical features are essentially similar to those of sporadic PD, with the mean age of onset at 58 years. Neuropathological findings are not known and the disease gene has not yet been identified. 9.1.13. Other forms of familial Parkinson’s disease PARK12 locus (Xq21–25) was found by genome-wide association studies on sporadic PD patients (Panratz et al., 2003b). In PARK13-associated PD (2p13), Strauss et al. (2005) found a missense mutation in Omi/HtrA2 gene in 4 sporadic PD patients. Omi/HtrA2 protein has a serine protease domain and a mitochondrial targeting sequence. There are many other families in which linkage analysis failed to show linkage to any one of the known loci that are associated with familial forms of PD. Such reports are increasing every year. Progress in the molecular cloning of new genes for familial PD and elucidation of the functions of the disease genes will definitely contribute to the understanding of the molecular mechanism of nigral neurodegeneration of sporadic PD. Such information will help the development of disease-modifying new treatments for PD.

Acknowledgments This study was supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas and Grant-inAid for High Technology Centers from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan; Grant-in-Aid for Health Science Promotion and Grant-in-Aid for Neurodegenerative Disorders from Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan; and by the Center of Excellence Grant from the National Parkinson Foundation, Miami, USA.

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Chapter 10

Imaging Parkinson’s disease DAVID J. BROOKS* MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Division of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

10.1. Introduction 10.1.1. Imaging approaches Imaging the changes associated with the pathology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) broadly falls into two categories: (1) detecting alterations in brain structure; and (2) examining functional changes in brain metabolism and receptor availability. Using high-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), brain structural changes can be evidenced as regional or whole-brain reductions in volume, signal alterations in water relaxation, e.g.T2weighted scans, water diffusion (diffusion-weighted or tensor imaging) and magnetization transfer coefficients. Additionally, MRI allows structural lesions, such as basal ganglia tumors and calcification, multi-infarct disease and hydrocephalus, to be excluded. Recently it has been reported that transcranial ultrasonography can detect structural midbrain changes in parkinsonian disorders, manifested as hyperechogenicity. Functional imaging (positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), MRI and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)) provide a means of detecting and characterizing the regional changes in brain metabolism and receptor binding associated with parkinsonian disorders. These approaches can be of diagnostic value and also help to throw light on the pathophysiology and pharmacology underlying parkinsonian syndromes. PET and SPECT are both radiotracer-based and they potentially provide a sensitive means of detecting subclinical disease in subjects at risk for subcortical degenerations and biomarkers for objectively following disease progression. PET has the highest sensitivity of these functional imaging modalities, being able to detect femtomolar

levels of positron-emitting radioisotopes at a spatial resolution of 2–4 mm. It allows quantitative in vivo examination of alterations in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF), glucose, oxygen and dopa metabolism, and brain receptor binding. SPECT is less sensitive but more widely available and provides measures of rCBF and receptor binding with a resolution of 5 mm in state-of-the-art systems. MRS has far lower sensitivity and spatial resolution than the two radioisotope imaging approaches, requiring millimolar metabolite levels and providing a spatial resolution of around 1 cm. Proton MRS can detect N-acetyl aspartate, lactate, creatine and phospholipid signals whereas 31P-MRS can measure creatine phosphate, adenosine triphosphate and adenosine diphosphate levels. Finally, with the blood oxygenation level imaging (BOLD) technique functional MRI can detect activation-induced changes in venous blood oxygenation draining brain regions when subjects perform tasks. Although structural MRI has submillimeter resolution, fMRI activation studies are usually smoothed to a spatial resolution of around 3 bmm to improve signal-to-noise ratios. The changes in regional cerebral function that characterize parkinsonian disorders can be examined in two main ways: first, focal changes in resting levels of regional cerebral metabolism, blood flow and neuroreceptor availability can be measured. Second, abnormal patterns of brain activation or levels of neurotransmitter release can be detected when patients with PD perform motor and cognitive tasks or are exposed to drug challenges. 10.1.1.1. Pathological considerations The pathology of the degenerative typical and atypical parkinsonian disorders targets the dopamine cells in the substantia nigra. In the case of PD, neuronal loss

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occurs in association with the formation of intraneuronal Lewy inclusion bodies. Serotonergic cells in the median raphe, noradrenergic cells in the locus ceruleus and cholinergic cells in the nucleus basalis are also involved, but to a lesser extent, as are other pigmented and brainstem nuclei. Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is characterized pathologically by argyrophilic, a-synuclein-positive inclusions in glia and neurons in substantia nigra, striatum, brainstem and cerebellar nuclei, and intermediolateral columns of the cord. Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is associated with neurofibrillary tangle inclusions and neuronal loss in the substantia nigra, pallidum, superior colliculi, brainstem nuclei and the periaqueductal gray matter. Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) cases have collections of swollen, achromatic, tau-positive staining Pick cells without argyrophilic Pick bodies targeting the posterior frontal, inferior parietal and superior temporal lobes, the substantia nigra and the cerebellar dentate nuclei. Loss of cells from the substantia nigra in parkinsonian disorders results in profound dopamine depletion in the striatum. In PD and MSA the lateral nigral projections to the posterior dorsal putamen are most affected whereas in PSP and CBD the nigrostriatal projections are uniformly targeted. In non-demented cases of PD it is also possible to detect Lewy body inclusions at postmortem in the anterior cingulate cortex and frontal, parietal and temporal association areas. Currently, it remains unclear whether dementia of Lewy body type, PD dementia and non-demented PD all represent a spectrum of Lewy body disease. Dementia of Lewy body type has overlapping clinical features with Alzheimer’s disease, though is associated with a higher prevalence of fluctuating confusion, hallucinations, early-onset rigidity and gait difficulties. Alzheimer’s disease is twice as prevalent in PD and, at postmortem, cases of PD with dementia can show a mixture of Alzheimer changes and cortical Lewy body inclusions. 10.1.1.2. Imaging the presynaptic dopaminergic system In PD the integrity of the substantia nigra and its dopaminergic projections can be examined with both structural and functional imaging approaches, as described below. 10.1.1.2.1. Transcranial sonography Transcranial sonography (TCS) is capable of detecting increased midbrain echogenicity in parkinsonian syndromes (Berg et al., 2001a). A total of 103 out of 112 patients with established PD showed midbrain hyperechogenicity (employing a threshold of 1 standard

deviation (SD) above the normal mean). This increased signal was most noticeable contralateral to the more clinically affected limbs and pathological studies have suggested that it may represent increased iron deposition in the substantia nigra (Berg et al., 2002). Increased midbrain echogenicity has also been reported in clinically affected homozygous or compound heterozygote parkin gene carriers along with reduced striatal 18 F-dopa uptake (Walter et al., 2004). In a 5-year follow-up study of PD cases, however, it was reported that there was no significant change in TCS findings (Berg et al., 2005). This suggests that the presence of midbrain hyperechogenicity may be a trait rather than state marker for susceptibility to parkinsonism. 10.1.1.2.2. MRI High-field MRI, utilizing special gray- and white-matter signal-suppressing inversion recovery sequences, has detected abnormal signal from the substantia nigra compacta in PD patients. In one series (Hutchinson and Raff, 2000), all 6 cases with established disease showed altered nigral signal whereas in a second series (Hu et al., 2001), 7 out of 10 patients showed nigral MRI abnormalities. All 10 PD cases in this second series had reduced putamen 18F-dopa uptake. The true sensitivity and specificity of this MRI approach for diagnosing PD remain to be established. 10.1.1.2.3. PET and SPECT The function of dopamine terminals in PD can be examined in vivo in several ways (Brooks et al., 2003): (1) terminal dopa decarboxylase activity can be measured with 18F-dopa PET; (2) the availability of presynaptic dopamine transporters (DAT) can be assessed with tropane-based PET and SPECT tracers; (3) vesicle monoamine transporter (VMAT2) density in dopamine terminals can be examined with 11C-dihydrotetrabenazine (DHTBZ) PET (Fig. 10.1). In early hemiparkinsonian cases these radiotracerbased imaging approaches all show bilaterally reduced putamen dopaminergic function: activity is most depressed in the putamen contralateral to the affected limbs. The head of caudate and ventral striatal function is generally spared or only mildly impaired. PET and SPECT can, therefore, detect subclinical disease evidenced as involvement of the ‘asymptomatic’ putamen contralateral to clinically unaffected limbs. It has been estimated that clinical parkinsonism occurs when PD patients have lost around 50% of their posterior putamen dopamine terminal function, the most targeted region. On average, PD patients with established disease show a 60–80% loss of specific putamen dopamine

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terminal function in life. This compares with a reported 60–80% loss of ventrolateral nigra compacta cells and 95% loss of putamen dopamine at postmortem. These findings suggest that imaging measures of striatal dopamine terminal activity may underestimate the loss of endogenous dopamine in PD. It is known that the pathology of PD is not uniform; ventrolateral nigral dopaminergic projections to the dorsal putamen are more affected than dorsomedial projections to the head of caudate. 18F-dopa PET reveals that, in patients with unilateral PD [Hoehn and Yahr (H & Y) stage 1 disability], contralateral dorsal posterior putamen dopamine storage is first reduced (Morrish et al., 1995). As all limbs become clinically affected, ventral and anterior putamen and dorsal caudate dopaminergic function also become involved. Finally, when PD is well advanced, ventral head of caudate 18F-dopa uptake starts to fall. Not all dopamine fibers degenerate in early PD. Nigrostriatal projections comprise the densest dopamine pathway but there is a lesser medial nigral-internal pallidal pathway. The striatum is the main input and the globus pallidus interna (GPi) the main output nucleus of the basal ganglia; nigral dopamine projections modulate the function of both these structures. Whereas 18 F-dopa uptake in the putamen is reduced overall by 30–40% at the onset of parkinsonian rigidity and brady-

kinesia, uptake of this tracer in the GPi is increased by 50% but subsequently falls below normal as the disease advances (Whone et al., 2003a). Reduced pallidal 18 F-dopa storage coincides with the onset of accelerated disability and treatment complications, such as fluctuating responses to levodopa, suggesting that both putamen and GPi require an intact dopamine system to facilitate efficient fluent limb movements. PET radiotracers available for measuring DAT binding on nigrostriatal terminals include 11C-CFT ([11C]2-carbomethoxy-3-(4-fluorophenyl) tropane) and 18 F-CFT, 11C-RTI-32 (methyl(1R-2-exo-3-exo)-8methyl-3-(4-methylphenyl)-8-azabicyclo-octane-2-carboxylate), 11C-nomifensine and 11C-phenylethylamine (Brooks et al., 2003). These ligands bind to both dopamine and norepinephrine reuptake sites. SPECT tracers available include the tropane analogs 123I-b-CIT, 123 I-FP-CIT,123I-altropane, and 99mTc-TRODAT-1. 123 I-b-CIT gives the highest striatal-to-cerebellar uptake ratio of these SPECT tracers but this reflects low cerebellar non-specific rather than higher striatalspecific uptake and so this tracer provides a potentially noisy reference signal. It binds non-selectively to dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin transporters and has the disadvantage that it takes 24 h to equilibrate throughout the brain following intravenous injection, so scanning has to be delayed until the following

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day. For this reason, SPECT tracers such as 123I-FP-CIT and 123I-altropane have been developed as, despite their lower striatal-to-cerebellar uptake ratios, a diagnostic scan can be performed within 2–3 h of tracer injection. More recently, a technetium-based tropane tracer, 99m Tc-TRODAT-1, has been developed. This gives a lower 2:1 striatal-to-cerebellar uptake ratio than the 123 I-based tracers and is less well extracted by the brain but has the advantage that 99mTc is readily available (Mozley et al., 2000). In series where clinically probable PD and essential tremor cases were compared, imaging the dopamine system with PET and SPECT has been shown to differentiate these conditions with a sensitivity and specificity of around 90% (Brooks et al., 1992b; Benamer et al., 2000). Given this, a positive PET or SPECT scan can be valuable for supporting a diagnosis of PD where there is diagnostic doubt. Three studies have now examined the role of DAT imaging in aiding the diagnosis of gray parkinsonian cases. All three concluded that management of these cases could be rationalized and improved by including SPECT in the work-up though, as the pathology of these cases still remains unclear, clinical follow-up remained the gold standard (Booij et al., 2001; Catafau and Tolosa, 2004; Jennings et al., 2004). It is unclear whether the finding of normal dopaminergic function with PET or SPECT fully excludes a diagnosis of PD. Long-term follow-up studies on patients clinically thought to have PD but with normal 18F-dopa PET imaging have continued to show discordance between clinical impression and imaging findings though no cases, to date, have developed loss of dopaminergic function or clinically progressed (Brooks, unreported observations). This would suggest that a finding of normal presynaptic

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dopaminergic function on imaging is associated with a good prognosis whatever the ultimate diagnosis. Putamen uptake of PET and SPECT dopaminergic tracers shows an inverse correlation with degree of locomotor disability in PD, reflecting limb bradykinesia and rigidity rather than rest tremor severity (Vingerhoets et al., 1997). Relative to the dopamine vesicle transporter marker, 11C-DHTBZ, it has been shown that putamen 18 F-dopa uptake is relatively upregulated and binding of the DAT marker 11C-methylphenidate is relatively downregulated in PD (Lee et al., 2000). This finding makes physiological sense as increased dopamine turnover and decreased reuptake in a dopamine deficiency syndrome should help to preserve synaptic transmitter levels.

10.2. Serotonergic, noradrenergic and cholinergic function in Parkinson’s disease In PD there is loss not only of dopamine but also serotonin, norepinephrine and cholinergic projections. Median raphe serotonin HT1A binding in the midbrain, measured with 11C-WAY100635 PET, reflects the functional integrity of serotonergic cell bodies. In PD one series has reported a mean 25% loss of median raphe HT1A binding which, interestingly, correlated with severity of rest tremor but not rigidity or bradykinesia (Fig. 10.2; Doder et al., 2003). This suggests that midbrain tegmentum pathology involving serotonin projections rather than nigrostriatal projection loss may be more relevant to the etiology of PD tremor. There was no correlation with depressive symptoms and midbrain 11C-WAY100635 uptake in PD, arguing against a direct role of serotonergic dysfunction. b-CIT binds to serotonergic transporters in the midbrain.

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IMAGING PARKINSON’S DISEASE A recent b-CIT SPECT study has also reported no correlation between midbrain levels of tracer uptake and depressive symptoms in PD (Kim et al., 2003). 11 C-RTI-32 PET is a marker of both norepinephrine and dopamine terminal function. Patients with PD and depression compared to those equivalently disabled but without depression have been reported to show additional loss of thalamic and locus ceruleus 11C-RTI 32 uptake, probably reflecting reduced noradrenergic input, along with lower signals in the limbic areas (amygdala and ventral striatum) (Remy et al., 2005). These findings would suggest that the presence of depression in PD is influenced more by the integrity of noradrenergic and limbic monoaminergic projections rather than by the serotonergic system per se. Cholinergic function can be assessed presynaptically with 123I-benzovesamicol SPECT, whereas 11C-MP4A PET is a marker of postsynaptic muscarinic receptor availability. In PD there is a significant reduction of parietal and occipital 123I-vesamicol uptake, while 11 C-NMPB binding remains normal (Kuhl et al., 1996; Asahina et al., 1998). PD patients with dementia, however, show more globally reduced 123I-vesamicol binding and have raised frontal 11C-NMPB binding. This would suggest that the presence of dementia is associated with a more severe loss of cholinergic projections, resulting in increased muscarinic receptor availability to the PET tracer.

10.3. Detection of preclinical Parkinson’s disease It has been estimated from postmortem studies that for every patient who presents with clinical PD there may be 10–15 subclinical cases with incidental brainstem Lewy body disease in the community. Subjects likely to be at risk of developing PD include carriers of genes known to be associated with parkinsonism, relatives of patients with the disorder, elderly subjects with idiopathic hyposmia, and patients suffering from rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorders. Subclinical midbrain hyperechogenicity has been reported with TCS in around 10% of elderly normal individuals (Berg et al., 2001b). This echogenicity correlated with the presence of soft signs of parkinsonism. Increased midbrain echogenicity has also been reported in 4 out of 7 asymptomatic parkin gene carriers. Only 2 of these 7 asymptomatic parkin gene carriers were found to have reduced striatal 18F-dopa uptake (Walter et al., 2004). In a third series, these workers investigated hyposmic subjects with TCS. In all, 11 out of 30 cases of idiopathic olfactory loss showed midbrain hyperechogenicity and 5 of these 11 had reduced striatal FP-CIT binding (Sommer

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et al., 2004). It would therefore appear that, although increased nigral echogenicity can be detected on occasion in subjects at risk for PD, this finding correlates with reduced dopaminergic function in fewer than 50% of cases. It has been recognized for some time that elderly subjects with an impaired sense of smell (hyposmia) are more at risk for PD. Recently it has been shown that 4 out of 40 (10%) elderly relatives of PD patients who had no overt parkinsonism but who manifested hyposmia on olfactory screening converted to clinical PD over a 2-year follow-up period (Ponsen et al., 2004). Seven of these 40 relatives showed reduced 123 I-b-CIT uptake in one or more striatal subregions and it was the four with lowest DAT binding who subsequently converted to clinical PD. These findings suggest that 123I-b-CIT SPECT is capable of detecting preclinical dopaminergic dysfunction when present in at-risk subjects for PD. 18 F-dopa PET has been used to study 32 asymptomatic adult relatives in seven kindreds with familial PD (Piccini et al., 1997a). In five of these kindreds the pathology was unknown, the sixth kindred was subsequently found to have parkin gene mutations, while the seventh kindred was known to have diffuse Lewy body disease. Of the asymptomatic adult relatives scanned, 25% showed levels of putamen 18F-dopa uptake more than 2.5 SD below the normal mean. Three of the 8 asymptomatic relatives with reduced putamen 18 F-dopa uptake subsequently developed clinical parkinsonism over a 5-year follow-up period. 18 F-dopa PET findings for 34 asymptomatic cotwins of idiopathic sporadic PD patients aged 23–67 years have also been reported (Piccini et al., 1999b). A total of 18 co-twins were monozygotic (MZ), while 16 were dizygotic (DZ). Of the 18 MZ, 10 (55%) and three (18%) of the 16 DZ co-twins showed reduced putamen 18F-dopa uptake. The finding of a significantly higher concordance (55% versus 18%, P ¼ 0.03) for dopaminergic dysfunction in MZ compared with DZ PD co-twins supports a genetic contribution towards this apparently sporadic disorder. Over 7 years of follow-up, 2 MZ and 1 DZ co-twins died without developing symptoms whereas 4 MZ co-twins became clinically concordant for PD (14, 2, 9 and 20 years after the onset of PD in their co-twin), resulting in a clinical concordance of 22.2% at follow-up. None of the DZ twin pairs became clinically concordant.

10.4. Microglial activation in Parkinson’s disease Microglia constitute 10–20% of white cells in the brain and form its natural defense mechanism.

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They are normally in a resting state but local injury causes them to activate and swell, expressing human leukocyte antigens on the cell surface, and to release cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-a and interleukins. The mitochondria of activated but not resting microglia express peripheral benzodiazepine sites which may play a role in preventing cell apoptosis via membrane stabilization. 11 C-PK11195 is an isoquinoline which binds selectively to peripheral benzodiazepine sites and so provides an in vivo PET marker of microglial activation. Loss of substantia nigra neurons in PD has been shown to be associated with microglial activation and, more recently, histochemical studies have shown that microglial activation can also be seen in other basal ganglia, the cingulate, hippocampus and cortical areas in PD (Imamura et al., 2003). 11C-PK11195 PET has been used to study microglial activation in PD (Fig. 10.3). One series reported increased midbrain signal in PD which correlated inversely with levels of poetrior putamen DAT binding (Ouchi et al., 2005). A second series also reported increased signal in the substantia nigra along with microglial activation in the striatum, pallidum and frontal cortex (Gerhard et al., 2004). Interestingly, these workers found little change in the extent of microglial activation over a 2-year follow-up period, although the patients deteriorated clinically. This could imply that microglial activation is merely an epiphenomenon in PD; however, postmortem studies have shown that these cells continue to express cytokine mRNA, suggesting that they are driving disease progression.

10.5. Monitoring the progression of Parkinson’s disease Assessing the progression of PD clinically can be problematic. Timed motor tests can be insensitive whereas semiquantitative rating scales are somewhat subjective, non-linear, consider multiple aspects of the disorder and are generally biased towards bradykinetic symptoms. More importantly, after some months most PD patients require symptomatic medication and this can mask disease progression (Brooks, 2003a). Attempts to achieve a full washout of drug therapies are poorly tolerated in practice and 2-week washouts would seem to be insufficient. PET and SPECT imaging potentially provide complementary biomarkers for objectively monitoring disease progression in vivo in PD (Brooks, 2003a). They are limited, however, to providing information concerning particular aspects of the disorder – usually dopamine terminal function. They may also be influenced by changes in medication, though this has yet to be established in human studies (Brooks et al., 2003). Striatal 18 F-dopa uptake has been shown to correlate with subsequent postmortem dopaminergic cell densities in the substantia nigra and striatal dopamine levels of both human PD sufferers and of monkeys lesioned with the nigral toxin 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). In subjects with an intact dopamine system, striatal 18F-dopa uptake does not appear to be influenced by dopaminergic medication. Striatal 123I-b-CIT uptake has also been shown to be unaffected by several weeks of exposure to levodopa and dopamine agonists. Several series have now shown that loss of striatal 18 F-dopa uptake occurs more rapidly in PD than in

Fig. 10.3. For full color figure, see plate section. 11C-PK11195 positron emission tomography scans of a healthy subject (left) and Parkinson’s disease patient (right) . Microglial activation is evident in the midbrain and basal ganglia of the Parkinson’s disease patient.

IMAGING PARKINSON’S DISEASE age-matched controls (Brooks, 2003a). In early levodopa-treated PD, putamen 18F-dopa uptake has been reported to decline by 6–12% per annum whereas caudate uptake falls at about half that rate. Parallel rates of loss of putamen dopamine transporter binding have been reported with 18F-CFT PET and 123I-b-CIT, 123 I-FP-CIT and 123I-IPT SPECT. Annual loss of striatal 123I-b-CIT uptake in early PD has been reported to correlate with initial levels of striatal transporter binding, suggesting an exponential disease process. Extrapolations have suggested a preclinical disease window of only a few years in late-onset sporadic PD (Morrish et al., 1998). 10.5.1. Testing possible neuroprotective agents As PET and SPECT can follow loss of dopamine terminal function in PD, they provide a potential means of monitoring the efficacy of putative neuroprotective and restorative agents (Ravina et al., 2005). Dopamine agonists are one such possible class as they suppress endogenous dopamine production in vivo, so attenuating its oxidative metabolism and reducing hydroxyl free radical formation. They are also weak antioxidants and free radical scavengers in their own right and some act as mitochondrial membrane stabilizers, so blocking the apoptotic cascade. Two different trials have examined the relative rates of loss of dopamine terminal function in early PD in patients randomized to a dopamine agonist or levodopa. The REAL PET trial was a 2-year doubleblind multinational study where 186 de novo PD patients were randomized (1:1) to ropinirole or levodopa (Whone et al., 2003b). The primary endpoint was change in putamen 18F-dopa uptake (Ki) measured with PET. A total of 74% of the ropinirole and 73% of the levodopa group completed the study; only 14% of the ropinirole and 8% of the levodopa group required open supplementary levodopa. Interestingly, 11% of the untreated patients thought to have PD by referring clinicians were found to have normal caudate and putamen 18F-dopa uptake at entry (identified by blinded review). This subgroup was analyzed separately and over 6 years has shown no significant change in PET findings despite exposure to dopaminergic agents (unpublished observations). Reduction in mean putamen Ki was significantly slower over 2 years in the PD patient group taking ropinirole (13.4%) than in that taking levodopa (20.3%; P ¼ 0.022). Clinically, the incidence of dyskinesia was 26.7% with levodopa but only 3.4% with ropinirole (P < 0.001). Improvements in mean Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) motor scores rated while taking medication were, however, superior

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(by 6.34 points) for the levodopa cohort. The second trial comprised a subgroup of the CALM-PD study where a cohort of 82 early PD patients were randomized 1:1 to the dopamine agonist pramipexole (0.5 mg t.d.s.) or levodopa (100 mg t.d.s.) and had serial 123 I-b-CIT SPECT over a 4-year period (Parkinson Study Group, 2002). Open supplementary levodopa was allowed if there was lack of therapeutic effect. Patients treated initially with pramipexole (n ¼ 42) showed a significantly slower mean relative decline of striatal b-CIT uptake compared to subjects treated initially with levodopa (n ¼ 40) at 2 (47%), 3 (44%) and 4 (37%) years. Again, the incidence of complications was significantly reduced in the pramipexole cohort but improvement in UPDRS score in those taking medication was greater in the levodopa cohort. These two imaging studies, therefore, produced parallel findings, both suggesting that treatment with an agonist in early PD relatively slows loss of dopamine terminal function by around one-third and delays treatment-associated complications. However, the functional imaging findings favoring use of agonists as early treatment for PD were not paralleled by a better clinical outcome in the PD agonist cohorts, as judged by UPDRS motor scores rated while subjects were medicated. One possible confounder contributing towards the discordant imaging and clinical findings could be that the PET and SPECT signals were differentially influenced by the effects of levodopa and agonist medications. Conceivably, levodopa could directly downregulate dopa decarboxylase activity and DAT binding, so suppressing striatal 18F-dopa and 123 I-b-CIT uptake relative to agonists. Currently there is no evidence to support this viewpoint, but the findings of these two trials remain controversial. The real test will be whether early use of agonists delays the need for institutional care or deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the longer term. In an attempt to assess whether levodopa is toxic, the ELLDOPA trial compared rates of progression of 361 de novo PD patients randomized to 150, 300 or 600 mg of medication or placebo (Fahn et al., 2004). Subjects were followed for 9 months and then had a 2-week washout of their medication. Clinical disability was rated with the UPDRS and, in a subgroup of 142, striatal DAT binding was measured with 123I-b-CIT SPECT. Locomotor function improved most in those patients treated with 600 mg of levodopa daily and remained superior to placebo after 2 weeks of washout. However, 30% of these cases developed fluctuating treatment responses and 17% dyskinesias compared to 13% and 3% in the placebo arm. SPECT imaging suggested that loss of striatal DAT binding occurred most rapidly (7%) in the high-dose

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levodopa arm of the trial compared with placebo (1%). These discordant clinical and imaging findings make it difficult to draw firm conclusions about the toxicity of levodopa and a further trial is now under way with a randomized delayed wash in to try and eliminate any confounding symptomatic effects of levodopa on assessments of underlying disease progression. 18 F-dopa PET has been used to study the possible neuroprotective action of the glutamate release inhibitor riluzole in PD (Rascol et al., 2002). This agent was shown to slow disease progression and delay mortality of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. De novo PD patients were blindly randomized to placebo, 50 mg, and 100 mg riluzole daily and the clinical primary endpoint was time to requiring dopaminergic medication. No differences were found between the three PD cohorts either in time to reaching the clinical endpoint or in reduction in putamen 18F-dopa uptake.

10.6. Restorative approaches in Parkinson’s disease Possible approaches to restorative therapy in PD include striatal implants of: (1) human and porcine fetal mesencephalic cells; (2) retinal cells that release levodopa; (3) transformed cells that secrete dopamine or nerve growth factors, or express antiapoptotic genes; (4) neural progenitor cells; and (5) cannulae infusing nerve growth factors. 10.6.1. Human fetal cell implantation trials Early open series suggested that advanced PD patients showed a good clinical response to implantation of fetal mesencephalic cells or tissue into striatum which was accompanied by increases in striatal 18F-dopa uptake (Lindvall, 1999). An 11C-raclopride PET study showed that striatal grafts could release dopamine after a metamphetamine challenge (Piccini et al., 1999a), whereas H215O PET demonstrated restored levels of frontal activation in 4 PD patients 2 years after bilateral grafting (Piccini et al., 2000). Given the encouraging findings of a pilot open series, two major double-blind controlled trials on the efficacy of implantation of human fetal cells in PD were sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health. The first of these involved 40 patients 34–75 years of age who had severe PD (mean duration 14 years) (Freed et al., 2001). They were randomized either to receive an implant of human fetal mesencephalic tissue or to undergo sham surgery and were followed for 1 year, with a subsequent extension to 3 years. In the transplant recipients, mesencephalic tissue from four embryos cultured for up to 1 month

was implanted into the putamen bilaterally (two embryos per side) via a frontal approach. In the patients who underwent sham surgery, holes were drilled in the skull but the dura was not penetrated. No immunotherapy was used. The transplanted patients showed no significant improvement in the primary endpoint, clinical global impression, at 1 year but there was a significant mean 18% improvement in mean UPDRS motor score compared with the sham-surgery group when tested in the morning before receiving medication (P ¼ 0.04). This improvement was more evident for patients under 60 years old (34% improvement; P ¼ 0.005). At 3 years mean total UPDRS score was improved 38% in the younger and 14% in the older transplanted groups (both P < 0.01). An increase in putamen 18F-dopa uptake was shown in 16 out of 19 transplanted patients individually (group mean increase 40%) and increases were similar in the younger and older cohorts. A drawback was that ‘off’ dystonia and dyskinesias developed in 15% of the patients who received transplants in this series, even after the reduction or discontinuation of levodopa. In the second trial National Institutes of Health trial (Olanow et al., 2003), 34 patients were randomized to receive: (1) bilateral implants of fetal mesencephalic tissue from four fetuses per side or from one fetus per side into posterior putamen; or (2) sham surgery (a partial burrhole without penetration of the dura). Fetal tissue was cultured for less than 48 h before transplantation and all patients received immunosuppression for 6 months after surgery. The trial duration was 2 years and the primary outcome variables were the UPDRS motor score and quality of life. Putamen 18 F-dopa uptake was assessed with PET in a subset of patients. Of the 34 patients, 31 completed and 2 died during the trial; another 3 died subsequently from unrelated causes. At postmortem these 2 transplanted patients showed significantly higher tyrosine hydroxylase staining in the putamen relative to the sham-grafted treated patients with graft innervation of the host evident. However, microglial activation surrounding the graft was also a feature. Putamen 18F-dopa uptake was unchanged in the control patients but showed a one-third increase in patients receiving tissue from four fetuses. Unfortunately, no significant differences were seen between the groups in clinical rating scores at 2 years, though there was trend favoring the fourfetus group which had been significant at 6 months prior to withdrawal of immunosuppression. The mean UPDRS motor score off medication deteriorated by 9.4, 3.5 and 0.7 points over 2 years for the controls, one-fetus and four-fetus groups (four-fetus group versus controls, P ¼ 0.096). ‘Off’-period dyskinesias

IMAGING PARKINSON’S DISEASE were evident in 13 of 23 implanted patients but were not seen in the control arm. To conclude, despite both histological and 18F-dopa PET evidence of graft function, neither of these blinded controlled trials demonstrated clinical efficacy of grafts with their primary endpoints and in both studies ‘off’-period dyskinesias were problematic. There were indications, however, that grafts of human fetal dopamine cells could be efficacious in some younger, more severely affected patients. 10.6.2. Intraputaminal glial-derived neurotrophic factor infusions Glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a potent nerve growth factor known to protect dopamine neurons against nigral toxins in rodent and primate models of PD. The safety and efficacy of infusing GDNF directly into the posterior putamen were first tested in a small open pilot trial (Gill et al., 2003). Five PD patients had indwelling catheters inserted and all tolerated continuous GDNF delivery at levels ranging from 14 to 40 mg/day (6 ml/h) for over 2 years, unilaterally in 1 and bilaterally in 4 patients, without serious side-effects. Significant improvements were reported in UPDRS subscores: 39% and 61% improvements in the off-medication motor III and activities of daily living II subscales, respectively, at 12 months. There were 18–24% increases in putaminal 18F-dopa Ki at the catheter tip. More recently, a double-blind trial of GDNF efficacy in PD has studied 34 advanced patients who were randomized 1:1 to receive bilateral continuous intraputamen infusions of liatermin 15 mg/putamen per day or placebo. The primary endpoint was the change in UPDRS motor score in the practically defined off condition at 6 months. Secondary endpoints included posterior putamen 18F-dopa uptake. At 6 months there was no significant difference in mean percent reductions in ‘off’ UPDRS motor scores between the GDNF and placebo groups (10.0% and 4.5%, respectively). A 32% treatment difference favoring GDNF in mean posterior putamen 18F-dopa influx constant (P ¼ 0.0061) was present, equivalent to that seen in the open-label pilot study. It was concluded that GDNF infusions did not confer significant clinical benefit to patients with PD, despite inducing local increases in 18F-dopa uptake. Following completion of this clinical trial, 4 patients have developed persistent, high-affinity, anti-GDNF antibodies and 3 of these subsequently developed blocking antibodies. The dissociated clinical and imaging outcomes in the double-blind controlled transplant and GDNF trials raise important issues about the information generated

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by imaging biomarkers. In these trials 18F-dopa PET showed increased dopaminergic function after both grafting and GDNF infusion, although significant clinical efficacy was not evident. It must be remembered that 18F-dopa PET is primarily a marker of dopa decarboxylase activity in striatal dopamine terminals but does not provide information about vesicular dopamine levels or effective release of dopamine during movement. It is also unable to reveal whether new dopamine terminals formed by grafts or under trophic influence are appropriately located next to postsynaptic receptors. The increased levels of dopamine storage seen after grafting and GDNF infusions may, therefore, fail to translate into physiologically effective dopamine release during motor function. 10.6.3. Fluctuations and dyskinesias PD patients with fluctuating responses to levodopa show 20% lower mean putamen 18F-dopa uptake than those with early disease and sustained therapeutic responses (De La Fuente-Fernandez et al., 2000). There is, however, considerable overlap of fluctuator and non-fluctuator individual ranges. Given this, while loss of putamen dopamine terminal function predisposes PD patients towards development of levodopa-associated complications, it cannot be the only factor responsible for determining the timing of onset of fluctuations and involuntary movements. Dopamine receptors broadly fall into D1-type (D1, D5) and D2-type (D2, D3, D4). PET studies with spiperone-based tracers and 123I-IBZM (iodobenzamide) SPECT have reported normal levels of striatal D2 binding in untreated PD, whereas 11C-raclopride PET has shown a 10–20% increase in putamen D2 site availability (Playford and Brooks, 1992; Antonini et al., 1994). In treated PD putamen D2 binding is normal, explaining the good locomotor response to levodopa. 11 C-SCH23390 PET, a marker of D1 site binding, reveals normal striatal uptake in de novo PD, whereas patients who have been exposed to levodopa for several years show a 20% reduction in striatal binding. Cohorts of levodopa-exposed dyskinetic and nondyskinetic PD patients with similar clinical disease duration, disease severity and daily levodopa dosage show similar levels of striatal dopamine D1- and D2receptor availability (Turjanski et al., 1997). Putamen D1 and D2 binding are normal, although caudate D2 binding is mildly reduced. These findings, therefore, suggest that onset of motor complications in PD is not primarily associated with alterations in striatal total dopamine receptor availability. 11 C-raclopride PET allows changes in levels of dopamine in the synaptic cleft to be monitored

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(Fig. 10.4). The higher the extracellular dopamine level, the lower the dopamine D2 site availability to the tracer. When early non-fluctuating PD patients are given 3 mg/kg of levodopa as an intravenous bolus, they show a mean 10% fall in posterior putamen 11 C-raclopride binding whereas advanced cases with fluctuations show a 23% fall (Torstenson et al., 1997). These falls in receptor availability have been estimated to correspond to four- and 10-fold rises in extracellular dopamine and indicate that, as loss of dopamine terminals in PD progresses, the ability of the striatum to buffer dopamine levels fails when clinical doses of exogenous levodopa are administered. This regulation failure reflects a combination of upregulation of striatal dopamine synthesis and release by the remaining terminals following administration of levodopa along with a severe loss of dopamine transporters preventing reuptake. It is this phenomenon, rather than changes in postsynaptic dopamine D1and D2-receptor binding, that is likely to be the explanation for the more rapid response of advanced PD patients to oral levodopa. The failure to buffer dopamine levels by the striatum in advanced PD will also result in high non-physiological swings in synaptic dopamine levels. This, in turn, may promote excessive dopamine receptor internalization, leading to fluctuating and unpredictable treatment responses. In support of this viewpoint, De La Fuente-Fernandez and colleagues (2001) have measured striatal 11C-raclopride

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binding in PD at 1 and 4 h after oral levodopa challenges. These workers found that: (1) fluctuators show transiently raised synaptic dopamine levels, whereas sustained responders generated a progressive rise in striatal dopamine; and (2) ‘off’ episodes could coincide with apparently adequate synaptic dopamine levels. Medium spiny neurons in the caudate and putamen project to external (GPe) and internal pallidum (GPi) where, along with gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), they release enkephalin (GPe) or dynorphin and substance P (GPi). Enkephalin binds mainly to d opioid sites and inhibits GABA release in the GPe. Dynorphin binds to k opioid sites and inhibits glutamate release in the GPi from subthalamic projections. Under normal physiological conditions, phasic firing of striatal projection neurons results primarily in GABA release in the pallidum, whereas sustained tonic firing causes additional modulatory opioid and substance P release. The caudate and putamen contain high densities of m, k and d opioid sites and also neurokinin 1 (NK1) sites which bind substance P. Opioid receptors are located both presynaptically on dopamine terminals, where they regulate dopamine release, and postsynaptically on interneurons and medium spiny projection neurons. There is now strong evidence supporting the presence of increased opioid and substance P transmission in the basal ganglia of end-stage PD patients from both postmortem and animal lesion model studies.

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IMAGING PARKINSON’S DISEASE C-diprenorphine PET is a non-selective marker of m, k and d opioid sites and its binding is sensitive to levels of endogenous opioids. If raised basal ganglia levels of enkephalin and dynorphin are associated with levodopa-induced dyskinesias (LIDs), then PD patients with motor complications would be expected to show reduced binding of 11C-diprenorphine. Piccini and coworkers (1997b) have reported significant reductions in 11Cdiprenorphine binding in caudate, putamen, thalamus and anterior cingulate in dyskinetic patients compared with sustained responders. Individual levels of putamen 11 C-diprenorphine uptake correlated inversely with severity of dyskinesia. 18F-L829165 PET is a selective marker of NK1 site availability. In a preliminary study thalamic NK1 availability has been shown to be reduced in dyskinetic PD patients but normal in non-dyskinetic cases (Whone et al., 2002). These in vivo findings support the presence of elevated levels of endogenous peptides in the basal ganglia of dyskinetic PD patients and suggest that this, rather than a primary alteration in dopamine receptor availability, leads to abnormal pallidal burst firing and may be responsible for the appearance of levodopa-induced involuntary movements. 11

10.7. Dementia and Parkinson’s disease 10.7.1. Resting brain metabolism 18

FDG (2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose) PET scans of frankly demented PD patients show an Alzheimer pattern of impaired resting brain glucose utilization: the posterior parietal and temporal association areas are most affected, frontal association areas less affected and primary cortical regions, basal ganglia and cerebellum are spared (Bohnen et al., 1999). Interestingly, up to one-third of non-demented PD patients with established disease also show this pattern of reduced cortical metabolism but to a lesser extent, suggesting they may be at risk for later dementia (Hu et al., 2000). Currently, it remains unclear whether this pattern of resting glucose hypometabolism in demented PD patients reflects coincidental Alzheimer’s disease, cortical Lewy body disease, loss of cholinergic projections or some other degenerative process. Clinicopathological series suggest that there is considerable overlap in the cortical FDG PET findings of coincidental Alzheimer’s disease and cortical Lewy body disease but that cortical Lewy body disease cases show a greater reduction in resting glucose metabolism of the primary visual cortex (Bohnen et al., 1999). There are now PET imaging agents based on naphthol (18FFDDNP: 2-(1-(6-[(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)(methyl)amino]-2naphthyl)ethylidene)malononitrile) and thioflavin (11C-PIB: Pittsburgh compound B (N-methyl-[11C]2-

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(4-methylaminophenyl)-6-hydroxybenzothiazole) structures capable of imaging b-amyloid plaque load in dementia patients (Klunk et al., 2004). Using these markers it should be possible in the future to assess the contribution of amyloid pathology to PD dementia. 10.7.2. Dopaminergic function In around 20% of cases with a clinical picture of Alzheimer’s disease, the pathological diagnosis is found to be diffuse Lewy body (DLB), whereas other dementia cases have mixed pathology. Whether DLB and PD represent opposite ends of a spectrum is unclear but DLB patients show not only cerebral cortical neuronal loss, with Lewy bodies in surviving neurons, but also loss of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons. In contrast nigral pathology is mild in Alzheimer’s disease. Using 123I-FP-CIT SPECT, Walker and colleagues (2002, 2004) examined striatal DAT binding in patients with clinically presumed DLB, Alzheimer’s disease, drug-naive patients with PD and healthy controls. The presumed DLB and PD patients had significantly lower uptake of caudate and putamen 123I-FP-CIT than patients with Alzheimer’s disease (P < 0.001) and controls (P < 0.001), but DLB cases showed greater involvement of caudate than PD (Fig. 10.5). The authors were subsequently able to correlate their SPECT findings with 10 postmortem examinations. Nine of 10 dementia cases were thought to have DLB in life but only 4 had this diagnosis at autopsy. All 4 had reduced striatal 123I-FP-CIT uptake, whereas 5 of the 10 cases had Alzheimer’s disease pathology (4 of these 5 had normal 123I-FP-CIT SPECT). These clinicoimaging correlations suggest that 123I-FP-CIT SPECT may be helpful in discriminating DLB from Alzheimer’s disease. 18 F-dopa PET findings in PD patients with and without dementia but matched for locomotor disability have also been compared (Ito et al., 2002). The two PD cohorts showed equivalent levels of putamen dopamine storage capacity but cingulate and mesial prefrontal 18F-dopa uptake was reduced in the PD dementia group. Frontal 18F-dopa uptake has previously been shown to correlate with performance on executive tasks by non-demented PD patients (Rinne et al., 2000). 10.7.3. Brain activation findings in Parkinson’s disease PET studies on resting brain function have shown relatively increased levels of both oxygen and glucose metabolism in the contralateral lentiform nucleus of hemiparkinsonian patients with early disease, although this normalizes in PD patients with established bilateral involvement (Brooks, 1993). Covariance

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analysis has revealed an abnormal profile of relatively raised resting lentiform nucleus and lowered frontal metabolism in non-demented PD patients with established disease (Eidelberg et al., 1994). The degree of expression of this profile correlates with clinical disease severity and normalizes after dopaminergic and DBS treatments (Feigin et al., 2001; Su et al., 2001). Although studies of resting cerebral blood flow and metabolism provide insight into the basal cerebral dysfunction underlying movement disorders, measuring changes in rCBF with H215O PET or functional MRI while patients perform motor or cognitive tasks or after pharmacological challenges can be more revealing. When normal subjects perform freely selected limb movements there are associated rCBF increases in

contralateral sensorimotor cortex (SMC) and lentiform nucleus and bilaterally in anterior cingulate, anterior supplementary motor area (SMA), lateral premotor cortex (PMC) and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) (Brooks, (2003b)). When PD patients, scanned after stopping levodopa for 12 h, perform similar movements, normal or increased activation of SMC, caudal SMA, PMC and lateral parietal association areas are seen but there is impaired activation of the contralateral lentiform nucleus and the anterior cingulate, anterior SMA and DLPFC, that is, of those frontal areas that receive direct input from the basal ganglia. It is well recognized that, although patients with PD can perform isolated limb movements efficiently, attempts to perform repetitive or sequences of movements result in a fall in amplitude and motor

IMAGING PARKINSON’S DISEASE arrest. Underactivity of mesial frontal and deactivation of dorsolateral prefrontal areas when patients perform prelearned sequential opposition finger–thumb movements with one or both hands has been demonstrated. Lateral premotor and parietal cortex and cerebellum were relatively overactivated, suggesting adaptive recruitment of a network normally used to facilitate externally cued rather than freely chosen movements. It has been proposed (Passingham, 1987) that: (1) dorsal prefrontal cortex plays a crucial role in motor decision-making; (2) once selected, the anterior SMA prepares and optimizes volitional motor programs and facilitates non-mirror bimanual movements; and (3) lateral PMC has a primary role in facilitating motor responses to external visual and auditory stimuli. An inability to activate DLPFC and anterior SMA during freely selected and sequential movements could explain the difficulty that PD patients experience in initiating such actions. In contrast, their ability to overactivate lateral premotor and primary motor cortex allows them to respond well to visual and auditory cues, such as stepping over lines on the floor or marching to a drum beat to aid their walking. If a loss of dopamine is responsible for the impaired activation of striatofrontal projections in PD, it should be possible to restore it by administering dopaminergic medication. Administration of apomorphine and levodopa and implants of fetal midbain dopamine cells have all been shown to increase activation of anterior SMA and prefrontal cortex during arm and finger movements in association with a reduction of bradykinesia (Jenkins et al., 1992; Rascol et al., 1992; Piccini et al., 2000). Imptrovement of mood after levodopa has been shown to correlate with increased blood flow in limbic areas (Black et al., 2005). Lesions or high-frequency electrical stimulation of the motor GPi have been observed to improve bradykinesia and reduce dyskinesias in PD by mechanisms that are still being debated. High-frequency DBS of the subthalamic nucleus may be even more effective. Regional cerebral activation has been studied in PD before and after these surgical interventions. In general, surgery has resulted in significantly increased activation of SMA, lateral PMC and dorsal prefrontal cortex in PD patients off medication when performing volitional and paced limb movements (Brooks, 2003b).

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and cerebellar nuclei, and intermediolateral columns of the cord. It manifests as a parkinsonian syndrome with autonomic failure and ataxia and includes striatonigral degeneration (SND), progressive autonomic failure and olivopontocerebellar atrophy within its spectrum. Patients are often non-responsive to levodopa. The striatum appears normal on T2-weighted MRI in PD but in SND and MSA the lateral putamen can show reduced signal due to iron deposition and this may be bordered by a rim of increased signal due to gliosis (Fig. 10.6; Schrag et al., 2000). If concomitant pontocerebellar degeneration is also present, the lateral as well as longitudinal pontine fibers become evident as high signal on T2 MRI, manifesting as the ‘hotcross bun’ sign. Cerebellar and pontine atrophy may be visually obvious with increased signal evident in the cerebellar peduncles. These changes are usually only evident in patients with well-established disease where putamen and brainstem atrophy can also be demonstrated with formal magnetic resonance volumetry. More recently, the use of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and diffusion tensor MRI have been developed for discriminating atypical from typical parkinsonian syndromes. DWI reflects the movement of water molecules along fiber tracts in the brain – so-called anisotropy of diffusion. This anisotropy can be quantified as an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) by applying field gradients. In intact brain the central nervous system is organized in bundles of fiber tracts along which water molecules move. Degenerative disease removes restrictions to water molecule movement, so reducing anisotropy and increasing the ADC. It has been reported that all cases with clinically probable MSA-P could be discriminated from typical PD patients as they showed significantly higher regional ADC values in the putamen (Seppi et al., 2003). How sensitive this approach is for classifying gray parkinsonian cases is currently being determined. 18 FDG PET studies in patients with clinically probable SND reveal reduced levels of striatal glucose metabolism in 80–100% of cases over different series, in contrast to PD where striatal metabolism is preserved (Eidelberg et al., 1993). Parkinsonian patients with low levels of striatal glucose metabolism, irrespective of their levodopa response, show little improvement after pallidotomy (Eidelberg et al., 1996). Patients with the full syndrome of MSA have reduced mean levels of cerebellar along with putamen and caudate glucose hypometabolism. 18FDG PET, therefore, also provides a sensitive means of detecting the presence of striatal dysfunction where atypical parkinsonism is suspected.

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Fig. 10.6. T2-weighted magnetic resonance images of a multiple system atrophy case. Left: decreased lateral putamen signal; right: the pontine ‘hot-cross bun’ sign.

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy may also be helpful for discriminating SND from PD. N-acetylaspartate (NAA) is a metabolic marker of neuronal integrity present in millimolar concentrations. Reduced NAA-to-creatine proton MRS signal ratios were reported from the lentiform nuclei in 6 out of 7 clinically probable SND cases, whereas 8 out of 9 probable PD cases showed normal levels of putamen NAA (Davie et al., 1995). The function of both the pre- and postsynaptic dopaminergic systems is impaired in patients with SND. As in PD, putamen 18F-dopa uptake is asymmetrically reduced and individual levels of putamen 18F-dopa uptake correlate with disability (Brooks et al., 1990; Brooks, 1993). Patients with the full syndrome of MSA show a significantly greater reduction in mean caudate 18F-dopa uptake than equivalently rigid PD patients, though individual ranges overlap. However, discriminant analysis was only able to separate 70% of clinically probable MSA cases from PD cases on the basis of the pattern of their striatal 18F-dopa uptake. Pirker and colleagues (2000) examined striatal DAT binding in PD and MSA patients and concluded that, although 123I-b-CIT SPECT reliably discriminates PD and MSA from normal, it cannot reliably discriminate between these two parkinsonian conditions. SND patients show reductions in mean striatal D2 binding, though on an individual basis this is an inconsistent finding (Brooks et al., 1992a). Putamen D2

binding is normal or raised in PD but there is an overlap between SND, normal and PD ranges, so striatal D2 binding does not provide a sensitive discriminator of SND from PD. 123I-IBZM SPECT found reduced striatal D2 binding in only two-thirds of de novo parkinsonian patients who showed a negative apomorphine response (Schwarz et al., 1992). In a recent series it was concluded that 123I-IBZM SPECT had a sensitivity and specificity of 80% and 71% for discriminating MSA-P from PD compared with corresponding values of 93% and 100% for DWI (Seppi et al., 2004). Given that a significant number of parkinsonian patients who respond poorly to levodopa show normal levels of striatal D2 binding, it seems likely that degeneration of pallidal and brainstem rather than striatal projections is responsible for their refractory status. 123I-IBZM SPECT has been used to follow longitudinally striatal degeneration in a group of early MSA cases (Seppi et al., 2001). An annual 10% loss of striatal D2 binding was reported in this 18-month study. 123 I-MIBG ([123I]meta-iodobenzylguanidine) SPECT can be used to study the functional integrity of cardiac sympathetic innervation in PD and MSA (Braune et al., 1999; Druschky et al., 2000). Most MSA cases have normal cardiac MIBG signals, whereas PD cases show a reduction, even where no clinical evidence of autonomic failure is present. This finding suggests a greater involvement of postganglionic sympathetic innervation of the

IMAGING PARKINSON’S DISEASE myocardium in PD compared with MSA. Despite this, a recent series reported only 88% of PD (60% of Hoehn and Yahr stage 1) cases individually showed reduced cardiac MIBG uptake, raising questions about the sensitivity of this approach (Nagayama et al., 2005). 11 C-PK11195 PET, an in vivo marker of microglial activation, has been used to study glial activation in MSA. More widespread subcortical increases in 11CPK11195 uptake are seen compared with PD, targeting nigra, putamen, pallidum, thalamus and brainstem (Gerhard et al., 2003). It remains to be determined whether striatal 11C-PK11195 uptake will provide a sensitive discriminator of MSA and PD. In summary, DWI and 18FDG PET appear to be the most robust imaging approaches for discriminating typical PD from MSA, though MIBG SPECT is also of value. 10.8.2. Progressive supranuclear palsy This condition is characterized pathologically by neurofibrillary tangle formation and neuronal loss in the substantia nigra, pallidum, superior colliculi, brainstem nuclei and the periaqueductal gray matter (Fig. 10.7). There is a lesser degree of cortical involvement. Patients with PSP do not show the putamen signal changes characteristic of MSA but may show third ventricular widening and midbrain atrophy. Diffusionweighted MRI has been reported to discriminate 90% of clinically probable PSP cases from PD based on their putamen regional ADC values (Seppi et al., 2003).

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A number of series have reported changes in resting regional cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with clinically probable PSP, several of whom have later had the diagnosis confirmed at autopsy. Cortical metabolism is globally depressed and frontal areas are particularly targeted; the levels of metabolism correlate with disease duration and performance on psychometric tests of frontal function (Foster et al., 1988). Hypofrontality is not specific for PSP; it can be seen in PD, SND, Pick’s disease, Huntington’s disease and depression. Basal ganglia, cerebellar and thalamic resting glucose metabolism are also depressed in PSP, so distinguishing it from PD, where metabolism is preserved. Proton MRS studies show reduced lentiform nucleus NAA-to-Cr ratios in PSP, in contrast to PD (Davie et al., 1997). Although 18 FDG PET, DWI and proton MRS will all discriminate at least 80% of PSP cases from PD, they are unable to discriminate PSP reliably from SND/MSA, as striatal and frontal hypometabolism can be a feature of both these disorders. The pathology of PSP uniformly targets nigrostriatal dopaminergic projections and so, in contrast to PD, putamen and caudate 18F-dopa uptake are equivalently reduced in PSP (Brooks et al., 1990). In one series 18F-dopa PET was able to discriminate 90% of PSP from PD cases on the basis of uniform caudate and putamen involvement in the former. Messa and colleagues (1998) have also reported equivalent loss of putamen 123I-b-CIT uptake in PD and PSP but significantly greater caudate involvement in the latter. There is no clear correlation between levels of striatal

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F-dopa uptake in PSP and the degree of disability. Unlike PD and SND, where locomotor impairment appears to correlate with loss of dopaminergic fibers, loss of mobility in PSP is probably determined by degeneration of non-dopaminergic pallidal and brainstem projections. Dopamine D2-receptor binding in PSP has been studied with both PET and SPECT. Reductions in mean striatal binding have been consistently reported, though only 50–70% of patients individually show significant receptor loss (Brooks et al., 1992a; Brooks, 1993). It is likely that degeneration of downstream pallidal and brainstem projections is responsible for the poor levodopa responsiveness of PSP rather than loss of dopamine receptors alone. 10.8.3. Corticobasal degeneration This condition classically presents with an akineticrigid, apraxic limb which may exhibit alien behavior. Cortical sensory loss, dysphasia, myoclonus, supranuclear gaze problems and bulbar dysfunction are also features, although intellect is spared until late. Eventually, all four limbs become involved and the condition is invariably poorly levodopa-responsive. The pathology consists of collections of swollen, achromatic, tau-positive-staining Pick cells in the absence of argyrophilic Pick bodies, which target the posterior frontal, inferior parietal and superior temporal lobes, the substantia nigra and the cerebellar dentate nuclei. In CBD asymmetric hemispheric atrophy may be present on structural imaging and MRI can usefully exclude multi-infarct disease and multifocal leukoencephalopathy as differential diagnoses. PET and SPECT studies on patients with the clinical syndrome of CBD have shown greatest reductions in resting cortical oxygen and glucose metabolism in posterior frontal, inferior parietal and superior temporal regions (Eidelberg et al., 1991; Sawle et al., 1991). The thalamus and striatum are also involved and the metabolic reductions are strikingly asymmetrical, being most severe contralateral to the more affected limbs. This contrasts with PD patients who have preserved and symmetrical levels of striatal and thalamic glucose metabolism. Striatal 18F-dopa uptake is also reduced in CBD in an asymmetric fashion, being most depressed contralateral to the more affected limbs (Sawle et al., 1991). Like PSP, but in contrast to PD, caudate and putamen 18F-dopa uptake are similarly depressed in CBD. 123I-b-CIT SPECT also shows an asymmetric reduction in striatal dopamine transporter binding in CBD, whereas 123I-IBZM SPECT shows a severe

asymmetrical reduction of striatal D2 binding (Frisoni et al., 1995). The above imaging findings may help discriminate CBD from Pick’s disease, where inferior frontal hypometabolism predominates; from PD, where striatal metabolism is preserved and caudate 18F-dopa uptake is relatively spared; and from PSP, where frontal and striatal metabolism tend to be more symmetrically involved. However, both Pick’s and PSP pathology have been subsequently reported in clinically apparent CBD cases.

10.9. Conclusions In parkinsonian syndromes PET and SPECT: (1) provide a sensitive and objective means of detecting dopamine terminal dysfunction in parkinsonian syndromes where diagnostic doubt exists; (2) may be helpful in demonstrating altered striatal glucose hypometabolism or reduced D2 binding in suspected atypical PD variants; (3) can detect subclinical dopaminergic dysfunction when present in subjects at risk for PD (relatives, susceptibility gene carriers, hyposmic and rapid-eye movement sleep behaviour disorder cases); (4) enable PD progression to be objectively monitored and the efficacy of putative neuroprotective and restorative approaches to be evaluated; and (5) have shown that, although implants of fetal midbrain tissue and infusions of GDNF lead to increased striatal dopamine storage capacity, this does not consistently translate into clinical efficacy TCS can detect midbrain hyperechogenicity when present in suspected cases of PD and subjects at risk for this disorder. MRI can: (1) detect altered nigral signal in PD; (2) separate atypical from typical PD on the basis of raised striatal ADCs; and (3) detect and follow basal ganglia volumetric loss in atypical PD. Blood flow and ligand activation studies have: (1) established that the akinesia of PD is associated with selective underfunctioning of the SMA and dorsal prefrontal cortex; (2) found that parkinsonian ‘off’ periods do not correlate well with levels of striatal dopamine, suggesting that other mechanisms such as abnormal receptor internalization may play a role; and (3) striatal grafts of fetal midbrain cells can release normal amounts of dopamine after amphetamine challenges.

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Chapter 11

Parkinson’s disease: animal models RANJITA BETARBET* AND J. TIMOTHY GREENAMYRE Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

11.1. Introduction Animal models are an essential tool to study human diseases, not only to enable a thorough investigation into the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of a disease but also to help in the development of therapeutic strategies. It was through the use of an animal model that striatal dopamine deficiency was first associated with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and levodopa was first used to compensate for striatal dopamine loss (Carlsson et al., 1957). However, the mechanisms involved in PD pathogenesis and therefore its cure remain elusive to this day. It is therefore important to develop animal model(s) to understand the pathogenesis of PD and to develop therapeutic strategies to treat it. In the present chapter we will describe genetic as well as pharmacological manipulations used to develop animal models that mimic PD and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the various models. In order to discuss which model best simulates the disease, it is essential first to recapitulate the known characteristics of PD. PD, first described by James Parkinson in 1817, is a basal ganglia-related movement disorder characterized by tremor, rigidity or stiffness of movement and bradykinesia or slowness of movement. It is a late-onset, progressive, neurodegenerative disease involving the degeneration of the nigrostriatal pathway and dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra (Fig. 11.1). Striatum (including caudate nucleus and putamen), the basal ganglia input nucleus, receives dopaminergic input from neurons of the substania nigra pars compacta via the nigrostriatal pathway (Moore et al., 1971; Albin et al., 1989). Progressive retrograde degeneration of the nigrostriatal

pathway and subsequent degeneration of the nigral dopaminergic neurons result in profound dopamine deficiency in the striatum. Striatal dopamine deficiency (>80%) and the resultant changes in the basal ganglia circuitry (circuitry involved in motor activity) are believed to underlie the clinical manifestations of PD (Albin et al., 1989; Crossman, 1989; DeLong, 1990). An additional, important pathological hallmark of PD is the presence of eosinophilic, cytoplasmic inclusions called Lewy bodies (LB) in nigral neurons (Fig. 11.2). Morphologically, the LBs have a dense core surrounded by a halo. The precise biochemical composition of LBs is as yet unknown, though proteins including a-synuclein, parkin, ubiquitin and various components of the protein degradation pathway have been identified to be constituents of LBs. The mechanism by which these proteinaceous aggregates are formed and the pathological significance are as yet unknown. Both neurodegeneration and the presence of LBs are not restricted to nigral neurons. Locus ceruleus (noradrenergic), cerebral cortex, raphe nucleus (serotonergic), nucleus basalis of Meynert (cholinergic), olfactory bulb (dopaminergic) and central and peripheral divisions of the autonomic systems (Takahashi and Wakabayashi, 2001; Del Tredici et al., 2002) are some of the affected nuclei and systems in PD. Inflammation in the brain, in particular activation of the microglia, is associated with PD pathology (McGeer et al., 1988). Microglia are the brain’s resident immune cells and play a role in immune surveillance under normal conditions. However, in response to immunological stimuli and neuronal injuries, microglia become activated and alter their morphology. They enlarge and develop short stubby processes and produce potentially

*Correspondence to: Dr R. Betarbet, Emory University, Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, Room 525, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. Email: [email protected], Tel: þ1-404-7279216, Fax: þ1-404-727-3728.

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Fig. 11.1. Schematic diagram showing the nigrostriatal dopaminergic pathway, which undergoes progressive degeneration, an important hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD) pathogenesis. (A) Cross-section of the human forebrain shows the caudate and the putamen, which constitute the striatum. Section through the midbrain shows the ventrally located substantia nigra (SN). Dopaminergic neurons located in the SN send projections that terminate in the striatum. (B) Following degeneration of the dopaminergic pathway, the dopaminergic terminals release progressively less dopamine in the striatum. Striatal dopamine deficiency, in turn, results in complex changes in the basal ganglia circuitry resulting in motor deficits characteristic of PD. A report by Hornykiewicz (1966) has indicated >90% loss of striatal dopamine as compared to 0.70 (group) 0.90–0.95 (individual) r > 0.20 or r > 0.40

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12.6. Rating scales for Parkinson’s disease Aside from being the most prevalent of the parkinsonian syndromes, PD is also a very complex disorder to assess. Moreover, many clinical trials have been performed on PD to determine the effect of interventions with drugs, surgical procedures and rehabilitation. PD is consequently the parkinsonian syndrome for which most scales are available and on which most reviews on the topic have centered (Lang and Fahn, 1989; Martinez-Martin, 1993, 2000; Mitchell et al., 2000; Tison, 2000; Ramaker et al., 2002). PD is characterized by motor manifestations (bradykinesia, rigidity, rest tremor, and gait-and-balance disorder) and non-motor manifestations (cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbances, autonomic disorder and depression). Furthermore, over the course of the disease, so-called complications (motor and nonmotor) linked to treatment appear in a large proportion of patients in the more advanced stages of the disease. Dyskinesia and fluctuations are capable of modifying the patient’s condition, at times abruptly, from one moment to the next, several times a day. Bearing in mind the degree to which the disease varies from one patient to another, it follows that, where PD is concerned, variability is the norm (Lang and Fahn, 1989) and that assessment is therefore a really complex task. 12.6.1. Brief history of the Parkinson’s disease rating scales Since 1960, a variety of PD evaluation scales have been published (Lang and Fahn, 1989; MartinezMartin, 1993). Initially, the goal was to assess the most salient manifestations of disease (symptoms and signs), their relationship with disease severity and any ensuing disability (Schwab, 1960; Canter et al., 1961; Hoehn and Yahr, 1967; Webster, 1968). Scales were also used to check the efficacy of available surgical and pharmacological treatments (Petrinovich and Hardyck, 1964; Klawans and Garvin, 1969; Schwab and England, 1969). In the latter half of the 1970s, the relevance of motor (fluctuations, dyskinesias) and mental complications was highlighted (Fahn, 1974; Lieberman, 1974; Kartzinel and Calne, 1976; Lhermitte et al., 1978) and items or sections for assessment of these complications were included in new scales over the course of the next 10 years (Lieberman et al., 1980; Larsen et al., 1984; Fahn et al., 1987). Occasionally, distinctive aspects of the disease, such as depression, cognitive impairment, pain and sleep disturbances, were also included for appraisal (McDowell et al., 1970;

Parkes et al., 1970; Lieberman, 1974; Fahn et al., 1987; Martinez-Martin et al., 1987). In 1987, both the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) (Fahn et al., 1987) and the Intermediate Scale for Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease (ISAPD) (Martinez-Martin, 1988) appeared with the aim of achieving a uniform, valid measure for the evaluation of PD. Somewhat surprisingly, publication of relevant validation data on both scales came some years after the original studies (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994, 1995; Richards et al., 1994; van Hilten et al., 1994). Since then, new PD rating scales have been subjected to a psychometric or clinimetric process of validation prior to their use for practice or research purposes (Rabey et al., 1997; Marinus et al., 2004). A non-comprehensive list of PD scales mainly intended to assess motor aspects is shown in Table 12.2. Although they are generally applied to determine the severity of impairments (symptoms and signs), functional impact and intensity of motor complications, these scales evince a wide variety of designs and are very variable in their features, each reflecting the concept held by their respective authors as to the theoretical construct to be measured and how it should be measured. Not only is there a huge diversity of modified (and non-validated) versions of original scales, but separate scales have also been developed to evaluate specific impairments, such as cognitive impairment, sleep and gait (Waxman et al., 1990; Martinez-Martin et al., 1997; Friedberg et al., 1998; Chaudhuri et al., 2002; Marinus et al., 2003b, c; Thomas et al., 2004; Visser et al., 2004a). Problems stemming from the profusion of PD rating scales and their modified versions include: (1) lack of validation of many scales means that their metric quality is unknown; (2) results yielded by studies using different scales for outcome measurement are difficult to compare; and (3) interpretation of results is uncertain in cases where several scales are used simultaneously and provide mutually contradictory results (Martinez-Martin, 1993). To avoid these sorts of problems, it was proposed that a valid and widely accepted scale be used as a common instrument of evaluation. It was with this intention, albeit from different perspectives, that the UPDRS and ISAPD were developed (Fahn et al., 1987; Martinez-Martin, 1988, 1993; Lang and Fahn, 1989). Whereas the UPDRS was designed as an extensive and comprehensive scale for application as a standalone instrument, the ISAPD sought to be a ‘common nucleus’ of assessment through use of a scale which, though brief, was informative and valid, and was simultaneously applicable to practice and research. As a rule,

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Table 12.2 Rating scales for Parkinson’s disease

Progression and Prognosis Scale (Schwab, 1960) Northwestern University Disability Scale (Canter et al., 1961) Evaluation of Behavioral Changes (Petrinovich and Hardyck, 1964) PD Disability Rating Scale (Alba et al., 1968) Webster’s Scale (Webster, 1968) Columbia University Rating Scale (Yahr et al., 1969) Physical Findings Rating Scale (Klawans and Garvin, 1969) Schwab and England Scale (Schwab and England, 1969) PD Assessment Scale (Andeń et al., 1970) PD Information Center Scale (Cotzias et al., 1970) Cornell–UCLA Disability Scale (McDowell et al., 1970) King’s College Hospital Rating Scale (Parkes et al., 1970) Disability Score (Birkmayer and Neumayer, 1972) Evaluation of PD (Walker et al., 1972) PD Evaluation Scale (Lieberman, 1974) Parameters for Evaluation of PD (Korten, 1977) New York University PD Evaluation (Lieberman et al., 1980) Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease (Larsen et al., 1984) Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (Fahn et al., 1987) Intermediate Scale for Assessment of PD (Martinez-Martin et al., 1988) Short Parkinson’s Evaluation Scale (Rabey et al., 1997) Scales for Outcomes in PD – Motor (Marinus et al., 2004)

I

D

C

þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ

þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ þ

þ þ þ þ þ

These scales assess impairments (I þ), disability (D þ) and motor complications (C þ).

long scales require time for application and are burdensome to patients, whereas scales that are too short can be uninformative and insensitive. On the other hand, the wider the range of possible scores for each item, the greater the sensitivity of the scale, yet this is an advantage that works to the detriment of reliability (both interrater and test–retest). PD patient evaluation by means of scales is an issue that has not been definitively resolved. Consequently, new measures will continue to be designed and existing instruments improved. From a conceptual point of view, the most relevant contribution to this field in the past decade has been the development and use of specific HRQoL measures, an approach that complements clinical assessment relying on ‘classic’ scales. The most widely used and best studied scales are briefly described and reviewed below. The basic criteria that can be used as a standard of metric quality are shown in Table 12.1. The results of studies exploring metric characteristics of PD rating scales are summarized in Table 12.3. In order to rate the features examined and the compliance with such metric quality criteria for each scale simultaneously,

the following formula has been applied to the data displayed in Table 12.3: Q ¼ number of explored attributes/number of computable attributes (number of attributes explored fitting the criterion 2) where the number of computable attributes is 5 (alpha, item–total correlation, interrater reliability, test–retest reliability and convergent validity). For instance, if only Cronbach’s alpha (0.85), test– retest reliability (items and total >0.80) and convergent validity (r < 0.35) have been investigated in a given scale, the rating will be (3 attributes explored/5) (2 attributes over the criterion value 2) ¼ (3/5) 4 ¼ 2.4 points. The criteria applied appear marked with an asterisk in Table 12.1. The scale assessment score ranges from 0 to 10, meaning that the higher the score, the better the scale. The scores awarded are shown in Table 12.4. 12.6.2. The Hoehn and Yahr Staging Scale The Hoehn and Yahr staging scale (HY) (Hoehn and Yahr, 1967) is an easy-to-administer scale developed

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Table 12.3 Psychometric characteristics of Parkinson’s disease rating scales

Scale

No. of items

Mode of administration

Coefficient alpha (Cronbach)

Item–total correlation (correlation coefficient)

HY

1

Examination

NA

NA

Interrater reliability

Test–retest reliability

Convergent validity (correlation coefficient)

k ¼ 0.44–0.71

_

UPDRS Total ¼ 0.71 Sect. II ¼ 0.26–0.84 Sect. III ¼ 0.75–0.87 SPES (items) Section II 0.15–0.62 Section III 0.09–0.65 Section IV 0.08–0.23 RSGE ¼ 0.78–0.83 FOGQ ¼ 0.66 SCOPA-Cog ¼ 0.66 SCOPA-Aut ¼ 0.60

SE

1

Patient interview

NA

NA

_

_

UPDRS Total ¼ 0.60 to 0.96 Sect. II ¼ 0.60 to 0.75 ISAPD 0.81– 0.98 RSGE ¼ 0.76 to 0.83

UPDRS

Sect. I 4

Section I patient interview self-administered by proxy

UPDRS total 0.90–0.96

Section II 0.02 to 0.65

Section II k items ¼ 0.31–0.88 Kendall’s W items 0.91–0.94 ICC items 0.61–0.91 ICC total ¼ 0.93

UPDRS total ICC ¼ 0.90–0.93

HY Total ¼ 0.71 Sect. II ¼ 0.26–0.84 Sect. III ¼ 0.06–0.87


ISAPD ¼ 0.65–0.87

Sect. II 13 Sect. III 14 Sect. IV 11

Section II patient interview self-administered by proxy video Section III motor exam video Section IV patient interview

13 (þ4 for complic)

Patient interview þ motor exam

Section III 0.03–0.65

Section I k ¼ 0.49–0.65 ICC ¼ 0.71–0.75

Section III 0.88–0.95 Section IV

Section III

Dyskinesias a ¼ 0.58 Fluctuations a ¼ 0.74

k items ¼ 0.15–0.90 Kendall’s W items 0.42–0.89 ICC items ¼ 0.00–0.83 ICC total ¼ 0.90 Section IV Kendall’s W items 0.44–0.96 ICC items ¼ 0.39–0.96 ICC dyskinesias total ¼ 0.94 ICC fluctuations total ¼ 0.75

0.97

0.61–0.90

k ¼ 0.74–0.89

Section II k ¼ 0.53–0.81 ICC ¼ 0.82–0.87

Section III k ¼ 0.49–0.75 ICC ¼ 0.87–0.92

SE Total ¼ 0.60–0.96 Sect. II ¼ 0.60–0.75 ISAPD (total) Total ¼ 0.91–0.92 Sect. I ¼ 0.34 Sect. II ¼ 0.92 Sect. III ¼ 0.84 Sect. IV ¼ 0.43 SPES Sect. II ¼ 0.71–0.96 Sect. III ¼ 0.65–0.92 Sect. IV ¼ 0.36–0.89

SPES/SCOPA Sect. I ¼ 0.88 Sect. II ¼ 0.86 Sect. III ¼ 0.86 Dyskinesias ¼ 0.86 Fluctuations ¼ 0.95 RSGE Total ¼ 0.87–0.90 FOGQ Total ¼ 0.48 Section II ¼ 0.43 Section III ¼ 0.40 –


ISAPD

Section II 0.85–0.91

HY 0.65–0.87 UPDRS Total ¼ 0.91–0.92 Sect. I ¼ 0.34 Sect. II ¼ 0.92 Sect. III ¼ 0.84 Sect. IV ¼ 0.43

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Scale

No. of items







SPES

Sect. I 3

Patient inteview þ motor exam

Sect. II 8

Section II 0.60

Section II >0.60

Section III 0.91

Section III 0.20–0.57

Sect. III 8

Sect. I 10


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1

Section III Kendall’s W 0.79–0.95

Self-administered

HY (items) Sect. II ¼ 0.15–0.62 Sect. III ¼ 0.09–0.65 Sect. IV ¼ 0.08–0.23 UPDRS (items) Sect. II ¼ 0.71–0.96 Sect. III ¼ 0.65–0.92 Sect. IV ¼ 0.36–0.89

Section I

Section I

Section I

Section I

UPDRS

0.74

0.15–0.65

ICC ¼ 0.86

ICC ¼ 0.81–0.95

Section II 0.81

Section II 0.38–0.72

Section II ICC ¼ 0.89

Section I ¼ 0.88 Section II ¼ 0.86 Section III Dyskinesias ¼ 0.86 Fluctuations ¼ 0.95

k ¼ 0.89

Webster ¼ 0.65 CAMCOG ¼ 0.41 Geriatric Depression scale(15 it.) ¼ 0.43

Section III Dyskinesias a ¼ 0.92 Fluctuations a ¼ 0.95

7 Sect. III 4

PDADLS

_

Section IV Kendall’s W 0.85–0.98

Sect. IV 5 SPES/SCOPA

Section II Kendall’s W 0.88–0.94

_

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GABS

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Patient interview/ self-administered

0.94

Patient interview

þ motor exam þ posturography

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0.25–0.84

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Barthel index 0.74 to 0.80 Nortwestern Univ. Disability scale 0.75–0.84 UPDRS Total ¼ 0.87–0.90 HY 0.78–0.83 SE 0.76 to 0.83

_

_

_

UPDRS Total ¼ 0.48 Section II ¼ 0.43 Section III ¼ 0.40 HY ¼ 0.66

_

k ¼ 0.31–0.83

Force platforms r ¼ 0.46–1

PPRS

6

Patient interview

0.76–0.80

_

_

r ¼ 0.77–0.78

BPRS ¼ 0.92 NOSIE psychotic 0.48 NOSIE irritative 0.55 MMSE no correlation

SCOPA-COG

10

Cognitive exam

0.83

r ¼ 0.34– 0.66

_

ICC ¼ 0.78

CAMCOG ¼ 0.83 MMSE ¼ 0.72 HY ¼ 0.39

PDSS

15

Self-administered By proxy

0.77

r ¼ 0.07– 0.66

_

Total ICC ¼ 0.94 Items ICC ¼ 0.61–0.99

Epworth (with PDSS item 15) 0.23 to 0.59 Hamilton ¼ 0.55 UPDRS Section IV ¼ 0.22 PDQ-39 ¼ 0.26 No correlation with HY, UPDRS-Sect. I & III, MMSE

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FOGQ

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No. of items

SCOPA-Sleep

Nocturnal Sleep (5) Daytime Sleepin. (6)



Self-administered

NS – a ¼ 0.88 DS – a ¼ 0.91

NS ¼ 0.48– 0.85 DS¼ 0.55– 0.85




_

Total NS ¼ 0.94

NS-PSQI ¼ 0.83

Total DS ¼ 0.89

PSQI subscales (r ¼ 0.38–0.73) DS-EPSS ¼ 0.81

Items NS k ¼ 0.82–0.90 Items DS k ¼ 0.49–0.82

SCOPA-AUT

25

Self-administered

_

_

_

ICC total ¼ 0.87 ICC subscales 0.65–0.90 k items 0.45–0.90

HY ¼ 0.60

RDRS

4

Exam/Video

_

_

Severity Kendall’s W 0.71–0.89

Severity rs ¼ 0.82–0.90

_

Type Kendall’s W 0.34–0.42 Disability Kendall’s W 0.28–0.48

Type Coef Crame´r ¼ 0.69–0.73 Disability Coef Crame´r 0.83–0.84


Scale


14

Exam

_

_

Hyperkinesia Kendall’s W 0.86–0.91 Dystonia Kendall’s W 0.31–0.47

Hyperkinesia Kendall’s tau 0.64–0.90 Dystonia Kendall’s tau 0.31–0.91

_ _

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5

Patient’s interview

_

_

_

_

RDRS ¼ 0.02–0.36 Diary ¼ 0.08–0.56

NA, not applicable. HY Hoehn and Yahr Staging Scale (Hoehn and Yahr, 1967) UPDRS Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (Fahn et al., 1987) SE Schwab and England Scale (Schwab and England, 1969) ISAPD Intermediate Scale for Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease (Martinez-Martin et al., 1995) SPES Short Parkinson’s Evaluation Scale (Rabey et al., 1997) SPES/SCOPA SPES/SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease Motor (Marinus et al., 2004) PDADLS Parkinson’s Disease Activities of Daily Living Scale (Hobson et al., 2001) RSGE Rating Scale for Gait Evaluation (Martinez-Martin et al., 1997) FOGQ Freezing of Gait Questionnaire (Giladi et al., 2000) GABS Clinical Gait and Balance Scale (Thomas et al., 2004) PPRS Parkinson Psychosis Rating Scale (Friedberg et al., 1998) SCOPA-COG SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease – Cognition (Marinus et al., 2003c) PDSSParkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale (Chaudhuri et al., 2002) SCOPA-Sleep SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease – Sleep (Marinus et al., 2003b) SCOPA-AUT SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease – Autonomic (Visser et al., 2004a) RDRS Rush Dyskinesia Rating Scale (Goetz et al., 1994) CDRS Clinical Dyskinesia Rating Scale (Hagell and Widner, 1999) LFADLS Lang–Fahn Activities of Daily Living Dyskinesia Scale (Parkinson Study Group, 2001)


CDRS

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304


Table 12.4 Ranking of rating scales for Parkinson’s disease based on their psychometric attributes* Q index Global assessment SPES/SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease Motor Intermediate Scale for Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale Short Parkinson’s Evaluation Scale Parkinson’s Disease Activities of Daily Living Scale Hoehn and Yahr Staging Scale Schwab and England Scale Gait Rating Scale for Gait Evaluation Freezing of Gait Questionnaire Clinical Gait and Balance Scale Sleep SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale Dyskinesia Clinical Dyskinesia Rating Scale (Hyperkin.) (Dystonia) Rush Dyskinesia Rating Scale LangFahn Activities of Daily Living Dyskinesia Scale Other SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease Cognition Parkinson Psychosis Rating Scale SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease Autonomic

8.0 6.4 6.0 4.8 1.6 1.3 0.6 4.8 1.6 0.8 6.4 3.6 1.6 0.4 0.8 0.2 6.4 3.6 1.6

*Taking into account the minimal criteria shown in Table 12.1 and the psychometric attributes displayed in Table 12.3, an index (Q) combining availability of data about explored attributes and criteria fulfilling was calculated: Q ¼ (number of explored attributes/number of computable attributes) (number of attributes explored fitting the criterion 2), where the number of computable attributes ¼ 5.

to classify PD patients according to severity. It indicates the overall level of severity based on laterality of involvement, impairment of mobility and postural response, and disability. Despite having been developed over 30 years ago in the pre-levodopa era, the scale is nevertheless still widely used in clinical and research settings. The HY has been adapted to many different uses and even applied to disorders other than PD (Goetz et al., 2004). Although originally designed as a five-point scale (1 ¼ unilateral disease; 2 ¼ bilateral mild disease, with or without axial involvement; 3 ¼ mild to moderate bilateral disease, with first signs of deteriorating balance; 4 ¼ severe disease requiring considerable assistance; 5 ¼ confined to wheelchair or bed unless aided), during the 1990s, 0.5 increments were introduced for some clinical tests, thereby resulting in an seven-point scale with the addition of stages 1.5 and 2.5 (1.5 ¼ unilateral plus axial involvement; 2.5 ¼ mild bilateral disease, with recovery on pull test). This version of the HY scale

was included, but never validated, as a complementary assessment, in the UPDRS battery (Fahn et al., 1987), in the Core Assessment Program for Intracerebral Transplantations (CAPIT) (Langston et al., 1991, 1992), and in the Core Assessment Program for Surgical Interventional Therapies in PD (CAPSIT-PD) (Defer et al., 1999). The HY scale is a simple, descriptive, ordinal scale that provides a general estimate of clinical aspects in PD, combining functional deficits (disability) and objective signs (impairment). Although HY scores are frequently quoted in terms of means and standard deviations, they should properly be reported as medians and interquartile ranges, because of assumptions underlying the statistical analysis of non-continuous variables. Likewise, analysis of differences between groups or changes in scores should involve the use of non-parametric methods (Nunnally and Bernstein, 1994; Streiner and Norman, 2003). The HY scale may be used as

SCALES TO MEASURE PARKINSONISM an index of clinical progression in survival analysis (Goetz et al., 2004). Interrater reliability has been assessed by using non-weighted and weighted kappa statistics, resulting in moderate to satisfactory levels of agreement (0.44–0.71) (Ginanneschi et al., 1988, 1991; Geminiani et al., 1991). The intrarater reliability has never been assessed. The HY scale which has been used as the benchmark against the validity of other scales has been assessed. In this setting, a significant correlation has been observed between the HY scale and the UPDRS, ISAPD, Columbia and Sidney scales (correlation coefficients (Spearman, Pearson, other coefficients) ¼ 0.55– 0.91) (Hely et al., 1993; Martinez-Martin et al., 1994, 1995; van Hilten et al., 1994; Stebbins and Goetz, 1998; Stebbins et al., 1999). HY staging also correlated significantly with imaging measures representative of PD pathology, such as ß-CIT (123I-labeled 2b-carboxy3b-(4-iodophenyl)trophane) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scanning and [18F] fluorodopa positron emission tomography (PET) scanning (Eidelberg et al., 1995; Staffen et al., 2000). In contrast, Henderson et al. (1991) reported a poor degree of correlation between the HY scale and other PDspecific measures of motor impairment and disability. 12.6.3. Schwab and England Scale This is a rapid scale, used to grade patients’ perception of overall functional capacity and dependence (Schwab and England, 1969). Despite being frequently used in PD-related studies and forming part of the UPDRS battery, this scale has not been included in the CAPIT (Langston et al., 1991, 1992) or in the CAPSIT-PD (Defer et al., 1999). Schwab and England scoring is expressed in terms of percentage, in 10 steps from 100 to 0, where 100% denotes normal state and 0% denotes bed-ridden with vegetative dysfunction. In spite of their appearance, these scores represent an ordinal level of measurement. Although this scale has been extensively used, it has been never formally tested and standardized, so that there is some uncertainty as to its reliability (McRae et al., 2000). Convergent validity has been indirectly assessed when Schwab and England was used to validate scales, such as the ISAPD, UPDRS and modified versions of the latter (Ramaker et al., 2002). In these studies, correlation coefficients were > 0.40, taken as criterion value (r (Spearman, Pearson) ¼ –0.60 to –0.98) (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994, 1995, 2000, 2003). Visser et al. (2004b) failed to find any correlation between a comorbidity index (Cumulative Illness Rating Scale – Geriatric: CIRS-G) (Miller et al., 1992) and the Schwab and England scale.

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12.6.4. The Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale The UPDRS was developed in an effort to incorporate elements from existing scales so as to provide a comprehensive means of monitoring PD-related disability and impairment. The development of this scale involved multiple trial versions, and the final published scale is officially known as UPDRS version 3.0 (Fahn et al., 1987). To date, the UPDRS has been the most widely used clinical rating scale for PD (Mitchell et al., 2000; Ramaker et al., 2002). This scale seeks to cover the clinical spectrum of PD and usually takes an average of 16–17 minutes to complete. The UPDRS consists of the following four subscales: (1) part I (four items), mental status, behaviour and mood; (2) part II (13 items), ADL, which may be scored in ‘on’ or ‘off’ states; (3) part III (14 items), motor examination (this section produces 27 scores due to assessment of several signs in different parts of the body); and (4) part IV (11 items), complications, comprising four items for dyskinesias, four items for fluctuations and three items for other complications. UPDRS subscales are used at different frequencies, with those most often used being sections II and III (Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson’s Disease, 2003). Scoring of items in parts I, II and III ranges from 0 to 4 (0 ¼ normal, 4 ¼ severe), whereas scoring of part IV is irregular (with some items scoring from 0 to 4, and others 0 ¼ no and 1 ¼ yes). Total subscale scores are 16 for section I , 52 for section II , 108 for section III and 23 for section IV. The HY and Schwab and England Scales have been added to the UPDRS, thereby constituting a genuine evaluation battery. The UPDRS can be administered in several ways. Traditionally, parts I, II and IV are administered by interview and part III by performing a structured neurological examination. As alternative forms of administration, parts I and II can be self-administered or assessed by proxy (care-giver) with satisfactory overall results (Louis et al., 1996; Martinez-Martin et al., 2003). There is also a purpose-adapted scale for use by nurses (Bennett et al., 1997). An important feature of the UPDRS is the availability of a teaching tape for parts II and III (Goetz et al., 1995, 2003; Goetz and Stebbins, 2004), intended to enhance practical application of the scale and so greatly help improve interrater reliability. Of all available PD rating scales, the UPDRS is the most thoroughly tested instrument from a clinimetric point of view. Nonetheless, some relevant limitations exist, such as several ambiguities in the written text,

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inadequate instructions for raters and a number of metric flaws. In this connection, an ad hoc task force has recommended that the Movement Disorder Society sponsor the development of a new version of the UPDRS (Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson’s Disease, 2003). The UPDRS has shown itself to have a satisfactory global internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ 0.96) (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994). Yet, this determination suffers from two weaknesses: (1) as the UPDRS is a multidimensional scale, internal consistency should properly be determined for each domain; and (2) this high degree of internal consistency may be artificially increased due to redundancy among the large number of items in sections II and III (Cronbach, 1951; Martinez-Martin et al., 1994; Fitzpatrick et al., 1998; Ramaker et al., 2002). Alpha values exceeding 0.70 have been attained by parts II and III, even where part II is applied by patients themselves or their care-givers (van Hilten et al., 1994; Stebbins and Goetz, 1998; Martignoni et al., 2003; Martinez-Martin et al., 2003; Marinus et al., 2004). With regard to item–total correlation, some items, such as tremor, salivation, swallowing and sensory symptoms, have been shown to have poor item–total correlation (van Hilten et al., 1994; Martignoni et al., 2003; Marinus et al., 2004). Overall, sections II and III items display acceptable or satisfactory stability (kappa > 0.40), with part II items tending to be the most reliable (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994; Rabey et al., 1997; Marinus et al., 2004). Louis et al. (1996) have shown that interrater reliability is satisfactory for self-assessed parts I and II. In a study focusing on section 2 , concordance was higher between patients and care-givers (kappa ¼ 0.57– 0.88) than between patients and neurologists (kappa ¼ 0.31–0.88) (Martinez-Martin et al., 2003). In contrast, some section III items (language, facial expression, tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and repetitive movements) have shown moderate or poor interrater reliability among neurologists (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994; Richards et al., 1994; Prochazka et al., 1997; Rabey et al., 1997), technicians (Bennett et al., 1997) and both categories of raters (Bennett et al., 1997; Camicioli et al., 2001). When section III has been rated through video recording, agreement among neurologists proved higher than between neurologists and research technicians (Goetz et al., 1995; Camicioli et al., 2001). Interrater reliability for part IV has proved quite satisfactory, except for the items, ‘off’ periods that come on suddenly (Kendall’s W ¼ 0.44) (Rabey et al., 1997), early-morning dystonia and unpredictable ‘off’ periods (ICC ¼ 0.39 and 0.41, respectively) (Marinus et al., 2004). Intrarater (test–retest)

reliability has proved satisfactory for part I, II and III total scores (ICC ¼ 0.74–0.90) and most of their respective items (kappa ¼ 0.42–0.81; 73% of the items yielded kappa values > 0.60) (Siderowf et al., 2002). In a study by Camicioli et al (2001), part III items, evaluated by a trained technician using videotaped assessment (only 30% of items had kappa >0.40), were found to have poor stability. Use of the nurseadapted version of this part resulted in intermediate agreement (low-to-moderate reliability values) (Bennett et al., 1997). Studies conducted to ascertain the convergent validity of the UPDRS vis-a`-vis other PD scales (HY, Schwab and England, ISAPD and Short Scale for Assessment of Motor Impairments and Disabilities in Parkinson’s disease (SPES/SCOPA – Motor)) and timed motor tests have furnished satisfactory results (correlation coefficients (Spearman et al.) ¼ 0.55– 0.96) (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994, 1997; Stebbins and Goetz, 1998; Stebbins et al., 1999; Martignoni et al., 2003; Marinus et al., 2004). Exploratory factor analysis has demonstrated the multidimensional assessment format of the UPDRS (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994), with part III being found to contain three to six factors that account for 60–80% of total scale variance (van Hilten et al., 1994; Stebbins and Goetz, 1998; Stebbins et al., 1999). This factor structure has been shown to be stable across both ‘on’ and ‘off’ states (Stebbins et al., 1999). A disability index, derived from UPDRS section II and designed as an illustrative model for interpretability of results yielded by this section, has displayed appropriate psychometric properties (reliability, convergent validity and known-groups validity) (Martinez-Martin et al., 2000). Nonetheless, the selection of items included in this index has been criticized because swallowing is viewed as an impairment rather than a disability (Hariz et al., 2002). Although this argument is valid, the model was originally created as a predictive and interpretative clinimetric index of patients’ functional status. From this stance, the item in question – swallowing – was therefore retained in the model because it provides prognostic information (inasmuch as this sign does not usually appear until patients reach moderate or advanced stages of the disease). 12.6.5. Intermediate Scale for Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease The ISAPD was designed using a statistical procedure for item selection, based on the Northwestern University Disability Scale, UCLA-Cornell scale, Webster

SCALES TO MEASURE PARKINSONISM scale and a five-item complementary scale (MartinezMartin et al., 1987, 1995; Martinez-Martin, 1988). The purpose was to obtain a relatively short, valid, functional scale to form a standard nucleus for clinical trials and daily clinical practice. It is composed of 13 items (11 for interview and two for examination purposes) related to ADL and general mobility, as well as sections for assessment of dyskinesias and fluctuations. The score range for each item is uniform, going from 0 (normal) to 3 (severe). The average time spent on administering it is 7 minutes. The original scale has been improved, the currently recommended version being ISAPD-2.1 (Martinez-Martin et al., 1998b, 2006). According to the original study and unpublished data, internal consistency has been satisfactory, with an alpha coefficient > 0.90, interitem correlation of 0.41–0.91, and item–total correlation of 0.61–0.90. Interrater reliability proved satisfactory for all items (kappa ¼ 0.74–0.89). Correlation with other scales, such as HY, UPDRS and Schwab and England (rS ¼ 0.65–0.98), showed the ISAPD as having satisfactory convergent validity with these measures. Factor analysis revealed the existence of three factors that explained 76.5% of the variance (factor I: basic ADL; factor II: mobility dependent on the lower limbs; and factor III: symptoms linked to the pharyngolaryngeal area, such as speech and eating) (Martinez-Martin et al., 1995).

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account for 61.5% of the total variance (Rabey et al., 1997). An independent study found two factors for each section (ADL and motor examination), which explained 70% and 79% of the total variance respectively (Martignoni et al., 2003). Item–total correlation proved satisfactory for all items in the ADL (rS > 0.60) and motor examination (rS > 0.57) sections, except for the rest and action tremor items in the latter (rS < 0.20) (Martignoni et al., 2003), a finding shared with the UPDRS (Rabey et al., 1997; Martignoni et al., 2003; Reichmann et al., 2003). Interrater reliability has been explored for the ADL, motor examination and motor complications sections and been pronounced satisfactory (mean Kendall’s W ¼ 0.88–0.94, 0.78–0.95, 0.85–0.94, respectively) (Rabey et al., 1997). Correlation between the respective items in the SPES and the HY scale has been found to surpass the criterion (rS ¼ > 0.40), except for eating (ADL section), rigidity, rest tremor and postural tremor (motor examination section) (Rabey et al., 1997; Martignoni et al., 2003). Significant correlations were also found between the UPDRS and SPES (ADL and motor sections) (rS ¼ 0.88–0.90) (Martignoni et al., 2003). The SPES has been specifically studied for sensitivity, registering a significant effect size (ES) in the motor examination section (ES ¼ 0.89) and moderate ES in the ADL section (ES ¼ 0.47) (Reichmann et al., 2003). SPES responsiveness has proved comparable to that of the UPDRS (Rabey et al., 2002).

12.6.6. Short Parkinson’s Evaluation Scale (SPES) In 1994, a European group initiated an international collaborative effort to overcome problems reportedly affecting the UPDRS (Martinez-Martin et al., 1994; Richards et al., 1994; van Hilten et al., 1994). In contrast to the UPDRS, the SPES represents a four-point scale (0 ¼ normal, 3 ¼ severe), endowed with less redundancy and more clearly defined ranks than the UPDRS, in order to improve interrater reliability without a significant loss of sensitivity. The SPES is made up of four sections: (1) mental state (three items); (2) ADL (eight items); (3) motor examination (eight items); and (4) treatment complications (five items) (Rabey et al., 1997). It usually takes 7–10 minutes to administer and instructions for use are available. The SPES is accompanied by the HY scale and an axial description of motor complications. With the exception of the mental state section, internal consistency has been found to be acceptable on the whole. Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.60 to 0.91 (Martignoni et al., 2003; Reichmann et al., 2003). Factor analysis identified four factors that

12.6.7. Short Scale for Assessment of Motor Impairments and Disabilities in Parkinson’s Disease (SPES/SCOPA) The SPES/SCOPA was designed to improve some clinimetric shortcomings of the SPES, particularly its internal consistency (Marinus et al., 2004). The development of this scale is part of a larger research project, known as SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease (SCOPA). The SPES/SCOPA is composed of three sections: (1) motor impairment, containing two subscales, namely, motor examination (eight items) and historical information (two items); (2) ADL (seven items); and (3) motor complications (four items). There is a choice of four possible responses per item, ranging from 0 (normal) to 3 (severe). The mental section was removed from the SPES altogether because the authors felt that such complex functions could not be reliably and validly assessed by a single question. The mean time needed to complete the scale is 8.1 1.9 minutes.

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Although coefficient alpha for the different sections of the scale exceeded the criterion value for groups (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ 0.74 – 0.95), some components of the motor section, such as right-hand tremor and swallowing, displayed low item–total correlation (r < 0.20). Interrater reliability of the motor section proved fair for 50% of the items (ICC < 0.60, especially for postural tremor and right-side rigidity). In contrast, the reliability of the ADL and motor complication sections was satisfactory (save for changing positions, ADL section) (ICC ¼ 0.61–0.92). Interrater reliability and test–retest of the motor section, assessed by video by an international panel of experts, was also satisfactory (kappa and ICC > 0.70). The correlation between related sections of the SPES/SCOPA and the UPDRS (motor, ADL and motor complications) was high (r > 0.86). In all cases, correlations between these sections and the HY and Schwab and England scales were similar to those with the UPDRS, according to the scale’s authors (coefficients not specified) (Marinus et al., 2004). Known-groups validity was satisfactory. Statistically significant differences appeared when patients with different disease severity, based on HY staging, were compared. A significant trend was present in both sections of the scales (motor examination and ADL), with higher scores for patients among whom the disease was more advanced (ANOVA, P < 0.001). 12.6.8. The Parkinson’s Disease Activities of Daily Living Scale This is a short unidimensional scale, designed to evaluate a construct composed of heterogeneous components (dependency, effect of treatment, etc.) by means of a single number. Response options involve up to five possible answers referring to the difficulty experienced by the patient in performing ADL (1 ¼ without difficulty, 5 ¼ severe difficulties) (Hobson et al., 2001). Each response option describes PD-related interference with patients’ functioning in terms of limitations, need of assistance and effect of medication. The scale is designed to be selfadministered. Based on the original description, this scale possesses a satisfactory test–retest reliability, determined by a non-specified correlation coefficient (r ¼ 0.89) without any additional analysis to discard random agreement. Convergent validity with the Webster scale (Webster, 1968) proved satisfactory (Hobson et al., 2001).

12.6.9. Scales for assessment of specific aspects 12.6.9.1. Gait evaluation scales in Parkinson’s disease 12.6.9.1.1. The Rating Scale for Gait Evaluation (RSGE) This scale was specifically designed to evaluate gait disorder in PD. Whereas the first version consisted of 23 items (Martinez-Martin et al., 1997), version 2.0 consists of 21 items scored on a four-option scale (0 ¼ normal, 3 ¼ severe), embedded in the following four subscales: (1) socioeconomic (four items; maximum score 12 points); (2) functional ability/ADL (seven items; maximum, 21 points); examination (eight items; maximum, 24 points); and complications (two items; maximum, 6 points) (Badıá et al., 1999). Aside from the examination section, the scores for the remaining subscales are obtained through interviews, and the timeframe is the previous week. If fluctuations are present, the functional ability section is scored in both ‘on’ and ‘off’ states. Internal consistency, as measured by coefficient alpha, was satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ 0.94). Overall, item–total correlation surpassed the criterion (rS ¼ 0.47–0.84), except for the following items: falls, dyskinesias and axial rigidity (rS ¼ 0.25–0.39). Factor analysis identified four factors (mobility/gait, socioeconomic aspects, rigidity and complications) accounting for 68% of total variance. Interrater reliability was acceptable, with the exception of the ‘axial rigidity’ item (kappa ¼ 0.30). Six items in the examination section attained kappa values of close on 0.60 (kappa ¼ 0.54–0.58). Convergent validity with the Northwestern University Disability Scale, Schwab and England HY, total UPDRS and relevant UPDRS sections, Barthel index and timed tests (timed Up and Go test, cadence of step) was satisfactory (rS ¼ 0.68–0.90). 12.6.9.1.2. Freezing Of Gait Questionnaire (FOGQ) The definitive version of this questionnaire can be used for self-assessment. It comprises six items describing patients’ gait difficulties during ‘off’ periods, impact on the ADL, freezing-related circumstances and duration of the episodes. Answers are given on a five-point scale, where 0 indicates absence of the symptom and 4 represents the most severe disability or duration (Giladi et al., 2000). In the original study, Cronbach’s alpha proved high for the total score (alpha ¼ 0.94). Correlation with UPDRS sections II and III (complications were not analyzed) displayed a moderate association


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logical treatment, a finding indicative of adequate PPRS responsiveness (Friedberg et al., 1998).

12.6.9.1.3. Clinical Gait and Balance Scale (GABS)

12.6.9.2.2. SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Disease – COGnitive scale (SCOPA-COG)

In effect, the GABS is a battery-type instrument designed to assess gait, freezing of gait, gait cycle, balance and posture. It consists of two parts: (1) historical information; and (2) evaluation of 14 gait parameters by examination of patients. These parameters include UPDRS items, full and half turn, Romberg test, tandem gait, one-limb stance, provocative tests for freezing, a modified Performance Oriented Assessment of Gait (POAG) scale, posturography on unstable surface (foam), the functional reach test, timed tests to assess gait speed, and the Up and Go test (Thomas et al., 2004). GABS items are scored as follows: items 1–17 on a scale of 0 (normal) to 4 (the most severe); and items 18–24 on a scale of 0 (normal) to 1 or 2 (1 and 2 being abnormal). Historical information consists of questions relating to walking, ADL, falls and freezing. Of the 18 items studied, intrarater reliability was moderate (kappa ¼ 0.40–0.60) for 10, substantial (kappa > 0.60) for 7 and poor (kappa ¼ 0.31) for 1. Correlation with objective tests (force platforms) was moderate (r > 0.42). Some components of the scale are potentially capable of differentiating between ‘on’ and ‘off’ states to a significant degree. 12.6.9.2. Mental state 12.6.9.2.1. The Parkinson Psychosis Rating Scale (PPRS) The PPRS is an easily administered rating instrument for quantitative evaluation of PD psychosis severity. It contains six items rated on a rank-order scale of 1 (normal) to 4 (severe), assessing the content and frequency of visual hallucinations, illusions and misidentification of persons, paranoid ideation, sleep disturbances, confusion and sexual concern. Definitions of the respective items and answers accompany the scale (Friedberg et al., 1998). In repeated application (6 weeks later), the internal consistency of the PPRS was satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ 0.76–0.80), as was the intrarater reliability for the total scale, determined by statistical correlation (rS ¼ 0.77–0.78). Convergent validity between the PPRS and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), NOSIE-Psychotic and NOSIE-Irritative scales was satisfactory (NOSIE: Nurses’ Observation Scale for In-patient Evaluation), particularly in the case of the BPRS (r ¼ 0.92). There was no significant correlation between the PPRS and the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Like the BPRS, the PPRS showed significant changes after intervention with pharmaco-

This scale was developed to evaluate the specific cognitive disorder associated with PD. Although the SCOPA-COG was intended to be used for comparing groups in research situations, it may also be applied in clinical settings (Marinus et al., 2003c). Following a functional classification, this scale assesses four domains: (1) attention (direct and inverse series); (2) memory and learning (visual and verbal recall, digit span backward, short-term and delayed recall); (3) executive functions (semantic fluency, set shifting and motor execution); and (4) visuospatial functions (assembling figures) (Mahieux et al., 1998; Dubois and Pillon, 1999). It consists of 10 items having a maximum score of 43, with the higher scores reflecting better performance. The maximum domain scores are 4 points for attention, 22 for memory, 12 for executive functions and 5 for visuospatial function. The SCOPA-COG is administered by a rater and completed in 10–15 minutes. Mean scores were 13.3 4.0 points for PD patients with dementia, 28.8 5.8 for non-demented PD patients, and 30.7 5.6 for controls (Marinus et al., 2003c). Insofar as clinimetric issues are concerned, the internal consistency of this scale proved satisfactory (Cronbach alpha ¼ 0.83; item–total correlation ranged from 0.34 to 0.66). Test–retest showed moderate to substantial reliability for individual items (weighted kappa ¼ 0.40–0.75) and was satisfactory for the total scale (ICC ¼ 0.78). Convergent validity was supported by the SCOPA-COG’s correlation with other cognitive scales, such as the Cambridge Cognitive Examination (CAMCOG) (r ¼ 0.83) and the MMSE (r ¼ 0.72). Correlation with the HY scale bordered on the threshold of the criterion (rS ¼ –0.39) (the higher the severity of the disease, the lower the SCOPA-COG score). This scale is potentially more sensitive than the MMSE and CAMCOG because its coefficient of variation (CV) is higher (MMSE CV ¼ 0.14, CAMCOG CV ¼ 0.13, SCOPA-COG CV ¼ 0.29). 12.6.9.3. Sleep 12.6.9.3.1. Parkinson’s Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS) The PDSS is a scale addressing 15 items that explore the following aspects over the preceding week: overall quality of nocturnal sleep; sleep onset and maintenance; insomnia; nocturnal restlessness and psychosis; nocturia; nocturnal motor symptoms; sleep refreshment;

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and daytime dozing. Patients or care-givers indicate the severity of the symptoms for each item on a visual analog scale that goes from always (0) to never (10), except for the item, ‘overall quality of night’s sleep’ (very bad ¼ 0, to excellent ¼ 10). The total PDSS score is calculated by adding the item scores, and ranges from 0 to 150, so that the higher the score, the better the quality of nocturnal sleep (Chaudhuri et al., 2002). Coefficient alpha rose to 0.77 (Martinez-Martin et al., 2004). Interitem correlation ranged from – 0.007 to 0.70 (the lowest value of the criterion being 0.20). Item–total correlation was satisfactory (rS > 0.20), except for four items (presence of distressing hallucinations, nocturia, tremor on waking, unexpectedly falling asleep during the day), which did not correlate with the total scale. Factor analysis identified a principal factor that accounts for 65% of the variance and seems to be linked to the overall quality of nocturnal sleep. PDSS items loading on this factor were: overall quality of nocturnal sleep; staying asleep at night; and tired after waking (Martinez-Martin et al., 2004). Test–retest reliability proved satisfactory (ICC ¼ 0.61–0.99 for items, 0.94 for the total score) (Chaudhuri et al., 2002; Martinez-Martin et al., 2004). Correlation of the PDSS was moderate with respect to the Hamilton Depression scale (rS ¼ 0.55), weak with respect to UPDRS section IV (rS ¼ 0.22) and the PDQ-39 (rS ¼ 0.26) and non-significant with respect to the HY scale, UPDRS sections I and III, the MMSE and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (Martinez-Martin et al., 2004). The PDSS is able to differentiate between PD patients and controls, and between patients who are and are not suffering from sleep disturbances, as defined by UPDRS item 41. Nevertheless, there was no association between disease severity, based on HY staging, and PDSS scores (Chaudhuri et al., 2002; Martinez-Martin et al., 2004). Item 15 (unexpectedly falling asleep during the day) was significantly associated with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (r ¼ –0.59) in one study (Chaudhuri et al., 2002) but not in another (Martinez-Martin et al., 2004). The standard error of measurement, based on the reliability index for a longitudinal observation (ICC) drawn from both studies, was 5.01–5.31 (MartinezMartin et al., 2004). 12.6.9.3.2. SCales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Diseases – Sleep (SCOPA-Sleep) This scale consists of two sections (nocturnal sleep (NS) and daytime sleepiness (DS)). The first part

includes five items (sleep initiation, sleep fragmentation, sleep efficiency, sleep duration and early wakening). Scoring options per item range from 0 (not at all) to 3 (a lot). NS addresses nocturnal sleep problems in the past month, and the maximum score is 15. The DS section evaluates the presence of abnormal daytime sleep in the past month and includes six items with four response options, ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (often). Subjects indicate how often they fell asleep unexpectedly, and fell asleep in particular situations (while sitting peacefully, watching TV or reading, or while talking to someone). The maximum score in this section is 18 (Marinus et al., 2003b). The internal consistency of both subscales was satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha for NS ¼ 0.88; for DS ¼ 0.91; item–total correlation coefficients, 0.48–0.85 for SN, and 0.55–0.88 for DS). Both subscales showed moderate to excellent test–retest reliability in the original study (kappa ¼ 0.49–0.90; values higher than 0.80 in 8 out of 11). ICC was satisfactory for both the NS and DS sections (ICC > 0.90). Factor analysis identified one factor in the NS section accounting for 68.1% of the variance, and one factor in the DS section accounting for 69.1% of the variance (Marinus et al., 2003b). The correlation between the NS section and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was high (r ¼ 0.83), and moderate to high with the PSQI subscales (r ¼ 0.38–0.73). The correlation between the DS section and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale was also high (r ¼ 0.81). A cut-off value of 6/7 for the NS section displayed high sensitivity and acceptable specificity when it came to distinguishing good from bad sleepers. In addition, a cut-off value of 4/5 for the DS section discriminated between patients with and those without excessive daytime sleepiness. The SCOPA – Sleep successfully differentiated PD patients from control subjects, except for the ‘difficulty falling asleep’ item (Marinus et al., 2003b). 12.6.9.4. Autonomic disorder 12.6.9.4.1. Scales for Outcomes in Parkinson’s Diseases – AUTonomic (SCOPA-AUT) This self-administered scale was designed to evaluate the presence and frequency of autonomic symptoms in PD. The SCOPA-AUT consists of 25 items assessing the following regions: gastrointestinal (7), urinary (6), cardiovascular (3), thermoregulatory (4), pupillomotor (1) and sexual dysfunction (2 items for men and 2 items for women) (Visser et al., 2004a). Item scoring includes four response options ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (often), with a total score of 69 (higher scores reflecting worse autonomic functioning). The

SCALES TO MEASURE PARKINSONISM urinary and sexual regions have additional response options, designed to indicate, respectively, whether or not subjects have used a catheter or been sexually active during the preceding month. Test–retest reliability proved satisfactory (ICC for the total score 0.87 and for the different regions ranged from 0.68 to 0.90). Stability for most of the items ranged from moderate to excellent (kappa ¼ 0.65–0.87). Total SCOPA-AUT scores correlated significantly with the HY scale (rS ¼ 0.60), whereas coefficients for the regions ranged from 0.20 to 0.70. Knowngroups validity (control subjects and three groups of patients with different stages of severity) was satisfactory, except for sexuality-related domains. 12.6.9.5. Scales for dyskinesias in Parkinson’s disease 12.6.9.5.1. Obeso’s Dyskinesia Rating Scale This scale combines the patient’s historical assessments and the examiner’s rating of dyskinesias (Obeso et al., 1989). Disability is assessed using two categories of information: severity and duration. These scores are handled arithmetically to provide a single score based on the mean of the two subscores. The intensity score combines two clinical issues: patient awareness of movements and the actual observed intensity of such movements. The duration score, akin to the UPDRS part IV question on duration, divides the waking day into four segments. Though included in the CAPIT protocol for evaluation of patients who undergo neurosurgical intervention for PD (Langston et al., 1991, 1992; Anonymous, 1999), this scale has not been explored from a clinimetric point of view. 12.6.9.5.2. Rush Dyskinesia Rating Scale This scale represents a modified version of Obeso’s dyskinesia rating scale. It was designed as an objective scale to capture the impact of dyskinesia on ADL (Goetz et al., 1994). In this scale, three activities are evaluated: (1) walking; (2) putting on a coat and buttoning it; and (3) drinking from a cup. The most severe dyskinesias observed during any of three tasks must be rated from 0 (none) to 4 (violent). The rating is entirely based on objective observation with no interviewing of patient perceptions, and the score is tied directly to ADL and their successful completion. In addition to the intensity rating, the most pronounced types of dyskinesia associated with disability are identified (chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, and so forth). The Rush Dyskinesia Rating Scale, which can be scored live or by video tape, takes about 15 minutes to administer. To standardize its use, a

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video record and the administration protocol were included in the original article, illustrating cases across the entire gamut of scores, severities and types of dyskinesia. Kendall’s coefficient of concordance between medical practitioners and research coordinators yielded satisfactory values for severity of dyskinesia (W ¼ 0.71– 0.89), and moderate values for type (W ¼ 0.34–0.42) and identification of the most disabling dyskinesias (W ¼ 0.28–0.48). There were no statistically significant differences between both groups of raters, although reliability was higher among the practitioners. Test–retest reliability was shown to be satisfactory for all evaluated aspects (correlation coefficients (Spearman, Crame´r) > 0.70) (Goetz et al., 1994). 12.6.9.5.3. Clinical Dyskinesia Rating Scale This scale was designed with the aim of fulfilling the following criteria: ease of use and application to any situation (e.g. for multiple assessments during a drug cycle, while performing standardized motor tests for parkinsonism); separate ratings for different body parts, including lateralization; separate rating for dystonia and hyperkinesias; and no estimate of disability (Hagell and Widner, 1999). It is composed of independent evaluations of hyperkynesias and dystonic postures separately observed in different body regions (face, neck, trunk, right and left upper extremities, right and left lower extremities). The score range is from 0 (none observed) to 4 (extreme), permitting the use of 0.5scoring intervals. The maximum total score for each subscale (dyskinesias and dystonia) is 28. Ratings are based on observations of the patient at rest and during activity. In the original study, the interrater reliability was explored for different groups of raters (neurologists, neurosurgeons and nurses specialized in PD), proving excellent for hyperkinesias (W ¼ 0.88) and moderate for dystonia (W ¼ 0.44). Overall test–retest reliability was satisfactory (Kendall’s tau ¼ 0.74). Dystonia ratings revealed a lesser degree of concordance (with some Kendall tau coefficients as low as 0.31). 12.6.9.5.4. Lang–Fahn Activities of Daily Living Dyskinesia Scale This scale is a modification of UPDRS section II. It consists of historical information on the way in which maximum dyskinesia severity influences the capacity to perform basic ADL tasks, such as writing, eating, dressing, maintaining personal hygiene and walking (Parkinson Study Group, 2001). Patients evaluate dyskinesias on preceding days, retrospectively. The

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scoring system for each of the five items comprising this scale runs from 0 (none) to 4 (maximum interference), with explicit definitions for the respective options. There was no relevant correlation with the Rush Dyskinesia Rating Scale or patients’ dyskinesia diary.

12.7. Rating scales for other parkinsonisms 12.7.1. Unified Multiple System Atrophy Rating Scale (UMSARS) This scale is made up of the following four sections: (1) historical (12 items); (2) motor examination (14 items); (3) autonomic evaluation (four cardiovascular parameters); and (4) global disability (Wenning et al., 2004). The historical section includes information furnished by the patient or care-giver about speech, swallowing, hand-writing, cutting food and handling utensils, dressing, hygiene, walking, falling, orthostatic symptoms and urinary, sexual and bowel functions. The motor examination section includes facial expression, speech, ocular motor dysfunction, tremor at rest, action tremor, increased tone, rapid alternating movements of hands, finger-tapping, leg agility, dysmetria, arising from chair, posture, body sway and gait. In both sections, the item scoring system goes from 0 (normal) to 4 (maximal severe). The autonomic examination section captures blood pressure and heart rate (supine and standing up, or unable to record), and the presence of orthostatism (yes or no). The global disability scale measures patients’ dependence and capacity for ADL (one item with five answer options: l ¼ totally independent, minimal difficulty in doing all chores, to 5 ¼ totally dependent, bed-ridden). Internal consistency was satisfactory for sections I and II: Cronbach’s alpha ¼ 0.84 and 0.90, respectively; item–total correlation exceeded the criterion threshold for most of the items (rS > 0.50 for nine items of section I and 11 items of section II). Two items of section I and three of section II showed poor or null association with their corresponding total scores. The average index kappa for the participant centers was satisfactory (kappa > 0.70) for eight items in the historical section. Orthostatic hypotension was the item with the worst interrater reliability (kappa ¼ 0.52). Except for oculomotor dysfunction, hypertonia and finger-tapping items, satisfactory agreement was found for section II (kappa < 0.70), and substantial or excellent agreement for section IV (kappa ¼ 0.75– 0.94). Total scores displayed a similar level of interrater concordance (ICC ¼ 0.88, for section I; 0.93 for section II).

Section I correlated significantly with the HY, UPDRS section II (ADL) and Schwab and England scales (rS ¼ 0.76–0.90). Section II correlated with the HY, UPDRS section III (Motor Examination) and the International Co-operative Ataxia Rating Scale (ICARS) (Trouillas et al., 1997) (rS ¼ 0.80–0.93). Section IV also yielded significant correlation coefficients with the HY, UPDRS sections II and III and ICARS (rS ¼ 0.72–0.94), as well as with UMSARS sections I and II. On the whole, correlation between the total scores for UMSARS sections I and II and timed tests was moderate (rS ¼ 0.42–0.57). UMSARS sections I, II and IV proved adequate to the task of differentiating between patients at different levels of disease severity.

12.8. Health-related quality of life Quality of life is a popular term that allows for very different interpretations. As this concept embraces a wide range of topics and disciplines, there is no single universal or widely accepted theoretical framework, definition or measurement instrument for quality of life. Quality of life has been approached from both macro and micro perspectives. The former involves environment-related societal and objective factors (such as housing, social support, economy, safety and education); the latter depends on individual and subjective components (e.g. health, relationships, emotional status, spirituality and attitudes). HRQoL is a more restricted concept, linked to experiences and expectations associated with health status and health care. Despite the apparent simplicity of the term, however, controversy has surrounded its conceptual delineation (Leple`ge and Hunt, 1997). From a pragmatic point of view and with respect to the topic addressed by this chapter, HRQoL may be defined (following Schipper et al., 1996) as: ‘the perception and evaluation, by patients themselves, of the impact caused on their lives by the disease and its consequences’ (Martinez-Martin, 1998). It is an individual, subjective, self-controlled, multidimensional judgment, the components of which (along with their relative importance) change over time. These modifications may be caused by factors that depend on the subject (such as adaptation, new expectations, change in priorities) or, alternatively, on the environment (e.g. familial, societal). The very multiplicity of the potential components of the concept of HRQoL means that there is a tendency to consider only those that are in line with the official World Health Organization (1952) definition


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0.40, and the other domains registered intermediate positions. Similar findings were obtained for the PDQ-39 vis-a`-vis standard rating scales for PD, such as Hoehn and Yahr Staging, the Schwab and England Scale, UPDRS subscales, Columbia Scale, Barthel Index, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Beck Depression Inventory (Jenkinson et al., 1995; Martinez-Martin et al., 1999; Schrag et al., 2000; Marinus et al., 2002; Martinez-Martin, 2002). Due to the fact that reliability coefficient values are < 0.90 for dimensions, standard error of measurement is high for social support, as it is occasionally for other dimensions, such as stigma and bodily discomfort (Fitzpatrick et al., 2004; Martinez-Martin et al., 2005). One study has calculated PDQ-39 SI sensitivity and responsiveness (Guyatt index ¼ 1.03; ES ¼ 0.48) at 3 months postintervention (start or transfer of treatment to controlled-release levodopa) (Martinez-Martin, 2002). The standardized response mean ranged from 0.05 (stigma) to 0.55 (mobility) for PDQ-39 dimensions in an observational 4-month follow-up study (Fitzpatrick et al., 1997). Additional responsiveness data (paired and unpaired t-tests) (Fitzpatrick et al., 1997; Martinez-Martin, 2002) and minimally important difference of change (Peto et al., 2001; Fitzpatrick et al., 2004) have also been ascertained.

12.10.2. Parkinson’s Disease Quality of Life Questionnaire de Boer et al. (1996) reported on the Parkinson’s Disease Quality of Life (PDQL) questionnaire, a specific instrument for evaluation of HRQoL in PD patients. This questionnaire contains 37 items in the following four dimensions: parkinsonian symptoms (14 items); systemic symptoms (seven items); social function (seven items); and emotional function (nine items). Item scoring ranges from 1 (all the time) to 5 (never). The overall score is obtained from the sum of scores for all items; the lower the score, the poorer the quality of life. In the original study, the PDQL was shown to possess a high internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha for dimensions ¼ 0.80–0.87, and 0.94 for the total score), known-groups validity (groups with higher disease severity had significantly lower scores), and moderate convergent validity with a generic HRQoL measure (MOS-24). Subsequent studies obtained Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.69–0.87 for dimensions (with the systemic symptoms domain in all cases registering the lowest value) and 0.92–0.95 for the total score (Hobson et al., 1999; Serrano-Duenãs et al., 2004). Hobson et al. (1999) ascertained PDQL convergent validity with depression measures (Yesavage scale, 15 items) and modification of PDQL score according to severity level as per motor examination (Webster scale). In the study undertaken by Serrano-Duenãs et al. (2004), using an Ecuadorian Spanish version of the PDQL, item-dimension total correlation was in all cases > 0.40, dimension–total score correlation was 0.58–0.74 and interdimension correlation was 0.46– 0.68. The standard error of measurement, taking alpha as the reliability coefficient for a single observation, was 6.31 (SD ¼ 22.85; alpha ¼ 0.92). Convergent validity of PDQL dimensions with PD rating scales (Hoehn and Yahr, Schwab and England, UPDRS subscales) and the HADS was satisfactory (rS ¼ 0.24–0.77; only seven coefficients were < 0.40, and six of these belonged to the emotional function dimension). Total PDQL registered correlations with these scales, ranging from 0.48 to 0.67. Known-groups validity for different severity levels derived from HY and Webster staging proved satisfactory (Hobson et al., 1999; Serrano-Duenãs et al., 2004). 12.10.3. Parkinson’s Impact Scale (PIMS) The PIMS is a brief questionnaire that measures non-physical aspects of PD patients’ HRQoL. It is

SCALES TO MEASURE PARKINSONISM composed of 10 items, each of which covers a relevant area of PD patients’ lives. Items are self-rated on a four-point Likert-type scale, with higher ratings indicating lower HRQoL. Since the PIMS factor structure does not appear to be stable across studies (Calne et al., 1996; Schulzer et al., 2003), it is advisable to use the total score. This is obtained by adding the weighted item scores (Calne et al., 1996). The PIMS was first validated with a multisite sample of 167 PD patients (Calne et al., 1996) but provided insufficient information on validity (Marinus et al., 2002). A later study with 116 PD patients furnished further information on the psychometric properties of the PIMS (Schulzer et al., 2003). PIMS internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) was 0.89. Test–retest reliability yielded an ICC ¼ 0.72 at 4 weeks (Calne et al., 1996) and an ICC ¼ 0.82 at 8 weeks (Schulzer et al., 2003). Significant differences were found between stable and fluctuating patients during ‘off’ periods (Calne et al., 1996). Convergent validity with the UPDRS subscales was moderate to high (r ¼ 0.25–0.55) for all patient ratings (stable patients, patients in their best and worst states) (Schulzer et al., 2003). In the same study, PIMS displayed adequate sensitivity, registering an adjusted ES of 0.37 (comparing patients on different doses of tolcapone). The receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve indicates a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 62.5% for PIMS responsiveness. 12.10.4. Parkinson’s Problem Schedule (PPS) In 1998, Brod et al. published a study describing the development and validation of the PPS, an instrument that contained 39 items relating to ‘activities, behaviours and emotions that are potentially problematic for PD patients’. Items were selected from patients’ responses to surveys, previous studies on psychosocial aspects in PD and semistructured interviews with patients and their partners. Factor analysis identified three dimensions (psychological, cognitive and motor functioning) having high internal consistency (0.82–0.88). Correlation between the three scales was moderate to high (r ¼ 0.40–0.57). These scales were used for logistic regression analysis with respect to demographic variables, illness severity, functional ability and psychosocial variables, thereby demonstrating an important association with functional status and irregular potentiation on adding the psychosocial evaluation. The psychological and cognitive dimensions displayed only a modest association with a patient-based

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global evaluation of disease severity (r ¼ 0.26). The three dimensions were independent of the demographic variables and were partially (only the motor domain) related to disease stage as per the Hoehn and Yahr classification. 12.10.5. Parkinson-Life-Quality Questionnaire (Fragebogens PLQ) This instrument was validated and published by van den Berg in 1998. It comprises 44 items in nine subscales and generates a global score as an index of HRQoL. The reliability of the questionnaire (internal consistency and test–retest reliability) was quite high, though some subscales displayed a consistency inferior to the criterion value (Cronbach’s alpha < 0.70). Convergent validity and responsiveness were studied in a small sample of patients, using parametric statistics. These aspects of validation have been insufficiently demonstrated. 12.10.6. Psychosocial Questionnaire for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease (SCOPA-PS) This scale consists of 11 items that evaluate the severity of a particular problem during the preceding month on a scale from 0 (not at all) to 3 (very much). This scale includes information about psychosocial functioning in terms of the patient’s difficulties in ADL, recreational activities, relationships with friends and relatives, dependence, isolation and concerns about the future (Marinus et al., 2003a). Coefficient alpha proved satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha ¼ 0.83). Item–total correlation ranged from 0.24 (problems with sexuality) to 0.67 (asking others for help too often). Test–retest reliability was satisfactory for the total scale (ICC ¼ 0.85). For individual items, the test–retest reliability ranged from moderate to satisfactory (kappa ¼ 0.46 for problems in getting along with partners, family or good friends, to 0.83 for problems with sexuality). Correlation between the SCOPA-PS and the PDQ-39 and PDQ-8 total scores were 0.82 and 0.76 respectively. In contrast, correlations between the SCOPA-PS and the HADS, EQ-5D total score and visual analog scale were somewhat lower (Spearman r ¼ 0.69 for HADS and < –0.61 for EQ-5D and visual analog scale). The SCOPA-PS summary index revealed a significant rise with increasing disease severity, higher anxiety/depression and longer disease duration, thereby showing satisfactory known-groups validity.

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12.10.7. Belastungsfragebogen Parkinson kurzversion (BELA-P-k) The BELA-P-k questionnaire, which was first developed in Germany (Ellgring et al., 1993), is aimed at measuring the specific psychosocial problems in PD patients along with their self-reported need for help. A validation study was conducted using Dutch patients (Spliethoff-Kamminga et al., 2003). The questionnaire contains 19 items, grouped into four dimensions: (1) achievement capability/physical symptoms; (2) fear/ emotional symptoms; (3) social functioning; and (4) partner-bonding/family. Each dimension includes four or five items, rated on two five-point Likert-type scales (0–4), one addressing the degree to which the patient feels bothered by the issue, and the other addressing the need for help. Dimension scores are obtained by adding together the scores for both aspects of the corresponding items. This means that each dimension generates two subscale scores, i.e. ‘Bothered by’ (Bb) and ‘Need for help’ (NfH). Depending on the number of items comprising each dimension (4 or 5), subscale scores range from 0 to 16 (fear/emotional functioning dimension) or from 0 to 20 (remaining dimensions). A total Bb and NfH score can also be calculated by adding the dimension scores. All dimensions are rated in the same direction, with lower scores representing a better HRQoL. Internal consistency was good for the total Bb and NfH scores (0.90 and 0.93, respectively), and all subscales (dimensions) yielded Cronbach’s alpha coefficients above 0.70, except for the Bb score for the partner/family subscale (0.61). Data on the validity of the BELA-P-k are still limited. With respect to convergent validity, Bb scale scores were appropriately correlated with other HRQoL measures, such as the Darmouth COOP Functional Health Assessment Charts/Wonca (COOP/WONCA) questionnaire, SIP and loneliness scale (r > 0.45 for the total Bb score). All Bb subscale scores registered correlation values close to or above 0.40, with the exception of the fear/emotional functioning Bb score, which showed a slightly lower correlation coefficient (0.37) with the comparable SIP domain. There was significant correlation between total Bb and NfH scores (r ¼ 0.74). 12.10.8. Parkinson’s Disease QUAlity of LIFe instrument (PDQUALIF) The first reference to this questionnaire appeared in an abstract (Welsh et al., 1997). It has recently been used in a clinical trial with pramipexole (Parkinson Study Group, 2000). The validation study was published in 2003 (Welsh et al., 2003).

The PDQUALIF consists of 32 items in seven domains, these being: (1) social/role function (nine items); (2) self-image/sexuality (seven items); (3) sleep (three items); (4) outlook (four items); (5) physical function (five items); (6) independence (two items); and (7) urinary function (two items). Scores for each subscale are created by transforming raw scores to a 0–100 scale (sum total of items score, divided by the maximum possible total score and multiplied by 100). The lower the score, the better the quality of life. Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.55 to 0.85 for dimensions (4/7 dimensions < 0.70) and was 0.89 for the total score. Item–total correlation ranged from 0.15 to 0.74. Test–retest reliability registered kappa values of < 0.40 for four items and an ICC for dimensions and total score of 0.68–0.88. Correlation coefficients with UPDRS subscales were 0.02 (outlook with UPDRS–motor examination) to 0.50 (social/role function with UPDRS – ADL); only four out of 21 coefficients were >0.40. Low to moderate association was in evidence between PDQL domains and physical and mental or psychosocial components of the SF-36 and SIP. In contrast, total PDQL correlated with these measures to a moderate to high degree (0.31–0.70). Discriminative validity with respect to HY stages, taken as severity levels, proved satisfactory (Welsh et al., 2003). A therapeutic intervention had a differential effect on PDQL dimensions, though ES was not calculated (Parkinson Study Group, 2000).

12.11. Other health-related quality of life measures 12.11.1. Quality of Life Satisfaction A two-module HRQoL measure, the Quality of Life Satisfaction questionnaire, was developed by Kuehler et al. (2003) in order to assess quality of life in ‘patients with movement disorders who had been or were to be treated with deep brain stimulation’. The Quality of Life Satisfaction – Movement Disorder (QLS-MD) module contains 12 domains, represented by 12 items. The Quality of Life Satisfaction – Deep Brain Stimulation (QLS-DBS) module is composed of five items. Calculation of weighted satisfaction and global life satisfaction is not direct and the use of a formula is needed. For QLS-MD, missing data ranged from 3.2 (controllability/fluency of movement) to 14.4% (sexual excitability). Floor and ceiling effects were 0 (for three items) to 6.4% (floor) and 7.6% (ceiling). Cronbach’s alpha for the summary index was 0.87.

SCALES TO MEASURE PARKINSONISM For QLS-DBS, missing data ranged from 9.3 (absence of bodily symptoms) to 12.0% (independent handling of stimulator and physician care). Floor effect was 0 for four out of the five items and the summary index; ceiling effect was 0 for one item and the summary index; and the highest values were 3.0 and 17.3% respectively. Cronbach’s alpha for the summary index was 0.73. Correlation between measures derived from both modules ranged from 0.50 to 0.75. Convergent validity with the SF-36 physical and mental components proved higher in the case of QLS-MD (0.59–0.63) than in that of QLS-DBS (0.32–0.36); corresponding values with respect to the EuroQoL were 0.49–0.68 for QLS-MD and 0.34–0.46 for QLS-DBS.

12.12. Conclusions and future prospects Scales are instruments for measurement. In medicine, they are often used in clinical settings and research to quantify health-related attributes. Quantification of symptoms, signs and behavior is necessary for designation of severity level, interpretation of outcomes and recording, comparing or making decisions from a scientific point of view. Before any scale can be applied, a check must be run on certain basic properties that determine to what extent it can be used as a valid measure. These basic metric properties are internal consistency, inter- and intrarater reliability, construct validity and responsiveness. Table 12.1 sets out a list of standard values that allow for comparison of results yielded by validation studies against the recommended levels for each metric attribute. In this way, the reader can ascertain the quality of an instrument and obtain relevant information as to its strengths and weaknesses. Although most new clinical scales undergo this kind of analysis before being used in clinical trials or other applications, very few have been subjected to complete clinimetric analysis. No scale should be seriously considered for use if information about its basic quality attributes is lacking. A very different situation prevails in the field of HRQoL measures. These instruments are only published when many or most of the validation issues have already been settled. In terms of tradition, HRQoL measures are different from clinical measures in other aspects as well: participation in the development of HRQoL measures includes not only ‘experts’ but also individuals belonging to the target population and other representatives of the subjects’

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immediate environment (e.g. care-givers), an approach rarely found in the field of clinical scales. Copyright protection of most of the HRQoL measures is another striking difference between the two types of scale. Easy access to information, progressive specialization of research, proliferation of interdisciplinary work and multicenter/international collaboration make for better designs and analysis of measures. In the near future, new trends (item response theory, clinimetric approach) could substantially influence the current panorama of design and development of new scales. At the same time, scale validation studies will become more complex and comprehensive. PD patient assessment is still awaiting a definitive solution: indeed, there are many who think that there is no such thing as an ideal scale. The UPDRS has been the scale of reference for the last 15 years but has recently been revised to improve some metric flaws (Movement Disorder Society Task Force on Rating Scales for Parkinson’s Disease, 2003), with the validation of a new 48-item UPDRS version currently under way. Due to the fact that lengthy scales entail a time burden, it is to be expected that in overloaded clinical settings and daily clinical practice partial application (some subscales only) or shorter scales will be resorted to. On the other hand, increasing interest is now surrounding the treatment of non-motor aspects of PD, and each of these will inevitably call for specific measures. A great deal of activity is currently being devoted to this matter. Lastly, HRQoL evaluation is already part and parcel of standard assessment in clinical research on PD (Martinez-Martin, 2001; Marinus et al., 2002). This type of assessment should be introduced in clinical practice too, an issue still beset by a number of limitations. Insofar as other parkinsonisms are concerned, a specific scale has only been developed for multiple system atrophy (UMSARS; Wenning et al., 2004). Although the UPDRS has been applied to evaluating patients with parkinsonian syndromes other than PD, such as progressive supranuclear palsy (Cubo et al., 2000), to our knowledge specific rating scales for other parkinsonisms have not yet been published. It is foreseeable, however, that these types of measure will be developed in the future, not merely to enhance existing knowledge on these diseases (in respect of aspects such as natural history and relationships with diverse factors), but also to monitor the effect of therapeutic interventions.

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Acknowledgments This study was partially funded by a grant from the Carlos III Institute of Health (Red CIEN Network of Excellence C03/06). MJ Forjaz, Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow (Ministry of Science and Technology), helped with comments and technical support.

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Chapter 13

Motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease JOOHI SHAHED AND JOSEPH JANKOVIC* Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

13.1. Introduction In 1817, James Parkinson first described the syndrome that now bears his name. He published his findings based on observations of 6 patients, only 1 of whom he actually examined and followed for a period of time. The clinical syndrome he described included involuntary tremulousness occurring at rest, muscular weakness, a stooped posture and gait festination, with preservation of sensation and intellect. The disorder was long referred to as ‘paralysis agitans’, inferring characteristics of seeming difficulty with voluntary movement while shaking uncontrollably. In the late 1800s, Charcot recognized that rest tremor was not an absolute component to this syndrome, and suggested instead it be referred to as ‘Parkinson’s disease’ (PD) in honor of its first descriptor. Over time, our understanding of this disease process has grown exponentially. Major milestones occurred with the recognition of tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability as the cardinal features of PD, the anatomic localization of the brunt of the pathology to the substantia nigra, the discovery of dopamine deficiency and the therapeutic impact of levodopa. The more recent elucidation of genetic mutations and other pathogenic mechanisms of cell death involving not only the dopaminergic but also non-dopaminergic systems have allowed for a greater understanding of the pathophysiology of PD. Although dopaminergic deficiency correlates best with the presence of motor features, involvement of the non-dopaminergic system appears to be responsible for the non-motor features of PD (Lang and Obeso, 2004). The primary goal of this review is to focus on the pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical features of motor manifestations of PD.

13.2. Cardinal manifestations 13.2.1. Tremor The most typical and easily recognized symptom of PD is unilateral, 4–6 Hz, rest tremor. This is differentiated from the typical 5–8 Hz postural tremor of essential tremor (ET), enhanced physiologic tremor (8–12 Hz) and cerebellar outflow tremor (2–5 Hz). The classic description of rest tremor in PD is a supination–pronation (‘pill-rolling’) tremor, with onset in one hand followed by spread to the contralateral hand. Rest tremor in patients with PD also frequently involves the lip, chin, jaw and legs, but, in contrast to ET, it almost never involves the neck/head or voice (see Ch. 17; Table 13.1). The rest tremor characteristically disappears with action (another feature differentiating it from ET) and during sleep. It often intensifies during synkinesis with the opposite limb, during walking and with stress or anxiety. The lower extremities may be involved, often ipsilateral to the upper limb in which tremor first appears. Tremor often remains asymmetric, though it may develop bilaterally as the disease progresses. Patients with PD may also complain of an ‘internal’ shaking without visible tremor (Shulman et al., 1996). In some patients, postural tremor may be the first manifestation of PD (Jankovic et al., 1999; Jankovic, 2002; Louis et al., 2003). This postural tremor can be differentiated from ET by the fact that it often presents with a delay of several seconds or even minutes after assuming an outstretched horizontal position. This PD tremor has been referred to as a ‘re-emergent tremor’ (Jankovic et al., 1999), indicating that it is a variant of the more typical rest tremor, since it occurs

*Correspondence to: Joseph Jankovic, M.D., Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, 6550 Fannin, Suite 1801, Houston, TX 77030, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: 713-798-5998, Fax: 713-798-6808.

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Table 13.1 Features differentiating Parkinson’s disease from essential tremor

Age at onset Family history Tremor frequency Tremor characteristics Influencing factors Rest Action Mental concentration Ambulation Alcohol Postural tremor Kinetic tremor Limb tremor Distribution other than limbs Neuropathology

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Parkinson’s disease

Essential tremor

55–75 years þ/ 4–6 Hz Flexion–extension

10–80 years þþ 5–8 Hz Supination–pronation

Increases Decreases Decreases Increases þ/ Re-emergent þ/ Asymmetric Face, jaw, lips, chin Nigrostriatal degeneration, Lewy bodies Anticholinergics, amantadine, dopaminergic drugs, surgery

Decreases Increases Increases Decreases Decreases Without latency Yes Symmetric Head, voice, trunk, tongue No discernible pathology

with the same frequency and responds similarly to dopaminergic therapy. In contrast to re-emergent tremor, the postural tremor of ET appears without latency, immediately after the arms assume the posture-holding position. There is a growing body of evidence supporting the notion that a subset of patients with lifelong history of ET progress to develop otherwise typical PD (Shahed and Jankovic, 2006) and families with ET and autopsy-proven PD have been described (Yahr et al., 2003). Furthermore, functional imaging studies have demonstrated impairment in the dopaminergic system in some patients with ET (Brooks et al., 1992; Piccini et al., 1997; Lee et al., 1999; Antonini et al., 2005). Although presence of rest tremor is likely to prompt further evaluation for PD, it is not uniformly present throughout the course of disease in all PD patients. In some series of patients with PD, 15% never had tremor (Martin et al., 1973), but in a group of prospectively followed patients with autopsy-proven PD (Rajput et al., 1991), 100% had tremor at some point during their clinical course. Hughes et al. (1993) found that 69% of PD patients had rest tremor at onset, 75% had tremor during the course of their disease and 9% lost their tremor late in the disease. Rest tremor in PD is a complex phenomenon, and its pathophysiology is not well understood. Functional

Alcohol, beta-blockers, primidone, topamax, gabapentin, botulinum toxin, surgery

neuroimaging studies and electrode recordings during brain surgery point to the contribution of several different brain structures. One imaging study implicated dysfunction in the putamen and cerebellar vermis (Lozza et al., 2002). The cerebellum likely plays a modulating role (Deiber et al., 1993), potentially explaining similar involvement of this structure in patients with ET. Deep brain stimulation of the thalamus may suppress PD tremor, possibly by inhibiting thalamocortical loops (Wielepp et al., 2001; Fukuda et al., 2004). Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), which is typically hyperactive in PD, can also normalize the amplitude and frequency of PD tremor toward physiologic ranges (Sturman et al., 2004). Tremor cells with firing frequency that is similar to clinically observed PD tremor have been found in both the STN (Hamani et al., 2004) and thalamus (Lenz et al., 1994). It is generally accepted, however, that tremor in PD is a result of abnormal synchronous oscillating neuronal activity within the basal ganglia, although the actual physiological mechanisms are still not well understood (Bergman and Deuschl, 2002). 13.2.2. Rigidity Rigidity is defined as resistance throughout the range of passive movement of a limb, such as flexion, extension or rotation about a joint. It differs from spasticity

MOTOR SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE in that it is not velocity-dependent and is not variable (clasp-knife phenomenon), and from gegenhalten, in which resistance is intermittent and increases with the degree of force used. The electromyographic (EMG) findings of parkinsonian rigidity are similar to those of voluntary muscle contractions, whereas the EMG is electrically silent in spasticity (Hoefer and Putnam, 1940). Increased spinal interneuron excitability (Le Cavorzin et al., 2003) is thought to play a role in PD rigidity, but the exact mechanism of this cardinal sign is not well understood. In PD, the rigidity is usually accompanied by a ‘cogwheel’ phenomenon, probably a manifestation of underlying tremor. Rigidity often increases with reinforcing maneuvers such as voluntary movements of the contralateral limb. This examination technique can greatly assist in the diagnosis of early PD, as the rigidity is ipsilateral to the rest tremor, if present. Axial rigidity (i.e. in the neck and trunk) may also be observed and may contribute to abnormal axial postures such as anterocollis and scoliosis (see below). Rigidity may be a factor in the frequent painful sensations experienced by PD patients. A large number experience shoulder pain as one of their earliest symptoms of PD, but it is often wrongly diagnosed as bursitis, arthritis or rotator cuff injury (Riley et al., 1989). Patients may undergo shoulder surgery in an attempt to control this discomfort, which in reality is likely a manifestation of rigidity and/or reduced arm swing. One retrospective case-control study (Gonera et al., 1997) suggested that a ‘prodromal phase’ lasting 4–6 years may precede the onset of PD, consisting of various musculoskeletal, autonomic, psychiatric or neurologic symptoms. 13.2.3. Bradykinesia Bradykinesia refers to slowness of movement, and is a hallmark of basal ganglia disorders. It encompasses difficulties with planning movement, initiating and executing movement and performing sequential and simultaneous tasks (Berardelli et al., 2001). Bradykinesia is similar to akinesia (absence of movement) and hypokinesia (poverty of movement), which can manifest by decreasing amplitude of repetitive movements such as finger-tapping. All of these are closely related to dexterity, which is reduced early in the course of PD in many patients, who may complain of difficulty with tasks requiring fine motor control, including buttoning or using utensils. Bradykinesia is often also an easily recognizable symptom of PD, and may be apparent to the examiner before the formal neurologic evaluation is begun. Hypomimia (masking of the facies), decreased blink

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rate, slowness of movement and difficulty getting up from a chair are all readily observed signs. On examination, however, bradykinesia is best elicited by asking the patient to perform rapid alternating movements of the hand (such as finger taps, hand grips and hand pronation–supination) and heel taps. Patients with PD usually demonstrate decrementing amplitude of successive movements, motor breaks (also referred to as ‘blocks’ or ‘freezing’), dysrhythmia, undershooting of the target and difficulty performing two tasks at once. Micrographia is another manifestation of bradykinesia in which there is decrementing amplitude of letter size with continued handwriting. It may be a more complex phenomenon, however, as it can be modulated by visual feedback (Teulings et al., 2002). The pathophysiology of bradykinesia is poorly understood, but of all the cardinal features of PD, it seems to correlate best with dopamine deficiency (Vingerhoets et al., 1997). This is consistent with the finding that decreased density of substantia nigra neurons correlates with parkinsonism in the elderly, even without PD (Ross et al., 2004). One study using recordings of cortical neurons in rats after haloperidolinduced bradykinesia found a reduction in the firing rate and amplitudes, and decreased intensity of bursting while at rest when compared to recordings before haloperidol administration (Parr-Brownlie and Hyland, 2005). The authors conclude that diminished dopaminergic stimulation is associated with reduced cortical activation and suggest that these cortical influences on spinal cord pathways in turn contribute to bradykinesia. Functional neuroimaging studies also suggest there is impaired recruitment of cortical and subcortical systems that normally regulate kinematic parameters of movement such as velocity, and increased recruitment of various premotor areas, including those responsible for visuomotor control (Turner et al., 2003). The anatomic deficit appears to localize to the putamen and globus pallidus (Lozza et al., 2002), resulting in a net reduction in the muscle force produced at the initiation of movement that can be improved by external cues such as vision and sound (Berardelli et al., 2001). 13.2.4. Postural instability Postural instability does not usually develop until later in the course of PD, typically after the onset of other parkinsonian features. Postural stability can be tested by quickly pulling the patient backward by the shoulders (the ‘pull test’). An abnormal response is characterized by the patient taking more than two steps backward, or if there is an absence of any postural response. Postural instability is often one of the most

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debilitating symptoms, however, as it can be a major cause of falls. In a postmortem study of parkinsonian disorders, the relatively longer latency to onset of falls in PD patients differentiates it from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), multiple systems atrophy (MSA), corticobasal degeneration (CBD), or dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (Wenning et al., 1999). In one clinicopathologic study, it was found that PSP could be reliably differentiated from PD by the presence of falls within the first year of symptom onset and lack of response to levodopa (Litvan et al., 1997). In this study, PD patients were also more likely to have asymmetric symptoms and tremor. One study of PD patients demonstrated that many had markedly reduced or absent anticipatory muscle activity in the calf (triceps surae) in response to a small pull to the arm, whereas age-matched controls maintained an intact anticipatory response 80 ms after the pull (Traub et al., 1980). The anticipatory contraction arises before actual muscle movement in the legs, which usually occurs with a latency of 150 ms. Interestingly, patients with PSP retained intact anticipatory responses, suggesting that other factors may contribute to falls in these patients. Other parkinsonian symptoms, orthostatic hypotension and age-related sensory changes can play a role in the postural instability observed in PD (Bloem, 1992). Stability of posture is also dependent on the integration of visual, vestibular and proprioceptive sensory input, and patients with PD may have difficulty with organization of these stimuli (Bronte-Stewart et al., 2002), a phenomenon termed kinesthesia. Postural instability is enhanced by simultaneous performance of cognitive and motor tasks, and is more likely to occur in patients with prior falls (Marchese et al., 2003). Additionally, PD patients are more prone to development of fear of falling, which can further exacerbate their level of balance control (Adkin et al., 2003). In one study, falls occurred in 38% of PD patients, occurred more than once a week in 13% and the frequency correlated only with the severity of postural instability (Koller et al., 1989). Although dopaminergic therapy, pallidotomy and deep brain stimulation of the STN can improve axial signs, including unperturbed stance in PD patients (Roberts-Warrior et al., 2000), postural instability, as measured by platform tilt and visual tilt, unfortunately does not respond to treatment (Maurer et al., 2003). More recently, attention has turned to the pathophysiologic role of the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) in the development of postural instability and gait disturbance (Papahill and Lozano, 2000). The PPN has limbic, reticular and spinal cord connections that are closely involved in movement control. Deep brain stimulation of this structure in PD patients was found to significantly improve gait dysfunction and postural instability (Plaha and Gill, 2005).

13.2.5. Juvenile and young-onset PD Juvenile parkinsonism (JP) is defined as onset of parkinsonism before the age of 21 years, whereas young-onset PD (YOPD) denotes patients with symptoms beginning between 21 and 40 years of age. The motor manifestation of these two entities can differ from typical adult-onset idiopathic PD. In one series, 85% of JP and 100% of YOPD patients had rest tremor, whereas dystonia occurred in 43% of JP and 9% of YOPD (Muthane et al., 1994). JP can be a heterogeneous entity with a wide variety of pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs, and all cases may not clearly be related to idiopathic PD (Cardoso and Camargos, 2000). In cases of JP other than those associated with the parkin, LRRK2 or PINK1 gene mutations, or dopa-responsive dystonia, more widespread lesions outside the basal ganglia may account for the variable phenotypes (Paviour et al., 2004; Bonifati et al., 2005). Dystonia is often a presenting sign of YOPD, and motor symptoms may progress more slowly (Golbe, 1991). Postural control is preserved for a longer period of time in YOPD patients, though they are more likely to develop motor fluctuations and treatment-related dyskinesias (Schrag et al., 1998; Silver et al., 2004). 13.2.6. Progression and subtypes of Parkinson’s disease Decades of experience with PD have led to recognition of the marked clinical heterogeneity as compared to the first descriptions of the disease by James Parkinson. With recent advances in molecular biology, genetics and pathology, it has been suggested that PD be referred to as a ‘syndrome’. Hoehn and Yahr (HY) (1967) described the typical progression of PD, and devised a rating scale to characterize stages of the disease. The five HY stages are differentiated by unilateral versus bilateral disease, the presence of axial symptoms and gait difficulty and degree of functional impairment. Though various schemas for segregating the clinical phenotypes of PD have been proposed, Zetusky et al. (1985) were the first to recognize in a large cohort of patients two major subtypes based on motor characteristics of the disease: those with tremor-dominant disease, and those with postural instability and gait disturbance (PIGD). The tremordominant cases were characterized by prominent tremor, an earlier age at onset and a greater likelihood of positive family history of PD. The PIGD subtype was associated with more prominent dementia, bradykinesia, functional disability and a more malignant disease course. A baseline analysis of a large cohort of PD patients initially enrolled in the multicenter Deprenyl and Tocopherol Antioxidative Therapy of Parkinson’s disease (DATATOP) trial (Jankovic et al., 1990) suggested that

MOTOR SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE 333 PD with older age at onset, bradykinesia and PIGD PD cohort (Jankovic et al., 1990) and age-related subgroup are associated with more functional disability, indepenanalysis of patients from a single Movement Disorders dent of cognitive function. In a community-based study center (Jankovic and Kapadia, 2001). of patients with idiopathic PD over a mean duration of Age itself may influence the degree of motor 3.3 years, Louis et al. (1999) found that bradykinesia, disability among PD patients. Levy et al. (2005) invesrigidity and postural instability subscores progressed at tigated a cross-sectional population of heterogeneous similar rates, whereas tremor subscores remained relaPD patients to assess the degree of effect of aging on tively constant. It was later determined in a longitudinal motor symptoms. For symptoms typically attributed to assessment of 297 PD patients that those with PIGD PD dopaminergic cell loss (tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia had a more rapid annual rate of decline when compared and facial expression), only age was a significant to tremor-dominant PD cases, as determined by scores predictor of severity. For non-dopaminergic motor on the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale symptoms (speech and axial impairment), both age (UPDRS) (Jankovic and Kapadia, 2001). In this study, and disease duration were significant determinants of handwriting was the only component that did not severity. These findings underscore the notion that significantly progress. older age is associated with more rapid decline in motor Goetz et al. (2000) evaluated PD patients in function in PD patients. However, the age effect was HY stages II and III. Both groups had similar disease more prominent with non-dopaminergic symptoms, duration. The stage II subjects, however, could be which the authors correlate with more widespread maintained at their current level (based on UPDRS involvement of subcortical structures, including the scores) with appropriate dopaminergic therapy for non-dopaminergic locus ceruleus, pedunculopontine about 4 years, but at the cost of a higher degree of nucleus and the nucleus basalis of Meynert. levodopa-induced dyskinesias and higher medication A final consideration in the clinical course of PD doses. In stage III subjects, on the other hand, motor symptoms is the asymmetry of findings that is conimpairment progressed despite medication adjustment. sidered a clinical hallmark of the disease. The pathoThese findings were independent of initial UPDRS genesis of asymmetry in PD symptoms is poorly motor scores and disease duration. Bradykinesia was understood. One large study demonstrated that 46% found to be the most significant determinant of motor of patients met defined criteria for asymmetric disease, impairment in these patients. and that risk factors for the discrepancy between sides More recent neuropathologic and neuroimaging included shorter disease duration, younger age at studies have validated the clinical experience in onset, asymmetric initial symptom onset, hand domdetermining the rate of progression of PD. Braak inance and a family history of neurodegenerative diset al. (2004) have synthesized the neuropathologic proorders (Uitti et al., 2005). Interestingly, this study gression of PD by categorizing it into six stages. In the noted that left-handed individuals tended to have more first two stages, patients remain presymptomatic, with severe left hemiparkinsonism, suggesting that handeddegenerative pathology confined to the medulla oblonness may somehow influence parkinsonian asymmetry. gata/pontine tegmentum and olfactory bulb/anterior Lee et al. (1995) studied a cross-sectional population olfactory nucleus. In stages 3–4, the substantia nigra of 198 patients with idiopathic PD, and found no and other midbrain and forebrain structures become significant change in the asymmetry or focality of progressively more involved, during which time PD symptoms in up to 15 years of follow-up. Although patients begin to manifest overt parkinsonian signs or symptoms progressed faster initially, they later appsymptoms. In stages 5–6, the full pathologic and roached the normal age-related rate of decline. The clinical spectrum is maximally attained. Hilker et al. authors propose that an inciting event initiates cell (2005) studied the progression of dopaminergic imdeath in specific dopaminergic areas with injury to pairment in 31 clinically heterogeneous PD patients adjacent cells, thus accounting for the distribution by serial [18F]fluorodopa positron emission tomograand progression of neurologic signs and symptoms. In a retrospective study of 613 PD patients, anomalous phy (PET) scans. Their data demonstrate a lower patterns of asymmetry in PD patients were analyzed progression rate in patients with tremor-dominant (Toth et al., 2004). The authors found four groups of PD, but further suggest that neurodegenerative such PD patients: (1) those with rest tremor in a lower processes in PD slow down with increasing symptom limb with contralateral upper-extremity tremor; (2) duration, regardless of PD subtype. Not all potential rest tremor with contralateral action tremor; (3) initial variables were controlled in this study, and it is not asymmetric symptoms followed by similar but more clear if such imaging biomarkers are adequate to meaprominent contralateral symptoms; and (4) those in sure non-dopaminergic dysfunction (Jankovic, 2005). whom a tremor-dominant phenotype evolved over Nonetheless, the results parallel those of the clinical time to an akinetic-rigid form, with resolution of information obtained from analysis of the DATATOP

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tremor. They concluded that this variability in onset and progression could be explained by the simultaneous involvement of different topographic regions at the onset of symptoms, and that the disease may progress at different rates on different sides. The causal event and factors determining subsequent evolution of PD symptoms remain unclear.

13.3. Other motor abnormalities 13.3.1. Primitive reflexes In addition to the cardinal features of the disease, PD patients may exhibit a wide variety of secondary motor symptoms that span the neurologic system. In one study of 41 PD patients, 12 with PSP, 7 with MSA and 40 controls, Brodsky et al. (2004) found that the primitive glabellar reflex was present in 80.5% of PD patients, and was a moderately sensitive indicator (83.3%) of a parkinsonian disorder, though not specific (47.5%) for PD. By contrast, the palmomental reflex was present in only 34.1% of PD patients, was not sensitive (33.3%) but was more specific (90.0%, positive predictive value 83.3%). The presence of either primitive reflex did not correlate with MiniMental State Examination score. Though it is not clear how the presence of these primitive reflexes is related to the dopaminergic system, the fact that some are more likely to occur in advanced PD suggests a pathophysiologic link (Huber and Paulson, 1989). 13.3.2. Neuro-ophthalmologic findings A variety of neuro-ophthalmologic abnormalities can be seen in PD. Biousse et al. (2004), in their review of ophthalmologic features of PD, noted that any of the following may contribute to the ocular and visual complaints in these patients: decreased blink rate, ocular surface irritation, altered tear film, visual hallucinations, blepharospasm, decreased blink rate and decreased convergence. Ocular pursuit movements in one study of 7 PD patients (Lekwuwa et al., 1999) were lower in magnitude and fatigued with stimulus repetition when compared to controls, suggesting that oculomotor irregularities are analogous to limb bradykinesia. Whereas vertical saccade amplitude may be markedly diminished in PSP and latency may be prolonged in CBD, these movements are typically normal in PD (Vidailhet et al., 1994), a finding that may help differentiate these disorders. Abnormalities of ocular pursuit and saccades may be more severe with advanced disease, and saccade latency may be more prolonged toward the hemiparkinsonian side (Rascol et al., 1989). These changes may improve with

dopaminergic therapy (Gibson et al., 1987; Rascol et al., 1989), but in one study of smooth pursuit in PD patients, no observed changes were noted with on–off motor fluctuations (Sharpe et al., 1987). The direct role of dopamine deficiency in producing oculomotor abnormalities is thus unclear. One study of 23 parkinsonian patients suggested that in disorders other than PSP, the brainstem burst neurons responsible for initiation of saccades are likely intact, but the inputs to these neurons that control the size and direction of movements may be abnormal (Rottach et al., 1996). Increased frequency of square-wave jerks (SWJ) is abnormal, though the exact pathophysiology is unknown. This finding may be present in PD patients, but it is more likely to occur in patients with PSP. Those PD patients demonstrating SWJ had more severe freezing of gait (FOG), falls and postural instability (Rascol et al., 1991). In one study of PD patients undergoing unilateral pallidotomy, the number and amplitude of SWJ were significantly increased following the procedure at 1-month follow-up, suggesting that loss of pallidal inhibition to thalamocortical loops induces cortical dysfunction, resulting in abnormal ocular fixation (O’Sullivan et al., 2003). Blepharospasm and apraxia of eyelid opening (AEO) are two conditions that may be difficult to differentiate on examination, but both can be present in PD patients (Zadikoff and Lang, 2005). Blepharospasm is a focal dystonia characterized by spontaneous sustained involuntary closure of the eyelids. AEO often coexists with blepharospasm, but is defined as difficulty opening the eyes, often in the absence of true eyelid spasm. In one study, 75% of AEO cases were associated with blepharospasm; this study further found that AEO occurs in 0.7% of PD patients compared to 33.3% of patients with PSP (Lamberti et al., 2002). EMG studies initially suggested that blepharospasm was related to irregular inhibition of the tonically active levator palpebrae superioris muscle (Esteban and Gimenez-Roldan, 1988), and that AEO resulted from abnormal persistent activity of the orbicularis oculi muscle (Tozlovanu et al., 2001). A study involving synchronous EMG measurements of both the levator palpebrae superioris and orbicularis oculi muscles demonstrated various combinations of inhibition, dystonia and motor impersistence in both muscle groups (Aramideh et al., 1994), suggesting implications for treatment with botulinum toxin, but supporting the view that blepharospasm and AEO are related phenomena. Though one study suggested that patients with idiopathic blepharospasm were more likely to develop PD (10 of 105 blepharospasm patients) than normal controls (2 of 105) (Micheli et al., 2004), the relationship between the two is still unclear.

MOTOR SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Other, but relatively rare, neuro-ophthalmologic abnormalities seen in PD include supranuclear gaze palsy, oculogyric crises and convergence insufficiency. Though supranuclear gaze palsy and restriction of vertical eye movements are typical of PSP, they are not unique to this disorder. The exact frequency in PD is not known, but it typically occurs later in the disease course. Movements similar to oculogyric crises are rare, and are thought to relate to levodopa-induced dyskinesias since they occur at the same time as peak-dose choreoathetotic limb movements (LeWitt, 1998; Linazasoro et al., 2002). A case report of diplopia related to convergence insufficiency has been described in a PD patient during ‘off’ periods (Racette et al., 1999). 13.3.3. Bulbar dysfunction Bulbar symptoms, including dysarthria and hypophonia, dysphagia and sialorrhea, are frequently present in patients with PD, and may be a major cause of social disability. They may or may not be pathophysiologically related to the cardinal motor signs. Speech disorders in PD will be discussed elsewhere (see Ch. 17) but are typified by monotonous, soft and breathy speech with variable rate (Critchley, 1981). This often disabling symptom can be ameliorated through speech therapy (De Swart et al., 2003; Liotti et al., 2003). The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment is particularly effective (Ramig et al., 2004). In our study of 274 patients with PD followed for an average of 6.36 (3–17) years, dysarthria correlated with bradykinesia, PIGD type of PD and poor response to levodopa, and was inversely related to tremor. These findings suggest that, although dysarthria is at least in part due to dopaminergic dysfunction, non-dopaminergic mechanisms also play an important role in this troublesome symptom. Dysphagia is often subclinical in PD patients, and may be present early in the course. This symptom may be due to either dysfunction of initiating the swallowing reflex, or prolongation of laryngeal or esophageal movement. The deficits may be subclinical, especially early in the course of the disease (Potulska et al., 2003). Recent studies have shown that PD patients actually have less saliva production than normal controls (Proulx et al., 2005) and others have suggested that excessive drooling is due to decreased swallowing (Bagheri et al., 1999). 13.3.4. Respiratory disturbances Respiratory disturbances in PD can be a significant contributor to morbidity and mortality. In one study, pneumonia was one of several independent

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predictors of death among nursing-home PD patients, and aspiration pneumonia carried the highest mortality risk (Fernandez and Lapane, 2002). One study of 58 patients with PD identified both restrictive and obstructive patterns on spirometry (Sabate et al., 1996). The obstructive pattern could be central or peripheral, and could be related to rigidity, cervical arthrosis or restricted passive range of motion in the neck. Restrictive dysfunction was not related to bradykinesia, rigidity or tremor in this study, though others have suggested chest wall rigidity is a significant contributor (Shill and Stacy, 1998). In another study, 31 of 63 (49%) PD patients had abnormal pulmonary flow–volume curves; of these, 54% had a restrictive pattern that was attributed to incoordinated expiratory effort or low chest wall compliance (Izquierdo-Alonso et al., 1994). Obstructive patterns in this study were attributed to weakness of upper respiratory musculature. One study of 12 PD patients with on–off motor fluctuations determined that all had restrictive patterns while both on and off, but this worsened during off periods (De Pandis et al., 2002). Levodopa administration may produce respiratory dyskinesias as well (Rice et al., 2002). 13.3.5. Dystonia and skeletal abnormalities Dystonia in PD patients may be an early presenting sign in young patients, is more common in females and patients with long disease duration or may be a consequence of levodopa therapy (Jankovic and Tintner, 2001). Patients may also develop a ‘striatal hand’ deformity, consisting of flexion at the metacarpophalangeal joints, extension at the proximal interphalangeal joints and flexion of the distal interphalangeal joints (Fig. 13.1). This deformity appears similar to the ulnar deviation or ‘claw hand’ seen more commonly in arthritic disorders, but is in fact a dystonia that can improve with dopaminergic therapy. Lower-extremity ‘striatal’ deformities in PD can include an equinovarus foot positioning or toe extension, and may impair the ability to stand and walk or wear shoes (Ashour et al., 2005). The ‘dropped head’ sign may be seen in PD; in one patient this was due to neck extensor myopathy with typical myopathic features on EMG (Lava and Factor, 2001), but it is more likely associated with disproportionate anterior neck muscle rigidity (Yoshiyama et al., 1999). One study found that only 7 of 459 patients with parkinsonism had neck extensor weakness, all had myopathic EMG findings and a poor response to levodopa and 6 had dysautonomia, suggesting that the ‘dropped head’ sign may be an indicator for MSA (Askmark et al., 2001).

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J. SHAHED AND J. JANKOVIC In one study of 8 PD patients with camptocormia, the symptom emerged 4–14 years into the disease course and worsened during off periods (Djaldetti et al., 1999). Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus has been shown to improve camptocormia in PD (Hellmann et al., 2006; Yamada et al., 2006). Some authors have suggested it is a form of axial dystonia and is more common in PIGD-PD (Bloch et al., 2006). Other investigators have found atrophy and fatty infiltration of the spinal extensor muscles (Lepoutre et al., 1996), and suggest that this is secondary to flexor rigidity. Secondary spinal malformations may also contribute to the abnormal posture. Scoliosis has long been recognized as part of the PD symptom complex (Duvoisin and Marsden, 1975). The scoliosis often occurs in the direction contralateral to the most prominent hemiparkinsonian signs. Although this has not been unequivocally shown (Grimes et al., 1987) in humans, rats with experimentally induced hemiparkinsonism had a greater degree of scoliosis-like skeletal deformity that correlated directly with the degree of dopamine depletion, and occurred ipsilateral to the side of the lesion (HerreraMarschitz et al., 1990). 13.3.6. Gait abnormalities

Fig. 13.1. Striatal hand deformity. Reproduced from Ashour et al. (2005) from the Lancet Neurology with permission from Elsevier.

Camptocormia is a dystonic posture characterized by marked flexion of the thoracolumbar spine which abates in the recumbent position and sometimes with sensory tricks (Figs. 13.2 and 13.3). Though it has long been considered a psychogenic disorder, in our study of 16 cases, 11 had PD (Azher and Jankovic, 2005).

The parkinsonian gait is characteristically slow, shuffling and narrow based, often associated with a stooped posture (Jankovic et al., 2001). Postural instability, discussed earlier, also contributes to the gait disturbance of PD. Disease processes other than PD may produce similar gait changes, including normal-pressure hydrocephalus, lower-body (vascular) parkinsonism and other Parkinson’s plus syndromes; these should be considered in the differential diagnosis if gait disturbance predominates the clinical picture, especially if early in the clinical course. In these other disorders, however, the other cardinal PD features may not be as prevalent. For example, in normal-pressure hydrocephalus, the gait is broad-based with outward rotation of the feet, and steps are short, typical of a frontal disorder (Stolze et al., 2001). In further contrast to PD, armswing is not reduced, and other extrapyramidal signs are typically absent (Kuba et al., 2002). Vascular parkinsonism manifests predominantly with lower-body involvement, postural instability, a history of falling, dementia, corticospinal findings, incontinence and pseudobulbar affect (Winikates and Jankovic, 1999). These patients often have risk factors for vascular disease, and are less likely to have tremor. FOG is another characteristic feature of the PD gait, though it may not occur universally (Bloem et al., 2004). It is commonly precipitated during turns, at

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Fig. 13.2. This man, who has camptocormia while standing, can adopt a normal posture while seated and when lying flat. Reproduced from Azher and Jankovic (2005) with permission from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

the initiation of gait, walking through narrow spaces and reaching destinations. Three subtypes of FOG have been characterized (Schaafsma et al., 2003): (1) moving forward with short shuffling steps; (2) akinesia or difficulty getting started; and (3) a ‘block’ in which the legs tremble in place as the patient tries to overcome the disturbance. Episodes typically last less than 10 seconds, are more severe in the ‘off’ state, and occur less frequently with levodopa therapy. In an analysis of the DATATOP cohort, Giladi et al. (2001) found that baseline factors associated with greater risk of developing FOG were higher rigidity, bradykinesia, speech and postural instability scores and longer disease duration (Giladi et al., 2001). Tremor at disease onset conferred a decreased risk of FOG. FOG is associated with multiple social and medical consequences for the patient, especially because it is another common cause of falls (Bloem et al., 2004). Subsequent studies have shown that FOG does not correlate with bradykinesia, rigidity or postural instabil-

ity (Bartels et al., 2003), and it has been suggested that it may represent a different underlying pathophysiology than these cardinal PD features. An EMG study of the tibialis anterior and gastrocnemius muscles during ambulation in PD patients with FOG showed a consistent pattern of premature muscle activity in the immediate period before freezing, suggesting a central disorder producing disturbance of the gait cycle (Nieuwboer et al., 2004). A study of stride length in PD patients with and without FOG found that FOG entailed difficulty regulating stride-to-stride variation, producing an ‘arrhythmia’ of steps (Hausdorff et al., 2003). In this study, levodopa produced reduction in stride variability. Though this may seem physiologically similar to bradykinesia, this study also found no correlation with that cardinal PD feature. N-isopropyl-p-123-I-iodoamphetamine SPECT scans in one series of PD patients with FOG revealed significantly decreased perfusion in Brodmann’s area 11 (orbitofrontal cortex; Matsui et al., 2005).

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Fig. 13.3. This patient with Parkinson’s disease has camptocormia that improves with a ‘sensory trick’ of climbing the hands up a vertical wall, reinforcing the fact that such postures may represent a dystonic phenomenon. Reproduced from Azher and Jankovic (2005) with permission from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

13.4. Diagnostic criteria and features suggesting atypical parkinsonism Other parkinsonian disorders such as PSP, MSA, CBD and vascular parkinsonism will be discussed in detail elsewhere. Early PD may be difficult to discern, especially as signs may be subtle (Koller and Montgomery, 1997). The diagnosis may be inferred by the presence of a combination of the cardinal motor features and associated symptoms (Rao et al., 2003), many of which are easily assessed by the UPDRS (Fahn et al., 1987; Goetz et al., 1995). Various criteria for the clinical diagnosis of PD have been proposed (Ward and Gibb, 1990; Calne et al., 1992; Hughes et al., 1992a; Koller, 1992; Gelb et al., 1999), encompassing the presence of cardinal disease features, asymmetry, levodopa response and various exclusionary symptoms. None of these has been tested for reliability or validity (Koller and Montgomery, 1997). Analysis of the 800 patients in the DATATOP cohort revealed that only 65 (8.1%) patients no longer met entry diagnostic criteria for PD, suggesting a high rate of clinical diagnostic accuracy amongst movement disorders specialists (Jankovic et al., 2000). In an autopsy series of 100 patients with a clinical diagnosis of PD, Hughes et al. (1992b) found that 76% had typical

PD pathology, but that when diagnostic criteria were retrospectively applied, the accuracy improved to 82%. Rajput et al. (1991) propose that any atypical features suggesting a diagnosis other than idiopathic PD are clinically obvious within 5 years of symptom onset. Some features suggesting atypical parkinsonism are listed in Table 13.2. No definitive diagnostic test for PD exists. In the past, pathologic confirmation of the hallmark Lewy body has typically been considered the ‘gold standard’ of PD diagnosis (Gibb and Lees, 1988). Functional neuroimaging techniques may greatly assist in the differential diagnosis of idiopathic PD (Piccini and Whone, 2004), especially when combined with neurologic assessment of the typical motor manifestations. However, the radiotracers that are conventionally used to assess dopaminergic pathways in PD do not measure the number or density of dopaminergic neurons, making such imaging studies poor surrogate markers of disease progression or as viable endpoints in clinical trials (Ravina et al., 2005). Finally, as genetic investigations into PD progress, the identification of novel mutations will likely lead to testing that will not only confirm the diagnosis in affected individuals, but also help identify family members or populations at risk for the disease (Funayama et al., 2002;

MOTOR SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Table 13.2 Factors suggesting atypical parkinsonism Poor response to levodopa No dyskinesias despite high levodopa dose History of exposure to toxins or infections known to be associated with parkinsonism Unilateral atrophy Absence of rest tremor Unilateral rigidity (painful) Unilateral myoclonus (cortical) Asymmetrical apraxia Alien limb Fluctuations in cognition Early hallucinations or psychosis Psychotic symptoms with levodopa Extreme sensitivity to neuroleptics Impaired downgaze Deep facial folds Palilalia Early loss of postural reflexes and falls Pure freezing of gait Stiff gait with knees extended Levodopa-induced facial dystonia Anterocollis Contractures Laryngeal stridor Ataxia Dysautonomia Lower motor neuron and/or upper motor neuron signs Excessive snoring, inspiratory sighs

Wszolek et al., 2003; Uitti et al., 2004). This asymptomatic, at-risk population may be eventually targeted for neuroprotective therapy.

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Autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease HORACIO KAUFMANN1* AND DAVID S. GOLDSTEIN2 1

Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA Clinical Neurocardiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

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14.1. Introduction Autonomic dysfunction occurs commonly in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Indeed, the original report by James Parkinson in 1817 noted prominent constipation and urinary incontinence. The well-known movement disorder usually dominates the clinical picture and has occupied the attention of clinicians and researchers. Nevertheless, a substantial minority of parkinsonian patients have severe and disabling symptoms of autonomic impairment, several of which are treatable. Autonomic disturbances in PD can manifest as dysphagia, constipation, urinary urgency, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, orthostatic hypotension (OH) and postprandial hypotension, dishidrosis and impaired thermoregulation. It has been difficult to quantify the prevalence of autonomic dysfunction in PD. First, antiparkinsonian medication with levodopa can worsen OH and delay gastric emptying. Anticholinergics further decrease gastrointestinal motility. Until relatively recently these abnormalities were incorrectly believed to reflect side-effects of the drugs, whereas we now know that the drugs interact importantly with the dysautonomia that is part of the disease process itself. Second, the parkinsonian form of multiple system atrophy (MSA-P), which always features signs and symptoms of autonomic dysfunction, can resemble PD clinically, so that studies can overestimate or understimate the frequency of autonomic dysfunction by misdiagnosis. In a retrospective study, almost one-third of patients with pathologically proven PD had autonomic dysfunction documented in the medical record (Rogers et al., 1980). This retrospective approach most likely underestimates the frequency of autonomic failure. Compared to age-matched control subjects, PD patients

have higher frequencies of constipation, erectile dysfunction, urinary urgency, incomplete bladder emptying, dysphagia and orthostatic light-headedness. Indeed, about 9 in 10 patients with PD have one or more of these autonomic symptoms (Singer et al., 1991). Autonomic problems increase significantly with increasing disease severity (Visser et al., 2004). Here we review components of the autonomic nervous system and clinical manifestations, diagnosis and treatment of autonomic abnormalities in PD. We also note similarities and differences between autonomic abnormalities in MSA and PD. MSA is covered elsewhere in this volume (see Ch. 46).

14.2. Components of the autonomic nervous system The autonomic nervous system has five components (Goldstein, 2001): (1) enteric; (2) parasympathetic cholinergic; (3) sympathetic cholinergic; (4) sympathetic noradrenergic; and (5) adrenomedullary hormonal. Langley, who introduced the term ‘autonomic nervous system’ about a century ago, referred to neurons in ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord that seemed to function independently, or autonomously, of the central nervous system. Now we know that the components of the autonomic nervous system do not function independently of the central nervous system, but the phraseology has stuck. Langley identified enteric, sympathetic and parasympathetic components. In the early 20th century, Cannon discovered and emphasized the adrenal hormonal component. The autonomic nervous system therefore is not only neuronal but also neurohormonal. One might instead refer to the components as ‘automatic’ neuroendocrine systems, along with the

*Correspondence to: Horacio Kaufmann, MD, Department of Neurology, Box 1052, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029–6594, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ212-241-7315, Fax: þ212-20-26042.

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vasopressin system, renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system and hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenocortical system. Failure of a particular component of the autonomic nervous system produces characteristic clinical manifestations. Parasympathetic cholinergic failure presents as constipation, dry mouth, a constant pulse rate, urinary retention and erectile failure in men. Sweating, whether thermoregulatory, gustatory or emotional, depends on delivery of acetylcholine, not catecholamines, from sympathetic nerves. Sympathetic cholinergic failure therefore manifests as decreased sweating. Due to the absolute requirement of intact

14.3. Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction 14.3.1. Orthostatic and postprandial hypotension The sympathetic nervous system is essential for maintaining blood pressure during orthostasis. OH is the cardinal manifestation of sympathetic neurocirculatory failure and occurs in about 40% of patients with PD (Table 14.1).

Table 14.1 Reported criteria and frequencies of orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson’s disease (PD) First author (ref. no.)

Prevalence

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Notes

Allcock (1)

47%

89

Awerbuch (2)

10%

20

Bellon (3) Bhattacharya (4)

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Bonuccelli (5)

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Briebach (6) Hillen (7)

40% 58%

250 36

Holmberg (8)

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Hubble (9)

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Korchounov (10)

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Krygowska-Wajs (11) Kujawa (12)

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20 15 29

Kuroiwa (13) Loew (14) Magalhaes (15) Micieli (16)

25% 20% 30% 54%

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Papapetropoulos (17) Rajput (18) Sandyk (19)

10% 50% 31%

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Community-based cohort 20 mmHg decrease in BPs or to < 90 Independent of PD duration Independent of PD severity Higher prevalence if older Untreated early PD 20 mmHg decrease in BPs >30 mmHg decrease in BPs 20 mmHg decrease in BPs and 10 mmHg decrease in BPd All on levodopa De novo untreated PD 20 mmHg decrease in BPs 20 mmHg decrease in BPs PD patients > 65 years old 15 mmHg decrease in BPs Decrease in MAP > 2 SD from normal Higher prevalence if older Higher prevalence if longer duration All had episodes of OH All on selegiline, none on levodopa 20 mmHg decrease in BPs at 10 20 mmHg decrease in BPs or 10 mmHg decrease in BPd, and 25 mmHg decrease in BPs or >10 mmHg decrease in BPd >2 SD decrease in BPs from normal 20 mmHg decrease in BPs Pathology-proven PD 25 mmHg decrease in BPs and 10 mmHg decrease in BPd Untreated At disease presentation Autopsy study Untreated Related to PD severity

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Table 14.1 (Continued) First author (ref. no.)

Prevalence

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Senard (20)

58%

91

Thaisetthawatkul (21) Tranchant (22) Turkka (23) Wenning (24) Average Sum

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BPs, systolic blood pressure; BPd, diastolic blood pressure; MAP, mean arterial pressure; OH, orthostatic hypotension.za References cited in Table 14.1: 1. Allcock LM, Ullyart K, Kenny RA et al. (2004). Frequency of orthostatic hypotension in a community based cohort of patients with Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75(10): 1470–1471. 2. Awerbuch GI, Sandyk R (1992). Autonomic functions in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Int J Neurosci 64(1-4): 7–14. 3. Bellon AK, Jost WH, Schimrigk K et al. (1996). Blood pressure adaptation and hormone regulation in Parkinson patients following orthostasis. Deutsch Med Wochenschr 121(36): 1077–1083. 4. Bhattacharya KF, Nouri S, Olanow CW et al. (2003). Selegiline in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease: its impact on orthostatic hypotension. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 9(4): 221–224. 5. Bonuccelli U, Lucetti C, Del Dotto P et al. (2003). Orthostatic hypotension in de novo Parkinson disease. Arch Neurol 60(10): 1400–1404. 6. Briebach T, Baas H, Fischer PA (1990). Orthostatic dysregulation in Parkinson syndrome. Results of a study of 250 patients. Nervenarzt 61: 491–494. 7. Hillen ME, Wagner ML, Sage JI (1996). “Subclinical” orthostatic hypotension is associated with dizziness in elderly patients with Parkinson disease. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 77: 710–712. 8. Holmberg B, Kallio M, Johnels B et al. (2001). Cardiovascular reflex testing contributes to clinical evaluation and differential diagnosis of Parkinsonian syndromes. Mov Disord 16(2): 217–225. 9. Hubble JP, Koller WC, Cutler NR et al. (1995). Pramipexole in patients with early Parkinson’s disease. Clin Neuropharmacol 18(4): 338–347. 10. Korchounov A, Kessler KR, Schipper HI (2004). Differential effects of various treatment combinations on cardiovascular dysfunction in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Acta Neurol Scand 109(1): 45–51. 11. Krygowska-Wajs A, Furgala A, Laskiewicz J et al. (2002). [Early diagnosis of orthostatic hypotension in idopathic Parkinson’s disease]. Folia Med Cracov 43(1-2): 59–67. 12. Kujawa K, Leurgans S, Raman R et al. (2000). Acute orthostatic hypotension when starting dopamine agonists in Parkinson’s disease. Arch Neurol 57(10): 1461–1463. 13. Kuroiwa Y, Shimada Y, Toyokura Y (1983). Postural hypotension and low R-R interval variability in parkinsonism, spino-cerebellar degeneration, and Shy-Drager syndrome. Neurology 33(4): 463–467. 14. Loew F, Gauthey L, Koerffy A et al. (1995). Postprandial hypotension and orthostatic blood pressure responses in elderly Parkinson’s disease patients. J Hypertens 13(11): 1291–1297. 15. Magalhaes M, Wenning GK, Daniel SE et al. (1995). Autonomic dysfunction in pathologically confirmed multiple system atrophy and idiopathic Parkinson’s disease–a retrospective comparison. Acta Neurol Scand 91(2): 98–102. 16. Micieli G, Martignoni E, Cavallini A et al. (1987). Postprandial and orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson’s disease. Neurology 37(3): 386–393. 17. Papapetropoulos S, Paschalis C, Athanassiadou A et al. (2001). Clinical phenotype in patients with alpha-synuclein Parkinson’s disease living in Greece in comparison with patients with sporadic Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 70(5): 662–665. 18. Rajput AH, Rozdilsky B (1976). Dysautonomia in Parkinsonism: a clinicopathological study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 39: 1092–1100. 19. Sandyk R, Awerbuch GI (1992). Dysautonomia in Parkinson’s disease: relationship to motor disability. Int J Neurosci 64(1-4): 23–31. 20. Senard JM, Rai S, Lapeyre-Mestre M et al. (1997). Prevalence of orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson’s disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 63: 584–589. 21. Thaisetthawatkul P, Boeve BF, Benarroch EE et al. (2004). Autonomic dysfunction in dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurology 62(10): 1804–1809. 22. Tranchant C, Guiraud-Chaumeil C, Echaniz-Laguna A et al. (2000). Is clonidine growth hormone stimulation a good test to differentiate multiple system atrophy from idiopathic Parkinson’s disease? J Neurol 247(11): 853–856. 23. Turkka J, Suominen K, Tolonen U et al. (1997). Selegiline diminishes cardiovascular autonomic responses in Parkinson’s disease. Neurology 48(3): 662–667. 24. Wenning GK, Scherfler C, Granata R et al. (1999). Time course of symptomatic orthostatic hypotension and urinary incontinence in patients with postmortem confirmed parkinsonian syndromes: a clinicopathological study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 67: 620–623.

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OH is often defined as a decrease in systolic blood pressure of at least 20 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure of at least 10 mmHg within 3 minutes of standing (Consensus, 1996). Symptoms include orthostatic light-headedness, blurred vision, generalized weakness, fatigue, cognitive impairment and pain in the shoulders and back of the neck. A related problem is postprandial hypotension, a fall in blood pressure after meals, which occurs even in the supine position and can be very pronounced. Postprandial hypotension is extremely commom in PD, even in patients who do not experience OH (Micieli et al., 1987; Hasegawa and Okamoto, 1992; Benarroch et al., 2000). Postprandial hypotension frequently underlies the apparent worsening of parkinsonian symptoms after meals. Patients appear dazed or ‘frozen’, suggesting an ‘off’ state related to fluctuating levodopa responses. The lack of a reliable method for the differential diagnosis between PD and MSA-P during life, and the widespread assumption that early severe OH is diagnostic of MSA, complicate estimating the frequency of OH in PD. Indeed, in small postmortem studies (Saito et al., 1992; Benarroch et al., 2000), 4 out of 5 patients with prominent OH and pathologically proven PD had carried a diagnosis of MSA during life. Meanwhile, one-third of patients with pathologically proven MSA have been reported to die misdiagnosed with PD (Magalhaes et al., 1995). As shown in Table 14.1, among 23 studies the reported frequency of OH in PD varied widely from 5 to 100%, but the variability decreased noticeably as the size of the study increased. All studies involving more than 80 patients reported an OH frequency between 20 and 60%. Across all studies, the mean percentage of PD patients with OH was 41%. In most clinical series, OH is believed to be a late complication of PD. Few studies have actually analyzed formally the timing of onset of OH in relation to the movement disorder. In an analysis of historical data from patients with PD and OH who were evaluated at the National Institutes of Health, about 65% of patients had evidence that OH had developed early in their disease (unpublished observations). OH was present in 14% of patients with early, newly diagnosed, untreated PD who were followed for 7 years to ascertain their diagnosis (Bonuccelli et al., 2003). In that study, 15% of the original cohort of patients turned out to have other types of parkinsonism during the follow-up period. The notion that OH can be an early finding in PD and even precede the movement disorder is confirmed by postmortem pathology reports of PD patients, with detailed historical data conclusively showing that

symptomatic OH had occurred before the onset of the motor abnormalities (Kaufmann et al., 2004). As shown in Table 14.1, studies have noted higher frequencies of OH in older patients, in patients with more severe disease or in patients with a longer duration of disease at the time of evaluation. Although no study has attempted to weight these likely intercorrelated factors, it appears that the frequency of OH increases with progression of the disease, rather than age. 14.3.2. The role of levodopa Contrary to a long-held notion, treatment with levodopa does not cause OH in PD (Hoehn, 1975). If levodopa did so, then a higher proportion of patients with than without OH would be on levodopa therapy, and this is not the case (Goldstein et al., 2002; Bhattacharya et al., 2003). Patients with PDþOH do not differ from those without OH in levodopa treatment or actual plasma levodopa concentrations. Even more convincingly, OH can occur in patients with PD who have never taken levodopa or discontinued levodopa treatment in the remote past (Martignoni et al., 1995). As discussed below, such patients have physiologic evidence of decreased cardiovascular innervation by sympathetic nerves, which at least partly explains the OH. It is important to consider, however, that even with concomitant carbidopa treatment, which attenuates conversion of levodopa to dopamine outside the central nervous system, levodopa increases plasma levels of both dopamine and its deaminated metabolite, dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (Kaakkola et al., 1985; Rose et al., 1988; Myllyla et al., 1993; Tohgi et al., 1995). Exogenously administered dopamine at relatively low doses produces vasodilation, by stimulating dopamine receptors on vascular smoothmuscle cells and possibly by inhibiting norepinephrine release from sympathetic nerves (Yeh et al., 1969; Lokhandwala, 1990; Durrieu et al., 1991). Dopamine also augments natriuresis and diuresis, which promotes depletion of extracellular fluid and blood volumes. In patients with PD and decreased cardiovascular sympathetic innervation and baroreflex abnormalities (see below), vasodilation and hypovolemia elicited by dopamine produced from levodopa could decrease blood pressure both during supine rest and during standing. Thus, orthostatic intolerance and OH may occur in patients with PD while taking levodopa/carbidopa or dopamine receptor agonists, not directly from the effects of these drugs alone but from interactions with baroreflex and sympathoneural pathophysiologic mechanisms occurring as part of the disease process.

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE 14.3.3. Cardiac sympathetic denervation More than 25 studies over the past several years have shown that virtually all patients with PD have loss of sympathetic innervation of the heart. This is indicated by low myocardial concentrations of radioactivity after injection of the sympathoneural imaging agents, 123 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (Satoh et al., 1997, 1999; Braune et al., 1998, 1999; Yoshita et al., 1998; Orimo et al., 1999; Druschky et al., 2000; Ohmura, 2000; Reinhardt et al., 2000; Takatsu et al., 2000a, b) and 6-[18F] fluorodopamine (Goldstein et al., 1997, 2000, 2002), by neurochemical assessments during right heart catheterization (Goldstein et al., 2000), and by postmortem pathologic studies (Orimo, 2001, 2002; Amino et al., 2005). About half of the patients with PD without OH had a loss of 6-[18F]fluorodopamine-derived radioactivity diffusely in the left ventricular myocardium, and slightly less than half had loss localized to the lateral or inferior walls, with relative preservation in the septum or anterior wall. Only a very small minority had entirely normal cardiac 6-[18F]fluorodopaminederived radioactivity. Thus, virtually all patients with PD have had evidence for at least some loss of cardiac sympathetic innervation. Neuropathological data support this in vivo observation: Lewy bodies have been reported in the cardiac plexus of patients with PD (Iwanaga et al., 1999) and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactive axons had nearly disappeared in the left ventricular anterior wall from specimens with PD. Moreover, the numbers of neurofilament and S-100 protein immunoreactive axons were also drastically decreased. Triple immunofluorolabeling for neurofilament, tyrosine hydroxylase and myelin basic protein showed profound involvement of cardiac sympathetic axons in PD (Amino et al., 2005). Neuroimaging and neuropathological evidence of cardiac sympathetic denervation has also been shown in most patients with pure autonomic failure (PAF), a Lewy body disorder likely related to PD. PAF is a neurodegenerative disorder of peripheral autonomic neurons but no motor abnormalities (Consensus, 1996). Postmortem studies of patients with PAF have shown Lewy bodies in autonomic ganglia, distal sympathetic axons and epicardial nerves (Hague et al., 1997). However, despite the absence of clinical parkinsonism in PAF, Lewy bodies were also found in substantia nigra of these patients. As shown in Table 14.2, most patients with PD have Lewy bodies, not only in the substantia nigra but in sympathetic ganglia as well. The overlapping pathologic findings suggest that PAF and PD may lie along a spectrum of Lewy body

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disorders that affect peripheral autonomic neurons (Kaufmann and Biaggioni, 2003). 14.3.4. Absence of postganglionic lesion in multiple system atrophy Just as the literature is consistent about cardiac sympathetic denervation in PD, it is also consistent about intact cardiac sympathetic innervation in MSA, ascertained by neuroimaging (Yoshita et al., 1997; Braune et al., 1999; Druschky et al., 2000; Reinhardt et al., 2000), normal or even increased rates of entry of norepinephrine and other catechols into coronary sinus plasma (Goldstein et al., 2000) and postmortem pathology (Orimo, 2001, 2002). In contrast to PAF and PD, MSA does not involve Lewy bodies, either in the substantia nigra or sympathetic neurons. Glial and neuronal cells of MSA patients contain cytoplasmic inclusions that, similar to Lewy bodies, contain a-synuclein (Wakabayashi et al., 1998; Dickson et al., 1999; Kaufmann et al., 2001). Thus, these disorders may be considered a-synucleinopathies (Jellinger, 2003). In sum, compelling neuroimaging, neurochemical and postmortem pathological evidence indicates that PD features cardiac sympathetic denervation, whereas MSA features intact cardiac sympathetic innervation. This difference is consistent with a postganglionic sympathetic lesion in PD and PAF but not in MSA. Neuroimaging evidence of cardiac sympathetic denervation may become a useful tool for distinguishing PD from PD in difficult cases. 14.3.5. Vascular sympathetic denervation Whether sympathetic denervation in the peripheral vasculature might contribute to OH in PD has been unclear. The extent of loss of sympathetic innervation in PD seems to vary among organs. Normal tissue concentrations of 6-[18F]fluorodopamine-derived radioactivity have been noted in the liver, spleen, salivary glands and nasopharyngeal mucosa but decreased concentrations in the thyroid gland and renal cortex (Goldstein et al., 2002). Findings based on 123Imetaiodobenzylguanidine scanning have led to the view that in PD cardiac sympathetic denervation occurs independently of OH or other manifestations of autonomic failure and that the denervation is selective for the heart (Yoshita et al., 1998; Braune et al., 1999; Satoh et al., 1999; Takatsu et al., 2000a). Consistent with more generalized sympathetic denervation in PDþOH than in PD without OH, however, is the finding that patients with PDþOH

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Table 14.2 Postmortem findings in primary chronic autonomic failure or Parkinson’s disease (PD) First author

Ref. no.

Diagnosis

n

SN LB?

SNS LB?

Benarroch Kato Kaufmann (case 1) Orimo Schober (case 2) Vanderhaeghen (case 1) Saito Arai Evans Hague Johnson (case 1) Miura Orimo Roessman Terao Van Ingelghem Benarroch Graham Johnson (case 2) Kato Kluyskens (case 5) Nick Nishie Orimo Schober (case 1) Schwarz Shy (case 2) Thapedi Iwanaga Den Hartog Jager Rajput Takeda Wakabayashi

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (4) (13) (14) (15) (1) (16) (11) (2) (17) (18) (19) (4) (5) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27)

PDþOH PDþOH PDþOH PDþOH PDþOH PDþOH PDþOH PAF PAF PAF PAF PAF PAF PAF PAF PAF MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA MSA PD PD PD PD PD

3 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 7 1 1 8 3 1 1 1 1 11 6 6 1 10

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No (implied) No No No* No No No No No

Not reported Not reported Yes Yes Yes Yes ?** Yes No Yes No ?** Not reported Yes Yes Yes Not reported No No Not reported Not reported No No* No No* No No No* Yes (9/11) Yes (5/6) Yes (5/6) Yes Yes (9/10)

SN LB, substantia nigra Lewy bodies; SNS LB, sympathetic nervous system Lewy bodies; PDþOH, Parkinson’s disease with orthostatic hypotension; PAF, pure autonomic failure (previously called idiopathic orthostatic hypotension); MSA, multiple system atrophy (previously called Shy–Drager syndrome); *eosinophilic neuronal inclusions; **Japanese article with English abstract. References cited in Table 14.2: 1. Benarroch EE, Schmeichel AM, Parisi JE (2000). Involvement of the ventrolateral medulla in parkinsonism with autonomic failure. Neurology 54(4): 963–968. 2. Kato S, Oda M, Hayashi H et al. (1995). Decrease of medullary catecholaminergic neurons in multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease and their preservation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol Sci 132(2): 216–221. 3. Kaufmann H, Nahm K, Purohit D et al. (2004). Autonomic failure as the initial presentation of Parkinson disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurology 63: 1093–1095. 4. Orimo S, Oka T, Miura H et al. (2002). Sympathetic cardiac denervation in Parkinson’s disease and pure autonomic failure but not in multiple system atrophy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 73: 776–777. 5. Schober R, Langston JW, Forno LS (1975). Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension. Biochemical and pathologic observations in 2 cases. Eur Neurol 13: 177–188. 6. Vanderhaeghen JJ, Perier O, Sternon JE (1970). Pathological findings in idiopathic orthostatic hypotension. Its relationship with Parkinson’s disease. Arch Neurol 22: 207–214. 7. Saito F, Tsuchiya K, Kotera M. (1992). An autopsied case of Parkinson’s disease manifesting Shy-Drager syndrome. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 32: 1238–1244. 8. Arai K, Kato N, Kashiwado K et al. (2000). Pure autonomic failure in association with human alpha-synucleinopathy. Neurosci Lett 296: 171–173.

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Table 14.2 (Continued) 9. Evans DJ, Lewis PD, Malhotra O et al. (1972). Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension. Report of an autopsied case with histochemical and ultrastructural studies of the neuronal inclusions. J Neurol Sci 17(2): 209–218. 10. Hague K, Lento P, Morgello S et al. (1997).The distribution of Lewy bodies in pure autonomic failure: autopsy findings and review of the literature. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 94: 192–196. 11. Johnson RH, Lee Gde J, Oppenheimer DR et al. (1966). Autonomic failure with orthostatic hypotension due to intermediolateral column degeneration. A report of two cases with autopsies. Q J Med 35(138): 276–292. 12. Miura H, Tsuchiya K, Kubodera T et al. (2001). An autopsy case of pure autonomic failure with pathological features of Parkinson’s disease. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 41: 40–44. 13. Roessmann U, Van den Noort S, McFarland DE (1971). Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension. Arch Neurol 24(6): 503–510. 14. Terao Y, Takeda K, Sakuta M et al. (1993). Pure progressive autonomic failure: a clinicopathological study. Eur Neurol 33: 409–415. 15. van Ingelghem E, van Zandijcke M, Lammens M (1994). Pure autonomic failure: a new case with clinical, biochemical, and necropsy data. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 57(6): 745–747. 16. Graham JG, Oppenheimer DR (1969). Orthostatic hypotension and nicotine sensitivity in a case of multiple system atrophy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 32: 28–34. 17. Kluyskens Y, Bossaert L, Snoeck J et al. (1977). Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension and the Shy and Drager syndrome; Physiological studies in four cases; pathological report of one case. Acta Cardiol 32(5): 317–335. 18. Nick J, Contamin F, Escourolle R et al. (1967). [Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension with a complex neurological syndrome of extrapyramidal predominance]. Rev Neurol (Paris) 116(3): 213–227. 19. Nishie M, Mori F, Fujiwara H et al. (2004). Accumulation of phosphorylated alpha-synuclein in the brain and peripheral ganglia of patients with multiple system atrophy. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 107(4): 292–298. 20. Schwarz GA (1967). The orthostatic hypotension syndrome of Shy-Drager. A clinicopathologic report. Arch Neurol 16(2): 123–139. 21. Shy GM, Drager GA (1960). A neurological syndrome associated with orthostatic hypotension: a clinical-pathologic study. Arch Neurol 2: 511–527. 22. Thapedi IM, Ashenhurst EM, Rozdilsky B (1971). Shy-Drager syndrome. Report of an autopsied case. Neurology 21(1): 26–32. 23. Iwanaga K, Wakabayashi K, Yoshimoto M et al. (1999). Lewy body-type degeneration in cardiac plexus in Parkinson’s and incidental Lewy body diseases. Neurology 52: 1269–1271. 24. Den Hartog Jager W, Bethlem J (1960). The distribution of Lewy bodies in the central and autonomic nervous system in idiopathic paralysis agitans. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 23: 283–290. 25. Rajput AH, Rozdilsky B (1976). Dysautonomia in Parkinsonism: a clinicopathological study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 39: 1092– 1100. 26. Takeda S, Yamazaki K, Miyakawa T et al. (1993). Parkinson’s disease with involvement of the parasympathetic ganglia. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 86(4): 397–398. 27. Wakabayashi K, Takahashi H (1997). Neuropathology of autonomic nervous system in Parkinson’s disease. Eur Neurol 38 (Suppl 2): 2–7.

have lower mean plasma levels of norepinephrine, the sympathetic neurotransmitter, during supine rest, than do patients without OH (Senard et al., 1990, 1993; Niimi et al., 1999; Goldstein et al., 2002). 14.3.6. Plasma norepinephrine Concentrations of norepinephrine in antecubital venous plasma provide a means – albeit indirect – of detecting sympathetic denervation in the body as a whole. Thus, patients with OH from PAF have low plasma norepinephrine levels during supine rest (Ziegler et al., 1977; Goldstein et al., 1989). Patients with PDþOH have lower plasma norepinephrine concentrations than patients without OH (Senard et al., 1990, 1993). In patients with PDþOH, plasma norepinephrine levels, although significantly lower than in patients without OH, are not particularly low

for healthy people of similar age and are clearly higher than in patients with PAF. It is possible that partial loss of sympathetic fibers leads to augmented traffic in the remaining fibers, resulting in increased proportionate release of norepinephrine from the reduced vesicular stores. Moreover, because denervation would produce concurrent decreases in both release and reuptake of norepinephrine, plasma norepinephrine levels might fail to detect a real decrease in norepinephrine release. Levodopa/carbidopa treatment might also increase individual variability in plasma norepinephrine levels. 14.3.7. Baroreflex abnormalities A particular pattern of beat-to-beat blood pressure responses to the Valsalva maneuver can detect sympathetic neurocirculatory failure, including that in PDþOH

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(Goldstein and Tack, 2000). During phase II of the maneuver, the blood pressure decreases progressively, because reflex, sympathetically mediated, cardiovascular stimulation is deficient in response to reduced cardiac filling. During phase IV the pressure fails to exceed the baseline value. All patients with unequivocal PDþOH who are able to perform a technically adequate Valsalva maneuver show this abnormal pattern, regardless of levodopa/carbidopa treatment. Failure of baroreflex-mediated sympathetic cardiovascular stimulation, in response to acutely decreased venous return to the heart, therefore characterizes OH in PD. Similar abnormalities occur in MSA and PAF. Normally, plasma norepinephrine levels approximately double within 5 minutes of standing from the supine position (Lake et al., 1976). Most PDþOH patients have an attenuated increase in plasma norepinephrine levels during orthostasis. The finding that OH in PD is associated with failure to increase norepinephrine levels appropriately during orthostasis is consistent with decreased baroreflex–sympathoneural function. Studies have disagreed about whether baroreflex–sympathoneural gain changes as a function of aging (Shimada et al., 1985, 1986; Ebert et al., 1992; Matsukawa et al., 1996; Davy et al., 1997, 1998; Rudas et al., 1999; Tanaka et al., 1999; Niimi et al., 2000; O’Mahony et al., 2000; Seals et al., 2001; Ferrari, 2002). Some of this inconsistency may have resulted from the different types of measures used: direct indices, such as peroneal muscle sympathetic activity, or indirect indices, such as limb vascular resistance. When both direct and indirect measurements have been applied in the same subjects, cardiopulmonary baroreflex control of sympathetic outflow, assessed by exposure of subjects to lower-body negative pressure, has been found to be augmented, not impaired, with age in healthy humans; meanwhile reflexive limb vasoconstriction is attenuated (Davy et al., 1998). The ability to inhibit sympathetic outflow in response to increased cardiac filling, from head-down tilt, does not decrease either with normal human aging (Tanaka et al., 1999). Regulation of sympathetic outflow by arterial baroreceptors, measured by sympathetic microneurography after injection of vasoactive drugs, remains roughly unchanged (Rudas et al., 1999), even with lower-body negative pressure applied concurrently to keep central venous pressure constant (Davy et al., 1997). In contrast, studies have consistently found that baroreflex–cardiovagal gain decreases with normal human aging (Bristow et al., 1969; Matsukawa et al., 1996; Rudas et al., 1999; O’Mahony et al., 2000). Relatively few studies have assessed baroreflex–cardiovagal gain in PD (Szili-Torok et al., 2001), and none so far have

stratified patients in terms of the occurrence of OH. The extent of heart rate change with the Valsalva maneuver is blunted (Camerlingo et al., 1987), but this might reflect the advanced age of PD patients (van Dijk et al., 1993). When estimating baroreflex–cardiovagal gain from the slope of the relationship between interbeat interval and systolic blood pressure during phase II of the Valsalva maneuver, almost all patients with PDþOH have markedly decreased baroreflex–cardiovagal gain (unpublished observations). In PD lacking OH, baroreflex–cardiovagal gain may be statistically decreased from normal, but in PDþOH, baroreflex–cardiovagal gain is virtually always low. In our series so far, patients with PDþOH have had evidence for attenuation of both baroreflex–cardiovagal and baroreflex–sympathoneural function. This finding leads to the proposal that a combination of baroreflex failure and at least some loss of sympathetic nerves may be required for OH to become manifest in PD. It should be noted that baroreflex failure itself is not thought to produce OH (Robertson et al., 1993a, b). 14.3.8. Denervation supersensitivity Clinical and preclinical studies of chronic autonomic failure have consistently noted increased blood pressure or vasoconstrictor responses to exogenously administered adrenoceptor agonists in patients with PDþOH. This finding would be consistent with ‘denervation supersensitivity’, as described classically by Cannon (1939). At least part of this supersensitivity may result from increased expression of a- or b-adrenoceptors or increased intracellular signaling after receptor occupation (Davies et al., 1982; Vatner et al., 1985; Warner et al., 1993; Kurvers et al., 1998; Baser et al., 1991). Moreover, theoretically, cardiac sympathetic denervation supersensitivity might predispose to the development of arrhythmias (Inoue et al., 1987). Augmented cardiovascular responsiveness to adrenoceptor agonists can have other explanations, however, such as decreased baroreflex buffering of sympathetic outflows, which, as noted above, seems to characterize PDþOH. Structural adaptations of vascular walls, with increases in wall-to-lumen ratios, occur commonly in hypertension, and supine hypertension often seems to attend OH in patients with autonomic failure (Biaggioni and Robertson, 2002). Thus, although studies of PD patients have noted augmented pressor responses to exogenously administered norepinephrine, with the augmentation seen mainly or only in patients with PDþOH (Senard et al., 1990; Niimi et al., 1999), the results do not necessarily lead to the conclusion that PDþOH features denervation supersensitivity.

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE In summary, a combination of loss of sympathetic nerves and baroreflex failure can explain OH in PD and worsening of OH during treatment with levodopa/ carbidopa or dopamine receptor agonists. Cardiac sympathetic denervation characterizes most patients with PD and virtually all patients with PDþOH. These findings contrast with normal cardiac sympathetic innervation in MSA. The functional consequences of cardiac sympathetic denervation in PD, the relationship between central dopaminergic and peripheral noradrenergic pathologies and the bases for cardioselective sympathetic denervation in PD remain unknown. 14.3.9. Treatment of orthostatic hypotension The first step to avoid or minimize OH is to identify and eliminate drugs that can cause OH, such as antihypertensive agents and diuretics. Levodopa and dopamine receptor agonists may exacerbate OH, especially during the first weeks of treatment. Gradual dosage increases when initiating therapy or dose reductions in established patients can minimize this adverse effect. Sodium and water intake should be increased in these patients, with liberal use of table salt or administration of sodium tablets. Patients should also be instructed not to lie flat, even during the daytime. Lying flat results in accelerated sodium loss from the effects of increased cardiac filling and from pressure natriuresis, leading to loss of intravascular volume. Overnight volume depletion can explain the typical finding of worse OH in the morning in patients with autonomic failure. Elevating the head of the bed on blocks is often recommended. Patients and their families should be educated about the hypotensive effects of meal ingestion, exposure to environmental heat and prolonged physical exertion. Isotonic exercise produces less hypotension than does isometric exercise. Exercise in a pool prevents blood pressure reductions during the exercise; however, OH can be worse after exiting the pool. In patients with autonomic failure, eating a meal can significantly lower blood pressure, because vasoconstriction in other vascular beds fails to compensate adequately for splanchnic vasodilation induced by meal ingestion. In some patients, hypotension only occurs postprandially. Thus, patients should eat frequent, small meals with a low carbohydrate content and alcohol intake should be minimized. Caffeine taken with breakfast may be helpful. Hot baths should be avoided, and patients should be especially careful during warm weather. This is because heat-induced vasodilation and persipiration still occur, but sympathetic vasoconstriction is impaired. Straining at stool with a closed

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glottis (i.e. producing a Valsalva maneuver), playing wind instruments and singing can be particularly dangerous for patients with PDþOH. A high-fiber diet is encouraged to prevent constipation, and singing or playing wind instruments should be undertaken only when sitting. The use of knee-high compressive stockings is not effective, but waist-high stockings or abdominal binders may be an effective, albeit poorly tolerated, countermeasure for OH. OH should only be treated pharmacologically in patients who are symptomatic, because the treatments usually worsen supine hypertension. Perhaps because of adaptive cerebral autoregulatory changes, some patients with autonomic failure tolerate very low arterial pressures when standing without experiencing symptoms of cerebral hypoperfusion. Blood pressure levels change throughout the day and from one day to another (Vagaonescu et al., 2000). Thus, the patient’s normal cycle of blood pressure and orthostatic symptoms should be identified before treatment is initiated. The physiological mechanisms of OH, if identified, can guide its management. Measures include drugs to increase intravascular volume, increase peripheral vascular resistance and correct anemia, if present. Fludrocortisone, a synthetic mineralocorticoid, is widely used to increase intravascular volume in PD patients with symptomatic OH (Hickler, 1959). Therapy with fludrocortisone is initiated at a dose of 0.1 mg/day. The daily dose can be increased, but to no more than 0.5 mg/day. Maximal clinical response occurs after approximately a week; dosage adjustments should take into consideration this delayed onset. Pedal edema and weight gain of 2–3 kg (5–7 lb) are expected consequences of fludrocortisone therapy. For fludrocortisone to work effectively requires that the patient be on a high-salt diet. Because of the potential for potassium wasting, serum potassium should be monitored in patients during initiation of fludrocortisone treatment for OH. Desmopressin (DDAVP), a synthetic vasopressin analog that acts at V2-receptors on renal tubular function, enhances water reabsorption and thus would be expected to work adjunctively with fludrocortisone to expand intravascular volume. DDAVP is administered intranasally in doses of 5–40 mg at bedtime (Mathias et al., 1986). Since DDAVP can induce hyponatremia, careful monitoring of serum sodium, preferably during a brief inpatient stay, is necessary during the first 4–5 days of treatment and at monthly intervals thereafter. Indometacin, a prostaglandin inhibitor, has been used to treat OH, especially in combination with fludrocortisone, but the lack of rigorous clinical data supporting

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the efficacy of this combination precludes a recommendation for its use (Crook et al., 1981). Sympathomimetic agents increase peripheral vascular resistance and are useful in the treatment of symptomatic OH in PD. Midodrine is an orally active, selective a1-adrenoceptor agonist that does not cross the blood– brain barrier and does not cause central excitatory effects (Kaufmann et al., 1988; Wright et al., 1998). The pressor response to midodrine begins within about an hour, making this agent potentially useful in treating patients who benefit from on-demand increases in blood pressure (e.g. for postprandial and morning hypotension). Midodrine therapy is started with a dose of 2.5 mg and increased to no more than 10 mg t.i.d. A typical daily regimen includes a dose before breakfast, a dose before lunch and a third dose at mid-afternoon. Theoretically, routine administration of midodrine at high, fixed doses might down-regulate a-adrenoceptors and mitigate the pressor effect. Midodrine should not be administered before bedtime, as the blood pressure is typically high when the patient is lying down. Erythropoietin increases red blood cell mass and blood viscosity. In addition, it also increases plasma endothelin, inhibits nitric oxide and increases renal sodium reabsorption (Perera et al., 1994). Hypotensive parkinsonian patients with anemia may benefit from a 6-week course of subcutaneously administered recombinant erythropoietin (4000 units twice weekly; Perera et al., 1994). Other treatments for OH should be continued during erythropoietin therapy. A number of investigational agents are currently being studied. L-threo-DOPS (the biologically active stereoisomer of the amino acid 3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine) is a precursor of norepinephrine that has shown promise in the treatment of OH in small clinical trials (Kaufmann et al., 2003).

14.4. Gastrointestinal dysfunction James Parkinson’s 1817 description of gastrointestinal problems in the patients in his case series was lastingly accurate: ‘food is with difficulty retained in the mouth until masticated; and then as difficulty swallowed ... the saliva fails of being directed to the back part of the fauces, and hence is continually draining from the mouth ... the bowels which all along had been torpid, now in most cases, demand stimulating medicines of very considerable power: the expulsion of the faeces from the rectum sometimes requiring mechanical aid’ (Parkinson, 1955). Although dysphagia, drooling and constipation are the most common gastrointestinal abnormalities, early satiety, epigastrial distension and nausea caused by delayed gastric emptying are also very frequent in PD patients.

14.4.1. Neuropathology PD affects both the extrinsic and intrinsic innervation of the gut, which explains the prominent motility disturbances. Lewy bodies have been found in enteric neurons, in the Auerbach and Meissner plexuses along the entire gastrointestinal tract, including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon, particularly in neurons of the Auerbach plexus in the lower esophagus (Wakabayashi et al., 1988). A study using histochemistry showed that Lewy bodies are mostly found in vasoactive intestinal peptide-containing neurons in the enteric plexus (Wakabayashi et al., 1990). The extrinsic parasympathetic innervation of the gut originates in neurons of the dorsal nucleus of the vagus in the medulla. These neurons innervate the entire gastrointestinal tract, with the exception of the proximal esophagus (innervated by the glossopharyngeal nerve) and the distal colon and rectum (innervated by the sacral parasympathetic nerves), and are severely affected early in PD. Vagal activity increases propulsive motility and relaxation of sphincters and stimulates secretions of the exocrine and endocrine glands of the stomach, intestine, pancreas and liver. Early involvement of vagal or enteric neurons may explain the finding that constipation is a predictor of later development of PD (Abbott et al., 2001). According to Braak and Braak (2000), PD develops in a sequence of six neuropathologic stages, with the earliest, presymptomatic change being in the dorsal nucleus of the vagus nerve. The vulnerability of these neurons may be related to their having long unmyelinated axons that project to postganglionic neurons of the enteric nervous system. Braak et al. (2003) have also proposed that a neurotoxic pathogen, gaining entry to the body via the gastrointestinal tract, might ascend via retrograde and transneuronal transport in vagal post- and then preganglionic fibers, to harm vulnerable neurons of the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus nerve. Enteric neurons of PD patients have been reported to contain Lewy bodies, suggesting decreased motility from loss of neurons promoting perstalsis. No experimental evidence related to this novel hypothesis has appeared so far. In contrast to the involvement of dorsal vagal neurons, neurons in the nucleus ambiguus are not directly affected in PD. Nucleus ambiguus neurons innervate the muscles of the palate, pharynx and larynx through myelinated axons in the vagus nerve. The reason for abnormal swallowing in PD is likely to be abnormal supranuclear control of oropharyngeal muscles. This is suggested by the observation that many patients suffer severe dysphagia only when ‘off’ and improve as soon as a dose of levodopa becomes effective.

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Sympathetic outflow to the gastrointestinal tract, which arises from preganglionic neurons at the T1–L1 segments of the spinal cord and relays, via the splanchnic nerves, in the celiac and mesenteric ganglia, is involved in reflexes that decrease gut motility. A substantial proportion of dopamine production in the body takes place in non-neuronal cells of the gut (Eisenhofer et al., 1997) that express tyrosine hydroxylase (Mezey et al., 1996, 1998, 1999). Whether PD involves altered non-neuronal dopamine production in the gut remains unknown. Singaram et al. (1995) reported decreased dopaminergic myenteric neurons in patients with PD and chronic constipation. The number of neurons containing immunoreactive tyrosine hydroxylase, however, was normal. PD patients also had decreased dopamine in the external muscular layer but not in the mucosa. No evidence has accrued for improvement in constipation by levodopa treatment. 14.4.2. Clinical gastrointestinal problems 14.4.2.1. Drooling Excessive drooling is a distressing and frequent problem in PD, but it is not due to excessive saliva production. On the contrary, salivation is reduced in PD (Bagheri et al., 1999; Proulx et al., 2005). Drooling is due to reduced swallowing frequency, allowing excess saliva to accumulate in the mouth. Treatment with oral anticholinergics is ineffective. Botulinum toxin injected in the parotid and submandibulary glands has been used successfully (Jost, 1999; Pal et al., 2000; Friedman and Potulska, 2001; Dogu et al., 2004), but dysphagia is a potential adverse effect of the diffusion of botulinum toxin into nearby muscles. 14.4.2.2. Dysphagia Dysphagia in patients with PD is related to the severity of the disease and may occur in up to 50% of patients (Bushmann et al., 1989; Edwards et al., 1992; Johnston et al., 1995). In general, abnormalities of swallowing are mild (Wintzen et al., 1994). PD patients who experience significant swallowing dysfunction should be evaluated by a speech and swallowing expert. Swallowing studies may help to define the nature of the dysphagia and the presence or absence of silent aspiration. The three phases of swallowing – buccal, pharyngeal and esophageal – may be disrupted in PD. Abnormal lingual control (lingual festination) can impair the ability to pass a bolus of food backward into the pharynx. The pharyngeal swallow reflex may be disturbed as well (Born et al., 1996). Normally,

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the soft palate moves to prevent the bolus from entering the nasal cavity, the hyoid bone rises; the larynx prevents the bolus from entering the trachea, the true and false vocal cords close and the epiglottis lowers; the cricopharyngeal sphincter opens and food or liquid moves to the esophagus. In PD patients, abnormalities in the pharyngeal phase can lead to silent aspiration. There have been reports of repetitive reflux of food from the vallecula and pyriform sinuses into the oral cavity (Wintzen et al., 1994). In the esophageal phase, the smooth muscles of the esophagus move the bolus in rhythmic, wave-like contractions into the stomach. Esophageal dysmotility occurs in as many as 70% of PD patients with non-peristaltic swallows, belching, segmental spasms, esophageal dilatation and gastroesophageal reflux (Ertekin et al., 2002). Repetitive, spontaneous contractions of the proximal esophagus have been described in patients with PD, a finding similar to that in acahalasia (Johnston et al., 2001). Vocal cord palsy is frequent in patients with MSA and may lead to aspiration (Simpson et al., 1992; Wu et al., 1996). 14.4.2.2.1. Treatment Soft diets help most types of dysphagia by making it easier to move food in the mouth and esophagus. Soft food also decreases aspiration by reducing the need for separate fluid intake, which is a potential source of aspiration. Patients with motor fluctuations should be instructed to eat only during ‘on’ times when dysphagia is less pronounced. Some patients suffer from achalasia, which can be treated with botulinum toxin injection into the cardia (Gui et al., 2003). Feeding gastrostomies or jejunostomies are a last resort and are rarely necessary for patients with PD. However, these procedures can provide the benefit of allowing more normal food and medication intake. 14.4.2.3. Delayed gastric emptying Gastric retention due to delayed gastric emptying is a common problem in PD and results in nausea, early satiety and abdominal distension. Levodopa, as a large neutral amino acid, is absorbed relatively little in the stomach and mainly in the small bowel, mostly the duodenum, by an active transport mechanism (Wade et al., 1973). Because of the high capacity of the transporter, competition between levodopa and other dietary neutral amino acids (e.g. valine, leucine and isolucine) is not common but may occur. Delayed gastric emptying retards delivery of levodopa to the absorptive sites in the duodenum. Reduced bioavailability of levodopa explains some of the response fluctuations that develop after long-term

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levodopa therapy (Kurlan et al., 1988a). Studies have shown higher gastric retention 1 hour after a meal in patients with PD who experience motor fluctuations, compared with patients without fluctuations (Djaldetti et al., 1996). Factors that slow gastric emptying also delay and blunt peak plasma levodopa levels and may cause a delay or a complete failure of the clinical response to the dose. With direct delivery of levodopa into the duodenum, motor fluctuations can improve markedly (Kurlan et al., 1988b). 14.4.2.3.1. Treatment Timing of gastric emptying is related to meal characteristics, such as bulk, tonicity and composition. Lipid and carbohydrates and excessive gastric acidity delay gastric emptying. Small frequent meals are recommended. Prokinetic drugs that accelerate gastric emptying include muscarinic agents, peripheral dopamine blockers and serotonin (5-HT)-4-receptor agonists. The muscarinic receptor agonists bethanechol and carbachol have long been used for the treatment of markedly delayed gastric emptying or paralytic ileus. These agents exert a prokinetic effect by stimulating muscarinic receptors in intestinal smooth muscle. Unfortunately, bethanechol increases the amplitude of gastric contractions in an uncoordinated manner, with little improvement in coordinated peristalsis. Additionally bethanechol can elicit nausea and vomiting. Other common side-effects are diaphoresis, flushing, salivation and abdominal cramping. The typical dosage is 25 mg orally four times daily or 2.5–5 mg subcutaneously q.i.d. Dopamine D2-receptor blockers stimulate gastric motility. Metoclopramide, the most effective, cannot be used in parkinsonian patients, because it blocks central dopamine receptors and worsens parkinsonism. Domperidone acts mostly on peripheral dopamine receptors and is an effective prokinetic agent (10–40 mg po q.i.d.) in PD (Soykan et al., 1997). It is not yet available in the USA. Agonists at 5-HT-4 receptors stimulate release of acetylcholine from enteric neurons, activating prokinetic pathways. The first available 5-HT-4 agonist was cisapride (Jost and Schimrigk, 1993; Katayama et al., 1995). Unfortunately, cisapride prolongs the cardiac QT interval, predisposing to the ventricular arrhythmia torsades de pointes, which may cause hypotension, syncope and sudden death. The agent was withdrawn from the market in the USA. The proarrhythmic action of cisapride is due to its ability to block the myocyte cell membrane potassium channel, an effect that is independent of its prokinetic action. Recently, 5-HT-4 gastrointestinal prokinetic drugs with very low affinity for the cardiac potassium channel have been developed, such as mosapride and

tegaserod. These drugs do not prolong the QT interval and are not arrhythmogenic (Potet et al., 2001). 14.4.2.4. Nausea and vomiting as a side-effect of levodopa and dopamine agonists The most prominent toxic effect of levodopa and dopamine agonists (particularly apomorphine) is nausea and vomiting. A proposed mechanism for this toxicity is increased occupation of dopamine receptors in the area postrema of the dorsal medulla. The area postrema lacks an efficient blood–brain barrier. Dopamine produced from levodopa outside the central nervous system could occupy area postrema receptors, evoking nausea and vomiting. Carbidopa inhibits the enzymatic conversion of levodopa to dopamine. As a catechol, carbidopa has little ability to penetrate the blood–brain barrier. The combination of levodopa with carbidopa therefore attenuates conversion of levodopa to dopamine outside the brain, augmenting entry of levodopa to the central nervous system, where enzymatic conversion to dopamine can proceed. The combination of levodopa with carbidopa decreases dopaminergic occupation of receptors in the area postrema, resulting in less nausea and vomiting. The brand name for levodopa/carbidopa, Sinemet, comes from the Latin words for ‘without vomiting’. Trimethobenzamide is a dopamine receptor blocker with some prokinetic effect commonly used for the prevention of nausea associated with the use of apomorphine (at a dose of 300 mg po t.i.d.) (Bowron, 2004). 14.4.2.5. Constipation Normal defecation requires two separate processes: movement of stool along the colon by peristaltic waves of contracting smooth muscle and then expulsion of feces through the anal canal by the coordinated action of voluntary and involuntary muscles. In patients with PD, stool transit time is prolonged, because colonic motility is reduced due to abnormal intrinsic and extrinsic vagal innervation. Degeneration of intrinsic enteric neurons and extrinsic parasympathetic efferent fibers that regulate contractility of colonic muscle underlie slow transit time, resulting in reduced frequency of defecation. Frequently, defecation is also abnormal due to pelvic floor dyssynergia. Defecography and anal sphincter electromyogram (EMG) in some PD patients showed paradoxical contraction of the puborectalis muscle (Mathers et al., 1988, 1989). The puborectalis muscle, which is one of the muscles that comprise the pelvic floor and plays an important role in both fecal continence and defecation, is

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE tonically contracted and maintains the anorectal angle at rest. Contraction of the internal and external anal sphincters contributes to continence. During defecation, the puborectalis muscle relaxes, opening the anorectal angle, the internal anal sphincter opens reflexively, and the external anal sphincter is voluntarily relaxed, thus allowing normal expulsion of rectal stools. In a patient with pelvic floor dyssynergia, the puborectalis muscle fails to relax, or contracts, increasing the anorectal angle. This accentuates its flap valve action. Moreover, anal sphincters paradoxically contract during attempted defecation. This results in outlet obstruction, dyschezia (straining to start or finish a bowel movement) and constipation. It has been suggested that this paradoxical contraction of the pelvic musculature is dystonic in nature (Stocchi et al., 2000). In support of this argument, apomorphine has been shown to alleviate this defecatory problem in some patients with PD. Similarly, injection of botulinum toxin in the puburectalis muscle or in the external anal sphincter has been reported as helpful. Other disorders associated with constipation in PD patients include megacolon (Kupsky et al., 1987) and sigmoid volvulus (Lewitan et al., 1951). 14.4.2.5.1. Treatment The management of constipation in PD consists of dietary changes, exercise and pharmacotherapy. Dietary modifications are aimed at increasing bulk and softening the stool. Patients should be encouraged to drink at least eight glasses of water each day and to increase the bulk and fiber content of their diet. Low-fiber foods such as many baked goods should be eaten infrequently and bananas should be avoided altogether. At least two meals per day should include high-fiber raw vegetables, to stimulate the gastrocolic reflex. Increasing physical activity can also be helpful. If stools remain hard, stool softeners (e.g. docusate) given with meals can be used. Lactulose in doses of 10–20 g/day may benefit some patients. Patients should be educated about the delayed onset of effect of stool softeners and encouraged to continue with fluids, increased bulk, high-fiber diet and exercise. Discontinuing anticholinergic agents may increase bowel motility. Milk of magnesia, other mild laxatives or enemas should be reserved for patients who do not respond to other interventions. Laxatives or enemas may be useful once weekly as part of an overall bowel regimen. 14.4.2.5.2. Prokinetic agents Mosapride citrate, a 5-HT-4 agonist and partial 5-HT-3 antagonist (Yoshida et al., 1993), an effect that makes it also antiemetic, blocking vagal 5-HT receptors in the

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chemoreceptor trigger zone, ameliorates constipation in parkinsonian patients. In a recent study of parkinsonian patients with constipation and difficulty in defecation, mosapride treatment for 3 months improved bowel frequency and difficult defecation (Liu et al., 2005). Mosapride shortened colonic transit time, augmented the amplitude of rectal contraction during defecation and lessened the volume of postdefecation residuals.

14.5. Bladder dysfunction Three types of neuronal outflow regulate urinary bladder function: (1) sacral parasympathetic; (2) lumbar sympathetic; and (3) somatic. The pelvic nerves carry the sacral parasympathetic (S2–S4) output to the bladder. Activation of muscarinic cholinergic receptors promotes bladder emptying (micturition) through contraction the detrusor muscle and relaxation of the bladder neck. The lumbar sympathetic (T11–L2) output, carried via the hypogastric nerves, relaxes the detrusor muscle via b-adrenoceptors and contracts the bladder neck via a-adrenoceptors, thus promoting urinary retention. The sacral somatomotor output arises from motor neurons of the nucleus of Onuf (S2–S4) and is carried by the pudendal nerve. Stimulation of the motor neurons augments contraction of the external sphincter via nicotinic cholinergic receptors and promotes storage of urine. Micturition involves a spino-ponto-spinal reflex that is initiated by bladder tension receptors and integrated in pontine micturition centers. Extensive research on central neural pathways underlying reflexive micturition has pointed to glutamic acid as the major excitatory transmitter, with other transmitters, including norepinephrine, dopamine, and GABA, modulating the glutamatergic transmission (de Groat, 1998). In the cat, four brainstem regions appear to regulate micturition: (1) Barrington’s nucleus (or the pontine micturition center) in the dorsomedial pons; (2) the periaqueductal gray; (3) the preoptic area of the hypothalamus; and (4) an area in the ventrolateral pons, called the L-region. It has been suggested that cells in Barrington’s nucleus directly excite bladder motor neurons and indirectly inhibit internal urethral sphincter motoe neurons, preoptic hypothalamic cells regulate initiation of micturition, L-region cells control motor neurons innervating the pelvic floor (including the external urethral sphincter) and periaqueductal gray cells receive afferent input about bladder filling (Blok, 2002). Studies using positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning in humans have indicated activation of the same regions associated with urination or the attempt to urinate (Kershen et al., 2003). Afferent information for the

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micturition reflex comes from bladder distension. A balance between cortical stimulation and supraspinal inhibition determines a set point for reflexive responses as the bladder fills (Hebjorn et al., 1976). In PD, cell loss in the substantia nigra, which normally has an inhibitory effect on the micturition reflex (Lewin et al., 1967; Yoshimura et al., 2003), leads to hyperreflexia of the detrusor muscle, with involuntary or uninhibited contractions and an urge to urinate (Fitzmaurice et al., 1985; Araki et al., 2000). The animal model produced by 1-methyl-4phenyl-1, 2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) suggests an inhibitory role of the substantia nigra on the micturition reflex (Albanese et al., 1988; Yoshimura et al., 1998). Further evidence that the basal ganglia affects the micturition reflex comes from a report in patients with PD receiving deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (Seif et al., 2004). With the stimulator off, urodynamic parameters showed detrusor hyperreflexia. When turning the stimulator on, induction of the micturition reflex was delayed towards normalization, with the initial desire to void at higher bladder volumes and an increment of the maximal bladder capacity. During the voiding phase, deep brain stimulation subthalamic nucleus stimulation induced a small, non-significant increase in the pressure of the detrusor, maximum urinary flow and reduction in residual urine. Urinary problems are common and afflict both women and men with PD (Dmochowski, 1999). A comprehensive questionnaire and urodynamic evaluation in patients with PD and urinary symptoms revealed detrusor hyperreflexia in 79% of patients, whereas 16% had detrusor hyporeflexia (Araki et al., 2000). Impaired contractile function occurred in 9% of patients and detrusor–sphincter dyssynergia in 3%. Scores derived from questionnaires of irritative and obstructive symptom were fairly accurate in predicting urodynamic abnormalities. Bladder function deteriorated and postvoid residual urine volume increased with advancing disease severity. In another study, sphincter EMG revealed pseudodyssynergia or bradykinesia in 50% of female PD patients (Dmochowski, 1999). In MSA there is also degeneration of neurons in Onuf’s nucleus. In later stages of the disease there is neuronal loss affecting parasympathetic innervation of the detrusor, producing detrusor hypocontractility or arreflexia, with increased residual urine and overflow incontinence. 14.5.1. Prostate surgery In men with PD bladder outflow obstruction due to benign prostatic hyperplasia results in urinary hesitancy and low urine flow. Obstruction can cause detrusor

overactivity and urinary urgency as well. Therefore, surgery of the prostate is considered in PD patients in the hope that detrusor hyperactivity results from bladder outlet obstruction rather than PD. Unfortunately, surgery frequently worsens symptoms and results in overt urinary incontinence. Defreitas et al. (2003) found that bladder filling during urodynamic evaluation occurs earlier when detrusor hyperactivity is due to PD and that urge incontinence is rare in men with detrusor hyperactivity due to bladder outlet obstruction. Urological intervention is not contraindicated in men with PD, but patients should try anticholinergic medication first if urge incontinence is prominent. If conservative measures fail, a voiding cystometrogram to demonstrate obstructed voiding should be performed before transurethral resection of the prostate is considered (Chandiramani et al., 1997). It has been suggested that, in addition to detrusor hyperreflexia, patients with PD may have impaired relaxation or ‘bradykinesia’ of the urethral sphincter, resulting in bladder outflow obstruction and difficulty in micturition, with similar symptoms to prostatic hypertrophy. A study of subcutaneous apomorphine in patients with PD showed that apomorphine reduced bladder outflow resistance and improved voiding. It was proposed that this intervention be used to demonstrate the reversibility of outflow obstruction in men with PD before prostatic surgery is undertaken (Christmas et al., 1988; Aranda and Cramer, 1993). 14.5.2. Onset of urinary symptoms is earlier in multiple system atrophy In MSA urinary symptoms, like OH, are typically present before the onset of the motor symptoms. Urinary symptoms in PD tend to occur later. Also characteristic of MSA are early urinary incontinence due to Onuf’s nucleus involvement, postmicturition residual volume more than 100 ml, loss of the bulbocavernosus reflex and denervation indicated by sphincter EMG (Chandiramani et al., 1997). Worsening urinary control after transurethral resection of the prostate or anti-incontinence procedures in women is typical in men with MSA, immediately after or within a year of surgery (Beck et al., 1994). Since the anterior horn cells of Onuf’s nucleus are not affected in PD, sphincter EMG was proposed as a means of distinguishing between PD and MSA. Both the anal and urethral sphincters are innervated by the anterior horn cells in Onuf’s nucleus, leading to changes of chronic reinnervation, with prolongation of the mean duration of motor units in patients with MSA (Eardley et al., 1989; Fowler, 1996).

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE 14.5.3. Treatment Many patients can reduce nocturnal frequency by restricting fluid intake after the evening meal. In PD patients with autonomic dysfunction and supine hypertension, nocturia may also result from pressure natriuresis (see treatment of orthostatic hypotension, above) and improves by sleeping with the head and torso elevated. Pharmacologic treatments include peripherally acting anticholinergics, such as oxybutynin (5–10 mg at bedtime or three times daily), propantheline (7.5–15 mg at bedtime or three times daily) or tolterodine tartrate (1–2 mg twice daily based on individual response and tolerability). Anticholinergic agents reduce detrusor contractions and are useful in the treatment of detrusor hyperactivity but may worsen voiding problems and even produce urinary retention in patients with detrusor hypoactivity or outlet obstruction. Therefore, before starting treatment, it is important to measure postvoid residual volume with an ultrasound study or urodynamic evaluation. If postvoid residual volume is less than 100 ml, then treatment with anticholinergics may provide benefit (Fowler, 1999). It is important to re-evaluate the patient if there is no improvement after pharmacologic therapy. Increased residual urine can stimulate detrusor contractions. Anticholinergic drugs should also be administered with caution, as they may also aggravate gastrointestinal motility disorders and increase gastric retention. a1-Adrenoceptor antagonists can decrease tone in the bladder neck and may be helpful for patients with a hypoactive detrusor; however, these agents worsen OH. If the patient has residual volume more than 100 ml, then self-catheterization is indicated. This can also be combined with anticholinergic therapy to enhance continence between catheterizations. If the patient or relative cannot perform catheterization, surgical management of the problem may be needed. If daytime frequency or urgency precedes nocturia, mechanical outlet obstruction should be ruled out. Any deterioration in voiding pattern (even in the absence of dysuria) should raise concern about a urinary tract infection, and this should be treated promptly.

14.6. Sexual dysfunction Dopaminergic mechanisms seem to participate in libido and arousal-related vasodilation of penile erectile tissue. The cause of erectile dysfunction (ED: difficulty achieving or sustaining an erection) in PD is unknown but might reflect dopamine deficiency. About 60% of male PD patients have ED (Singer et al., 1992). Impaired sexual arousal, behavior,

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orgasm and drive are also frequent (Lake et al., 1976). Sexual fantasy, however, seems to remain normal in most patients (Yu et al., 2004). ED is almost invariably an early symptom in men with MSA and can precede other symptoms by several years. 14.6.1. Treatment Many drugs can cause male sexual dysfunction, and a thorough medication history often uncovers causative agents. Propranolol and other b-adrenergic blockers, which are sometimes used to treat tremor or hypertension in PD, should be discontinued if possible. Other drugs that may cause sexual dysfunction include a1-adrenoceptor blockers, guanethidine, thiazide diuretics, anxiolytics, digoxin, cimetidine and some antidepressants. Depression is a common cause of impotence and can respond to antidepressants, although some antidepressants themselves can cause impotence (e.g. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors). Some patients with anxiety- or stress-associated sexual dysfunction may benefit from low-dose anxiolytics. If no medical or psychologic reason appears to be causing impotence, several options are available. Intracavernous injections or transurethral suppositories of alprostadil, a synthetic prostaglandin E1, induce penile erection, but their use is cumbersome. Sildenafil, an orally active inhibitor of the type V cyclic guanosine monophosphate-specific phosphodiesterase (the predominant isoenzyme in the human corpus cavernosum) has improved ED in small clinical trials of PD patients (Zesiewicz, 2000; Hussain et al., 2001). Patients with MSA, however, developed severe hypotension (Saadia et al., 2002). A report on men using subcutaneous injections of apomorphine to treat motor fluctuations in PD noted that the treatment benefited their sexual function and induced penile erection (O’Sullivan and Hughes, 1998). Drug trials to assess the effect of sublingual apomorphine to treat ED had promising results, although nausea occurs in a proportion of the patients (Dula et al., 2000; Perimenis et al., 2004). Some patients on high doses of antiparkinsonian therapy become hypersexual, even in the face of inability to perform.

14.7. Thermoregulation and sweating abnormalities Preoptic and hypothalamic neurons are important for thermoregulatory function and may be affected in PD. During normal human aging, the ability to tolerate swings of environmental temperature declines. Elderly

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healthy volunteers have a decreased set point for mounting sympathetic noradrenergic responses to core hypothermia (Frank et al., 1997). Thermoregulatory sweating is a sympathetic nervous system function where the effector neurotransmitter is acetylcholine, in contrast to noradrenergic mediation of sympathetic cardiovascular functions. Many studies assessing cutaneous sympathetic cholinergic function in PD have relied on measurements of skin humidity or electrical conductance as indices of sweat production; results have been variable (Wang et al., 1993; Jost et al., 1995; Denislic and Meh, 1996; Braune et al., 1997; De Marinis et al., 2000; Haapaniemi et al., 2000; Sharabi et al., 2003). PD patients can have increased, decreased or normal sweating. In PD patients with sympathetic neurocirculatory failure and cardiac sympathetic noradrenergic denervation, sympathetic cholinergic innervation of sweat glands appears to remain intact, since such patients have normal sweating during the quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test (Sharabi et al., 2003). Turkka and Myllyla (1987) reported increased sweating in PD patients, both before and after heat exposure; however, whether PD patients have appropriate thermoregulatory sweating responses in terms of maintaining core temperature is unknown. Abnormal sensations of heat or cold and hypothermia can occur in the PD patient. Excessive sweating of the head and neck in response to external heat has been associated with poor heat dissipation in the rest of the body. Some of these phenomena disappear with levodopa treatment. Severe drenching sweats can also occur as an end-of-dose ‘off’ phenomenon in patients with motor fluctuations (Sage and Mark, 1995). In contrast, some patients will experience sweating during ‘on’ responses following levodopa administration, frequently in association with dyskinesia (Swinn et al., 2003), although it is rarely as severe as that seen in the ‘off’ state. Severe hyperpyrexia after levodopa withdrawal can represent a form of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (Cao and Katz, 1999). Ethanol and aspirin in high doses can cause intermittent sweating. Thyrotoxicosis, chronic infections and the postmenopausal state should also be considered in the differential diagnosis.

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Chapter 15

Sleep in Parkinson syndromes ¨ GL2 CLAUDIA TRENKWALDER1* AND BIRGIT HO 1

Paracelsus Elena-Klinik, Kassel and University of Go¨ttingen, Germany 2

Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

15.1. Introduction and pathophysiology of sleep in Parkinson syndromes Sleep complaints are frequent and substantially impair quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Listening to PD patients, it is soon revealed that fatigue and sleepiness are major complaints independent of any medication and motor disability. Although previous research on sleep and daytime sleepiness in PD primarily focused on nocturnal sleep disturbance and pharmacological therapy, recent neuropathological publications demonstrate that neurodegeneration involves sleep regulation and daytime alertness to a large degree (Braak et al., 2003). Severely disrupted sleep and rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep disturbances are early signs of neurodegeneration with involvement of the brainstem with Lewy bodies. First, the neurodegenerative process starts in the lower brainstem areas, according to the six progressive stages described by Braak and collaborators (Del Tredici et al., 2002; Braak et al., 2003). REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) may be a preclinical and premotor sign of PD or other Parkinson syndromes. Therefore the observation of early changes in sleep may be of particular importance, especially if neuroprotective agents may be available in the future. Second, the behavioral, respiratory and motor system phenomena accompanying the disease may produce nocturnal symptoms. Third, the medications used as treatment may induce new symptoms, such as nightmares, nocturnal movements or increased wakefulness. In addition to the primary cause of PD, the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra, serotonergic neurons originating in the dorsal raphe nuclei

are reduced in number, as are noradrenergic neurons originating in the region of the locus ceruleus (Jellinger, 1986). Cholinergic neurons of the pedunculopontine nucleus, implicated in control of REM sleep, are also reduced in number (Zweig et al., 1989). Because the noradrenergic, serotonergic and cholinergic systems have all been implicated in the control and regulation of sleep, abnormalities in these systems may account for some of the sleep disturbances that occur in patients with parkinsonism. Abnormalities of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system, as well as the mesostriatal system, are apparent in PD and may contribute to sleep–wake disturbances (Javoy-Agid and Agid, 1980). The administration of a dopamine D1-receptor agonist produces electroencephalographic (EEG) desynchronization and behavioral arousal (Ongini et al., 1985). High doses of dopamine D1- and D2-receptor agonists, such as apomorphine (Chianchetti, 1985), reduce total sleep time; the dopamine D1- and D2-agonist pergolide decreases the amount of slow-wave sleep (Tagaya et al., 2002). Very low doses, however, induce sleep and increase the amount of slow-wave sleep. Low doses of apomorphine also induce sleep when injected into the ventral tegmental area, an effect that is blocked by dopamine receptor autoantagonists, suggesting that dopamine D2 autoreceptors play a role in the mediation of sleep through autoinhibition of the firing rate of ventral tegmental dopaminergic neurons (Svensson et al., 1987; Bagetta et al., 1988). It is not surprising, therefore, that levodopa and dopamine agonists induce yawning, sleepiness or even irrestistible onset of sleep in some patients (Ho¨gl et al., 2001b). The arousing effects of higher doses of dopamine D2-receptor agonists may be due to effects at postsynaptic receptors. This may also explain the

*Correspondence to: Claudia Trenkwalder, MD, Paracelsus Elena-Klinik, Center of Parkinsonism and Movement Disorders, Klinikstr. 16, D-34128 Kassel, Germany. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ49/561-6009-200, Fax: þ49/561-6009-126.

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arousal effects that occur when high dosages of dopamine agonists are applied during the day. In normal individuals, levodopa reduces the amount of REM sleep, an effect that may be due to increased activity of dopamine, norepinephrine, or both. The effects of levodopa on sleep may be due in part to effects on serotonergic neurons. RBD is an important and characteristic sleep problem in PD, as it requires a neurodegenerative process, if it is not pharmacologically induced (Schenck et al., 1992). It differentiates sleep disturbance in PD from a severely disruptive sleep of any other origin, as RBD is not associated with any other sleep problems, such as periodic limb movements during sleep (PLMS), insomnia, restless-legs syndrome (RLS) or sleep with increased number of awakenings. RBD can be induced by antidepressants, such as mirtazapine or serotonine reuptake inhibitors (Onofrj et al., 2003; Winkelman and James, 2004).

15.2. Diagnosis of Parkinson syndrome sleep disorders To determine which factors are most important, the patient’s clinical history and that of partners or caregivers is used, as well as examination and polysomnographic evaluation. Sleep disturbance is rarely the presenting complaint in a patient with previously undiagnosed parkinsonism, with the exception of RBD, which presents with violent behavior in only a few cases. More commonly, the diagnosis of PD has been established, and the patient complains about nocturnal problems, i.e. insomnia, daytime sleepiness, or both. The history of sleep problems should include all the features the physician would obtain from any patient with a sleep complaint. It must include disease-specific questions on nocturnal akinesia, daytime fatigue in relation to medication intake and psychiatric symptoms. The use of a disease-specific questionnaire, such as the Parkinson Disease Sleep Scale (PDSS) may be helpful (Chaudhuri et al., 2002), as the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS: see Ch. 13) comprises only one question related to sleep. A careful history given by the bed partner is essential to determine the occurrence of movements, sleeptalking, the frequency of awakenings and probable difficulties in getting up and moving at night. The medication schedule is significant. If dopaminergic medications are not prescribed in the evening, nocturnal rigidity may often contribute to the sleep disturbance; on the other hand, excessive evening doses of dopamine agonists may induce sleep-onset insomnia. For the majority of patients a history

of nocturnal problems is sufficient to establish a treatment regimen. Some patients, however, require a polysomnogram to diagnose the sleep disorder correctly. These patients may be characterized by severe daytime sleepiness and sudden onset of sleep during the daytime. They should be screened for sleep apnea syndrome or severe PLMS syndrome and may then require respiratory polysomnography. Patients who present with probable RBD or hallucinations may need a polysomnogram to evaluate whether both syndromes are present or either one, as the treatment options are different. Simultaneous closed-circuit television monitoring and surface electromyographic monitoring of all four extremities are often helpful to decide whether nocturnal myoclonic movements or the RBD is contributing to the sleep disturbance. If daytime sleepiness is a prominent complaint, or suspected from the care-giver’s reports, several tests or scales can be used, such as the Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) (Carskadon et al., 1986), the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) (Mitler et al., 1982; Doghramji et al., 1997), the seven-point Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) (Hoddes et al., 1973), the nine-point Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS) (Gillberg et al., 1994) and the eight-question Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) (Johns, 1991). Whereas the SSS and KSS are appropriate to assess momentaneous sleepiness at a single time point, the eight questions of the ESS cover a time span of 2 weeks. The best-established polygraphic test for daytime sleepiness is the MSLT (Richardson et al., 1978). In this test, the subject is put to bed in a sleep-conducive environment for 30 minutes on five occasions distributed throughout the day (usually 9 a.m.; recording time is 20 or 30 minutes). The latency to sleep onset is measured, as well as the latency to onset of REM sleep. Normative values are well established for the MSLT. Another possibility is the MWT (Mitler et al., 1982, 2000). In contrast to the MSLT, the instruction to the patient in the MWT is ‘not to fall asleep’. The MWT therefore measures the ability to maintain wakefulness in monotonous situations. Because the MWT trial is interrupted as soon as the patient falls asleep, the MWT does not measure REM latencies. Therefore, the MSLT is more appropriate to get wellestablished mean sleep latencies, and to evaluate sleep-onset REM periods. In contrast, the MWT is better able to assess the capacity to remain awake in monotonous situations, which may be relevant for everyday life such as driving. In both tests, the individual sleep latency at any given time point of the test will also permit information on the circadian variation of the patient’s sleepiness.

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15.3. Clinical features of sleep in Parkinson’s disease 15.3.1. Sleep fragmentation The most consistent abnormality in PD sleep is sleep fragmentation. Sleep studies show sleep disruption caused by many, often short, motor events, not even fulfilling the criteria for PLMS, tremor or dyskinesias. Sometimes arousals without any motor event may also induce an awakening that may lead to prolonged wakefulness (Kales et al., 1971; Bergonzi et al., 1975). Increased amount of stage 1 sleep and reduced amount of stage 3 and 4 sleep and REM sleep are also common; in some patients deep sleep is completely absent. The number of sleep spindles during slow-wave sleep is reduced (Bergonzi et al., 1975; Friedman, 1980). In de novo patients or milder cases, sleep architecture may still be normal (Ferini-Strambi, 1992). Untreated PD patients show a significant decrease of stage 3 and 4 sleep and increased periodic limb movements (Wetter et al., 2000). EEG alpha activity may be prominent during REM sleep (Mouret, 1975; Brunner et al., 2002). In other Parkinson syndromes, such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), patients had a shorter total sleep time, lower sleep efficiency, a significant reduction in sleep spindles, an atonic slow-wave sleep, and a lower percentage of REM sleep, although the frequencies of REM sleep muscle tone abnormalities are controverse (Arnulf et al., 2005). 15.3.2. Characteristic parkinsonian motor signs: hyperkinesia and akinesia The predominant motor symptoms of PD – tremor and dyskinesias – mainly occur during wakefulness but may also arise during non-REM sleep stages. Parkinson rest tremor usually disappears with the onset of stage 1 sleep, in some cases before EEG alpha activity is entirely gone (April, 1966; Stern et al., 1968), stops in stage 3–4 sleep but may reappear in stages 1 and 2 and with awakenings, arousals and body movements (Fish et al., 1991). Tremor is not associated with spindles or K-complexes. Tremor may also appear, with various amplitudes, for a few seconds during sleep stage changes, during bursts of REM and shortly before or after a REM period (Stern et al., 1968). In contrast to the quiet sleep in normal persons, a variety of motor activity, short jerks or increased muscle tone, abnormal simple and complex movements are common and predominate in the picture of a Parkinson polysomnogram. Sometimes scoring following the system of Rechtschaffen and Kales (1968) is difficult as sleep stages cannot be defined unequivocally. One

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study examined the interrater reliability of sleep scoring in patients with Parkinson’s disease with three experienced scorers. A good interrater reliability was found for distinguishing REM from non-REM sleep, but a reliable differentiation of non-REM sleep stages was much more difficult (Bliwise et al., 2000). Patterns of simple motor activity during sleep include repeated blinking at the onset of sleep, blepharospasm at the onset of REM sleep and prolonged tonic contractions of limb extensor or flexor muscles during non-REM sleep (Mouret, 1975). Abnormal muscle tone in REM sleep has been described in early studies (Traczynska-Kubin et al., 1969; Mouret, 1975). Fragmentary myoclonus in surface EMG and jerks of the extremities may be recorded in stage 1 and 2 Parkinson sleep (Broughton and Tolentino, 1984). Painful dystonia in the limb primarily affected by the disease may result in an extension of the great toe (‘striatal toe’), as a sign for off dystonia. Early-morning foot dystonia may occur just before waking or soon thereafter and may reflect the low concentration of dopamine in the basal ganglia after the last intake of medication at night. It usually starts as a sign of motor response fluctuations that occur almost exclusively in idiopathic PD patients, but not in other Parkinson syndromes. Early-morning akinesia and painful off dystonia are frequent complaints of advanced PD patients and require adequate nocturnal treatment strategies (Lees et al., 1988). Nocturnal akinesia, the most frequent complaint of PD patients at night, is characterized by a lack of dopamine and disables PD patients significantly more than dyskinetic stages. Patients complain about being unable to turn in bed or stand up at night without help, and of painful muscle cramps. In the polysomnogram sleep fragmentation and increased muscle tone predominate during nocturnal akinesia. 15.3.3. Sleep-associated motor phenomena PLMS (Atlas Task Force of the American Sleep Disorders Association, 1993), previously known as ‘nocturnal myoclonus’, occur in sleep and are usually associated with a variety of sleep disorders, such as RLS, narcolepsy, Parkinson syndromes or sleep apnea. New criteria have been published for scoring PLMS more appropriately in research projects (Zucconi et al., 2006). Periodic limb movements are defined as at least four movements in a row with a defined intermovement interval and periodicity. An index of more than 5 PLM per hour of sleep (PLMS index >5) is estimated as a pathological value and occurs in up to one-third of patients with untreated PD, but is even more common in elderly controls (Wetter et al., 2000). PLMS may

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often be associated with arousals (Ondo et al., 2002) and therefore lead to sleep disruption. Some authors doubt that isolated PLMS have any pathological relevance for sleep disorders (Mendelson, 1996) and question if they should be treated at all (Leissner and Sandelin, 2002). The association of RLS in PD is still incompletely understood (Poewe and Ho¨gl, 2004). The frequency of RLS in PD is controversial (Ondo et al., 2002).

Reist et al., 1995), these results were not confirmed in a later study (Ho¨gl et al., 2001a). Baseline UPDRS motor score, tapping rates and motor function after the usual medication did not show a global difference after total or partial sleep deprivation compared to a night of normal sleep (Ho¨gl et al., 2001a).

15.4. Rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorder

15.3.4. Sleep benefit The term ‘sleep benefit’ has been coined to describe the phenomenon of subjective fluent mobility on awakening from a night sleep (Marsden, 1980; Marsden et al., 1981), even prior to drug intake. Sleep benefit has been estimated or reported from questionnaires to occur in around one-third to one-half of patients with PD (Merello et al., 1997). It has been suggested that accumulation and storage of dopamine in remain dopaminergic nerve terminals underlie sleep benefit (Marsden, 1980; Marsden et al., 1981). About onethird of PD patients report a ‘sleep benefit’ (Currie et al., 1997). Only one study has investigated the phenomenon of sleep benefit using polysomnography (Ho¨gl et al., 1998). Ten patients with clear-cut sleep benefit were matched pairwise to 10 patients without sleep benefit. Patients with sleep benefit showed a distinctive response profile to levodopa, with more severe interdose ‘off’, indicating pharmacodynamic differences between patients with and without sleep benefit. However, polysomnography did not show any significant differences between both groups; there was even a non-significant trend towards more fragmented sleep in patients with sleep benefit (Ho¨gl et al., 1998). 15.3.5. Sleep deprivation in Parkinson’s disease An increased motor response to apomorphine has been found in normal rats after selective REM sleep deprivation (Tufik, 1981) and was also demonstrated in a parkinsonian rat model (Drucker-Colin et al., 1996). Selective REM sleep deprivation per se also produced a significant increase in ambulatory behavior and rearing in another parkinsonian rat model (Andrade et al., 1987). In humans, dopamine D2-receptor binding was modified after total sleep deprivation in patients with major depression (Ebert et al., 1994). The question whether sleep deprivation is able to improve motor performance in patients with PD was addressed by several authors (Bertolucci et al., 1987; Levin, 1991; Reist et al., 1995; Ho¨gl et al., 2001a). Whereas significant motor improvements were reported in the earlier studies (Bertolucci et al., 1987; Levin, 1991;

First described by Schenck and collaborators (1987, 1992), the criteria for RBD are now modified in the new International Classification of Sleep Disorders, ICSD-2 (American Sleep Disorders Association, 2005). To make a diagnosis of RBD, both polysomnographic abnormalities and abnormal behaviors are now required. The criteria require: (1) the presence of REM sleep without atonia in polysomnography; and (2) the presence of sleep-related (potentially) injurious behaviors by history and/or documented during PSG. In contrast to previous criteria, polysomnography is now obligatory to make the diagnosis of RBD (American Sleep Disorders Association, 2005) and includes complex behaviors during REM sleep with a loss of skeletal muscle atonia. Sleep-talking, screaming, dream mentation or nightmares are associated with a variety of movements that may disrupt sleep continuity. The motor activity in RBD may consist of small jerky movements of the extremities – finger or hand twitches – but can also lead to abrupt violent body movements; some patients commonly fall out of bed. Comella and coworkers (1998) found 15% clinically diagnosed RBD in a cohort of PD patients; other data show higher numbers (Gagnon et al., 2002). Our own group found abnormalities of REM sleep in 40% of 45 patients with PD; 24% had REM sleep without atonia, and 16% had full-blown RBD (Wetter et al., 2001). More than one-third of an unselected population of PD patients revealed RBD diagnosed in the sleep laboratory. Depending on the diagnostic criteria of RBD, the prevalence of RBD may vary substantially. When RBD is diagnosed polysomnographically without clinical criteria, those numbers may even increase to up to 60% of Parkinson syndrome patients (Fantini et al., 2005). In atypical Parkinson syndromes such as multiple system atrophy (MSA), RBD is detected polysomnographically in up to 100% of patients (Plazzi et al., 1997; Vetrugno et al., 2004), similar to up to 80% RBD in advanced PD patients (authors’ own observations). Only 50% of polysomnographically diagnosed patients would have been detected by history alone (Eisensehr et al., 2001; Gagnon et al., 2002). However, recent

SLEEP IN PARKINSON SYNDROMES questionnaires or interviews for diagnosing RBD according to ICSD criteria by sleep specialists still lack sufficient interrater reliability (Vignatelli et al., 2005). RBD most likely reflects dysfunction in the brainstem circuitry and the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum, where REM sleep without atonia can be induced in animal experiments. RBD may represent a preclinical marker of a neurodegenerative process in synucleinopathies such as PD and MSA and may precede motor symptoms by years (Schenck, et al., 1996; Iranzo et al., 2006). Neuroimaging studies of patients with characteristic complaints of RBD revealed a marked reduction of presynaptic dopamine transporter binding, indicating early PD or MSA (Eisensehr et al., 2000). Subclinical RBD correlates with the extent of presynaptic dopamine transporter binding in idiopathic RBD (Eisensehr et al., 2003). The duration of REM sleep correlated with fluorodopa uptake as measured by positron emission tomography (PET) in PD patients with RBD (Hilker et al., 2003). RBD as an early sign of PD could be confirmed in a recent study relating olfactory dysfunction to RBD as a possible indicator for a-synucleinopathy measured by dopamine transporter FP-CIT single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (Stiasny-Kolster et al., 2005). The distribution of cerebral metabolism assessed with whole brain function perfusion using (99m) Tc-ethylene cysteinate dimer (ECD) SPECT showed hypoperfusion in idiopathic RBD patients consistent with anatomic metabolic profile in PD (Mazza et al., 2006). Controversy exists, however, as to whether RBD and psychosis share a common pathway. Sleep disorders in general seem to be more frequent in PD patients with nocturnal hallucinations (Arnulf et al., 2000) and sometimes difficult to distinguish by clinical history alone. Other authors found that sleep disturbances in PD do not occur as early as olfactory deficits but during the first years of PD (Henderson et al., 2003). In the long term, sleep disorders and RBD are similarly frequent in the PD population with and without hallucinations. Sleep alterations are not necessarily harbingers of hallucinations (Goetz et al., 2005). Experimental studies point to the role of different regulatory centers in the brainstem responsible for either the duration of REM sleep or REM atonia. An excessive GABAergic output from the basal ganglia to the peduncolopontine tegmental nucleus in parkinsonian patients may induce sleep disturbances, including a reduction of REM sleep periods and RBD (REM without atonia) (Takakusaki et al., 2004). RBD may occur in treated or non-treated PD patients and may disturb the patient’s sleep by disagreeable dreams or awakenings, affecting sleep continuity.

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Features of violent or injurious behavior during sleep should be treated for the safety of both patient and bed partner. Some bed partners, however, are anxious and severely confused by the patient’s bizarre nocturnal behavior. RBD may disrupt the relationship between the patient and care-giver and may be the main reason for admittance to a nursing home (Comella et al., 1998). As RBD can be easily treated in most patients with small dosages of clonazepam (0.5–1 mg), the condition should be diagnosed and treated adequately and early (Schenck and Mahowald, 1990).

15.5. Respiratory disorders of sleep in parkinsonism Results of studies on respiration during sleep in PD patients have yielded inconsistent results. In 26 patients with untreated PD and short disease duration, respiration during sleep was found to be normal (Ferini-Strambi et al., 1992). ‘Disorganized’ respiration with frequent central and obstructive apneas was found in patients with parkinsonism and autonomic disturbance (Apps et al., 1985). Some authors reported that apneas were predominantly central (Emser et al., 1987), whereas others mainly observed obstructive apneas (Hardie et al., 1986). More recent studies have demonstrated that obstructive sleep-disordered breathing is present in around 20% of patients with PD (Arnulf et al., 2002). Another study found increased apnea/hypopnea indices mostly without significant oxygen desaturation in 43% of PD patients (Diederich et al., 2005). An abnormal tone of the muscles surrounding the upper airway has been suggested as contributing to sleep-disordered breathing in PD (Vincken et al., 1984). These patients are characterized with upper-airway obstruction during wakefulness and decreased effective muscle strength in pulmonary function testing (Hovestadt et al., 1989). In some patients, upper-airway endoscopy has shown intermittent airway closure due to dyskinetic movements of glottic and supraglottic structures caused by either the disease itself or dopaminergic medications (Vincken et al., 1984). A questionnaire survey found that severe snoring was associated with increased daytime sleepiness in PD, as it is in controls (Ho¨gl et al., 2003b). Upper-airway dysfunction has been reported to be partially responsive to levodopa treatment (Vincken et al., 1989). In patients with advanced parkinsonism, stridor was observed during off dystonia (Corbin and Williams, 1987). Stridor, however, is much more characteristic of MSA. It has been recognized as an adverse prognostic sign regarding survival (Silber and Levine, 2000).

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Stridor may occur during the nighttime only, or extend into daytime. In a study of 10 patients with MSA, all MSA patients displayed snoring, 42% stridor, and 37% obstructive sleep apnea. Breathing and motor abnormalities are often concomitant in the same patient, indicating a diffuse impairment of sleep homeostatic integration that should be included within the diagnostic features of MSA (Vetrugno et al., 2004). Pathophysiologically, a vocal cord paralysis (Isozaki et al., 1996; Kakitsuba et al., 1997; Maurer et al., 1999) which may be uni- or bilateral (Maurer et al., 1999; Silber and Levine, 2000), has been reported to underlie stridor. It has been recognized that mostly vocal cord abductor function is impaired (Blumin and Berke, 2002). In contrast, other authors found that not paralysis, but rather dystonia with persistent tonic EMG activity, is underlying stridor (Merlo et al., 2002). Stridor, which is produced by vibration of the vocal cords (Kakitsuba et al., 1997; Maurer et al., 1999), must be differentiated from ordinary palate snoring (Kakitsuba et al., 1997). Although stridor produces a very characteristic high-pitched sound, care-givers often cannot differentiate between snoring and stridor (Kakitsuba et al., 1997). In some of these patients, specifically in those with MSA, further respiratory abnormalities are present, including reduced ventilatory responses to hypercapnia and hypoxia (Chokroverty et al., 1978; McNicholas et al., 1983; Tsuda et al., 2002; Vetrugno et al., 2004). Tracheostomy (Munschauer et al., 1990) and nocturnal continuous positive-airways pressure (CPAP) therapy have been proposed for the treatment of stridor (Iranzo et al., 2000; Isono et al., 2001). Although positive results with long-term nocturnal CPAP therapy have been reported in MSA (Iranzo et al., 2004), adherence and practicability are still debated in these patients.

15.6. Daytime sleepiness in Parkinson’s disease Excessive daytime sleepiness, not resulting from respiratory problems in PD, is a well-known phenomenon in PD patients. Studies have described an increased risk for causing motor vehicle accidents by sudden sleep onset, so-called ‘sleep attacks’ (Frucht et al., 1999). Those episodes were primarily attributed to the intake of non-ergot dopamine agonists and therefore a variety of studies investigated the effect of dopaminergic drugs on daytime performance and sleepiness in PD patients, leading to controversial results. One study showed an association of daytime sleepiness with more advanced stages of PD, longer disease duration and male sex (Ondo et al., 2001). Other studies could not confirm these results: Higher daily levodopa dosages were predictors of sleep

episodes while driving, whereas gender, age, disease severity and individual dopaminergic agents were not (Brodsky et al., 2003). Patients with PD preselected for sleepiness, however, did not meet those criteria, and sleepiness did not result from pharmacotherapy or sleep abnormalities but was related to the pathology of disease (Arnulf et al., 2002). Dopaminomimetics may exacerbate sleepiness in a small subset of patients, but the primary pathology seems to contribute largely to the development of daytime sleepiness. These patients may benefit from wake-promoting agents such as bupropion, modafinil or traditional psychostimulants (Rye, 2003). An interesting observation reveals that PD patients are not aware of their sleepiness compared to elderly controls. Therefore the patient’s history or excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) scores may not be helpful; only observation or objective measurements of sleepiness, such as PSG, may solve the question of sleepiness in individual PD patients (Merino-Andreu et al., 2003). The most serious consequence of daytime sleepiness in PD is whether PD patients are allowed to drive and if there should be special tests for sleepiness. As there are different laws in different countries, it is necessary to advise PD patients that sudden sleepiness may occur in the course of the disease and may be attributed to specific dopaminergic drugs. Finally, the patients themselves are responsible for their ability to drive and need to decide individually.

15.7. Treatment of disturbed sleep or impaired wakefulness in Parkinson’s disease Treatment of disturbed sleep and impaired wakefulness in PD principally aims to eradicate possible causes. For instance, if nocturnal akinesia, earlymorning dystonia or painful off periods are causing the sleep problem, optimizing the dopaminergic treatment during the night is the most important step. Optimizing the motor state in general has been shown to improve sleep (Askenasy and Yahr, 1985; Ho¨gl et al., 2003a). In mild cases, nocturnal motor symptoms may disappear with adequate dopaminergic treatment during the day (Askenasy and Yahr, 1985). A number of patients benefit from a bedtime dose of a controlled-release formulation containing 100–200 mg levodopa/25–50 mg dopamine decarboxylate inhibitor (DDCI) (Jansen and Meerwaldt, 1990; Koller et al., 1999). In this context, the advantage of long-acting dopamine agonists, such as cabergoline, become obvious (Ho¨gl et al., 2003a). However, higher dosages of dopamine agonists per se tend to disrupt sleep (Saletu et al., 2001; Happe et al., 2003; Ho¨gl et al., 2003a). Subjectively, this is

SLEEP IN PARKINSON SYNDROMES not necessarily associated with a subjective impairment of sleep because the benefit of dopaminergic treatment predominates over this effect (Ho¨gl et al., 2003a). If causal treatment of the sleep disturbance is not possible, i.e. because of side-effects of dopaminergic treatment or other reasons, treatment should at least be tailored to be as specific as possible (Askenasy, 2001). As has been discussed earlier, sleep-disordered breathing is very frequent in patients with PD. Basically, treatment modes are similar to those for patients without PD. In patients with obstructive apneas and hypopneas, nasal CPAP offers the best chance of success and can be used effectively by most patients with parkinsonism, until the advanced stages of the disease are reached (Askenasy, 2001). For patients with MSA and severe vocal cord dysfunction, tracheostomy is sometimes necessary. Patients with bilateral vocal fold paresis, a life threatening condition, should be treated for their glottic obstruction with CPAP at night or tracheotomy (Blumin and Berke, 2002). Appropriate nasal CPAP therapy may improve the condition of a PD patient substantially, also normalizing nocturnal blood pressure and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Although nasal CPAP therapy is first-line treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (Loube et al., 1999), handling of the CPAP device and the mask is sometimes complicated by impaired mobility and craniofacial dyskinesia. If sleep-disordered breathing is milder, or nasal CPAP cannot be used, intraoral mandibular advancement devices can be a useful alternative (Thorpy et al., 1995; Mohsenin et al., 2003). The improvement achieved with such devices (apnea– hypopnea index reduction) is usually smaller than with CPAP treatment. Some authors have noted that mild snoring or sleep-disordered breathing improves with levodopa therapy (Scha¨fer, 2001; Yoshida et al., 2003), but may not be sufficient to restore sleep in Parkinson syndromes. For REM sleep behavior disorder, clonazepam 0.5–2 mg has been reported to be the treatment of choice (Schenck and Mahowald, 1990). Treatment should be started to avoid these episodes of abnormal sleep behavior interfering with the relationship between patient and care-giver (Comella et al., 1998). If clonazepam is insufficient, melatonin can be tried as an alternative (Kunz and Bes, 1999). Some authors have reported improvement of RBD with dopaminergic therapy, e.g. levodopa (Tan et al., 1996) or pramipexole (Fantini et al., 2003). Quetiapin and clozapin may be useful alternatives, but this has not been formally evaluated. Importantly, RBD may worsen after

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subthalamic nucleus stimulation, possibly due to increased mobility, and may then require additional treatment (Arnulf et al., 2000). As in patients with idiopathic RLS, in PD RLS should first be treated by establishing full body iron stores, because this seems to be an important modulator of RLS severity, not only in the idiopathic form (Allen and Earley, 2001), but also in patients with RLS and PD (Ondo et al., 2002). Ferritin should be elevated above 45 mg/l in patients without inflammatory disease (Allen and Earley, 2001). Tricyclic antidepressants or serotonin reuptake inhibitors may manifest or worsen symptoms of RLS and eventually may have to be stopped in PD patients. Treatment of RLS includes dopaminergic substances, such as treatment of nocturnal akinesia in PD. Long-acting dopamine agonists such as cabergoline or transdermal application may be preferred. Treatment studies are not available. If a nocturnal dopaminergic treatment is not tolerable or insufficient, antiepileptics, such as gabapentin, clonazepam or opiates, are treatment options for RLS in Parkinson syndrome. It is unclear if augmentation, a well-known phenomenon of dopaminergic treatment in idiopathic RLS, occurs in PD patients with RLS. Augmentation is characterized by earlier onset of symptoms throughout the day, or an increase of RLS symptoms despite increase in the drug dose (Allen et al., 2003). Conceivably, these features are difficult to disentangle in patients with PD. Opiates can be used for treating RLS in PD, but the development of sleep apnea (Walters et al., 2001) needs to be closely monitored. Specifically in patients with PD or parkinsonian syndromes, constipation may be a contraindication for opiate treatment. Nocturia has been identified as another cause for sleep fragmentation in patients with PD. In cases of detrusor hyperreflexia, oxybutinin or tolterodine may be tried, but the anticholinergic side-effects must be kept in mind. Intranasal application of desmopressin has been recommended to combat nocturia (Suchowersky et al., 1995), but electrolytes need to be closely monitored to prevent low sodium and related seizures. High doses of dopaminergic treatment in advanced stages of PD may lead to insomnia and require further medication. Tricyclic antidepressants with sedating properties, such as amitryptiline (25–50 mg) or mirtazapine (15 mg) (Gordon et al., 2002), are frequently helpful for sleep-onset insomnia. The anticholinergic effects of tricyclic antidepressants may have therapeutic benefits for daytime parkinsonian symptoms in addition to depression, but they can induce nocturnal delirium in patients with cognitive impairment.

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Symptomatic treatment of sleep disorders in PD implies hypnotics and other sleep-promoting substances. Low-dose short-acting benzodiazepines or benzodiazepine receptor agonists such as low doses of triazolam, flunitrazepam or zolpidem may be tried. A possible worsening of pre-existing sleep-disordered breathing must be taken into account (Schuld et al., 1999). In patients with severe PD and insomnia, sleep fragmentation, akathisia and nocturnal hallucinations, clozapine has been found to improve sleep in general (Trosch et al., 1998). Quetiapin has also been reported to improve sleep, in both PD patients and care-givers (Gimenez-Roldan et al., 2003). Although insomnia complaints are extremely frequent (Tandberg et al., 1998) in patients with PD, there is a severe lack of controlled trials on the efficacy of hypnotics in these patients. The treatment of daytime sleepiness has long been neglected in patients with PD. This may relate to the fact that the increased daytime sleepiness is often unnoticed, even by patients themselves (MerinoAndreu et al., 2003). However, increased daytime sleepiness severely impairs quality of life assessed in patients with narcolepsy (Broughton et al., 1984). The capacity to remain awake is most important for social functioning, and increased daytime sleepiness is associated with increased risk for accidents in patients with PD (Comella, 2002; Hobson et al., 2002). Treatment of daytime sleepiness will first aim to identify causes that can be eliminated, such as sleep-disordered breathing, or sleepiness associated with a certain dopamine agonist. If those causes are absent or cannot be modified, symptomatic treatment comes into the discussion. First-line substance is modafinil, which has been demonstrated to improve subjective sleepiness in placebo-controlled studies (Ho¨gl et al., 2002; Adler et al., 2003). However, the improvements were small and data on long-term efficacy are not available. Methylphenidate is another stimulant which has been used for a long time in narcolepsy. It has been shown to improve apathia in an elderly patient with PD and cognitive impairment (Chatterjee and Fahn, 2002). Stimulants like amphetamines act on the dopamine system, and have previously been investigated for their effects on mobility in PD (Parkes et al., 1975), but possible motor side-effects must be taken into account. For instance, methylphenidate treatment in combination with levodopa has led to an increase in dyskinesia (Camicioli et al., 2001). Bupropion has also been recommended for the treatment of daytime sleepiness in PD (Rye, 2003), based on the reversal of daytime sleepiness in MPTP-lesioned primates (Rye, 2003). The effect of adenosine agonists such as caffeine has not been specifically investigated in PD but the

interaction between adenosine and the dopaminergic system is well recognized (Solinas et al., 2002). In clinical practice, however, the use of stimulants is not a relevant treatment option in PD patients, as the effects are small and side effects have to be considered. Dopaminergic medication may induce visual hallucinations, frequently starting at night, in up to 30% of PD patients (Sharf et al., 1978). PD patients with dementia are at high risk of developing psychiatric side-effects of dopaminergic therapy, and may require a reduced dopaminergic dosage in the afternoon or evening. Nocturnal hallucinations, mostly characterized by a reduction in sleep efficiency, slow-wave sleep and REM sleep, should be treated with low dosages of clozapine (Parkinson Study Group, 1999) that should be slowly increased until a complete remission is achieved. Patients who do not tolerate clozapine may be switched to low-dose quetiapine (12.5–50 mg) that is also appropriate for treatment of PD patients because of its side-effect profile (Fernandez et al., 1999; Reddy et al., 2002). Low dosages of benzodiazepines may be an alternative or additional treatment option in mild psychosis or nocturnal confusion, but no studies in patients with PD are yet available.

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Chapter 16

Sensory symptoms in Parkinson’s disease RUTH DJALDETTI* AND ELDAD MELAMED Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

16.1. Introduction The clinical diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is straightforward when the visible motor signs are present. However, at this stage, already more than 30–50% of the dopaminergic neurons are lost (Brooks, 1991; Emami-Avedon et al., 2000; Heiss and Hilker, 2004). Clinical studies have shown that sensory symptoms, such as pain, anosmia and depression, may precede the development of parkinsonism, sometimes by many years, and that they are an integral part of the disease (Witjas et al., 2002). These observations are in line with the pathological finding that the formation of Lewy bodies may begin in the dorsal glossopharyngeal vagus complex in the brainstem and in the olfactory area, even before any change occurs in the substantia nigra pars compacta (Braak et al., 2002, 2003; Del Tredici et al., 2002). Furthermore, using fluorodopa positron emission tomography (PET) and beta-carbomethoxy-3 beta(4-iodophenyl)tropane (ß-CIT) single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with dopamine transporter ligands, researchers clearly demonstrated reduced uptake of these ligands in the preclinical stage of the disease. Therefore, directing more attention to the sensory symptoms of PD may help clinicians to make an earlier diagnosis of the disease, with earlier introduction of treatment. This chapter will focus on pain and disturbances in smell and vision, and general sensations in PD.

16.2. Pain 16.2.1. Basal ganglia and nociception The sensory discriminative dimension of pain depends on the intensity, duration, quality and location of the nociceptive stimulus. Other pain dimensions include

the motor, behavioral, affective and cognitive reactions to the stimulus. The involvement of the basal ganglia in motor control, motor processing and execution is well established (Chudler and Dong, 1995). Although less intensively studied, their role in somatosensory processing as well is becoming clearer. Cumulative evidence shows that central pain is usually associated with lesions in the thalamus and that the intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus, which participate in the perception of pain, have major input to the basal ganglia (Berendse and Groenewegen, 1990). Other nociceptive information reaches the basal ganglia through multiple parallel pathways from the sensory areas of the cortex, amygdalae and cingulated cortex (Malach and Graybiel, 1986). Stimulation of the substantia nigra activates neurons in lamina V of the spinal cord, thereby inhibiting the response to nociceptive stimuli (Barnes et al., 1979). The presence of efferent fibers from the basal ganglia to the ventral anterior and ventrolateral complex of the thalamus is well documented. Researchers theorize that the dopamine in the accumbens and striatum modulates the ability of the neocortical and limbic areas involved in sensory, associative and affective processes to influence complex aspects of motor function (Kemel et al., 1988). The explanation for the change in pain perception in patients with PD is based on anatomophysiological studies showing that the basal ganglia contain neurons with somatosensory function (Chudler and Dong, 1995). In rats, nigral neurons have been shown to respond to lowintensity mechanical stimulation, and striat al neurons to noxious stimulation. These neurons have large bilateral cutaneous receptive fields. Increased pain sensitivity has also been reported after injections of 6-hydroxydopamine into the substantia nigra. Furthermore, neuroimaging SPECT studies demonstrated changes in uptake

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of dopaminergic ligands in association with exogenous pain stimuli and in chronic pain syndromes, and human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies showed bilateral activation of the basal ganglia and thalamus in response to hot and cold noxious stimulation (Tracey et al., 2000; Hagelberg et al., 2002). Interestingly, several pain syndromes are also associated with abnormalities in brain dopamine metabolism. PET studies in patients with burning-mouth syndrome, which sometimes coexists with PD, revealed decreased uptake of 6-[18F]fluorodopa in the putamen (Jaaskelainen et al., 2001) and higher D1- and D2-receptor binding in the striatum (Hagelberg et al., 2003). 16.2.2. Clinical syndromes of pain In the 18th century, Gaubius characterized pain as ‘a feeling that the soul will prefer not to experience’. Although naive, this definition reflects the universal attempt to avoid pain, once it has been felt. Today, pain is defined as an unpleasant or distressing sensory experience. Pain is the most common of the sensory symptoms in PD. Despite the lack of objective sensory loss in PD, as many as half of all patients experience pain related to the condition. In 1817, James Parkinson himself described a patient ‘violently affected with rheumatic pain to the finger ends’. Initially, painful sensations were attributed to rigidity and bradykinesia or to side-effects of antiparkinsonian treatment. It was only in the second half of the 20th century that pain and abnormal sensations were recognized as primary symptoms of PD. The secondary pain syndromes in PD are caused by limb rigidity, dystonia, sleep disorders, gastrointestinal problems and neck and back pain. Frozen shoulder (accompanied by pain) due to limb rigidity is one of the presenting symptoms of the disease. Patients are usually first referred to orthopedic specialists for pain relief. Careful examination reveals that the pain is secondary to limitation of limb movement, causing stiffness of the shoulder joint. Painful dystonia is a less common presenting symptom of PD, but is a frequent problem in more advanced stages. Low back pain is also very common in patients with PD, but data on its prevalence and severity compared to the general population are limited. It is possible that low back pain is aggravated by reduced mobility or abnormal gait. The primary pain in PD has different characteristics from the secondary pain syndromes. Patients describe the primary pain as a vague overall sensation of tension, discomfort or paresthesia that is little affected by motion (Snider et al., 1976; Koller, 1984; Quinn et al., 1986; Ford, 1998). In some cases, it is not localized to one anatomic area and may be difficult to pinpoint; in

others, pain occurs in peculiar anatomic areas, such as the genitals, intraoral region (burning-mouth syndrome) and throat (Ford et al., 1996). Other sensations include burning paresthesia, occasionally aggravated by levodopa therapy, and tingling and numbness in the fingers and toes. In a minority of patients, pain is restricted to the limbs. The pain may be episodic, lasting from a few minutes to several hours, or continuous. It is usually unilateral, almost always occurring on the more affected side. If pain is the initial symptom of the disease (10% of patients), the side it is on will predict the side on which the motor symptoms will emerge. Sometimes the pain is so severe that treatment or hospitalization is required. Quantitative clinical studies have indicated that the heat pain threshold is lower in patients with PD compared with healthy subjects. It is also lower in PD patients who experience pain than in patients who do not, and lower on the side with more severe tremor or rigidity. In patients with motor fluctuations, there are no differences in heat pain threshold between ‘on’ and ‘off’ periods, suggesting that neurotransmitters other than dopamine are involved in pain encoding (Djaldetti et al., 2004). Although there is no evidence for the involvement of the spinothalamic system in PD, somatic and tactile hallucinations do occur, albeit very rarely (Feńelon et al., 2002). The tactile hallucinations are usually combined with visual hallucinations. Typically, patients sense that the skin is infested by parasites or worms; they feel the worms crawling or biting, and occasionally, they can see the insects. Sometimes, patients feel and see other persons hugging them. The hallucinations respond to a reduction in dopaminergic medications or to neuroleptic agents. It has been suggested that tactile hallucinations result from a narcoleptic-like rapid-eye movement (REM) disorder (Arnulf et al., 2000). As such, hallucinations may be generated by brainstem structures controlling REM sleep. 16.2.3. Therapeutic options for pain The therapeutic approach to pain begins with a thorough inquiry into the nature of the pain and its relation to dopaminergic medications. In the initial stages of disease, levodopa may alleviate pain in some, but not all, patients (Waseem and Gwinn-Hardy, 2001; Gilbert, 2004). The proposed underlying mechanism involves a levodopa-induced increase in heat pain threshold and pain tolerance (Battista and Wolff, 1973). Patients with response fluctuations frequently report pain in the ‘off’ state. In some patients, pain is constant, with no correlation to the ‘off’ or ‘on’ state. If the painful sensations are associated with low doses of levodopa (wearing-off, early-morning dystonia), the best strategy is to increase the dose in order to

SENSORY SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE prevent motor fluctuations (Waseem and GwinnHardy, 2001). Apomorphine is useful in patients with severe ‘off’ periods, in whom pain does not respond to analgesic agents (Factor, 2004). If pain is associated with high doses of levodopa (dyskinesias, dystonia), the dopaminergic medications should be reduced. Dopamine is probably not the only neurotransmitter involved in pain modulation. Findings of high levels of morphine-like factors, namely, Met-enkephalin, substance P and dynorphin (Shu et al., 1988, 1990), and upregulation of opiate receptors in the striatum point to their possible role in somatosensory responses (Simantov et al., 1976). In cases in which pain is unrelated to levodopa therapy, the approach used in neuropathic central pain may be effective, namely, a combination of serotonin reuptake inhibitors, anticholinergic agents, opioid receptor-mediating agents, and new-generation antiepileptic medications, especially gabapentin (Fox et al., 2003; Bischofs et al., 2004). Thus far, there are no controlled studies examining this issue. Some researchers propose that a decrease in opioid peptide function in PD may disrupt the ‘finetuning’ of the pain-modulatory function of melatonin and facilitate the emergence of sensory symptoms. This line of treatment should be explored as well. Deep brain stimulation seems to be effective when medication adjustments fail to control the motor symptoms and pain. Several studies have shown that unilateral or bilateral pallidal or subthalamic stimulation can alleviate pain and dysesthesias in more than 40% of patients (Loher et al., 2002; Lozano and Hamani, 2004). The specific target area still needs to elucidated. Alternative treatments, such as acupuncture, although not beneficial for the motor symptoms, might relieve pain and other sensory symptoms (Shulman et al., 2002). We expect such complementary therapies eventually to take on a larger analgesic role in PD, though controlled studies are still needed to evaluate their efficacy.

16.3. Disorders of olfaction Olfactory loss is prevalent in PD and was first documented in 1975 (Ansari and Johnson, 1975). The dysfunction involves perceptual and semantic processes, such that patients fail to detect, discriminate and identify different odor categories (Quinn et al., 1987; Sobel et al., 2001; Tissingh et al., 2001). It can also indirectly affect other symptoms, such as weight loss, because it diminishes the pleasure of eating, which triggers appetite. The olfactory deficits occur in the preclinical stages of the disease, and have also been found in asymptomatic family members (Berendse et al., 2001; Ponsen et al., 2004). Pathological studies show that

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the neurodegenerative process in PD slowly rises via the postganglionic autonomic fibers to the vagus nerve in the brainstem, and then spreads to the olfactory neurons (Braak et al., 2002, 2003; Del Tredici et al., 2002). This evidence suggested that there is a widespread extranigral pathology in PD, and that one of the earliest sites affected is the olfactory bulb and related portions of the anterior olfactory region, which contain packed dopaminergic neurons. The formation of Lewy bodies in these areas precedes the involvement of the substantia nigra. As dopamine is known to inhibit olfactory transmission, the degeneration of these areas may be responsible for the early hyposmia in PD. Interestingly, patients with PD have been found to possess twice as many dopaminergic cells in the olfactory bulb as healthy individuals (Huisman et al., 2004). The pattern of smell loss appears to be specific to idiopathic PD, as opposed to other parkinsonian syndromes, and is not present even in PD patients with the parkin mutation (Muller et al., 2002; Katzenschlager and Lees, 2004; Khan et al., 2004). The latter observation suggests that different pathogenetic mechanisms are involved in the neurodegenerative process. It is still unclear if the degree of dysfunction in odor discrimination is associated with disease duration and severity, which might make at least some aspects of olfactory dysfunction in PD a secondary degenerative effect. Although the extent of nigral degeneration in PD can be visualized years before the clinical diagnosis by PET and SPECT imaging of the brain with dopaminergic ligands, these methods are costly and difficult to apply. Several researchers have therefore suggested that clinical smell tests, such as the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT), may be useful as an early marker of PD onset, with confirmation in positive cases by ß-CIT SPECT. Smell tests and CIT SPECT with the dopamine transporter ligand detected a group of hyposmic asymptomatic firstdegree relatives of patients with PD with reduced ß-CIT binding. After 2 years, 10% of these patients had developed clinical PD. The rate of decline in dopamine transporter binding in the hyposomic patients was significantly greater than in the relatives with normal olfaction (Ponsen et al., 2004). The same holds for individuals with REM sleep behavior disorder and hyposmia (Stiasny-Kolster et al., 2005). These findings hold promise for the effectiveness of neuroprotective therapy, when it becomes available. Despite loss of olfactory function, olfactory hallucinations are rare in PD. The odors reported are burning rubber or grass and decaying fish (Tousi and Frankel, 2004). The involvement of the olfactory system in the pathogenesis of PD also has therapeutic implications

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for the symptomatic clinical stage. Studies using a 6-hydroxydopamine-induced rat model of PD have shown that transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells (cultured from the olfactory bulb), which express a high level of growth factors, into the striatum can restore the chemical and functional abilities of this region (Agrawal et al., 2004).

16.4. Visual disorders Visual disturbances, though not common in PD, were reported as early as the 1980s. They have since been confirmed by clinical, psychophysiological and neurophysiological investigations (Haug et al., 1994; BodisWollner, 1997; Rodnitzky, 1998). The presence of visual disturbances is not surprising, as dopamine is a major retinal neurotransmitter and has been identified in the amacrine and interplexiform retinal cells, lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex (Kramer, 1971; Harnois and Di Paolo, 1990). The most frequent vision-related abnormalities in PD are loss of color discrimination, spatiotemporal contrast sensitivity and color contour perception (Bodis-Wollner et al., 1987; Price et al., 1992; Buttner et al., 1995a). Studies with the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test have demonstrated a significant elevation in total and partial error scores for color discrimination ability in PD. The relation between impaired color discrimination and disease severity and duration remains unclear because of the small size of most of the study samples and because the patients were already being treated with antiparkinsonian medications at the time of the test, which could have affected the results. No correlation was found using [123]ß-CIT SPECT, suggesting that the color vision dysfunction is not directly related to the dopaminergic nigrostriatal degeneration and perhaps involves an extranigral lesion (Muller et al., 1998). The average latency of visual evoked potentials in patients with PD exceeds that of age-matched subjects, and over two-thirds of all patients have abnormal latency (Bodis-Wollner and Yahr, 1978; Bhaskar et al., 1986). The phase shifts in the non-linear visual evoked potentials components indicate a dysfunction in temporal processing. As the dysfunction is at times transient, researchers believe there may be an ‘input’ temporal frequency-dependent abnormality in the foveal pathway. Color fusion time is used to evaluate the acuity of the perception of monochromatic contours. Measurements are performed with a computer-aided method. Patients with PD have been found to have a shortened fusion time, especially for dark green, light blue and dark red stimuli (Buttner et al., 1995a).

Neuropsychological tests of basic visual perception, complex perceptual discrimination and spatial orientation demonstrate decreased spatial orientation functioning (Bodis-Wollner and Paulus, 1999; Bodis-Wollner, 2003). Visuospatial working memory and attentional set-shifting seem to be selectively impaired in the early stages of the disease. Electrophysiological studies also demonstrate dysfunction of higher-level visuocognitive information processing, reflecting an impairment in neural assemblies involving the basal ganglia, dorsal visual stream and frontal–prefrontal circuits. Age may also affect the visuocognitive responses in PD: studies of visuocognitive event-related potentials in young and older patients showed a greater central processing time in the younger group (Lieb et al., 1999). At the retinal level, patients with PD show reductions in photopic, scotopic and pattern-derived electroretinograms, all correlated with the clinical stage of the disease (Sartucci et al., 2003). The significant error in chromatic discrimination and other vision dysfunctions in PD may be due to altered intraretinal dopaminergic synaptic activity (Peppe et al., 1998) as a consequence of systemic dopaminergic deficiency. Optical coherence tomography studies reveal loss of the circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer, especially in the inferior quadrant (Inzelberg et al., 2004). Some of the deficits, which are consistent with physiological studies, suggest that the dopaminergic deficiency may affect the center–surround interaction of the neurons. The visuospatial deficits, however, are not simply passive reflections of retinal deficiency. Additional pathology beyond the retina may also play a role in visual responses. This is supported by the finding that saccadic eye movements are affected in PD (Rascol et al., 1989). Whether these changes contribute directly to the visuospatial dysfunction is still unknown, although recent fMRI and electroencephalogram studies have pointed to an essential role of the occipital cortex in saccadic eye movements (Elbel et al., 2002; Rogers, 2003). Accordingly, visual and eye movement studies suggest that certain neuropsychiatric and cognitive deficits in PD are linked to the visual system. The hallucinations in PD may reflect the increased dopaminergic transmission, or they may be part of the visual dysfunction. Visual hallucinations are by far the most common type of hallucinations in PD; with an estimated frequency of almost 40% of patients. Risk factors are age and dementia. Visual perception in demented PD patients with hallucinations is worse than in demented patients without hallucinations (Mosimann et al., 2004). The visual hallucinations are characterized by benign, non-threatening figures of people, animals, insects or stereotypic, brightly colored moving images.

SENSORY SYMPTOMS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE There is indirect evidence suggesting the presence of inclusions in the outer plexiform layer of the retina in a patient with Lewy body dementia (Maurage et al., 2003), implying involvement of the retina in the pathogenesis of visual hallucinations. An fMRI study identified cortical activation patterns associated with visual hallucinations (Stebbins et al., 2004). In hallucinating patients, external visual stimuli did not activate regions of the posterior cortex, as seen in nonhallucinating patients, but they hyperactivated anterior cortical regions (frontal cortex, caudate nucleus). This finding is in line with the decreased cerebral blood flow to the temporal lobe and temporo-occipital regions (Okada et al., 1999) and the presence of Lewy bodies in the temporal lobe, specifically the amygdala and parahippocampus (Harding et al., 2002) documented in PD patients. This type of activation can predispose individuals to hallucinations, as the decreased responsiveness to external perceptions (monitored by the posterior cortex) and the increased frontal activation give rise to a sensory visual experience. The combination of aberrant visual perception, decreased retinal dopamine level and disruption of the occipitofrontal circuits provides the pathogenetic mechanism for visual hallucinations. Both visual hallucinations and color discrimination disability significantly influence contour perception of certain stimuli (Buttner et al., 1996; Diederich et al., 1998). These data, combined with the finding that disease stage, duration and severity do not seem to have a significant effect on chromatic contour perception (Muller et al., 1998), suggest that the distorted contour perception is due to impairment at a central stage of visual processing in PD and an imbalance of the serotonergic system. There are only a few studies on the effect of medications on the visual abnormalities in PD. One group reported that abnormal delays in visual evoked potentials were normalized with levodopa/carbidopa therapy in 9 of 14 previously untreated parkinsonian patients (Bhaskar et al., 1986). Levodopa also improved contrast sensitivity (Bulens et al., 1987; Hutton et al., 1993; Mestre et al., 1996) and color vision in PD patients (Buttner et al., 1994). The role of amantadine in the treatment of vision abnormalities is unclear. Amantadine produced a significant shortening in the latency of the event-related potential (P300) in a visual discrimination paradigm, but the effect on the timing of the primary visual evoked potentials was minimal or absent (Bandini et al., 2002). In another study, there was no difference in the total error scores of the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test before and after amantadine sulfate infusion (Buttner et al., 1995b).

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Apomorphine has the potential to reverse vision abnormalities in cases of retinal dopamine depletion. Systemic administration of apomorphine in toads increased the discharge rates of retinal class R2 and R3 ganglion cell fibers in response to visual objects traversing their excitatory receptive fields (Glagow and Ewert, 1997). In PD patients, there was a significant improvement of achromatic static contrast sensitivity, but the effects on color discrimination were marginal (Buttner et al., 2000). We can conclude from these data that dopamine deficiency in the basal ganglia and the visual system plays a role in the underlying pathophysiology of the distorted color vision in PD. However, the minor response to dopaminergic treatment implies that other anatomical structures and neurotransmitters are involved as well.

16.5. Disorders of other senses Hearing and taste are apparently not involved in PD, although they may not yet have been sufficiently studied to reach definitive conclusions. The only reference to the possible involvement of the auditory system is the rare report of auditory hallucinations. Auditory hallucinations in PD, if present, are usually unformed; the voices the patients hear are indistinct and incomprehensible, and do not contain any commands (Inzelberg et al., 1998). There are only a few case reports of PD patients with well-formed and threatening auditory hallucinations, similar to those in schizophrenia (Factor, 2004). The mechanism underlying the development of auditory hallucinations is a genetic mutation that increases susceptibility in both PD and schizophrenia, or the presence of Lewy bodies in the temporal lobe (Harding et al., 2002).

16.6. Conclusions Although described more than 20 years ago, the nonmotor complications of PD, especially the sensory symptoms, have attracted less attention than the motor complications, and data on their prevalence remain sparse. Nevertheless, in some patients, pain may cause greater distress than motor symptoms. In addition, the sensory symptoms, such as abdominal or chest pain, may mimic respiratory, gastrointestinal or cardiac emergencies, and their better recognition could spare patients unnecessary investigations and useless treatments. The recognition of other sensory impairments in PD would help physicians to diagnose the disease earlier, long before the motor symptoms emerge. When neuroprotective agents become a more important part of the armamentarium of PD, sensory symptoms will serve to

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identify the patients at risk who require more expensive and accurate diagnostic procedures. Finally, further research of these symptoms will reveal other anatomic sites affected and clarify the pathogenesis of PD.

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Speech disorders in Parkinson’s disease and the effects of pharmacological, surgical and speech treatment with emphasis on Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVTÒ) LORRAINE OLSON RAMIG1,2,3*, CYNTHIA FOX3 AND SHIMON SAPIR4 1

Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder Department of Speech, Denver, CO, USA 2

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17.1. Introduction The reduced ability to speak is considered to be one of the most difficult aspects of Parkinson’s disease (PD) by many patients and their families. Nearly 9 out of 10 people with PD have a speech or voice disorder. The common perceptual features of reduced loudness (hypophonia), reduced pitch variation (monotone), breathy and hoarse voice quality and imprecise articulation, (Darley et al., 1969a, b; Logemann et al., 1978; Scott and Caird, 1981), together with lessened facial expression (masked facies), contribute to limitations in communication in the vast majority of these individuals (Pitcairn et al., 1990a, b; Adams, 1997). People with PD are much less likely to participate in conversations or have confidence in communication, compared with healthy aging adults (Fox and Ramig, 1997). Successful treatment of the speech disorder in PD has been challenging. In fact, historically, it has been concluded that speech treatment does not work for people with PD (Sarno, 1968; Allan, 1970; Greene, 1980; Weiner and Singer, 1989). Most recent statistics report that, although 89% of individuals with PD have a speech and voice disorder, only 3–4% receive speech treatment (Oxtoby, 1982; Hartelius and Svensson, 1994).

There are a number of explanations for this discrepancy. One factor is that, because speech treatment has previously not been successful for PD, physicians do not refer patients for speech treatment. In addition, early in the disease, the patient often successfully compensates for the problems (performs to external cue in the physician’s office) and is unaware of a speech problem. A common scenario is that ‘a soft-speaking, monotone’ individual with PD arrives at the physician’s office and denies any problem with speech. The physician is able to understand the person with PD since they are talking in a quiet examination room and so no referral for speech treatment is made. At each annual visit, this scenario is repeated. Many years pass and the communication abilities of the person with PD continue to decline; he or she reduces activities (talks on the phone less, limits social events and may retire from employment or volunteer activities). By the time the speech disorder is obvious in the physician’s quiet examination room, the disorder has had a major negative impact on the person with PD’s quality of life for years. When the referral for speech treatment is finally made, the treatment may be more challenging and the outcome less positive due to the severity of the speech disorder and the likely progression of other symptoms of PD which make focusing on speech treatment difficult.

*Correspondence to: Lorraine Olson Ramig, PhD, CCC-SLP, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Science, University of Colorado-Boulder and National Center for Voice and Speech, Denver, Campus Box 409, Boulder, CO 80305, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ1-303-492-3023; Cell: 917-541-3291.

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Medical treatments, including neuropharmacological as well as neurosurgical methods, may be effective in improving limb symptoms; however, their impact on speech production remains unclear (Rigrodsky and Morrison, 1970; Wolfe et al., 1975; Larson et al., 1994; Baker et al., 1997; Ghika et al., 1999; Kompoliti et al., 2000; Wang et al., 2002). In addition, previous speech treatment approaches for people with PD, focusing on articulation and rate, have limited efficacy data and limited evidence of long-term success. Recently, however, a speech treatment approach called Lee Silverman voice treatment (LSVT) has generated the first high-quality level I efficacy data for successfully treating voice and speech disorders in this population. This chapter will: (1) briefly review speech and voice characteristics associated with PD; (2) discuss medical, surgical and behavioral speech treatment approaches for PD; (3) provide an overview of the LSVT speech treatment approach and efficacy data; and (4) highlight future directions in speech treatment for PD.

17.2. Speech and voice characteristics in Parkinson’s disease Disorders of laryngeal, respiratory and articulatory function have been documented across a number of perceptual, acoustic and physiological studies in people with PD (Leanderson et al., 1971, 1972; Beukelman, 1989; Moore and Scudder, 1989; Yorkston, 1996; Yorkston et al., 1997; Baker et al., 1998). Although the neural mechanisms underlying these voice and speech disorders are unclear (Hanson and Metter, 1983; Estenne et al., 1984; Hoodin and Gilbert, 1989a, b; Ackermann and Ziegler, 1991; Ackermann et al., 1997), they have traditionally been attributed to the motor signs of the disease (rigidity, bradykinesia, hypokinesia and tremor). An additional explanation for the speech and voice impairment in PD is a deficit in the sensory processing related to speech (Ho et al., 1999a, 2001; Sapir et al., 2002). This section will review characteristics of speech and voice impairment in people with PD, including laryngeal and respiratory disorders, articulatory disorders and deficits in sensory processing related to speech. 17.2.1. Laryngeal and respiratory disorders Darley et al. (1975) described perceptual characteristics of speech and voice in people with PD (Darley et al., 1969a, b). They identified reduced loudness, monopitch, monoloudness, reduced stress, breathy, hoarse voice quality, imprecise articulation and short rushes of speech as the classic features of speech and

voice in people with PD. Collectively these speech symptoms are called hypokinetic dysarthria (Darley et al., 1975). Logemann and colleagues (1978) conducted a study with 200 people with PD to examine vocal tract control and to quantify and describe features of the disorder. In the study 89% of the people with PD presented with laryngeal disorders, comprising breathiness, hoarseness, roughness and tremulousness. Ho et al. (1998) and Sapir and colleagues (2002) both reported that voice problems were first to occur in people with PD; other speech problems (prosody, articulation and fluency) gradually appeared later and accompanied more severe motor signs. Acoustic descriptions of voice characteristics of people with PD have also been documented. Vocal sound pressure level (SPL) has been measured. Early studies varied in reporting a reduction in vocal SPL in these people (Canter, 1963, 1965a, b; Ludlow and Bassich, 1983, 1984; Metter and Hanson, 1986). However, Fox and Ramig (1997) compared 29 people with PD with an age- and gender-matched control group and found that vocal SPL was 2–4 dB (at 30 cm) lower across a number of speech tasks in people. A 2–4 dB change is equal to a 40% perceptual change in loudness (Fox and Ramig, 1997). Furthermore, Ho and colleagues (2001) found that the voice intensity of people with PD decayed much faster than that observed in a healthy comparison group during various speech tasks. Results related to fundamental frequency (acoustic correlate of pitch) in the speech of people with PD have consistently reported reduced frequency (Canter, 1963, 1965a, b; Ludlow and Bassich, 1984; Metter and Hanson, 1986; Fraile and Cohen, 1995). Fundamental frequency variability has been reported to be consistently lower in people with PD as compared to healthy aging people (Canter, 1965a, b; Ludlow and Bassich, 1984). These findings support the perceptual characteristics of monopitch or monotonous speech typically observed in this patient population (Darley et al., 1969a, b; Logemann et al., 1973). Disordered laryngeal function has been documented through a number of imaging studies of the vocal folds (videoendoscopic studies). Hansen et al. (1984) reported vocal fold bowing (lack of medial vocal fold closure) in 30 out of 32 people with PD. Smith and colleagues (1995) documented that 12 of 21 people with PD in their study demonstrated a form of glottal incompetence (bowing, anterior or posterior chink) on flexible fiberoptic views. Perez et al. (1996) studied 29 people with PD and observed that 50% of them demonstrated difficulties with phase closure of the vocal folds, 46% demonstrated an asymmetrical vibratory pattern and 55% had laryngeal tremor (with vertical laryngeal tremor being the most common).

SPEECH DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Additional data to support laryngeal closure problems in people with PD come from the work of Luschei et al. (1999), who studied single motor unit activity in the thyroarytenoid (TA) muscle in people with PD and suggested that the firing rate of the TA motor units was decreased in males with PD in the study. The investigation reported that this finding, as well as those in past studies, suggests that PD affects rate and variability in motor unit firing in the laryngeal musculature. Baker et al. (1998) found that absolute TA amplitudes during a known loudness level task in people with PD were lowest for the group of people with PD when compared to young normal adults and normal aging adults. Relative TA amplitudes were also decreased in both the aging and PD groups when compared to the young normal adults. The authors concluded that reduced levels of TA muscle activity may contribute to the reduced vocal loudness that is observed in people with PD and aging populations. A number of studies have documented evidence of disordered respiratory function in people with PD. Researchers reported reduced vital capacity (Cramer, 1940; Laszewski, 1956; De La Torre et al., 1960), a reduction in the total amount of air expended during maximum phonation tasks (Mueller, 1971), reduced intraoral air pressure during consonant/vowel productions (Mueller, 1971; Marquardt, 1973; Solomon and Hixon, 1993) and abnormal airflow patterns (Vincken et al., 1984; Schiffman, 1985). The origin of these respiratory abnormalities may be related to variations in airflow resistance resulting from abnormal movements of the vocal folds and supralaryngeal area (Vincken et al., 1984) or abnormal chest wall movements and respiratory muscle activation patterns (Estenne et al., 1984; Murdoch et al., 1989; Solomon and Hixon, 1993). 17.2.2. Articulatory disorders Imprecise consonants have been observed in people with PD (Cramer, 1940; Logemann et al., 1973, 1978). Logemann et al. (1973, 1978) reported articulation problems in 45% of the 200 unmedicated people with PD they studied. Sapir et al. (2001) found abnormal articulation in 50% of 42 medically treated people with PD. Disordered rate of speech has also been reported in some people with PD. Whereas rapid rates, or short rushes of speech, have been described in 6–13% of people with PD (Canter, 1965a, b; Hansen et al., 1984; Hammen et al., 1989; Adams, 1997), Canter (1965a) found slower than normal rates. Pallilalia or stutteringlike speech dysfluencies have been observed in some people with PD (Darley et al., 1969a; Sapir et al., 2001).

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Acoustic correlates of disordered articulation have been studied and include problems with timing of vocal onsets and offsets (voicing during normally voiceless closure intervals of voiceless stops) and spirantization (presence of fricative-like, aperiodic noise during stop closures) (Uziel et al., 1975; Weismer, 1984; Ackermann and Ziegler, 1991). In another study (Forrest et al., 1989), dysarthric speakers with PD showed longer voice onset times (VOTs) than normal. Such abnormal VOTs may reflect a problem with movement initiation (Forrest et al., 1989), which may be related to deficits in internal cueing, timing and/or sensory gating (Ackermann and Ziegler, 1991; Sapir et al., 2001). Disordered articulatory movements have been documented in people with PD through kinematic analysis of jaw movements (Hirose et al., 1981; Caligiuri, 1987, 1989a, b; Conner et al., 1989; Conner and Abbs, 1991). Researchers consistently report that people with PD show a significant reduction in the size and peak velocity of jaw movements during speech when compared to healthy people with normal speech (Conner et al., 1989; Forrest et al., 1989; Dromey, 2001). The reduction in range of movement has been attributed to rigidity of the articulatory muscles (Gath and Yair, 1988; Rosenfeld, 1991); however, this may be related to a problem with sensorimotor perception and/or scaling of speech and non-speech movements (Ackermann and Ziegler, 1991; Ho et al., 1998, 1999a, b, 2000). Electromyographic (EMG) studies of the lip and jaw muscles in people with and without PD have provided some evidence for increased levels of tonic resting and background activity (Leanderson et al., 1971, 1972; Netsell et al., 1975; Hunker and Abbs, 1984; Moore and Scudder, 1989) as well as for loss of reciprocity between agonist and antagonistic muscle groups (Leanderson et al., 1971, 1972; Hirose et al., 1981; Hunker and Abbs, 1984; Hirose, 1986). These findings are consistent with evidence for abnormal sensorimotor gating in the orofacial and limb systems, which are presumably related to basal ganglia dysfunction (Schneider et al., 1986; Caligiuri and Abbs, 1987; Schneider and Lidsky, 1987). Whether or not these abnormal sensorimotor findings are indicative of excess stiffness or rigidity in the speech musculature is not clear (Caligiuri, 1987; Caligiuri and Abbs, 1987; Conner et al., 1989; Conner and Abbs, 1991). 17.2.3. Sensory observations Although the speech problems associated with PD are considered to be related to the motor dysfunctions of the disease, sensory problems in these people have

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been recognized for years (Barbeau et al., 1962; Koller, 1984; Schneider and Lidsky, 1987). Numerous investigators documented sensorimotor deficits in the orofacial system (Schneider et al., 1986; Caligiuri and Abbs, 1987; Diamond et al., 1987; Schneider and Lidsky, 1987) and abnormal auditory, temporal and perceptual processing of voice and speech (Schneider et al., 1986; Schneider and Lidsky, 1987; Ackermann and Ziegler, 1991; Solomon et al., 1994; Ho et al., 1999a, b, 2000; Graber et al., 2002), and they have been implicated as important etiologic factors in speech and voice abnormalities secondary to PD (Fox et al., 2002). Behavioral evidence from limb and speech motor systems for sensory-processing disorders in PD include errors on tasks of kinesthesia (Demirci et al., 1997; Jobst et al., 1997; Klockgether et al., 1997); difficulties with orofacial perception, including decreased jaw proprioception, tactile localization on tongue, gums and teeth, and targeted and tracking head movements to perioral stimulation (Schneider et al., 1986); problems utilizing proprioceptive information for normal movement (Schneider et al., 1986; Jobst et al., 1997); and abnormal higher-order processing of afferent information, as demonstrated by abnormal reflex and voluntary motor responses to proprioceptive input (Rickards and Cody, 1997). Overall, the basal ganglia may be an area in the brain where sensory information related to movement is filtered (Schneider et al., 1986), in that it ‘gates out’ sensory information when it is not relevant for a motor action, or when it is overly familiar. Thus one aspect of PD might include complex deficits in the utilization of specific sensory inputs to organize and guide movements. Problems in sensory perception of effort have been identified as an important focus of successful speech and voice treatment (Ramig et al., 1995b). Specifically, it is often observed that soft-speaking people with PD report that their voices are not reduced in loudness, but rather, their spouse, ‘needs a hearing aid’ (Marsden, 1982; Fox and Ramig, 1997). When these same people are asked to speak in a louder voice, they often comment, ‘I feel like I am shouting‘, despite the fact that listeners judge the louder voice to be within normal range. If persons with PD hear a tape recording of themselves using increased loudness, they can easily recognize that their voice sounds within normal limits, despite the fact they feel they are talking too loud. This suggests that the breakdown may be in online feedback (auditory and proprioceptive) while speaking. Two areas of research have begun exploring evidence of a sensory component to the speech disorder in PD. Liotti et al. (2000) examined neuroimaging data (positron emission tomography (PET)) in people with

PD during voice and speech tasks. Preliminary data documented that people with PD, as compared to non-PD control people, demonstrated an overactivation of auditory cortex during overt speech motor activity, suggesting impaired audiovocal gating. This finding may be relevant to the phenomenological observation that people with PD complain that they are ‘too loud’ when they try to increase their loudness to a normal level. Another area of work examined sensory (auditory) feedback control on speech of a person with PD using behavioral perturbations of both amplitude (loudness) and pitch (frequency) during voicing tasks pre/ postspeech treatment (LSVT; Houde et al., 2004). Pre-LSVT the person with PD demonstrated a lack of vocal response to perturbations in amplitude and pitch feedback while sustaining the vowel ‘ah’, consistent with impaired audiovocal gating. Post-LSVT, behavioral responses (as measured by audio recordings) to perturbations in speech feedback revealed that this individual developed a faster, more automatic to perturbations as a result of LSVT response. Thus, preliminary data suggest that people with PD may have altered cortical responses to pitch and amplitude perturbations, which are modified immediately post-LSVT training. Future research into the nature of this apparent impaired audiovocal gating in people with PD and its role in speech disorders is needed. 17.2.4. Summary of Parkinson-related speech dysfunction In summary, perceptual, acoustic, physiological and sensory processing data have documented varying degrees of dysfunction in different aspects of speech in people with PD. The most common perceptual speech characteristics are reduced loudness, monopitch, hoarse voice and imprecise articulation. Acoustic studies of speech of people with PD appear to parallel perceptual studies and have shown evidence of reduced vocal SPL, reduced vocal SPL range, reduced fundamental frequency range and abnormal articulatory acoustics, such as spirantization. Physiological studies of articulatory muscles have revealed reduced amplitude and speed of movements from a kinematic analysis, EMG activity and abnormal vocal fold closure patterns. Finally, sensory studies have revealed sensorimotor deficits that include errors on tasks of kinesthesia, difficulties with oral facial perception, including decreased jaw proprioception, tactile localization on tongue, gums and teeth, and targeted and tracking head movements to perioral stimulation. The neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech and voice disorders in PD are still

SPEECH DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE poorly understood at this time, particularly in regard to deficits in sensory processing.

17.3. Treatment for speech and voice disorders Management of speech and voice disorders in people with PD has been challenging for both medical and rehabilitation practitioners. Current treatments for speech and voice disorders in people with PD consist of medical therapies, surgical procedures, behavioral speech therapy or a combination thereof (Schultz et al., 1999; Schultz and Grant, 2000). Medical therapies alone are not as effective for treating speech symptoms as they are for limb motor symptoms. Thus, speech symptoms are often grouped with other axial symptoms (e.g. balance, gait, posture) that are also considered less responsive to traditional medical therapies. At this time, a combination of medical therapy (e.g. optimal medication) with behavioral speech therapy appears to offer the greatest improvement for speech dysfunction (Schultz et al., 1999). There are a number of papers that have reviewed the literature related to speech treatment in PD, including medical, surgical and behavioral interventions for this population (Schultz and Grant, 2000; Anon., 2002; Yorkston et al., 2003; Pinto et al., 2004). The following review of treatment options will help guide physician choices for recommendations for speech treatment. 17.3.1. Medical treatments Neuropharmacological approaches for the treatment of PD have had positive outcomes on motor function. However, the impact of these treatments on speech, voice and swallowing production is highly variable across published reports. Although some studies have reported general positive effects of levodopa on limb function (Rigrodsky and Morrison, 1970; Mawdsley and Gamsu, 1971; Wolfe et al., 1975; Mawdsley, 1973; Nakano et al., 1973; Critchley, 1981), the magnitude and consistency of improvement in speech tend to be less impressive (Rigrodsky and Morrison, 1970; Wolfe et al., 1975). More recent studies reported little variation in speech, voice and respiratory characteristics at different points in the drug treatment cycle (Solomon and Hixon, 1993; Larson et al., 1994). In a review of speech treatment options, Pinto et al. (2004) reported that pharmacological methods of treatment alone do not appear to improve voice and speech function in PD people significantly. The actions of pharmacological therapies on speech and voice functioning in people with PD are not well

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understood. Reports in the literature cite variable responses to medication, with no report documenting a consistent and significant impact of functional communication abilities in people with PD. This may explain the nearly identical prevalence of voice and articulation abnormalities in medicated (85.7%; Sapir et al., 2001) and unmedicated (89%; Logemann et al., 1978) people with PD. Studies by Kompoliti et al. (2000) and Wang et al. (2002) proposed that laryngeal and articulatory speech components, like gait, postural instability and cognitive impairment that are also not responsive to dopaminergic therapy, are in fact caused by non-dopaminergic lesions. These studies are important in that they emphasize the need for speech impairments to be treated primarily via non-pharmacologic methods. At this time, pharmacological treatment alone is not sufficient for managing the symptoms of hypokinetic dysarthria in people with PD. 17.3.2. Surgical treatments Recently, much attention has been paid to the effects of neurosurgery, in particular deep brain stimulation procedures, on speech and voice of people with PD. The results of studies looking at speech outcomes postsurgery are variable (Pinto et al., 2004). Ablative surgeries, including pallidotomy and thalamotomy, had significant negative effects on speech, voice and swallowing following bilateral surgery and variable results following unilateral surgery (Countryman and Ramig, 1993; Ghika et al., 1999). Pinto et al. (2004) summarized published studies looking at the effects of deep brain stimulation on speech and reported that thalamic stimulation, although it improved some motor components of speech, had a worsening effect on perceptual assessment and electrophysiological measurements of speech postsurgery. Pallidal stimulation was observed as having both beneficial and worsening effects for perceptual assessment of speech postsurgery. Similarly, studies examining speech following deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (DBS-STN) reported variable outcomes for perceptual assessment of speech and electrophysiological measurements (Pinto et al., 2004). Pinto et al. (2004) concluded that, of the surgical therapies, DBS-STN had some efficacy for improving subcomponents of speech (e.g. lip movements). However, there was an overall worsening of speech intelligibility when it was clinically assessed. In a 5-year follow-up study of bilateral DBS-STN in advanced PD, significant postoperative improvements occurred in all parkinsonian motor signs except speech when the people were off dopaminergic medication (Krack et al., 2003).

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At this time, speech and voice disorders appear to be less responsive to deep brain stimulation surgeries than global limb motor functioning. This outcome may be predictable given that DBS-STN should improve levodopa-responsive symptoms. Since speech disorders in PD do not respond well to levodopa, it can be predicted that they will not respond well to DBSSTN. This does not account for the appearance of speech symptoms postsurgery when there were no presurgery speech problems or the worsening of speech symptoms after surgery. One hypothesis for these unpredictable outcomes is that there is a spread of voltage to surrounding structures that negatively impacts speech (Pinto et al., 2004). Based upon stimulation site within the STN, speech outcomes may vary in a predictable manner. If the voltage spread is in proximity to the internal capsule, the result in speech may be characterized by hesitations and face muscle tightness, whereas proximity to cerebellothalamic fibers may result in speech characterized by slurred articulation and stuttering. It has also been suggested that speech functioning may be susceptible to micro lesioning as a result of electrode placement resulting in worsening of speech postsurgery, particularly when the placement is in the dominant hemisphere (Wang et al., 2003). Further research into the effects of DBS-STN is needed to understand fully its impact on speech in people with PD. Another surgical intervention that has been reported in the literature is fetal cell transplantation in people with PD. Baker and colleagues (1997) observed the limited effect of fetal dopaminergic cell transplant on speech functioning of people with PD. Similar to DBS-STN, the people with PD who had fetal cell transplantation surgery improved limb motor functioning, but not speech. Other surgical procedures include augmentation of vocal folds with collagen. Hill et al. (2003) augmented the vocal folds of 12 people with collagen injections and achieved temporary improvement in hypophonia, with an average benefit lasting 7.8–8.5 weeks. Although augmentation of vocal folds will help with the laryngeal aspect of speech disorders in people with PD, it does not address the sensory aspect of the speech disorder. It may be that, for people with PD who have moderate to severe degrees of incomplete vocal fold closure, a combination of vocal fold augmentation and behavioral speech therapy will offer the greatest improvements. Current data reveal that neuropharmacological and neurosurgical approaches alone do not improve speech and voice consistently and significantly (Schultz et al., 1999; Pinto et al., 2004). Behavioral speech therapy should be considered as an adjunct for improving speech and voice, even for optimally medicated

people with PD and for those who have undergone neurosurgical procedures. 17.3.3. Behavioral speech and voice therapy for PD For many years, speech and voice disorders in people with PD were considered resistant to traditional behavioral speech therapy (Sarno, 1968; Allan, 1970; Greene, 1980; Weiner and Lang, 1989; Aronson, 1990). Although changes in speech may be achieved in the treatment room, the challenge of carry-over and long-term treatment outcomes has been encountered consistently over a wide range of speech therapies that have been applied to this population (Adams, 1997). These approaches have included training in control of speech rate, prosody, loudness, articulation and respiration (Yaryura-Tobias et al., 1971). Speech therapy with assistive instruments, such as delayed auditory feedback, voice amplification devices and pacing boards, have also shown limited long-term success (Helm, 1979; Downie et al., 1981; Adams, 1997). Reviews of evidence-based practice for behavioral speech therapy for people with PD have been reported in the literature (Anon., 2002) and will be summarized here (Yorkston et al., 2003; Deane et al., 2004a, b). The Evidence Based Medical Review for the Treatments of Parkinson’s Disease, sponsored by the Movement Disorder Society, published a review of speech therapy for PD in 2002. This review reported that there were a varied number of speech therapies reported in the literature, but very few clinical trials. This report critiqued four level I randomized controlled studies with the following inclusion criteria: randomized controlled studies, treatments with a duration of at least 2 weeks, a minimum of 10 people with idiopathic PD, and objective assessments of speech functioning before and after the speech therapy protocol. One of the four critiqued studies was a combination of two published articles on the same group of people with PD (Ramig et al., 1995a, 1996). The Johnson and Pring (1990) and Robertson and Thompson (1984) studies compared a speech therapy protocol to no therapy in people with PD. The Ramig et al. (1995a, 1996) and Scott and Caird (1983) studies compared two forms of speech therapy in people with PD. Summary findings from this review concluded that there was insufficient evidence to conclude on the efficacy of speech therapy in the following areas: (1) prevention of disease progression in PD; (2) as a sole treatment in any indication of PD; (3) as an adjunct treatment to medication and/or surgery; (4) in preventing motor complications in PD; and (5) on motor and non-motor complications of PD.

SPEECH DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE The authors recommended that future clinical research should include larger, randomized, prospective and controlled studies. In addition, the use of functional neural imaging studies to examine people with PD before and after speech therapy to determine the functional and anatomic changes related to speech treatment was suggested. Furthermore, the authors proposed that behavioral speech therapies should be intensive and focus on loudness or prosody based on the evidence reviewed (Scott and Caird, 1983; Johnson and Pring, 1990; Ramig et al., 1996). Since the publication of the Movement Disorders review, other level I studies for speech therapy in PD have been published. One study by Ramig and colleagues (2001a) was independently reviewed by the primary author of the section responsible for speech therapy and it was concluded to be of high-quality level I evidence (Goetz, personal communication). Deane and colleagues in a Cochrane Review (2004a, b) also examined behavioral speech therapy studies. These authors included only randomized controlled studies and analyzed quality of the studies based on Consolidated Standard of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) guidelines. In two publications, the results of studies comparing speech therapy to a placebo or no intervention and studies comparing two forms of speech therapy were analyzed. In the first publication three randomized controlled trials totaling 63 people comparing speech and language therapy with placebo or no intervention for speech disorders in PD were examined. These studies included Johnson and Pring (1990), Roberston and Thompson (1984) and Ramig et al. (unpublished data). The authors concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the benefit of speech and language therapy for speech disorders in people with PD due to the methodological flaws, the small number of people examined and the possibility of publication bias. In the second publication two randomized controlled trials totaling 71 people with PD comparing two different forms of speech therapy were analyzed. These studies included Scott and Cairn (1983) and Ramig et al. (1995a). Again, the authors concluded there was insufficient evidence to support or refute the efficacy of one form of speech therapy over another. Both of the Cochrane Review publications were based upon studies published before February 2001. Currently, an update of information from the Cochrane Review for speech therapy and PD is taking place. The updated Cochrane Review will include and analyze randomized controlled studies that have been published or are in progress from 2001 to the present. Members of the Academy of Neurologic Communications Disorders and Sciences reviewed the evidence for behavioral management of respiratory and

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phonatory dysfunction from dysarthria, including studies of speech therapy for people with PD (Yorkston et al., 2003). These authors did not limit their review to randomized controlled trials; rather they included case, single subject and group designs. The strength of evidence was based upon the following factors: type of study (e.g. case, single subject, group), primary focus of treatment (e.g. biofeedback, LSVT), number of people, medical diagnosis, replicability, psychometric adequacy (e.g. reliability), evidence for control, measures of impairment, measures of activity or participation and study conclusions. For speech therapy related to PD, this review included three studies of biofeedback devices totaling 39 people; five studies with devices (e.g. delayed auditory feedback) totaling 16 people; 14 studies of LSVT totaling 90 people; and three miscellaneous studies of group treatment (Yorkston et al., 2003). Conclusions from the review reported that LSVT has the greatest number of outcome measures associated with any speech treatment examined. Furthermore the authors summarized that for the most part outcomes were positive and can be interpreted with confidence (Yorkston et al., 2003). Recommendations for future research for biofeedback, devices and group treatment approaches included having a larger number of people in studies, well-controlled replicable and reliable studies of well-defined populations and control or comparison group studies (randomized controlled studies). Recommendations for future research in LSVT included additional documentation of longterm maintenance effects, large multisite effectiveness studies (clinical trials), alternative modes of administration (e.g. different dosages of intensity) and further study of treated people with PD to define better predictors of success or failure with the treatment.

17.4. Intensive voice treatment for Parkinson’s disease The newest and generally perceived state-of-the-art treatment for PD is the LSVT (Yorkston et al., 2003; Pinto et al., 2004). The fundamentals of LSVT are based upon the hypothesized features underlying the voice disorder in people with PD (Fox et al., 2002). These features include: (1) an overall amplitude scale-down of the speech mechanism (reduced amplitude of neural drive to the muscles of the speech mechanism) that may result in a ‘soft voice that is monotone’ (Barbeau et al., 1962; Penny and Young, 1983; Albin et al., 1989); (2) problem in sensory perception of effort that prevents a person with PD from accurately monitoring his/her vocal output (Barbeau et al., 1962; Berardelli et al., 1986); resulting

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in (3) the individual’s difficulty in independently generating (internal cueing/scaling) the right amount of effort to produce adequate loudness (Stelmach, 1991; Demirci et al., 1995). Key elements of LSVT and details on outcome measures that range across perceptual, acoustic and physiological levels are summarized. LSVT is based upon elements derived from neurology, physiology, motor learning, muscle training and neuropsychology. LSVT integrates clinical concepts and techniques from literature in the areas of motor speech and voice in a manner specifically designed for people with PD. In addition, LSVT is administered in a manner consistent with principles of exercise science (Frontera et al., 1988; Brown et al., 1990), skill acquisition (Verdolini, 1997) and motor learning (Schmidt and Lee, 1999) (e.g. high effort, multiple repetitions, intensive, simple), together with a focus on sensory awareness. Furthermore, LSVT adheres to rules of experience-dependent neuroplasticity (Kleim and Jones, 2005). These elements have previously not been systematically combined in a speech treatment program for people with PD (Yorkston, 1996) and may contribute to the success of LSVT as compared to previous speech treatment approaches (Fox et al., 2002). The five essential concepts of the LSVT include: (1) focus on voice (increased amplitude of movement/increased vocal loudness); (2) improve sensory perception of effort, i.e. ‘calibration’; (3) administer treatment in a high-effort style; (4) intensity (four times a week for 16 sessions in 1 month); and (5) quantify treatment-related changes. The LSVT approach centers on a specific therapeutic target: increasing vocal loudness (increasing amplitude of movement). This key target acts as a trigger to increase effort and coordination across the speech production system. By incorporating sensory awareness training with motor exercises, LSVT facilitates acceptance and comfort with increased loudness, and the ability to self-monitor vocal loudness. Addressing this apparent sensory challenge in people with PD may facilitate generalization and maintenance of treatment effects. Furthermore, a simple, redundant and intensive treatment may help accommodate the processing speed, memory and executive function deficits observed in some individuals with PD, and promote overlearning and internalization of the vocal effort required for normal loudness (Fox et al., 2002). Incorporation of systematic education, homework exercises and carry-over tasks (e.g. assignments to use new loud voice outside the treatment room) further assist in generalization of therapeutic gains to daily living situations. Findings from initial treatment studies on 45 people with PD documented posttreatment SPL increases

ranging from 8 to 13 dB SPL (at 30 cm, across a variety of speech tasks) for those treated with LSVT compared to an alternative treatment group (respiratory treatment; changes from 1 to 2 dB) (Ramig et al., 1995a). Follow-up studies documented that these SPL increases were maintained for the LSVT group to 1 year (Ramig et al., 1996) and 2 years posttreatment (Ramig et al., 2001a). An additional 44 people (15 treated PD, 15 untreated PD and 14 healthy age-matched control group) were studied over 6 months and findings were similar (Ramig et al., 2001b). The data from these combined studies (Ramig et al., 1995a, 1996, 2001a, b) offer strong support for the short- and long-term efficacy of voice treatment for PD. People who had intensive voice treatment (LSVT) had significant improvements in vocal fold closure, as measured by videostroboscopy as well as electroglottography (Smith et al., 1995; Garren et al., 2000), subglottal air pressure (2–3 cm H2O) and maximum flow declination rate (200–300 l/l per s) (Ramig and Dromey, 1996). An alternative treatment group (respiratory) did not improve on these measures. Increased vocal effort in the LSVT-treated group improved vocal fold valving to contribute to increased vocal SPL and improved speech production. There was no evidence of increased vocal hyperfunction (unwanted strain or excessive vocal fold closure) posttreatment in any person with PD (Ramig et al., 1995a; Smith et al., 1995; Garren et al., 2000). These findings are further supported by perceptual reports (Baumgartner et al., 2001; Sapir et al., 2002) documenting increased loudness and improved voice quality accompanying LSVT. Taken together, these findings support the positive impact of voice treatment for people with PD. These studies have also provided important information about mechanisms underlying speech and voice disorders in PD and have identified fundamental elements of treatment-related change. Data have documented that successful speech treatment generates other important effects across the vocal tract, encompassing positive changes in articulation, swallowing and facial expression (Dromey et al., 1995; El Sharkawi et al., 2002; Spielman et al., 2003). Preliminary imaging results with PET have identified posttreatment changes consistent with improved neural functioning in two studies (Liotti et al., 1998, 2003; Narayana et al., 2005). Specifically, pre-LSVT, loud phonation in people with PD activated cortical premotor areas, particularly supplementary motor area. In the same people with PD post-LSVT, cortical premotor activity during spontaneously loud voicing (LSVTinduced) normalized hyperactivity in the supplementary motor area and increased activity in the basal

SPEECH DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE ganglia (right putamen), suggesting a shift from abnormal cortical motor activation to more normal subcortical organization of speech motor output. Furthermore, post-LSVT changes in people with PD demonstrated an increase in activity in right anterior insula and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Right insula activation has been associated with nonlinguistic vocalization (singing, emotional expressive prosody) and emotional expression. This suggests, along with right hemisphere lateralization of postLSVT effects in people with PD, that LSVT may recruit a phylogenetically old, preverbal communication system involved in vocalization and emotional communication. Challenges that diminish treatment outcomes with LSVT include people with PD who have severe depression, moderate to severe dementia, atypical parkinsonism (e.g. multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy) or people who have had neurosurgery for their PD (e.g. deep brain stimulation). These people are more challenging to treat during therapy due to factors such as difficulty working to maximum effort, more difficulty staying on task, easily confused or on/off drug effects. Frequently the ultimate treatment outcomes are adjusted for these people with advanced PD or those who have had surgical intervention. Instead of striving for self-generated improved loudness in daily conversation, the end treatment goal may be self-generated loudness in 10 functional phrases and cued loudness during conversational speech. Although treatment outcomes are adjusted in these individuals, they can, and do, make significant gains in communication abilities that are important to both the person with PD and his or her family members. The documentation of level I evidence for the efficacy of behavioral speech therapy for speech and voice disorders associated with PD is ongoing. To date, LSVT appears to be the most promising form of behavior therapy to address the type of speech impairments experienced by people with PD.

17.5. Summary and future directions Positive gains have been made over the years towards recognizing key variables for successful speech treatment outcomes in people with PD. Ongoing and future investigations have the potential to clarify further underlying mechanisms of speech disorders in PD while addressing key variables for improving speech treatment outcomes. Some areas of ongoing research include: (1) increasing accessibility/feasibility to intensive speech therapy (e.g. LSVT) through use of technology; (2) applying principles of successful

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speech therapy (LSVT) to limb motor systems and creating a combined amplitude-based speech and physical therapy program (Big and Loud); and (3) evaluating the potential neurorestorative impact of exercise-based speech therapies in individuals with PD. 17.5.1. Increasing accessibility to speech therapy An area of continued research is addressing the practical challenges of delivering speech treatment intensively (four individual sessions a week for 4 weeks). Halpern et al. (2004, 2005) reported on the use of a personal digital assistant, as an assistive device for delivering LSVT to people with PD. This personal digital assistant, named the LSVT companion (LSVTC), was designed to meet the challenges of treatment accessibility and frequency that people with PD often encounter. The LSVTC is specially programmed to collect data and provide feedback as it guides people through the LSVT exercises, enabling them to participate in therapy sessions at home. Fifteen people with PD participated in this study, during which nine voice treatment sessions were completed with a speech therapist and seven sessions were completed independently at home utilizing the LSVTC. Acoustic data collected in a sound-treated booth before and after the 16 treatment sessions demonstrated that, following treatment, the people with PD made significant gains in vocal loudness across a variety of voice and speech tasks. These results were similar to previously published data on 16 face-to-face sessions both immediately posttreatment and at 6-month follow-up (Halpern et al., 2004, 2005). These pilot findings support the feasibility of the LSVTC and further development of technology-based approaches to enhance treatment accessibility. An evolution of the LSVTC has been the development of an LSVT virtual speech therapist (LSVTVT). This is a perceptive animated character, modeled after expert LSVT speech therapists, that delivers LSVT in a computer-based program. This work builds upon the well-established foundation of experimental efficacy data (Ramig et al., 1995a, 1996, 2001a, b) and state-of-the-art learning tools, incorporating intelligent animated agents (Cole et al., 1998, 1999, 2003; Stone, 1999; Barker, 2003; COLIT03; LLOUD03). A prototype of the LSVTVT has been developed and clinical testing has begun. In addition, research into the effectiveness of delivering intensive speech therapy via telehealth systems or other web-enabled speech therapy systems will continue to enhance accessibility to the intensive sensorimotor training that is important for successful speech outcomes.

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17.5.2. Principles of speech therapy applied to limbs Recently, principles of LSVT/Loud were applied to limb movement in people with PD (Training Big) and have been documented to be effective in the short term (Farley et al., 2004). Specifically, trainingincreased amplitude of limb and body movement (Bigness) in people with PD has documented improvements in amplitude (trunk rotation/gait) that generalized to improved speed (upper/lower limbs), balance and quality of life (Farley et al., 2004; Farley and Koshland, 2005). In addition, people were able to maintain these improvements when challenged with a dual task. The extension of this work to a novel integrated treatment program that simultaneously targets speech and limb motor disorders in people with PD (Training Big and Loud) has been proposed. Results from pilot work in 3 people with PD who received Big and Loud treatment revealed that they all improved amplitude of speech (SPL/loudness) and limb movements (reaching or gait) posttreatment. The gains in speech and limb movement were comparable to previously published data from independently training Loud or Big, respectively (Fox and Farley, 2004). Furthermore, these gains were maintained for most measures up to 6 months posttreatment (Fox et al., 2005). There is a great need to simplify rehabilitation approaches for people with PD due to the progressive nature of the disorder, cognitive challenges that make motor learning difficult and logistical and financial burdens that intensive speech and physical therapies present. A whole-body, amplitude-based treatment program may be one possible solution. 17.5.3. Neurorestorative/neuroprotective effects of exercise in Parkinson’s disease

functional recovery (neurorestorative) and increased levels of dopamine in the striatum (Fisher et al., 2004). Key elements of exercise in animal models that promoted neuroprotection or neurorestoration included intensive training of motor tasks, increased practice of motor tasks, active engagement in tasks and the sensory experience of the motor task (Uziel et al., 1975; Fisher et al., 2004). A behavioral speech therapy (LSVT/Loud) that targets sensorimotor deficits in people with PD and incorporates elements such as single focus (increased loudness/amplitude), intensive training (4 days/week for 4 weeks), multiple repetitions and sensory retraining (Fox et al., 2002) has been documented (Ramig et al., 2001a, b). These principles are consistent with literature citing key elements of exercise that contribute to neuroplasticity and brain reorganization in animal models of PD (Fisher et al., 2004) and human stroke-related hemiparesis (Liepert et al., 1998). We need future studies to evaluate specifically the impact of intensive behavioral speech therapy on neuroplasticity and the potential for neuroprotection, as measured by dopamine-related changes in imaging studies over time. Preliminary studies of PET-related changes pre/post-LSVT have already documented treatment-dependent functional reorganization in people with PD. These findings include recruitment of the right hemisphere, and activation of motor regions in the left hemisphere, such as the thalamus and presupplementary motor area (Liotti et al., 2003; Narayana et al., 2005). These data suggest that speech therapy may go beyond treating the symptoms of PD and may have the potential to impact progression of speech disorders associated with the disease over time.

17.6. Conclusion Recent advances in neuroscience have brought exercise to the forefront of therapeutic options for people with PD. The potential neuroprotective effects of exercise in animal models of PD, and key aspects of exercise that contribute to neuroplasticity, compel the need for well-defined exercise-based behavioral speech treatments in individuals with PD (Tillerson et al., 2001; Kleim et al., 2003; Taub, 2004). Increased physical activity has been shown in animal models of PD to be neuroprotective (reversal of symptoms, attenuation of dopamine loss) if initiated at the time of exposure to a toxin (Tillerson et al., 2001, 2003). A more recent study has shown that, in animal models where dopamine cells are allowed to degenerate to levels equivalent to humans at the time of diagnosis of PD, progressive exercise promoted

The majority of people with PD experience speech and voice disorders at some point during the disease course and these deficits impair their quality of life. Medical and surgical treatments alone have not sufficiently alleviated speech disorders for people with PD. Thus a combination of behavioral speech therapy, specifically the LSVT approach, in medically managed people with PD appears at present to be the most effective type of speech intervention, though more level I studies are needed. There are many exciting avenues of ongoing and future speech research that will clarify our understanding of the underlying mechanism of speech disorders in PD and impact development of rehabilitation strategies over the next decade.

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Acknowledgments This chapter has been supported in part by NIHNIDCD grants R01 DC-01150, R21 DC05583, and R21 DC006078; select portions of this chapter have been published previously.

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Chapter 18

Clinical features, pathophysiology and treatment of dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease MURAT EMRE* Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, Istanbul, Turkey

18.1. Introduction Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease (AD), has been considered to be the prototypical disease of movement, whereas AD represented the prototypical disease of cognition. The cognitive aspects of PD have been largely ignored for many years. However, as the life expectancy of patients with PD became longer, cognitive dysfunction and dementia associated with the disease, which tend to emerge more in advanced age, became more apparent. In fact, it was recently described that 36% of those in an incident cohort of PD patients had evidence of cognitive impairment, suggesting that cognitive dysfunction is an inherent feature of the disease (Foltynie et al., 2004). Dementia associated with PD (Parkinson’s disease dementia, PDD) has thus been increasingly more recognized and there has been extensive research into its epidemiology, clinical characteristics, underlying neurochemical deficits and neuropathology. These efforts yielded a number of results, revealing that PD is frequently associated with a characteristic dementia, which differs from AD in many ways. This chapter will be devoted to the description of epidemiology, clinical features, associated biochemical and neuropathological changes, diagnostic aspects and management of PDD.

18.2. Epidemiology There have been a number of cross-sectional, populationbased as well as prospective cohort studies to investigate the frequency of dementia among patients with PD.

These studies all revealed that both prevalence and incidence of dementia are significantly higher in patients with PD, as compared to demographically comparable controls. Other features of the disease associated with, and the risk factors predictive of, dementia in PD were also identified. 18.2.1. Prevalence of dementia in Parkinson’s disease The prevalence figures for PDD differ substantially across studies depending on the populations included, assessment methods used, diagnostic tools and possibly also how dementia was defined. A meta-analysis of 27 earlier studies suggested a prevalence rate of 40% (Cummings, 1988). Results from several crosssectional, population-based studies revealed comparable figures. An older study including all identifiable patients in southern Finland reported a prevalence rate of 29% (Marttila and Rinne, 1976). In a study in the New York area, covering 180 000 inhabitants, Mayeux et al. (1992) found a prevalence rate of 41%, and in a comparable study in Norway covering a population of 220 000, a prevalence rate of 28% was reported (Aarsland et al., 1996). 18.2.2. Incidence of dementia in Parkinson’s disease It was questioned if demented patients with PD are accurately reflected in prevalence studies, because they may not survive as long as those who are not demented (Marder et al., 1991). In this respect incidence figures usually provide a more reliable estimate

*Correspondence to: Murat Emre, MD, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Behavioral Neurology and Movement Disorders Unit, 34390 Çapa Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: [email protected], Tel/Fax: 90-212533-8575.

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of frequency as they are prospective and thus relatively free of survival bias. In earlier studies, with relatively short duration and smaller number of patients, the incidence figures were reported to be four times higher than controls (Mindham et al., 1982; Rajput et al., 1987). In a larger study with a 5-year followup, the incidence rate was reported to be six times higher than in controls (Aarsland et al., 2001a), whereas in another study with follow-up for 5 years, the incidence rate was 69 per 1000 person-years; by the age of 85 the risk of dementia was 65% (Mayeux et al., 1990). The cumulative incidence of dementia in patients with PD was assessed in several prospective studies with a sizeable number of patients and long follow-up times. In most of these studies patients free of dementia at baseline were included and the occurrence of newly emerging dementia was assessed after variable lengths of time. In one of these studies, conducted in Australia, after 5 years of follow-up, dementia was diagnosed in 62% of patients with PD who were free of this condition at baseline, as compared to 17% of controls (Reid et al., 1996). In a similar study conducted in the UK, the cumulative incidence of dementia was 38% after 10 years and 53% after 14 years (Hughes et al., 2000; Read et al., 2001). Finally, in a prospective study in Norway, 8-year follow-up of patients, of whom 26% already had dementia at baseline, revealed a cumulative incidence of 78% (Aarsland et al., 2003a). 18.2.3. Risk factors Risk factors for dementia in PD have been described in both cross-sectional studies as associated features, as well as in studies involving prospective follow-up of patient cohorts free of dementia at baseline as features predictive of incident dementia. In cross-sectional studies age at onset, age at the time of evaluation, duration of the disease, presence of depression and atypical neurological features such as early occurrence of autonomic failure, symmetrical disease presentation and unsatisfactory response to dopaminergic treatment have been described to be associated with dementia (Mayeux et al., 1988, 1992; Aarsland et al., 1996). It was also suggested that left body involvement may represent a risk factor for PDD (Tomer et al., 1993). In prospective studies similar features were described to be predictive; in addition several baseline characteristics were found to be predictive of incident dementia. These included age at onset and at the entry to the study, severity of the motor disability, cognitive scores at baseline, confusion or psychosis while being treated with levodopa, early occurrence of drug-related halluci-

nations, axial involvement such as speech impairment and postural imbalance, presence of depression, smoking and excessive daytime sleepiness (Mayeux et al., 1990; Starkstein et al., 1992, Stern et al., 1993; Marder et al., 1995, Goetz et al., 1998; Levy et al., 2000; Aarsland et al., 2001a; Read et al., 2001; Gjerstad et al., 2002; Levy et al., 2002a). With regard to behavioral symptoms, the presence of psychosis at baseline seems to be a predictor of poor prognosis: in a longitudinal study of 59 psychotic patients dementia was diagnosed in 68% 26 months later (Factor et al., 2003). Among cognitive features, poor verbal fluency at baseline was found to be significantly and independently associated with incident dementia (Jacobs et al., 1995). Similarly, poor performance on verbal memory (Levy et al., 2002a) and the presence of subtle involvement of executive functions at baseline were reported to predict the emergence of dementia at follow-up (Woods and Troster, 2003). Advanced age emerges as one of the most significant risk factors in both cross-sectional and prospective studies: In the population-based study reported by Mayeux et al. (1992), the prevalence was zero in patients below the age of 50 but 69% above the age of 80. Similarly, in a group of 91 patients who were entered in a prospective observational study, the prevalence was 37% versus 9% in patients whose disease had begun after or before the age of 70, respectively; after 5 years’ follow-up the prevalence of dementia had risen to 62% and 17% respectively (Reid et al., 1996). It seems that the combination of old age and severe motor symptoms is particularly detrimental: patients with old age and severe disease had 9.7-fold increased risk for incident dementia as compared to young patients with mild disease (Levy et al., 2002b). As younger patients with high severity and older patients with low severity of motor symptoms did not show a significantly increased risk, a combined effect of age and disease severity was assumed. Rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder is frequently seen in patients with PD; this may be even more the case in patients who eventually develop dementia. A close correlation between synuclein pathology and REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) has been described; a striking observation was that RBD preceded dementia or parkinsonism by a median of 10 (range 2–29) years. The authors suggested that in the setting of degenerative dementia or parkinsonism, RBD often reflects an underlying synucleinopathy (Boeve et al., 1998, 2003).

18.3. Clinical features Patients with PD are usually elderly individuals and they are prone to develop disorders of old age as much

CLINICAL FEATURES, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT as their peers without PD. Therefore, they can theoretically be affected by all types of etiologies which can cause dementia in the population at large, including symptomatic forms, such as vascular dementia, or other degenerative dementias, such as AD. The clinical profile of dementia in such cases will be compatible with the underlying etiology. Dementia is, however, highly prevalent in PD, suggesting that the disease process itself is responsible for the dementia syndrome encountered in PD. This dementia syndrome associated with PD has characteristic clinical features, which can be best subsumed as a dysexecutive syndrome with prominent impairment of attention, visuospatial dysfunction, moderately impaired memory and accompanying behavioral symptoms such as apathy and psychosis (Emre, 2003a). The cognitive, behavioral and other associated features of PDD are summarized in Table 18.1.

Table 18.1 Cognitive features of dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease as compared to Alzheimer’s disease

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18.3.1. Cognitive features 18.3.1.1. Attention and psychomotor speed Impaired attention is an early and prominent feature of patients with PDD (Litvan et al., 1991). Impairments in reaction time, vigilance and fluctuating attention were found to be comparable to those seen in patients with a similar condition, dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) (Ballard et al., 2002). Patients with PDD have longer response times in both measures of simple and choice reaction time, suggesting that their central processing time is also prolonged in addition to motor slowing. Compared to patients with AD, PDD patients were found to be more apathetic and to have more prominent cognitive slowing (bradyphrenia) (CahnWeiner et al., 2002); the magnitude of cognitive slowing was found to be disproportionate to the general level of cognitive performance (Pate and Margolin, 1994). 18.3.1.2. Executive functions Executive functions are defined as the ability to plan, organize and perform goal-directed behavior; by that virtue they also include skills such as insight and foresight. Impairment in executive functions is the core feature of dementia syndrome associated with PD. Deficits in executive functions have been demonstrated in tasks measuring rule-finding, problem-solving, planning, set elaboration, set shifting and set maintenance (Pillon et al., 2001). In structured scales of cognitive functions PDD patients were found to have lower initiation, perseverance and construction subscores, but higher memory subscores (Aarsland et al., 2003b). Patients have more difficulties with internally cued behavior, i.e. when they have to develop their own strategies or pace them-

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Dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease Prominent impairment with fluctuations Less impaired, retrieval deficits

Early and prominent impairment as the core feature Impaired verbal fluency, no impairment in core language functions Early, disproportionate and prominent impairment

Alzheimer’s disease Less impaired, fluctuations not usual Severely impaired, prominent storage deficits as the core feature Impairment only in later stages Early impairment, becomes more prominent with progression Less impaired, becomes prominent only with disease progression

selves; their performance improves substantially when external cues are provided. Patients with frontal cortical damage have comparable deficits; it was suggested that difficulties in patients with PDD may have a different mechanism, being rather due to inability in shifting attention to novel stimuli than perseverative errors due to lack of suppression of inadequate responses, which are typically seen in patients with frontal lobe damage (Owen et al., 1993). Abnormalities in executive functions occur early in the course of PDD and are prominent throughout the course (Pillon et al., 1986, 2001; Huber et al., 1989a; Litvan et al., 1991; Cahn-Weiner et al., 2002). One exception is insight – insight is usually preserved in patients with PDD as opposed to those with AD (Galvin et al., 2003). 18.3.1.3. Memory All memory functions are impaired in PDD, including working memory, explicit memory, involving both verbal and visual modalities and implicit memory, such as procedural learning. Deficits in working memory can be found already early in the disease course (Kensinger et al., 2003). The relative severity of amnesia as compared to other cognitive deficits, and the profile of impairment in different memory functions, differ from those seen in AD. In explicit memory

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patients with PDD have been consistently reported to have deficits in learning new material; these deficits are however less severe than those seen in patients with AD (Helkala et al., 1989; Pillon et al., 1991; Stern et al., 1993). In PDD the memory impairment is characterized by a deficit in free recall with preserved recognition, indicating that information storage is achieved, but memory traces are not readily accessed and the timely recall is compromised; when structured cues or multiple choices are provided, retrieval is facilitated (Helkala et al., 1988; Pillon et al., 1993; Noe et al., 2004). In fact, memory scores in patients with PDD were found to be correlated with performance in executive function tests (Pillon et al., 1993). Based on this observation it was suggested that impairment of memory in PDD may rather be due to difficulties in accessing of memory traces because of deficiency in internally cued search strategies, as part of the dysexecutive syndrome (Pillon et al., 2001). This is in contrast to the ‘limbic’ or ‘hippocampal’ type of amnesia with abnormalities of storage and consequent deficits of recall as well as recognition as the key neuropsychological feature in AD. 18.3.1.4. Visuospatial functions Early and prominent deficit in visuospatial function is another characteristic feature of PDD (Girotti et al., 1988; Huber et al., 1989a; Stern et al., 1993). Compared to AD patients with a similar severity of dementia, impairment in visuospatial functions was found to be more severe in PDD (Huber et al., 1989a; Stern et al., 1993); these deficits seem to appear early and to be disproportionately severe in patients with PDD (Levin et al., 1991). Visual perception is globally more impaired as compared to controls; compared to patients with AD, PDD patients perform worse in all perceptual scores, and patients with visual hallucinations tend to have worse visual perception than those without (Mosimann et al., 2004). Visuospatial abstraction and reasoning were found to be more impaired in patients with PDD as compared to AD, whereas visuospatial memory tasks were worse in patients with AD (Mohr et al., 1990). Tasks that require visuospatial analysis and orientation were the most affected, suggesting that impairment in visual perception may be the core of the problem (Girotti et al., 1988). Impairment becomes especially evident in more complex tasks that require planning and sequencing of response or selfgeneration of strategies so that deficits in visuomotor tasks may be partly due to problems in sequential organization of behavior (Stern et al., 1983) or deficits

in executive functions (Bondi et al., 1993; Crucian and Okun, 2003). 18.3.1.5. Language Core language functions are largely preserved in patients with PDD as compared to those with AD (Cummings et al., 1988; Huber et al., 1989a). Language changes in PDD usually consist of mild anomia, as opposed to prominent aphasic-type language abnormalities early on in patients with AD, which increase throughout the course of the illness. Impaired verbal fluency, the main finding in the language domain, was found to be more severe than that seen in patients with AD (Huber et al., 1989a; Stern et al., 1993). Recently it was demonstrated in PD patients without dementia, that verb generation is more impaired than generation of nouns suggesting that deficits may affect more representation of actions as opposed to grammatical representation (Peran et al., 2003). Other deficits include decreased information content of spontaneous speech and impaired comprehension of complex sentences, but these are to a significantly lesser extent than in patients with AD (Matison et al., 1982; Cummings et al., 1988; Grossman et al., 1991, 1992). Ideomotor apraxia is also not a common feature of PDD (Huber et al., 1989a). As for impairments in memory, it was suggested that most of the language deficits, such as impaired verbal fluency and word finding difficulties, may not reflect a true involvement of language functions, but may rather be related to the dysexecutive syndrome, such as impairment of self-generated search strategies (Grossman et al., 1991; Pillon et al., 2001). 18.3.1.6. Comparison of cognitive features of Parkinson’s disease dementia with Alzheimer’s disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies Several recent studies compared cognitive profiles in patients with PDD, DLB and AD. The results confirmed the similarities between PDD and DLB, and differences between these two as compared to AD. (Cahn-Weiner et al., 2002; Aarsland et al., 2003b; Galvin et al., 2003; Mosimann et al., 2004; Noe et al., 2004). Patients with AD performed significantly worse on memory sub-scale whereas those with PDD were found to have more apathy (Cahn-Weiner et al., 2002). Compared with AD, patients with PDD and DLB had higher memory subscores, but lower initiation, perseverance and construction subscores indicating less impaired memory, but more impaired executive and visuospatial functions (Aarsland et al., 2003b). Patients with PDD were characterized by preserved insight, preserved language skills and

CLINICAL FEATURES, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT fluctuations as compared to patients with AD (Galvin et al., 2003). Similarly patients with PDD and DLB performed significantly worse on attentional tasks but better on memory tests than patients with AD, no significant differences were found between the PDD and DLB patients on any of the neuropsychological tests, the sole difference was that psychoses associated with cognitive impairment at the beginning of the disease was more frequent in DLB patients (Noe et al., 2004). Compared to AD patients with a similar severity of dementia impairment in visuospatial functions was found to be more severe in patients with PDD, the profound visuoperceptual impairments were similar to those in patients with DLB (Mosimann et al., 2004). Thus, the principal differences between PDD and AD are the presence of a retrieval deficit type memory abnormality in PDD as compared to ‘limbic’ type amnesia in AD, the relative lack of language abnormalities in PDD as compared to AD, and the predominance of executive and visuospatial deficits in PDD as compared to AD. 18.3.2. Behavioral features PDD is associated with prominent behavioral symptoms and changes in personality (Girotti et al., 1988). The most common neuropsychiatric symptoms are depression, hallucinations, delusions, apathy and anxiety. Hallucinations and delusions commonly follow treatment with dopaminergic agents, but occur disproportionately frequently in patients with dementia (Aarsland et al., 2001b). When minor forms such as feeling of presence were included visual hallucinations were found in 70% of patients with PDD as opposed to 25% of those with AD (Fenelon et al., 2000). Likewise depressive features were found to be more common in patients with PDD than in those with AD (Huber et al., 1989a; Litvan et al., 1991). A comparison of patients with PDD and AD revealed that 83% of those with PDD as opposed to 95% with AD had at least one psychiatric symptom: hallucinations were more severe in PDD, whereas increased psychomotor activity such as aberrant motor behavior, agitation, disinhibition and irritability were more common in AD. In PDD apathy was more common in mild stages while delusions increased with more severe motor and cognitive dysfunction (Aarsland et al., 2001b). Patients with PDD were discriminated by presence of visual and auditory hallucinations and sleep disturbance as compared to patients with AD (Galvin et al., 2003). The characteristic neuropsychiatric pattern of PDD, i.e. the combination of visual hallucinations, frequently accompanied by delusion, and REM sleep

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behavior disorder, is similar to other synucleinopathies such as DLB and partly to multiple system atrophy, but differs from other degenerative diseases such as AD and progressive supranuclear palsy. 18.3.3. Motor, autonomic and other associated features Many PD patients who develop dementia have predominance of certain motor symptoms or pattern of motor impairment. In PDD patients motor symptoms were described to be more symmetrical with predominance of bradykinesia, rigidity and postural instability, such features have also been correlated with more rapid cognitive decline (Mortimer et al., 1982; Zetusky et al., 1985; Huber et al., 1988; Pillon et al., 1989; Ebmeier et al., 1990; Hershey et al., 1991; Foltynie et al., 2002), whereas tremor dominance has been associated with relative preservation of mental status (Foltynie et al., 2002). In a cross-sectional study of motor features in PD it was found that the ‘postural imbalance gait difficulty’ subtype was over-represented with 88% in patients with PDD in contrast to 38% in non-demented patients (Burn et al., 2003). PD patients with falls were found to be more likely to have lower MMSE scores than those without falls and were also more likely to have frank dementia (Wood et al., 2002). Levodopa-responsiveness was suggested to diminish as cognitive impairment emerges, although this was largely based on retrospective assessments (Caparros-Lefebvre et al., 1995; Apaydin et al., 2002; Joyce et al., 2002). Proposed mechanisms for emergence of L-dopa refractoriness as dementia develops include a-synuclein pathology in striatum (Duda et al., 2002), and loss of striatal dopamine D2- and D3-receptors (Piggott et al., 1999; Joyce et al., 2002). Alternatively, an apparently reduced response to dopaminergic medication might reflect emergence or predominance of non-dopaminergic features, such as postural instability (Levy et al., 2000; Burn et al., 2003). Symptoms due to autonomic dysfunction such as orthostatic and postprandial hypotension resulting in syncope and falls, bowel and bladder disturbances, reduced heart rate variability predisposing to ventricular arrhythmias, and sexual dysfunction are rather frequent and may be disabling in patients with PDD (Kaufmann and Biaggioni, 2003). Life-threatening neuroleptic sensitivity, akin to that seen in DLB, was reported in patients with PDD (Aarsland et al., 2003c). REM sleep behavior disorder is common as a concomitant feature in PDD, in some patients it can be a harbinger of incipient dementia, sometimes antedating the onset of dementia for many years (Boeve et al., 2003).

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18.4. Neurochemical deficits associated with Parkinson’s disease dementia Deficits in several ascending modulatory pathways, including monoaminergic and cholinergic systems, have been suggested to underlie cognitive and affective symptoms in PDD. As the predominant neurochemical impairment in PD is the nigrostriatal dopaminergic deficit, it was initially assumed that this deficit could also underlie cognitive impairment. Many, especially young patients with PD, however, may not show any apparent cognitive impairment despite considerable motor dysfunction. Although some cognitive deficits benefit from levodopa in experimental studies, the clinical experience that dementia does not improve under levodopa treatment, and that levodopa may even worsen behavioral and cognitive functions, especially in demented patients (Hietanen and Teravainen, 1988), suggests that dopaminergic deficit is unlikely to be the main impairment underlying dementia in PD. This does not exclude, however, that some cognitive deficits may be due to impairment in dopaminergic modulation of frontal subcortical circuits involved in cognition. Striatal dopamine concentrations were shown to be decreased to the same extent in demented and non-demented patients (Ruberg and Agid, 1988), whereas the decrease in dopamine levels in neocortical areas was found to be greater in demented than in non-demented PD patients (Scatton et al., 1983), suggesting a role for the degeneration of mesocortical dopaminergic system in dementia. In line with these findings, reduced 18F-dopa uptake in the caudate nucleus and frontal cortex correlated with impairment in neuropsychological tests measuring verbal fluency, working memory and attentional functioning (Rinne et al., 2000), indicating that ascending dopaminergic projections may play a role in cognitive dysfunction in PD. In another positron emission tomography (PET) study using 18F-dopa as a marker of dopaminergic function, patients with PDD showed reduced 18F-dopa uptake bilaterally in the striatum, midbrain and anterior cingulate area compared to normal controls. A relative difference in 18F-dopa uptake between patients with and without dementia was a bilateral decline in the anterior cingulate area and ventral striatum and in the right caudate nucleus in the PDD group, suggesting that dementia in PD may be associated with impaired mesolimbic and caudate dopaminergic function (Ito et al., 2002). These seemingly conflicting results on the role of dopaminergic deficits in cognitive dysfunction were reconciled by a hypothesis that some cognitive deficits may be due to dopaminergic deficits and improve through dopaminergic stimulation

early in the disease process, whereas undue dopaminergic stimulation may be detrimental in later stages (Kuliseversusky, 2000). Involvement of other ascending monoaminergic systems, namely noradrenergic and serotoninergic pathways, was also suggested to underlie cognitive impairment and to contribute to dementia in PD. Locus ceruleus was found to be severely damaged in patients with PD. In a few studies both neuronal loss and norepinephrine depletion in locus ceruleus were described as being significantly more severe in demented PD patients (Mann et al., 1983; Cash et al., 1987; Zweig et al., 1993). In a larger study the concentration of norepinephrine was also found to be reduced in cortex and hippocampus; nevertheless there was no difference between demented and non-demented patients (Scatton et al., 1983). Likewise, neuronal loss in raphe nuclei and reduced serotonin concentrations in the striatopallidal complex and in various cortical areas, notably in frontal cortex as well as in hippocampus, was also described in patients with PD. There was, however, no difference between demented and non-demented patients (Scatton et al., 1983). The strongest evidence with regard to biochemical impairments underlying dementia in PD exists for cholinergic deficits. A number of structural, biochemical and functional studies suggest that cholinergic deficits due to degeneration of the ascending cholinergic pathways significantly contribute to cognitive impairment and dementia in patients with PD. Loss of cholinergic cells in the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM) was described early on in patients with PDD (Whitehouse et al., 1983). This neuronal loss in nbM was found to be greater in patients with PD than in those with AD (Candy et al., 1983). The significant depletion of large neurons in nbM in patients with PD was found not to be associated with AD-type pathology in the cerebral cortex (Nakano and Hirano, 1984). These morphological findings were reflected by biochemical deficits in nbM and in cerebral cortex: cholinacetyltransferase (ChAT) activity was found to be decreased in the frontal cortex and nbM of patients with PD, the decrease in the frontal cortex was greater in PD patients with dementia (Dubois et al., 1983). Extensive reductions of ChAT and acetylcholinesterase (AchE) in all examined cortical areas were described: ChAT reductions in temporal neocortex correlated with the degree of mental impairment, but not with the extent of plaque or tangle formation. In addition in PD, but not in AD, the decrease in neocortical ChAT correlated with the number of neurons in nbM, suggesting that primary degeneration of these cholinergic neurones may be related to declining cognitive function in PD (Perry et al., 1985). Amongst the various pathological and

CLINICAL FEATURES, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT chemical indices examined, only presynaptic cholinergic markers (including the number of neurons in nbM) and serotonin S1 receptor binding were related to dementia in PD (Perry et al., 1987). Reductions in ChAT activity were found to be more extensive in the neocortical (especially temporal) as opposed to archicortical areas (Perry et al., 1993). An important finding of potential clinical relevance was that nicotinic receptor binding was reduced in striatum in patients with PDD, suggesting that the risk of worsening in motor symptoms under cholinergic treatment, through undue stimulation of striatal cholinergic receptors, may be low (Pimlott et al., 2004). Recently, in a comparative study of patients with AD, DLB and PD, mean midfrontal ChAT activity was found to be markedly reduced in PD and DLB as compared to normal controls and AD: the activity was reduced to almost 20% of controls in DLB and PD, whereas in AD the reduction was close to 50% of that seen in normal individuals (Tiraboschi et al., 2000). These findings were confirmed in vivo, by imaging cortical cholinergic function using PET: compared with controls, mean cortical AChE activity was lowest in patients with PDD (–20%), followed by patients with PD without dementia (–13%) and AD (–9%). Thus, reduced cortical AChE activity seemed to be more characteristic of patients with PDD than of AD patients with similar severity of dementia (Bohnen et al., 2003). In contrast to AD, PDD is also associated with neuronal loss in the pediculopontine cholinergic nuclei which project to structures such as thalamus (Rub et al., 2002). Although the bulk of evidence points to cholinergic impairment as the main neurotransmitter deficit associated with dementia in PD, it was proposed that deficits in other, ascending monoaminergic pathways, which are described above, may also contribute to behavioral and cognitive symptoms. Based on experimental findings and known role of these pathways in various cognitive, affective and behavioral functions, it was suggested that dopaminergic deficits may be partly responsible for impairment in executive functions; cholinergic deficits may be responsible for impairments in memory, attention and executive functions; whereas noradrenergic deficits may contribute to impaired attention and serotoninergic deficit to depressive mood (Pillon et al., 2001)

18.5. Neuropathological changes associated with dementia in Parkinson’s disease There have been a large number of clinicopathological correlation studies investigating the nature of pathology underlying dementia in PD. The results have been

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somewhat controversial, with regard to both the type and the site of pathology. The differences are probably due to the patient populations examined, differences in pathological assessments, especially the staining methods used and brain areas examined, and if and how extensive different pathologies were concomitantly assessed. Based on their outcomes these studies can be broadly categorized into three groups: (1) those suggesting a predominant role for the degeneration in subcortical nuclei; (2) those suggesting AD-type pathology being closely associated with dementia; and (3) those indicating that it is the Lewy body-type degeneration that correlates best with dementia in PD (Emre, 2003b). As described above, cell loss in several nuclear grays was suggested to underlie dementia in various studies, without implicating the nature of pathology leading to this loss. In accordance with the predominant pathology in PD, loss of dopaminergic neurons was suggested also to underlie dementia by several authors. Rinne et al. (1989) found that cellular loss in substantia nigra medial part correlated with dementia: this correlation was still significant after accounting for amyloid burden. Similar findings were reported by Jellinger and Paulus (1992), who described that patients with PDD had more cell loss in the medial substantia nigra, but they also had more severe AD pathology in isocortex and hippocampus as compared to patients without dementia. In another study, however, a comparison of neuronal loss in the substantia nigra of demented and non-demented patients showed no difference and no correlation with dementia (Gaspar and Gray, 1984). The role of cell loss in cholinergic nuclei, locus ceruleus and raphe nuclei has been extensively discussed above. Recently components of thalamus assigned to the limbic loop were found to be most severely affected by PD-related pathology (Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites), as opposed to a mild pathology in other thalamic nuclei. Based on these findings it was suggested that damage to the thalamic components of the limbic loop nuclei may contribute to cognitive, emotional and autonomic symptoms in patients with PD (Rub et al., 2002). Coincident Alzheimer-type pathology has been suggested to correlate with dementia in PD in a number of studies (Boller et al., 1980; Mann and Jones, 1990; de Vos et al., 1995; Braak et al., 1996; Jellinger, 1997; SantaCruz et al., 1999; Jellinger et al., 2002). For example, in a study of 36 autopsy-confirmed cases, AD-type pathology in cortex was found in all severely and in half of the mildly demented patients, but also in 3 of 13 non-demented cases (Boller et al., 1980). In another study, AD-type pathology was found to be the major determinant of cognitive decline in most

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patients. Cortical Lewy bodies were reported to be present in all patients independent of the presence or absence of dementia (de Vos et al., 1995). Braak and coworkers (1996) suggested that ‘concurrent incipient AD with fully developed PD is likely to cause impaired cognition and AD pathology; stage III or more is the most common cause of intellectual decline in PD’. Similarly, in a study conducted in 200 consecutive autopsy cases of PD patients, of whom 33% had had dementia, the vast majority of patients with dementia had AD-type changes in cortex and the presence of dementia significantly correlated with AD pathology (Jellinger et al., 2002). In most of these studies, however, the severity of AD-type pathology was not quantified. It was not described whether these changes would be sufficient for a pathological diagnosis of AD, and in some, the extent and severity of concomitant Lewy body-type pathology was not investigated. Later studies suggested that senile plaques seem to be present in most cases with advanced dementia and thus demonstrate high specificity, but are absent in many cases with cognitive impairment and have low sensitivity (Hurtig et al., 2000). There have also been suggestions that the cause of dementia may differ from patient to patient. In a large study with 100 histologically confirmed PD cases, dementia was diagnosed during life in 44%. Among the 31 cases with well-documented dementia, 29% were found to have pathological criteria for AD, 10% had numerous cortical Lewy bodies, ‘satisfying the criteria for diagnosis of diffuse Lewy body disease’, 6% had a possible vascular cause and 55% were found to have no definite pathologic cause; cortical Lewy bodies were identified in all cases, whether demented or not (Hughes et al., 1993). The third group of studies suggests Lewy body-type degeneration in cortical, limbic or both areas as the main pathology underlying dementia in PD. Association of cortical Lewy bodies with dementia in PD was first suggested by Kosaka et al. (1988). Subsequently, this association was questioned in several studies which reported low specificity of Lewy bodies or poor correlation with dementia. The advent of stains more specific for Lewy body-type pathology has facilitated investigation of the contribution of Lewy-type pathology to PDD. In four recent studies in which, instead of ubiquitin staining, a-synuclein antibodies (a more sensitive marker of Lewy bodies) were used to identify Lewy body pathology, dementia was reported to correlate best with Lewy bodies in limbic and cortical areas in all (Hurtig et al., 2000; Mattila et al., 2000; Apaydin et al., 2002; Kovari et al., 2003). a-Synuclein-positive cortical (especially frontal) Lewy bodies were found to be significantly associated with cognitive impair-

ment, independent of AD-type pathology, although AD-type pathology was frequently coexistent. The abundance of Lewy neurites in the CA2 region of the hippocampus also seemed to show a strong correlation with the severity of cognitive impairment (Churchyard and Lees, 1997). An interesting finding is the significant correlation between neocortical Lewy bodies, senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), suggesting common origins for these pathologies or that one may trigger the other (Apaydin et al., 2002). This close spatial association may also explain why AD-type pathology can be found to correlate with dementia in some studies and Lewy-type pathology in others, even if the patient populations would be the same. A study by Kovari et al. (2003) added another dimension to the interpretation of discrepancies, suggesting that the specific pattern of Lewy body distribution is also important for dementia to develop. In 22 patients with PDD, postmortem quantitative assessment of Lewy bodies, NFT and senile plaques revealed a highly significant correlation between clinical dementia-rating scores and regional Lewy body scores in the entorhinal cortex and area 24. There was some correlation with senile plaque density in the entorhinal cortex, but NFT densities did not predict cognitive status. In multivariate models only Lewy body densities in the entorhinal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex were significantly associated with clinical scores, indicating that Lewy body formation in limbic areas may be crucial for the development of PD dementia. Another recent clinicopathological correlation study extended these findings, suggesting that the presence of limbic or cortical Lewy body may not always be associated with dementia in PD: 9 out of 17 patients with a clinical diagnosis of PD and no history of cognitive impairment showed a neuropathological picture consistent with limbic (or transitional) category of DLB and in 8 a pathology consistent with neocortical DLB was observed (Colosimo et al., 2003). The authors suggested that important factors other than the absolute number of Lewy bodies in the neocortex and limbic system may influence the development of cognitive impairment in PD. These findings may imply that it is not only the number but also the topography of Lewy bodies that is crucial for the development of dementia. Finally, evidence from recent genetic studies involving patients with the familial form of dementia with PD revealed that a-synuclein (which is the main constituent of Lewy bodies) pathology alone is capable of inducing dementia. Interestingly, families with an a-synuclein gene mutation which leads to a triplication of gene locus seem to develop dementia, whereas those with duplication do not (Singleton et al., 2003; Chartier-Harlin et al., 2004; Farrer et al., 2004; Ibanez et al., 2004). Thus, the

CLINICAL FEATURES, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT type and severity of the neurodegenerative phenotype may be related to the dose of the a-synuclein gene and consequent quantitative variation in the levels of the a-synuclein protein. As a consequence, not only the presence, but also the topography and burden of Lewy bodies may be crucial for the development of dementia. Dementia in PD usually develops later in the disease course. The temporal and spatial pattern of disease pathology may provide insight as to why. Recently, an ascending order of pathological changes was proposed to occur in PD: lesions initially commencing in certain brainstem nuclei and anterior olfactory nucleus, less vulnerable nuclear grays and cortical areas were subsequently becoming affected. The disease process in the brainstem seems to pursue an ascending course: the ensuing cortical involvement begins with the anteromedial temporal mesocortex and spreads to neocortex involving high-order sensory association and prefrontal regions, areas involved in cognitive functions (Braak et al., 2003). This pattern of ascending pathology from initial changes in the brainstem, which gradually spreads to involve limbic and neocortical areas, may explain why dementia develops, and why cognitive changes usually appear relatively late, in classic PD.

18.6. Genetics Genetic risk factors for PDD have not been exhaustively studied. The best investigated is the association with ApoE genotype. ApoE 4 genotype has been associated with an increased risk for AD; however, such an association was not found between ApoE4 and PDD (Inzelberg et al., 1998). In a systematic review and meta-analysis of 22 eligible case-control studies, which assessed ApoE genotypes in PD, the ApoE2, but not the ApoE4 allele, was shown to be positively associated with sporadic PD (Huang et al., 2004). This is in contrast to AD, for which the ApoE2 is protective. The same association with ApoE2 and sporadic PD was also found in a population-based study: the presence of at least one ApoE2 allele significantly increased the risk of PD. Both ApoE2 and ApoE4 alleles appeared to increase the risk of PDD; the risk of dementia for ApoE4 carriers was, however, not significantly different for subjects with or without PD, whereas ApoE2 strongly increased the risk of dementia in patients with PD (Harhangi et al., 2000), indicating that the presence of ApoE4 allele by itself does not predispose to Lewy body-type degeneration. The disparate risks caused by ApoE genotypes in PD versus AD also suggest that AD and PDD do not have a common genetic predisposition. This assumption is supported by the fact that there is no excess of AD

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among probands with PD (Levy et al., 2004), which would be anticipated if there were any major shared genetic background. Familial forms of dementia associated with PD are rare. Such cases have mostly been associated with mutations in the a-synuclein gene, the protein which is the major component of Lewy bodies. Altered expression of, or missense mutations in, the a-synuclein gene have been linked to early-onset familial PD, sometimes associated with dementia (Singleton et al., 2003; Farrer et al., 2004; Singleton and Gwinn-Hardy, 2004). It seems that the age of onset of PD and the likelihood of dementia increase as the additional copies of the gene increase: dementia has not been reported in families with duplication of the gene whereas triplication has been associated with dementia (Singleton et al., 2003; Chartier-Harlin et al., 2004; Farrer et al., 2004; Ibanez et al., 2004). The additional copies of the gene result in an excess of wild-type a-synuclein protein; triplication leads to a doubling of a-synuclein expression (Farrer et al., 2004; Miller et al., 2004). Taken together, this evidence indicates that increased expression of a-synuclein alone can induce dementia, whereby the type, site and severity of the neurodegeneration may be related to the dose of a-synuclein gene and thus quantitative variation in the levels of the protein.

18.7. Neuroimaging A number of structural and functional imaging studies have been conducted in patients with PDD. Despite some variance in results, several features have been reported to be consistently associated with PDD in most of these studies. Nevertheless, none of these features are specific and sensitive enough to be used in routine clinical practice; rather they are supportive and may be useful when there is diagnostic doubt on clinical grounds. 18.7.1. Structural imaging The presence and pattern of atrophy in PDD have been somewhat controversial. For example, Huber et al. (1989b) reported that the presence of dementia in patients with PD was not associated with any specific pattern of structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abnormalities; in contrast, hippocampal atrophy on MRI, more severe than that found in patients with AD, was claimed to be present in PDD patients in another study (Laakso et al., 1996). In a volumetric study with MRI there were no significant differences in whole-brain or caudate volumes between controls, PD and PDD patients, and there were no significant

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correlations between caudate volume and global cognitive function, executive performance or processing speed, suggesting that structural changes in the caudate do not contribute to the cognitive impairment in patients with PD (Almeida et al., 2003). A specific pattern of atrophy was suggested in a recent MRI study: whereas temporal lobe atrophy, including the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus, was found to be more severe in AD patients, there was more severe atrophy of the thalamus and occipital lobe in patients with PDD (Burton et al., 2004). 18.7.2. Functional imaging Functional imaging studies in PDD have been conducted using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), PET and MRI. SPECT and PET studies utilized markers of cerebral metabolism as well as markers of different neurotransmitter systems. These studies and the value of functional imaging in the diagnosis of patients with parkinsonism and dementia have been reviewed by Burn and O’Brien (2003). In SPECT perfusion deficits have been reported in a number of studies, with somewhat varying pattern. The most consistent findings have been perfusion deficits in temporoparietal cortex, and in some studies in frontal and occipital areas in patients with, as opposed to those without, dementia (Kawabata et al., 1991; Spampinato et al., 1991; Sawada et al., 1992; Tachibana et al., 1993; Antonini et al., 2001). A review of SPECT studies performed in PD revealed that, in PDD, regional cerebral blood flow assessments often demonstrate frontal hypoperfusion or bilateral temporoparietal deficits (Bissessur et al., 1997). Perfusion deficits in precuneus and inferior lateral parietal regions, areas asociated with visual processing, have been described in patients with PDD, whereas patients with AD showed a perfusion deficit in a more anterior and inferior location (Firbank et al., 2003). Results obtained in PET studies using metabolic markers were in line with those from SPECT studies. More severe abnormalities in temporoparietal regions of PD patients with dementia as opposed to those without were also observed in FDG-PET studies (FDG, fluorodeoxyglucose) (Peppard et al., 1992). In some studies regions of hypometabolism included frontal association and posterior cingulate cortices; greater hypometabolism was also observed in the visual cortex (van der Borght et al., 1997). SPECT and PET studies using markers of discrete neurotransmitter systems also revealed specific patterns of impairment. In a study using 18F-dopa as a

marker of dopaminergic function, patients with PDD showed reduced 18F-dopa uptake bilaterally in the striatum, midbrain and anterior cingulate area compared to normal controls and a bilateral decline in the anterior cingulate area, ventral striatum and the right caudate nucleus, as opposed to PD patients without dementia (Ito et al., 2002). Using a marker of vesicular acetylcholine transporter, [123I] iodobenzovesamicol (IBVM) and SPECT, significant differences between AD patients and controls, as well as between PD patients with and without dementia, have been demonstrated (Kuhl et al., 1996). In PD patients without dementia, reduction in IBVM binding was restricted to the parietal and occipital cortex, whereas demented PD cases have an extensive decrease in cortical binding, similar to patients with early-onset AD. Recently a potentially useful diagnostic imaging method was described to differentiate patients with PDD/DLB from others. Using a marker of presynaptically located dopamine transporter, FP-CIT and SPECT, patients with PD, PDD and DLB were found to have significant reductions in FP-CIT binding in the caudate as well as anterior and posterior putamens compared with patients with AD and controls. Transporter loss in DLB was of similar magnitude to that seen in PD; the greatest loss in all three areas was seen in patients with PDD (O’Brien et al., 2004). Iodine-123 meta-iodobenzylguanidine (123I-MIBG) is an analog of norepinephrine and may be used in conjunction with SPECT imaging to quantify postganglionic sympathetic cardiac innervation. The heart-to-mediastinum ratio was found to be lower in PD as compared to normal controls and also lower than in other akinetic-rigid syndromes such as multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy (Yoshita, 1998). This ratio was also found to be lower in patients with DLB. Thus cardiac 123I-MIBG can be used to distinguish between DLB, PDD and AD: in common with DLB, PD patients will have reduced heart-to-mediastinum ratios, whereas in AD, tracer uptake is expected to be normal (Yoshita et al., 2001). Functional MRI (fMRI) was also used to detect sites of abnormal activity in PD patients with cognitive impairment. Using event-related fMRI, significant signal intensity reductions were found in bilateral caudate and right putamen as well as bilateral dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during a working-memory paradigm in PD patients with cognitive impairment compared with those who were cognitively unimpaired (Lewis et al., 2003). Likewise, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used for the same purpose, N-acetyl aspartate levels were found to be significantly reduced in the occipital

CLINICAL FEATURES, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND TREATMENT cortex of demented versus non-demented PD patients, and the amount of reduction correlated with measures of neuropsychological performance (Summerfield et al., 2002).

18.8. Diagnosis 18.8.1. Diagnostic process Diagnosis of dementia in patients with PD can sometimes be difficult. This is because of several confounding factors such as severe motor and speech impairment, comorbidities such as depression or systemic disorders and adverse events of drugs. The onset, course and pattern of behavioral and neuropsychological impairment and the clinical context within which these symptoms occur are of paramount importance to differentiate whether the patient is suffering from a dementia syndrome or from its imposters, such as confusion or depression. Once these are excluded and a dementia syndrome is diagnosed, other disorders with combined motor and mental dysfunction should be considered in the differential diagnosis. These include other degenerative disorders, notably those leading to ‘Parkinson-plus’ syndromes, such as progressive supranuclear palsy, vascular subcortical dementia and normal-pressure hydrocephalus, among others. Appropriate neuropsychological tests, including those which assess executive functions, a detailed history, including a deliberate screening for features known to be associated with PDD, and a review of current treatment are the essential diagnostic tools (Table 18.2).

Table 18.2 Management of Parkinson’s disease patients with dementia Assessment of suspected dementia Detailed history with emphasis on onset, course and chronology of symptoms Assessment of cognitive functions, behavioral and other associated symptoms Screening for systemic diseases and adverse effects of drugs Optimization of antiparkinson medication, cessation of drugs with high risk If dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease is diagnosed, evaluation of need for treatment Substitutive treatment Use of cholinesterase inhibitors such as rivastigmine Symptomatic treatment Use of atypical antipsychotics such as clozapine and quetiapine; caution: increased risk of vascular events Use of antidepressants (avoid tricyclics)

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18.8.2. Relation to Dementia with Lewy Bodies DLB and PDD share many pathological and clinical features. In fact, these features are almost indistinguishable when both conditions are fully developed. It is the time course of the symptoms and presenting features that differentiates these two disorders. Obviously there are some differences when groups of patients with these two conditions are compared, which are due to definitions per se and the chronology of certain symptoms included therein. Thus, in any given study comparing cohorts of patients, patients with DLB may not have as severe motor symptoms, as this is not a precondition for the diagnosis, whereas all patients with PDD must have motor symptoms, as this is part of the diagnostic criteria. The clinical and pathological overlap between these two conditions has led to the assumption that they represent the same pathological condition with different temporal and spatial sequence of events, and hence different chronology of clinical symptoms. There is no sound clinical or pathological basis to determine a fixed time interval between the development of motor symptoms versus onset of dementia symptoms in differentiation of PDD from DLB. In fact, it is very difficult to determine retrospectively, based on historical data, when exactly cognitive or behavioral changes emerged or when they became extensive and severe enough to justify the diagnosis of dementia. Therefore, based on an empirical and practical approach it is suggested that the diagnosis of PDD should be entertained when dementia develops following the diagnosis of idiopathic PD, whereas the diagnosis of DLB should be warranted when the diagnosis of dementia precedes the development of motor symptoms.

18.9. Treatment Until recently no pharmacological interventions have been available for the treatment of patients with PDD. During the last 5–10 years results of clinical studies with two classes of interventions have been reported with variable degree of efficacy. These include substitution therapy, in an attempt to reduce cholinergic deficits associated with this condition, and non-specific treatment approaches to improve behavioral symptoms. As a general rule, before a treatment is initiated with one of the agents described below, other intrinsic and extrinsic factors which can trigger or aggravate mental dysfunction, such as systemic diseases or adverse events of drugs, should be assessed and treated. Antiparkinson medication and treatment for concomitant diseases should be

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optimized, avoiding those agents which are known to be associated with cognitive impairment or behavioral symptoms, such as anticholinergics, tricyclic antidepressants and benzodiazepines. The effects of dopaminergic treatment on cognitive symptoms have been assessed in several studies. Withdrawal of dopaminergic treatment was reported to be associated with a worsening of performance on tests sensitive to frontal lobe function (Lange et al., 1992); in another study, however, dopaminergic treatment was reported to improve some cognitive deficits but to worsen others (Cools et al., 2001). The latter observation may be due to the fact that there is an optimal level of dopaminergic stimulation needed in prefrontal cortex for normal cognitive functioning (Kulisevsky, 2000). The width of therapeutic window for improvement of cognitive function, as compared to that needed to improve motor symptoms, may vary, and there may be a mismatch between the two, depending on the disease stage and the consequent amount of dopaminergic deficit. The general clinical experience indicates that dopaminergic medication does not improve symptoms of PDD; in fact, psychotic features can worsen under dopaminergic treatment, especially in patients with dementia. The lack of efficacy of dopaminergic treatment on mental dysfunction has led to a search for alternative treatment approaches. Prompted by the substantial cholinergic deficits found in patients with PDD, cholinergic treatment strategy was investigated in these patients, after cholinesterase inhibitors (ChE-I) became available for the treatment of AD. As anticholinergic agents have been used for decades to treat the motor symptoms of PD, there was some skepticism about using procholinergic treatment, because of the fear that motor functions may worsen. A small, open study with tacrine in PD patients with cognitive impairment, which described rather dramatic improvements and no worsening of motor functions, delivered the first signal that this may not happen (Hutchinson and Fazzini, 1996). Since then a number of mostly open and small studies have been reported with all commercially available ChE-I, and a large, randomized, placebo-controlled study with rivastigmine has been published. These studies are shown in Table 18.3 and summarized below. The effects of donepezil, the first ChE-I to become available after tacrine, were described in seven reports, either in patients with PDD or in PD patients with psychotic symptoms. These included a small case series, three open and three small, randomized, placebo-controlled studies. In the open-label studies, which included 6–15 patients and lasted 6–20 weeks, psychotic features, including visual hallucinations, improved in all and cognitive function, as measured

with the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), was reported to improve in one study and remained unchanged in the other two. Motor symptoms seemed to be unaffected in two studies, but worsening was reported in 2 out of 8 patients in the third study (Bergman and Lerner, 2002; Fabbrini et al., 2002; Minett et al., 2003). In one study hallucinations improved on treatment and worsened after withdrawal; the authors recommended avoiding an abrupt withdrawal of medication which may produce acute cognitive and behavioral decline (Minett et al., 2003). The three randomized controlled studies involved 14–23 patients with treatment durations between 10 and 18 weeks, one of them also included a 33-week open-label extension period (Aarsland et al., 2002; Brashear et al., 2004; Leroi et al., 2004). In all three studies there was an improvement in cognitive functions, mostly on MMSE; visual hallucinations were assessed in only one study and were not improved. Motor symptoms did not worsen in two and in the double-blind phase of the third study, but during the open-label extension of the latter there seemed to be a deterioration of motor function and Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) total and subscores were worse than baseline in half of the 15 patients remaining in the extension phase (Brashear et al., 2004). In a single open-label study, 16 patients were treated with galantamine over 8 weeks. Global evaluation of mental functions showed improvement in 8 and worsening in 4 patients; tests such as MMSE, clockdrawing and verbal fluency favored galantamine. Hallucinations improved in 7 out of 9 patients who had hallucinations at baseline. Parkinsonism, as assessed clinically, was reported to be improved in 6 patients; however, a mild worsening of tremor was observed in 3 patients (Aarsland et al., 2003d). The most robust data with regard to the efficacy and safety of ChE-I in patients with PPD exist for rivastigmine, an inhibitor of both AchE and butrylcholinesterase. There have been three earlier reports of rivastigmine treatment in PDD, one case series and two open-label studies. The two open-label studies included 15 and 28 patients and the duration of treatment was 14 and 26 weeks, respectively. In both studies cognitive functions, as measured by MMSE in one and in addition with Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale – cognitive section (ADAS-cog) and Clinical Global Impression of Change (CGIC) in the other, significantly improved from baseline. Visual hallucinations were assessed in one of them and showed significant improvement. In both studies there was no worsening of motor symptoms (Reading et al., 2001; Giladi et al., 2003). Recently the first large, randomized, controlled, multicenter study ever conducted with a ChE-I in PDD was reported (Emre

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Table 18.3 Clinical studies with cholinesterase inhibitors in patients with dementia associated with Parkinson’s disease

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et al., 2004). This study included 541 patients with a diagnosis of dementia due to PD according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, IVth version (DSM-IV) criteria, treated over 24 weeks. Both primary efficacy endpoints (ADAS-cog to assess cognitive functions and CGIC for clinical, global assessment of change) showed statistically highly significant improvements in favor of rivastigmine. On ADAS-cog, patients on rivastigmine showed a mean 2.1-point improvement at the end of the study, whereas those on placebo deteriorated by 0.7 points (P < 0.001). On CGIC more patients on rivastigmine improved (41% versus 30% on placebo) and more patients on placebo deteriorated (43% on placebo versus 34% on rivastigmine) (P ¼ 0.007). On all secondary efficacy parameters there were statistically significant differences in favor of rivastigmine: neuropsychiatric symptoms as measured with neuropsychiatric inventory showed an improvement on rivastigmine and no change from baseline on placebo; measures of attention improved on rivastigmine and worsened on placebo; improvement from baseline was also seen on Ten-Point

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Clock-Drawing test, verbal fluency and MMSE on rivastigmine, whereas patients on placebo worsened as compared to baseline scores. On a scale of activities of daily living, patients on rivastigmine showed a minimal worsening whereas those on placebo had significantly more deterioration. Adverse events were significantly more frequent on rivastigmine; the main adverse events were those related to the gastrointestinal system, and nausea and vomiting were the most frequent ones. Worsening of parkinsonian symptoms was reported more frequently as an adverse event on rivastigmine (27% versus 16% on placebo), mainly driven by worsening of tremor (10% on rivastigmine versus 4% on placebo). The objective measures of motor symptoms, however, as assessed by UPDRS part III, did not reveal any significant differences between rivastigmine and placebo groups. PDD is frequently associated with behavioral symptoms such as depression and psychosis. There have been no randomized controlled studies of antidepressants in patients with PDD and magnitude of response or potential differences between different drugs are not known. As a

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general rule tricyclic antidepressants should be avoided because of their anticholinergic effects. As described above, psychotic symptoms, notably hallucinations, can improve under treatment with ChE-I, but sometimes treatment with neuroleptics may become necessary. Classic neuroleptics are contraindicated as they may worsen motor function and some patients may be particularly prone to adverse effects of dopaminergic receptor blockade, developing life-threatening neuroleptic hypersensitivity. There have been attempts to treat psychosis in PD with atypical neuroleptics. Randomized, placebocontrolled studies showing significant improvement of psychosis without worsening of motor symptoms exist only for clozapine (French Clozapine Parkinson Study Group, 2000; Parkinson Study Group, 1999). Placebocontrolled, randomized trials with olanzapine revealed that it did not significantly improve psychosis, but significantly worsened motor function (Breier et al., 2002; Ondo et al., 2002). Although not investigated in placebo-controlled trials – and the results of open studies are mixed, reporting both improvement in psychosis and deterioration in motor symptoms – clinical experience indicates that risperidone also worsens motor function in patients with PD (Ellis et al., 2000; Friedman and Fernandez, 2002). Large, randomized, placebocontrolled studies are also lacking for quetiapine: a comparative trial against clozapine revealed that it may improve psychosis in patients with PD without worsening parkinsonism (Morgante et al., 2004). In a retrospective analysis of all PD patients receiving quetiapine, with a mean treatment duration of 15 months and average dose of 60 mg/day, 82% were reported to have partial or complete resolution of their psychosis. Motor worsening was noted in 32%, although it was not usually severe enough to warrant discontinuation. It was of note that more quetiapine non-responders were those who had dementia, and motor worsening while on quetiapine also tended to occur more frequently in demented patients (Fernandez et al., 2003). A systematic review of atypical neuroleptics for the treatment of psychosis in PD emphasized that clozapine is the only drug with proven efficacy. Olanzapine was not recommended because of its potential to worsen motor function, whereas evidence for risperidone and quetiapine was considered to be inconclusive (Goetz et al., 2002). Although not yet tested in PD patients with dementia, another medication with potential use in these patients is modafinil, an agent that promotes wakefulness. Daytime sleepiness is a frequent problem encountered in patients with PDD. In randomized, controlled studies modafinil was shown to ameliorate excess daytime sleepiness in patients with PD (Hogl et al., 2002; Adler et al., 2003).

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Chapter 19

Disorders of mood and affect in Parkinson’s disease DANIEL WEINTRAUB1-3* AND MATTHEW B. STERN2,4{ 1

Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2

Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Center (PADRECC), Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, PA, USA

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Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, PA, USA

19.1. Introduction Although Parkinson’s disease (PD) is primarily considered a movement disorder, the high prevalence of psychiatric complications suggests that it could more accurately be conceptualized as a neuropsychiatric disease. Disorders of mood and affect, though receiving less attention than motor aspects of the disease, have long been recognized as a part of PD. In first describing the clinical profile of PD in his 1817 monograph, James Parkinson acknowledged depression as a cardinal feature of the illness, stating of one patient, ‘A more melancholy object I never beheld’. Although depression is common in PD, occurring in up to one-half of patients (Dooneief et al., 1992), reports on its frequency have varied depending on the research setting, the type of depression being studied and the diagnostic criteria used. Depression frequently co-occurs with other non-motor symptoms, including psychosis and cognitive impairment. Other disorders of mood and affect can occur in PD. Anxiety disorders may be as common as depression, and the two are frequently comorbid. Apathy, a common syndrome in neurodegenerative diseases, is a disorder of affect that may overlap with, but is usually distinct from, depression. Finally, pseudobulbar affect (PBA), also called emotional lability, is a syndrome of emotional dysregulation characterized by spells of crying and/or laughing. The hallmark neuropathophysiological changes that occur in PD plus the association between

exposure to dopaminergic medications and certain psychiatric disorders suggest a neurobiological basis for most psychiatric symptoms, though psychological factors are likely involved in the development of mood disorders. Although antidepressants and anxiolytics are commonly prescribed in PD, controlled studies demonstrating efficacy and tolerability are lacking. Psychiatric complications in PD are associated with excess disability, worse quality of life, poorer outcomes and care-giver distress. Yet in spite of this and their frequent occurrence, there is incomplete understanding of the epidemiology, phenomenology, risk factors, neuropathophysiology and optimal treatment strategies for these disorders. Psychiatric complications are typically multimorbid, and there is great intra- and interindividual variability in presentation. Not surprisingly, there is evidence that psychiatric disorders in PD are underrecognized and undertreated (Shulman et al., 2002; Weintraub et al., 2003). This chapter is an overview of the prevalence of disorders of mood and affect in PD, and their impact on disability, quality of life and outcomes. The etiology and pathophysiology of the various disorders will be reviewed, focusing primarily on the contribution of disease-specific neurobiological changes. Clinical correlates and comorbid non-motor symptoms will be covered, as well as a review of existing knowledge on clinical management and treatment.

*Correspondence to: Daniel Weintraub, M.D., Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3535 Market Street, Room 3003, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ1-215-349-8207, Fax: þ1-215-348-8389. { Parker Family Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

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19.2. Depression 19.2.1. Epidemiology The majority of epidemiological studies on depression in PD (dPD) report prevalence rates between 20 and 40%, with estimates varying from less than 5% to as high as 75% (Starkstein et al., 1990a; Cummings, 1992; Hantz et al., 1994; Allain et al., 2000). This variation reflects methodological differences between the studies, including sampling methods, survey sites and assessment tools both to define depression and to quantify the severity of depressive symptoms. More recent studies using community samples and formal diagnostic criteria (e.g. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria; First et al., 1996) have reported that major depression may occur in 5–10% of PD patients, with an additional 10–30% experiencing either minor or subsyndromal depression (Hantz et al., 1994; Cole et al., 1996; Tandberg et al., 1996; Liu et al., 1997; Starkstein et al., 1998). Although recent research suggests that the typical depression case may be non-severe, the evidence in total is that dPD is common. 19.2.2. Impact and course of depression in Parkinson’s disease The presence of dPD is associated with excess disability (Liu et al., 1997; Weintraub et al., 2004), worse quality of life (Schrag et al., 2000) and increased care-giver distress (Aarsland et al., 2000), exacerbating the physical and emotional burden that PD places on patients and their significant others. In a survey of PD patients, care-givers and clinicians in six countries, depressive symptoms were the single most important factor in patient quality of life ratings, even ranking ahead of disease severity (Global Parkinson’s Disease Study Steering Committee, 2002). Preliminary longitudinal research indicates that dPD is associated with impairment in fine motor skills (Kuhn et al., 1996), more rapid progression of motor impairment and disability (Starkstein et al., 1992a) and the development of psychosis (Giladi et al., 2000). Depression may also be a risk factor for global cognitive impairment (Starkstein et al., 1992a; Tro¨ster et al., 1995; Tandberg et al., 1997) or dementia (Stern et al., 1993; Marder et al., 1995). Future studies need to determine whether successful treatment of depression can ameliorate such secondary impairments. Little is known about the long-term course of dPD. It has been reported to be a chronic illness (Starkstein et al., 1992a) and one naturalistic study found that only one-third of patients with depression at baseline

showed an improvement in their symptoms over a 9-year period (Rojo et al., 2003). The risk of suicide as an outcome of dPD has not been studied, but data from a computerized death registry suggest that the rate of suicide is less in PD than in the general population (Myslobodsky et al., 2001), which is somewhat surprising given that suicide ideation occurs in up to 30% of PD patients (Gotham et al., 1986; Leentjens et al., 2003a). 19.2.3. Etiology and pathophysiology Theories related to the etiology of dPD argue that depression either is ‘reactive’ and secondary to the psychosocial stress of a chronic disease, or results from neuroanatomical and/or neurobiological changes that are part of the neurodegenerative process in PD. These two theories are not mutually exclusive, as is discussed below. It was once thought that depression occurred primarily in the early and late stages of PD, with patients in the middle stages typically unaffected. These findings supported the hypothesis that dPD could be subdivided into ‘psychological’ and ‘biological’ subtypes: the diagnosis of a chronic, progressive and disabling illness in early PD was presumed to effect a psychological depression secondary to the disorder itself, whereas advanced neurodegeneration (i.e. cell death, dysfunction in neural networks and neurotransmitter depletion) in late PD was said to induce a biological depression. PD patients and their families clearly have to adjust to managing a chronic illness that may result in significant impairment in physical, occupational, interpersonal, social, sexual and recreational domains. They are acutely aware that there is no cure for the disease and that existing treatments are palliative and lose effectiveness over time. In many patients symptoms of depression may develop at the time of initial diagnosis. Findings from studies that reported an association between depression and early-onset PD (Kostic et al., 1994; Cole et al., 1996) suggest that younger patients may experience more significant career, family and financial disruptions (Brown et al., 1988). However, the high rates of dPD cannot be completely explained as a reaction to the stress of the illness. Some researchers have found that PD patients have more depressive symptoms than patients with other chronic disabling diseases (Ehmann et al., 1989; Menza and Mark, 1994). In addition, recent research on the association between severity of depression and stage or severity of PD has been equivocal (Ehmann et al., 1989; Starkstein et al., 1990a; Menza and Mark, 1994; Tandberg et al., 1997).

DISORDERS OF MOOD AND AFFECT IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Other research findings, from case-control studies and prospective studies using large case registries, suggest a biological basis for dPD. This research has found that PD patients have a higher lifetime prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders (Shiba et al., 2000) and non-PD patients with depression are at higher risk of subsequently developing PD (Schuurman et al., 2002). These findings implicate depression as a potential risk factor for, or a prodromal symptom of, PD, similar to what has been reported for other non-motor symptoms, including rapid-eye movement sleep behavior disorder (Schenck et al., 1996; Olson et al., 2000). From a biological standpoint, the high frequency of dPD has been explained by dysfunction in the following brain regions, neural networks and neurotransmitters: (1) subcortical nuclei and the frontal lobes; (2) cortical-striatal-thalamo-cortical and basotemporal limbic neural networks; and (3) brainstem monoamine and indolamine systems (i.e. dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine). One previous positron emission tomography study in PD found an association between depressive symptoms and altered basal ganglia metabolism (Mentis et al., 2002), and a single photon emission computed tomography study found an association between increasing severity of depression and anxiety symptoms and decreased striatal dopamine transporter availability in the left anterior putamen (Weintraub et al., 2005b). Another region implicated in depression is the limbic system, and patients with dPD were found to have reduced basal limbic system echogenicity using structural neuroimaging (Berg et al., 1999). Functional brain imaging studies have reported simultaneous frontal cortex and basal ganglia hypometabolism in PD patients with depression, changes that are presumed to reflect neurodegeneration of the cortical-striatal-thalamo-cortical circuits (Mayberg et al., 1990; Mentis et al., 2002). Regarding neurotransmitters, a disproportionate degeneration of dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area has been reported in patients with a history of dPD (Brown and Gershon, 1993). Other monoaminergic neurotransmitter systems (e.g. serotonin and norepinephrine) are also significantly affected in PD. Imaging studies have found both a decrease in signal intensity of the pontomesencephalic midline structures, which contain neural pathways originating in monoaminergic brainstem nuclei, in depressed PD patients (Berg et al., 1999) and a negative correlation between Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) depression items and dorsal midbrain binding ratios, which reflect regional serotonin transporter densities (Murai et al., 2001). In addition, preliminary research

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has demonstrated associations between dPD and a functional polymorphism (the short allele) in the promoter region of the serotonin transporter (Menza et al., 1999; Mo¨ssner et al., 2001) and reduced cerebrospinal fluid levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (Mayeux et al., 1998). If the combination of pan-neurotransmitter deficits and disruption in neural networks contributes to the high prevalence of dPD, then this characteristic and perhaps unique combination of brain changes may dictate different depression treatment strategies than those commonly employed for depression in non-PD populations. For instance, depressed PD patients do not demonstrate the euphoric response to psychostimulant medication seen in non-PD depressed patients (Cantello et al., 1989), which raises questions about the efficacy of structurally related antidepressants (e.g. bupropion) in this population. 19.2.4. Clinical correlates Some epidemiological studies have found that dPD is associated with female sex (Tandberg et al., 1996), a personal history of depression (Starkstein et al., 1990a), early-onset PD (i.e. before age 55) (Kostic et al., 1994; Cole et al., 1996), right-sided (left-brain) predominant motor symptoms (Starkstein et al., 1990a) and ‘atypical’ parkinsonism (e.g. prominent akinesia-rigidity or extensive vascular disease) (Tandberg et al., 1997; Starkstein et al., 1998). However, extensive non-confirmatory results mean that consensus has not been reached on the demographic and clinical correlates of dPD. Patients with long-standing exposure to levodopa frequently develop motor fluctuations, including dyskinesias during ‘on’ periods and worsening parkinsonism during ‘off’ periods. In some patients, ‘off’ periods are associated with temporary dysphoria and anxiety (Menza et al., 1990) that may be relieved by levodopa administration (Maricle et al., 1995), but in others there does not appear to be an association between either ‘off’ states and worsening mood or ‘on’ states and improved mood (Richard et al., 2001). Although such mood changes may not meet criteria for existing affective disorders due to their brevity, they nonetheless can be debilitating and distressing to patients. In addition, patients with mood fluctuations in the context of motor fluctuations are more likely also to have dPD and other neuropsychiatric complications (Racette et al., 2002). Surgery has become increasingly common as a treatment for PD. Pallidotomy and thalamotomy are well-established ablative surgical treatments, and in general neither is thought to have significant cognitive

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or psychiatric sequelae (Green et al., 2002). Nonablative deep brain stimulation (DBS), usually of the bilateral subthalamic nucleus (STN), has become the most common surgical treatment for PD. However, the impact of DBS on psychiatric symptoms and cognition appears varied. A number of psychiatric side-effects have been reported with STN DBS, including depression and mania (Bejjani et al., 1999; Berney et al., 2002; Herzog et al., 2003), but there is research reporting both improvement and worsening in mental status post-DBS (Houeto et al., 2002). The STN has a heterogeneous organization that includes connections to limbic regions, which may explain the reported association with affective changes in some patients. 19.2.5. Common comorbid non-motor symptoms in depression Psychosis (Aarsland et al., 1999; Marsh et al., 2004), anxiety (Menza et al., 1993), apathy (Starkstein et al., 1992b), fatigue (Lou et al., 2001) and insomnia (Caap-Ahlgren and Dehlin, 2001) have all been associated with dPD. Research suggests not only a significant association between psychosis and depressive disorders, but that depressed patients non-responsive to antidepressant treatment are more likely to have comorbid psychosis (Weintraub et al., 2003). The majority of patients with a depression diagnosis also meet criteria for an anxiety disorder, and vice versa (Menza et al., 1993). Although apathy is thought to be a distinct psychiatric syndrome associated with frontal lobe impairment (Pluck and Brown, 2002), there is overlap between depression and apathy in PD (Starkstein et al., 1992b). It is unclear to what extent these comorbid psychiatric symptoms either lead to or are secondary to depression, or are associated with underlying cognitive impairment and not independently associated with depression. Although dPD is very common, mania (i.e. bipolar disorder) appears to be rare (Cannas et al., 2002). Some episodes of disinhibited behavior that have been labeled as mania are probably cases of impulse control disorders (e.g. gambling and hypersexuality) that may be induced by exposure to dopamine replacement therapies. Cognitive impairment is a common non-motor complication of PD that is made worse by depression (Tro¨ster et al., 1995; Norman et al., 2002). Depressive symptoms early in the course of PD are related to more rapid cognitive decline (Starkstein et al., 1992a) and an increased risk of developing dementia (Hughes et al., 2000). Conversely, cognitive impairment has been associated with an increased risk of developing

depression in some studies (Tandberg et al., 1997), and the combination of dementia and depression is correlated with lower levels of cerebrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid in PD than either dementia or depression alone (Sano et al., 1989). Interestingly, PD patients with major depression have significantly greater cognitive decline and decline in functional ability than patients with minor depression when followed over time (Starkstein et al., 1992a), suggesting qualitative differences between different types of depression in this population. Among the cognitive changes that occur in PD, executive impairment in particular has been associated with depression (Wertman et al., 1993; Kuzis et al., 1997; Anguenot et al., 2002). These frontal system deficits may be due to the additive effects of PD and depression (Tro¨ster et al., 1995). Non-PD elderly patients with major depression have been reported to demonstrate significant impairment in executive functioning compared with elderly controls, and non-responders to antidepressant treatment have more executive dysfunction than responders (Kalayam and Alexopolous, 1999). The exact nature of the association between executive dysfunction and dPD, its potential to confound depression by presenting with comorbid apathy, its impact on the outcome of antidepressant treatment and its reversibility with successful antidepressant treatment all remain in question. It has been argued that D2/D3 dopamine agonists (e.g. pramipexole and ropinirole) might be appropriate for the depression-executive dysfunction syndrome of late life (Alexopolous, 2001). 19.2.6. Relationship of comorbid medical disorders to depression Hypothyroidism, testosterone deficiency, elevated plasma homocysteine and vitamin B12 deficiency levels have all been associated with depression in non-PD populations, although research linking these disorders to dPD has been sparse. These disorders may go unrecognized, as their clinical symptoms overlap with those of PD, particularly PD complicated by depression. Homocysteine is a byproduct in the metabolic pathway of levodopa, and increased homocysteine levels are correlated with long-term treatment with levodopa/ carbidopa, a complication that can be managed with folic acid supplementation. A recent study found that PD patients with elevated homocysteine levels were more depressed than patients with normal homocysteine levels (O’Suilleabhain et al., 2004). Administration of 800–3600 mg/day of S-adenosylmethionine, which plays a role in the metabolism of homocysteine, improved dPD in a preliminary study (Di Rocco et al., 2000).

DISORDERS OF MOOD AND AFFECT IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Depression is a common complication of hypothyroidism, and the incidence of hypothyroidism in PD is increased (Tandeter and Shvartzman, 1993). However, hypothyroidism may be difficult to diagnose clinically in this population because the symptoms of poor concentration, fatigue, flat affect and bradykinesia overlap with PD symptoms. In addition, certain PD medications (e.g. levodopa) may inhibit thyroidstimulating hormone release in patients with primary hypothyroidism and mask the laboratory diagnosis early in the disease (Tandeter and Shvartzman, 1993). Therefore, to screen for hypothyroidism in PD it is also necessary to check triiodothyronine and thyroxine levels. Testosterone levels decline progressively with age, and approximately 20–25% of males >60 years of age show signs of clinical hypogonadism. Many symptoms of testosterone deficiency are non-specific and overlap with non-motor symptoms of PD, including decreased enjoyment of life, lack of energy, sexual dysfunction and depression. In a preliminary openlabel study, testosterone-deficient men with PD who were administered testosterone replacement therapy showed a trend toward improvement in anxiety symptoms and on part I of the UPDRS, which covers psychosis, depression and cognitive impairment (Okun et al., 2002). Vitamin B12 deficiency is associated with a variety of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including depression (Lindenbaum et al., 1988), and is relatively common in older patients. Therefore, an evaluation of B12

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status should be included in the work-up of PD patients presenting with mood symptoms. 19.2.7. Presentation, assessment and diagnosis of depression Assessing dPD is challenging, partly as a result of symptom overlap with core PD symptoms (e.g. insomnia, psychomotor slowing, difficulty concentrating and fatigue). In addition, PD patients may withdraw from social activities not only as a result of depression, but also if they are uncomfortable being in public when experiencing tremors or dyskinesias. Even the appearance of a patient with PD (e.g. bradykinetic movements and flat facies) can be mistaken for that of someone with severe, melancholic depression. Non-somatic symptoms of depression (e.g. suicide ideation, anhedonia, feelings of guilt and psychic anxiety) more likely indicate the presence of a depressive disorder than do many somatic symptoms (e.g. loss of appetite, insomnia, low energy and psychomotor retardation) (Starkstein et al., 1990b; Leentjens et al., 2003a). There is also some evidence that depressed PD patients have a different symptom profile than depressed patients without PD. This profile includes higher rates of anxiety, pessimism, irrationality, suicide ideation without suicide behavior and less guilt and self-reproach (Cummings, 1992; Slaughter et al., 2001) (Table 19.1). Also complicating the diagnostic process for dPD is the common occurrence of other affective disturbances

Table 19.1 Clinical features of Parkinson’s disease (PD) depression Symptom

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Specific to PD depression, but variably present Diminished pleasure may be more specific to depression than diminished interest, which also occurs in apathy Daytime fatigue common in PD without depression and as a side-effect of treatment with dopaminergic agents Mental slowing common in PD without depression Changes in attention common in PD without depression Sleep changes almost universally present in PD, though early-morning wakening may be more specific to PD depression May be more specific to PD depression compared with other neurovegetative symptoms Specific to PD depression, but may not be as prevalent as in non-PD depression

Fatigue Psychomotor changes Decreased concentration Insomnia Diminished appetite Feelings of worthlessness and guilt Suicidality Anxiety

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(e.g. apathy and pseudobulbar affect) that can confound depression. In addition, since dPD is frequently comorbid with other non-motor symptoms (e.g. psychosis and cognitive impairment), it may be difficult to categorize disorders for which depressive symptoms are but one component. When depression is suspected, a clinician should begin with a careful history and physical examination. A past history of depression is a predictor of future depression. Recent changes in mood and behavior should be assessed within the context of the patient’s current PD treatment (e.g. potential on–off phenomena or recent surgery). Although DSM-IV recommends using an exclusive or disease-etiologic approach (i.e. not considering a specific criterion to be met if its presence is better explained by PD rather than depression) (Hoogendijk et al., 1998; Leentjens et al., 2000b), this approach has not been validated, and the current recommendation of experts is to use an inclusive scoring approach (i.e. counting all depressive symptoms toward a diagnosis of depression) when diagnosing depression or rating depression severity in PD. Another recommendation is that clinicians focus on symptoms of depressed mood and/or anhedonia (loss of interest and pleasure), questioning both the patient and available family members about changes from baseline (both pre- and post-PD onset). Some experts believe that anhedonia should focus on loss of ability to experience pleasure, not loss of interest, as the latter is also a core symptom of apathy. This change in the conceptualization of anhedonia is similar to what has been recommended in the drafting of provisional diagnostic criteria for depression of Alzheimer’s disease (Olin et al., 2002). If the clinician notes a significant change in mood, loss of interest or pleasure in activities, increased crying spells, guilt or a sense of despair or hopelessness, then a more focused interview on depressive symptoms should ensue. At this point, the clinician should inquire about the presence of vegetative symptoms (e.g. sleep, appetite, energy and concentration), without regard to etiology, in order to determine if the patient meets criteria for a major depressive disorder. Patients with PD can also have other clinically significant depressive disturbances that do not meet the severity criteria for major depression, including minor depression, dysthymia, subsyndromal depression and adjustment disorders. The high prevalence of dPD necessitates that all patients be screened for depression on a regular basis. Depression-screening tools can useful, though they have not been comprehensively evaluated in PD. One commonly used instrument, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), uses a ‘yes/no’ format, can be self-administered

and emphasizes the cognitive symptoms of depression. There are 30- and 15-item versions of the GDS (Yesavage et al., 1983; Sheikh and Yesavage, 1986), and a cut-off score of 5 on the GDS-15 demonstrates high sensitivity and high specificity for a diagnosis of depression in a primary care setting (D’Ath et al., 1994). Thus, a more detailed evaluation for depression should occur with a score of 5 on the GDS-15 (or 10 on the GDS-30). The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck et al., 1961) is another self-rated instrument that is also more strongly weighted to assess the cognitive symptoms of depression (e.g. guilt and loss of pleasure). Research with the BDI has determined two optimal cut-off points for the BDI: a score of 13/14 for differentiating PD patients with and without a depression diagnosis and a score of 8/9 for depression screening (Leentjens et al., 2000b). The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) (Hamilton, 1960) is used primarily in clinical research. The Montgomery Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) (Montgomery and Asberg, 1979) is also used in research settings, but can be used in clinical practice to monitor the course of depression. Unlike the GDS and BDI, both the HDRS and MADRS are administered by a trained rater. A cut-off score of 14/15 on the MADRS was found to be optimal for both discriminating PD patients with and without a depression diagnosis and for depression screening (Leentjens et al., 2000a). It is important to involve a patient’s care-giver or significant other in the assessment and treatment process, even with non-demented patients, both to provide collateral information and to enhance treatment compliance. PD patients are often perceived as withdrawn and depressed by observers, even when they do not endorse depressed mood (Pitcairn et al., 1990). This suggests that others may be misinterpreting nondepressive symptoms in the patient with PD; however, this could also indicate that patients may lack insight into their mood disturbance. The impact of depression on care-giver well-being and health should also be considered. Addressing relevant psychosocial concerns (e.g. support in the home, cost of medications and assistive devices, transportation issues and changes in lifestyle) may help improve overall quality of life for both the care-giver and patient. Consultation with a geriatric psychiatrist or neuropsychiatrist should be considered in difficult cases. These cases would include patients in whom there is diagnostic uncertainty or those with treatment-resistant depression, suicide ideation and comorbid conditions, including panic disorder, psychosis and mania. Treatment-resistant depression is usually defined as a

DISORDERS OF MOOD AND AFFECT IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE patient who has failed three or more antidepressant trials when the trials were of sufficient length (e.g. at least 8 weeks) and dosage. In clinical practice, patients frequently do not tolerate medications, cannot afford them, or do not finish a course of medication because they are not convinced that they are depressed or have a depressive disturbance warranting specific treatment. Consultation with a psychiatrist and close follow-up and counseling may increase treatment adherence. ‘Watchful waiting’ with a follow-up appointment within 2–4 weeks to monitor the patient’s status can also be a useful strategy when the diagnosis or treatment is unclear. The presence of suicide ideation or a comorbid psychiatric disorder suggests a complex psychiatric problem and should also trigger a referral to a psychiatrist. Some PD patients describe having a plan to end their life if they became so disabled that they could no longer function. Active suicide ideation (i.e. current thoughts with intent or a plan) should prompt an immediate referral for further evaluation. When depression and either anxiety or psychosis are comorbid, it can be difficult to determine if depression is the primary disorder and should be the focus of treatment. Manic-depressive illness or bipolar disorder can also be very difficult to manage in PD. The anti-PD medications can exacerbate mania, and the medications used to treat mania (e.g. lithium, valproic acid and atypical antipsychotics) can worsen parkinsonism. A referral to a psychiatrist familiar with PD for the aforementioned clinical scenarios may help with the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of these patients. 19.2.8. Treatment of depression in Parkinson’s disease The results of numerous open-label trials using selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and other newer antidepressants in PD suggest a positive effect and reasonable tolerability for active treatment (Hauser and Zesiewicz, 1997; Ceravolo et al., 2000; Tesei et al., 2000; Dell’Agnello et al., 2001; Rampello et al., 2002). However, efficacy can only be established through the conduct of placebo-controlled studies, and at the time of this submission there have been only three published placebo-controlled antidepressant treatment studies for depression in PD (Andersen et al., 1980; Wermuth et al., 1998; Leentjens et al., 2003b). One study showed efficacy for a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) (nortriptyline); however, TCAs can be difficult for PD patients to tolerate because they can aggravate PD-associated orthostatic hypotension, constipation, dry mouth and

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cognitive problems. The other two studies evaluated SSRIs and showed no difference between active and placebo treatment. A recent review and meta-analysis concluded that there was no evidence for the efficacy of newer antidepressants in PD, and in addition that they may be less effective for dPD than for depression in elderly, non-PD patients (Weintraub et al., 2005a). There is some concern about SSRIs worsening parkinsonism (Richard et al., 1997a; van de Vijver et al., 2003), perhaps secondary either to a direct dopamineblocking effect or to a serotonin-mediated decrease in dopamine turnover related to increased activity of raphe nuclei projections on nigral cells (Jimenez-Jimenez et al., 1994). However, clinical experience and the results of two placebo-controlled studies and numerous open-label studies suggest that most PD patients are able to tolerate SSRI treatment without clinically significant worsening of their parkinsonism (Hauser and Zesiewicz, 1997; Ceravolo et al., 2000; Tesei et al., 2000; Dell’Agnello et al., 2001; Rampello et al., 2002). Notwithstanding, it is important that the safety and tolerability of antidepressants in PD be tested in the context of placebo-controlled trials. Examining the experience of patients receiving routine clinical care, it was reported that half of PD patients currently taking an antidepressant at an adequate dosage (Alexopolous et al., 2001) still met DSM-IV criteria for a depressive disorder (Weintraub et al., 2003). This finding may partly have been due to undertreatment, as only 11% (1/9) of patients taking an antidepressant and still meeting criteria for depression were taking an antidepressant dosage within the highest recommended range, and only 33% (3/9) had received more than one antidepressant trial. This research also found that the overwhelming majority of PD patients in clinical practice are treated primarily and solely with an SSRI, and other classes of antidepressants were rarely used. Several PD medications have been used in the treatment of depression. Levodopa is not thought to have a consistent mood-elevating or depressing effect, although there have been case reports of patients using levodopa for its stimulating effects. Preliminary studies have reported the effectiveness of the dopamine agonist pramipexole as an antidepressant in both nonPD (Corrigan et al., 2000) and PD populations (Rektorova et al., 2003). It is important to determine whether the combination of a dopamine agonist and an antidepressant is superior to either alone, and if dopamine agonists offer prophylaxis against the development of dPD. In addition, selegiline, a selective monoamine oxidase B inhibitor at lower dosages, has been reported to have antidepressant properties, although it is not commonly used either

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as an antidepressant or a PD medication. There has also been concern that the combination of selegiline and SSRIs might lead to serotonin syndrome, although clinical experience suggests that the combination is safe (Richard et al., 1997b). Many questions remain concerning the pharmacologic treatment of dPD. For instance, it is unclear if the altered neural substrate (e.g. impairment of neural networks servicing the frontal lobe and multiple monoaminergic deficits) means PD patients will experience a more limited or variable response to standard antidepressant treatment than that reported in other populations. Also, the appropriate dosing titration schedules and final therapeutic ranges for antidepressant use in PD have yet to be established. Likewise, the duration of antidepressant treatment for PD patients is not clear, including as to whether chronic antidepressant therapy is indicated for general or for select patients. Concerning non-pharmacologic approaches, electroconvulsive therapy can successfully treat both depression and the motor symptoms associated with PD, although the motor benefits wear off once treatment is discontinued (Moellentine et al., 1998). Two open trials of transcranial magnetic stimulation for dPD reported a moderate improvement in both mood and motor symptoms (Dragasevic et al., 2004; Fregni et al., 2004). It is unclear whether there is a place for psychotherapy (e.g. cognitive-behavioral therapy or problem-solving therapy) in the treatment of dPD, either as an alternative first line treatment or as an approach to rehabilitation for those with partial medication response. Anecdotally, however, there are many PD patients who prefer psychotherapy, do not respond to pharmacotherapy, or are reluctant to take another medication (for fear of side-effects or to avoid adding to an already complex medication regimen), so psychotherapy may be an important alternative. When using psychotherapy in PD, we have often found it helpful to involve significant others in the psychotherapeutic process, particularly when cognitive impairment is present. Given the available evidence, it is reasonable to begin treatment of dPD with an SSRI. Although the safety and efficacy of this antidepressant class have not been firmly established, the potential risks and benefits of using these medications must be weighed against the risks of an untreated depressive episode. If an SSRI is not completely effective, there are very few data to guide clinical practice, though we would suggest using a second ‘newer’ antidepressant with a different pharmacological profile. These medications might include antidepressants that affect both serotonin

and norepinephrine (e.g. venlafaxine, duloxetine and mirtazapine) or a medication such as the unicyclic aminoketone, bupropion, a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor and relatively weak dopamine reuptake inhibitor. If the patient has failed two adequate trials of antidepressant therapy, consultation with a psychiatrist may help resolve any diagnostic issues and provide additional guidance on appropriate somatic treatments. The addition or substitution of psychotherapy may be beneficial, especially in patients without significant cognitive impairment or psychosis. Although not a specific treatment for depression, it is believed that regular exercise optimizes both physical and mental health in PD. Other non-motor symptoms, such as insomnia, daytime fatigue and pain, may contribute to depression, so it is important to diagnose and treat these symptoms when they are present. Finally, assessment and treatment of any contributing comorbid medical conditions (e.g. hypothyroidism and B12 deficiency) are important.

19.3. Anxiety Up to 40% of PD patients experience anxiety symptoms or disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive disorder (Richard et al., 1996; Walsh and Bennett, 2001). Though patients often avoid public situations so that parkinsonian symptoms (e.g. tremor and dyskinesias) will not be noticed, such behavior does not meet DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for social phobia. Anecdotal experience indicates that anxiety symptoms are often more upsetting and disabling than depressive symptoms in PD, perhaps due to their intensity, accompanying somatic complaints and propensity to worsen parkinsonism. Increasing anxiety and discrete anxiety attacks have been associated with motor complications, particularly the onset of ‘off’ periods, although this relationship does not hold for all patients (Richard et al., 2001). When it does occur, patients often describe a sensation of feeling ‘trapped’ as they become increasingly immobilized, with symptoms resolving with improvement in motor symptoms. Similar to depression, studies have reported an increased prevalence of anxiety disorders up to 20 years before PD onset (Gonera et al., 1997; Shiba et al., 2000). This research underscores the biological underpinnings of anxiety in PD, and a neuropathophysiological link between the two disorders may be noradrenergic dysfunction (Richard et al., 1996). Regarding treatment of anxiety, there have been no controlled treatment studies in PD to inform clinical decision-making (Walsh and Bennett, 2001). For

DISORDERS OF MOOD AND AFFECT IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE patients who experience anxiety as part of an ‘off’ state, PD medication adjustments can be made in an attempt to decrease the duration and severity of these episodes. Anecdotally, newer antidepressants are commonly used for anxiety disorders, whether or not comorbid depression is present. However, anxiety in PD responds variably to antidepressants, and many patients require treatment with benzodiazepines (most commonly low-dose lorazepam, alprazolam or clonazepam). Given that these patients are frequently physically and cognitively impaired, benzodiazepines must be used cautiously.

19.4. Apathy Apathy, succinctly defined as a decrease in goaldirected behavior, thinking and mood, is reported to occur in approximately 40% of PD patients (Starkstein et al., 1992b; Isella et al., 2002). Although there is overlap between apathy and depression, delirium and dementia, apathy also occurs independently of these syndromes (Starkstein et al., 1992b). Similar to depression, it is associated with impaired function (Isella et al., 2002). Apathy is usually accompanied by diminished self-awareness, so changes are typically noticed and brought to the attention of clinicians by care-givers. A common assumption is that the patient is depressed, though a lack of endorsement of sad mood and the typical cognitive changes seen in depression (e.g. guilt, helplessness and hopelessness) suggest a diagnosis of apathy instead. It is also important to distinguish between apathy and PD-induced slowness. Goal-directed behavior is associated with dopaminergic and noradrenergic function, and with activation of the frontal cortex and basal ganglia (Duffy, 1997). Studies of apathy in PD have reported associations with executive deficits, verbal memory impairment and bradyphrenia (Starkstein et al., 1992b; Isella et al., 2002). There have been no treatment studies for apathy in PD. Comorbid psychiatric conditions (e.g. depression) should be treated initially. Anecdotally, psychostimulants (e.g. methylphenidate) and stimulant-related compounds (e.g. modafinil) are used in clinical practice, but their effectiveness for this condition is not known. Based on the proposed neuropathophysiology of apathy, antidepressants and other medications that increase dopamine or norepinephrine activity (e.g. dopamine agonists, TCAs, dual reuptake inhibitor antidepressants, bupropion and atomoxetine) may be beneficial (Marin et al., 1995). In addition to pharmacologic treatment, it is important to educate patients and families on the distinction between apathy and

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depression and to encourage steps that overcome patient inertia and may lead to improved functioning and quality of life (Shulman, 2000).

19.5. Pseudobulbar affect PBA, a specific form of emotional or affective lability, can occur in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases and neurological conditions, including PD (Schiffer and Pope, 2005). Clinically, PBA is characterized by repeated brief episodes of uncontrollable crying or laughing, with the expressed emotion typically incongruent with the patient’s underlying mood. If a stimulus is present, the emotional response is in excess of what would ordinarily be expected. For some patients, the episodes are embarrassing and distressing, and family members may mistakenly attribute crying episodes to an underlying depression. Regarding the neuropathophysiology of PBA, a final common pathway is likely disinhibition of the brainstem bulbar nuclei that control the motor expression of crying and laughing (Schiffer and Pope, 2005). PBA in PD probably results from impairment in neural networks connecting the cortex and brainstem (Green, 1998). Numerous small-scale studies have found both TCAs and SSRIs to be efficacious in the treatment of PBA, though none included PD patients (Arciniegas and Topkoff, 2000), and there is anecdotal evidence that mood-stabilizers (e.g. valproic acid) can be effective. The combination of dextromethorphan and quinidine has been found to be effective for this syndrome in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Brooks et al., 2004); perhaps its effects are related to its N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist or sigma-1 receptor agonist (i.e. antiglutamatergic) properties (Schiffer and Pope, 2005). In addition to somatic treatment, it is important to educate patients and family members on the differences between PBA (an affective syndrome) and depression (a mood disorder).

19.6. Conclusion Disorders of mood and affect occur commonly in PD, and their presence increases motor and cognitive disability and is a primary source of patient and caregiver distress. The high prevalence of these disorders cannot be explained solely as a reaction to psychosocial stress and is due in part to neurodegeneration affecting neurons in the basal ganglia, disruption in cortical-subcortical and basotemporal limbic neural networks, and pan-monoamine deficiencies. There is great interindividual variability in the presentation of mood and affective disorders in PD, and they are

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frequently comorbid. Although uncontrolled studies and clinical experience suggest that pharmacotherapy is well tolerated and beneficial to many patients, efficacy and tolerability have yet to be demonstrated for any of these disorders. There is a pressing need for additional research on disorders of mood and affect in PD to validate diagnostic criteria, to test further or develop rating instruments to establish those with good psychometric properties, to understand better the neurobiological underpinnings of these disorders and to establish efficacious and well-tolerated forms of treatment.

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Chapter 20

Neurobehavioral disorders in Parkinson’s disease JOSE MARTIN RABEY* Department of Neurology, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel, affiliated to Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

20.1. Introduction Classical epistemology has provided a three-dimensional framework for conceptualizing the psychological components of behavior. Within this schema, the intellect is differentiated from two other, equally important categories: motivation and the emotions and the executive functions, which include capacities for initiating and carrying out self directed, goal-oriented activities effectively. This conceptual organization has facilitated the identification and classification of behavioral phenomena. Most of the studies described in the first 70 years of the 20th century were done by studying individual patients, or at most a small series of patients with similar disorders. The most common questions addressed by these studies concerned localization of function. Groups of patients with different lesion sites or behavioral syndromes were tested with standard protocols, looking for quantitative measures of performance, and these performances were compared across patient groups and with non-brain-damaged control groups. As a result of the neuropsychological research it has been shown that different aspects of behavior correspond to major cerebral structural systems (Shepherd, 1990; Kertesz, 1994). In addition to answering questions about localization, the experimental neuropsychology of the 1960s and 1970s also uncovered aspects of the functional organization of behavior (Luria, 1973). In the past two decades, neurobehavior and neuropsychology have been drastically transformed, not only by the influx of theoretical ideas from cognitive psychology, but also by the advent of powerful new methods for studying brain activity during cognition. In this respect, an important transformation in neurobehavioral

research occurred with the introduction of functional neuroimaging. After its introduction, positron emission tomography (PET) was quickly applied by researchers interested in brain–behavior relations. This technique provides images of regional glucose utilization, blood flow, oxygen consumption or receptor density in the brain of live humans. Moreover, with the use of radioactive ligands, abnormalities can be related to specific neurotransmitter systems as well as specific anatomic regions. PET was soon joined by other techniques for measuring regional brain activity, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) was quickly adapted for some applications, since PET, although less expensive, was also a less quantifiable and less spatially accurate method for obtaining images of regional cerebral blood flow. Most recently, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has provided good anatomic and temporal resolution, using non-invasive techniques (Feinberg and Farah, 1997). Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and to a lesser extent in the adjacent ventral tegmental area (VTA). The abnormal degeneration of the dopaminergic system leads to a progressive depletion of the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) in the striatum, where the SN projects, as well as in the corticolimbic areas, receiving dopaminergic projections from the VTA. This causes a variety of motor and non-motor disturbances. The most important DA deficiency-related clinical motor manifestations in PD are bradykinesia, rigidity,

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rest tremor and postural abnormalities. The non-motor abnormalities consist of cognitive deficits, depression, anxiety, apathy and psychosis, among others. This chapter reviews the non-cognitive neurobehavioral disturbances found in patients with PD. It is much more difficult to characterize and measure emotional behavior and executive functions than cognitive functions. Recognizing the fact that many emotional responses are both multidetermined and multidimensional makes it difficult, if not impossible, to delineate precisely the differences between the effects of a lesion, of personality predisposition and of situational reactions, particularly since most often the patient’s emotional behavior results from interactions between these factors. Thus, in comparison with the cognitive functions, both the understanding and assessment of the emotional disorders accompanying cerebral damage are less well developed (Lezak, 1997). In PD the situation is more complicated, considering that the ‘gold standard’ treatment for the disease consists of the administration of levodopa, which is converted into DA in the brain of patients. DA activates receptors located in the striatum, the limbic and frontal cortex (via the mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways). These two regions play a crucial role in the genesis of non-cognitive behavior. Therefore it is sometimes quite difficult to determine if the behavioral alterations observed in a PD patient are disease- or treatment-related.

20.2. Parkinson’s disease 20.2.1. General overview Since its original description (Parkinson, 1817), PD was considered mainly a motor disorder. This was based on the original description by James Parkinson, who did not note any psychiatric or behavioral change that might be associated with the disease as indicated by the definition, which states ‘senses and intellect being uninjured’ (Parkinson, 1817). It may be that this was his idea when assessing the early stages of the disease. Later, when discussing advanced disease patients, he used descriptive words such as ‘unhappy sufferer’, or ‘a more melancholy object I never beheld. The patient, a handsome middle-size, sanguine man, of a cheerful disposition and an active mind, appeared much emaciated, stooped and dejected’, suggesting the presence of depression. During the 19th century, Charcot and Vulpian (1861), referring to PD, concluded that ‘in general, psychic faculties are definitely impaired and at a given point, the mind becomes clouded and the memory is lost’.

Untreated PD was considered to be associated with mental and emotional abnormalities prior to the introduction of levodopa. Psychoanalytically oriented literature described a parkinsonian personality (Sands, 1942) and a detailed analysis attributed various unconscious explanations for the parkinsonian symptomatology (Booth, 1948; Flynn, 1962). These theoretical concepts were superseded by clinical observations oriented towards cognitive and affective changes inherent to the disease and the psychiatric side-effects caused by levodopa. The main motor symptoms in PD – rigidity, bradykinesia and rigidity – are exacerbated by neuropsychological problems that include depression, lack of motivation, bradyphrenia, lack of emotional expression, social anxiety and a stress-dependent increase of motor symptoms. Social anxiety and stress-induced increase in symptoms clearly result from an interaction of somatic and psychological factors. Social anxiety can be regarded as a secondary symptom that develops in PD as an indirect consequence of the motor symptoms. Patients are afraid of being negatively evaluated in public and of receiving negative comments. Social withdrawal increases as a result and the freedom provided by symptomatic control with medication is used far less than is possible (Ellgring et al., 1993). Today it is widely accepted that abnormalities of the mental state in PD are common, with more than 60% of patient reporting one or more psychiatric symptoms (Aarsland et al., 1999b). They constitute some of the most difficult challenges for treatment in advanced stages of the disease, producing increased disability and influencing the quality of life (QoL). Among different behavioral problems described, depression and anxiety are the most common disturbances in untreated PD (Aarsland et al., 1999b). They can also antedate motor symptoms by several years (Shiba et al., 2000). In addition, advanced PD is often associated with cognitive impairment, apathy and sexual or sleep disturbances. In advanced PD, several features related to antiparkinsonian medication complicate the management of the disease. These neuropsychiatric disorders include various symptoms which range from vivid dreams, nightmares and visual hallucinations with preserved insight to hallucinations without insight, delusions, mania, psychosis and delirium. Fluctuations in motor performance on antiparkinsonian treatment may also be associated with psychiatric symptoms, particularly anxiety and panic attacks. In addition, depression, suicidal ideation, pain, hallucinations and delusions may be found (Nissembaum et al., 1987; Witjas et al., 2002).

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE Levodopa administration to PD patients has been demonstrated to induce depression (Jenkins and Groh, 1970), euphoria (Celesia and Barr, 1970), mania (Muenter, 1970), hypersexuality (Uitti et al., 1989), delusions (Jenkins and Groh, 1970), confusion (Celesia and Barr, 1970; Jenkins and Groh, 1970; Mindham, 1970), night terrors (Sharf et al., 1978), vivid dreams (Sharf et al., 1978), visual hallucinations (Goetz et al., 1982) and paranoid psychosis (Hurwitz et al., 1988; Friedman and Lannon, 1989). However, it must be kept in mind that PD patients may have psychosis unrelated to their medications (Crowe et al., 1976; Klawans, 1988). Although the differentiation between psychiatric symptoms related to ‘off’ states and those independent of motor fluctuations can be difficult, a proper diagnosis has important treatment implications. Anxiolytic, antidepressant or analgesic medications are usually ineffective for such off-related events, but they typically resolve when ‘off’ periods are terminated by antiparkinsonian medication. In particular, apomorphine rescue injections have been shown to provide rapid improvement of psychiatric symptoms (Maricle et al., 1995). 20.2.2. Evaluation of behavioral disorders in Parkinson’s disease PD patients have a myriad of psychiatric symptoms. Usually, most published studies focused on one or few psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety and psychosis (Cummings, 1992; Aarsland et al., 1999b). In these studies, behavior (non-cognitive) was usually studied by screening psychiatric symptoms in a PD population and scoring its prevalence and intensity or comparing the symptoms with data collected from a matched-age healthy group or a group of patients with another chronic disease (rheumatoid arthritis, for example). Considering the evaluation of mental features, it is important to mention that very few questionnaires have been validated for clinical use in the analysis of behavior disorders in PD. Among them, the most popular in use are the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) (Cummings et al., 1994), the Neurobehavioral Rating Scale (NRS) (Sultzer et al., 1992) and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) (Overhall and Gorham, 1962). The NPI consists of a care-giver-based, structured interview which assesses the severity and frequency of 10 psychiatric symptoms occurring during the last month (before the date of the evaluation). The fields covered by the inventory are: delusions, hallucinations, agitation, depression, anxiety, euphoria, apathy,

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disinhibition, irritability and abnormal motor output. The NPI has proved validity and reliability in patients with dementia. Aarsland et al. (1999b) utilized the NPI successfully to evaluate 139 PD patients in Norway. According to the results presented, the most common behavior disorders found were depression (38%) and hallucinations (27%) and the least common symptoms were euphoria and disinhibition. The highest mean scores were found for depression, apathy and hallucinations. Psychiatric symptoms correlated with the stages of the disease and cognitive impairment. In addition, they did not find any relation with left- or right-sided parkinsonism. In addition to the utilization of validated questionnaires, some groups have also created new scoring scales for the evaluations of behavioral symptoms. Among those publications it is important to mention two studies. One is the work performed by Witjas et al. (2002). In this study the authors tried to assess the frequency and disability caused by non-motor fluctuations (NMF) in PD. For this purpose they created a structured questionnaire, which was applied to 50 PD patients. NMFs were evaluated by scoring 54 symptoms classified into three subgroups: (1) 26 dysautonomic; (2) 21 cognitive and psychiatric; and (3) 7 pain/ sensory. Patients were asked to rate their disability from 0 (no disability) to 4 (maximum discomfort) and to specify which kind of fluctuation subgroup (motor or non-motor) was the most incapacitating. The most frequent psychic fluctuations were anxiety (66%), slowing of thinking (58%), fatigue (56%), irritability (52%) and hallucinations (52%), whereas slowness of thinking (58%) was the most common cognitive symptom. In addition, they found that anxiety correlated highly with a greater level of disability. Surprisingly, 28% of patients stated that NMFs involved a greater degree of disability than motor fluctuations. Patients who reported a large number of psychic fluctuations had severe motor complications (‘on–off’ fluctuations or early-morning dystonia) (P < 0.05). The number of psychic manifestations correlated with the duration of levodopa treatment, but not with the daily dose of the drug (P < 0.001). In addition, it is important to mention that the psychic symptoms did not correlate with the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale or the Beck Depression Inventory (Witjas et al., 2002). Martinez-Martin et al. (2004) created a new questionnaire based on the NPI, the NRS and the BPRS. In addition to the motor tests, they evaluated 86 PD patients with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (Zigmond and Snaith, 1983). According to the prevalence data obtained in their study, the four most frequent features found were bradyphrenia,

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bradypsychia, depression and anxiety (present in more than 50% of patients examined). Other quite common symptoms were insomnia and parasomnia, somatic preoccupation, fatigue, apathy and agitation (present in nearly 40% of patients). In this study, the researchers also found that depression, verbal communication and cognitive-behavioral mental status were the domains that most significantly affected the QoL of the care-givers. 20.2.3. Quality-of-life questionnaires in Parkinson’s disease In the last years, in addition to measurements of motor, cognitive and emotional functions, a new item has received attention: QoL measurements. From a pragmatic point of view, QoL refers to the patient’s own perception and self-evaluation regarding the effects of an illness and its consequences on her or his life. The most relevant aspects to be considered in QoL are physical status, social interactions, economic and vocational status and religious and spiritual status. Both generic and disease-specific instruments that assess health-related QoL are being used in crosssectional and longitudinal PD research, such as clinical drug trials and studies that ascertain the economic burden and QoL deficits associated with PD. Longitudinal studies measure change in patient status over time, whereas cross-sectional studies can evaluate concurrent patient symptoms from a single disease or from multiple chronic conditions. The disease-specific instruments can be more sensitive to change in patient health status. PD patients have many reasons for a decrease in QoL, such as restrictions in mobility, falls, emotional disorders, social embarrassment, isolation, sleep disturbances, dyskinesias and fluctuations. Many aspects of these disorders go unnoticed and only QoL assessments help to rate them. Specific questionnaires recently developed, like the PDQ-39 (Jenkinson et al., 1995) and PDQL-37 (De Boer et al., 1996), have been designed and validated for the screening of mental and motor symptoms in PD. Several studies recently published have shown that PD patients’ well-being, general health perception and health satisfaction are strongly influenced by the impact of psychological and emotional factors and more weakly by physical symptoms of the disease (Calne et al., 1996; Schrag et al., 2000; Chrischilles et al., 2002). QoL assessment in PD is an important and expanding area that will probably play a key role in the management of future clinical trials and pharma-

coeconomics (Martinez-Martin, 1998). Considering the publications of the last years, it is quite clear that in the future clinical evaluation of PD patients should include mental health and self-reported QoL assessments. 20.2.4. Depression and Parkinson’s disease 20.2.4.1. Prevalence studies Depression may occur at any stage of PD (Allain et al., 2000). Its prevalence rates vary greatly, from 3 to 90%, depending on definitions and ascertainment methods. The measurement of depression using questionnaires is difficult as most standardized questionnaires contain questions that overlap with features of PD. Nevertheless, it is clear that depression and anxiety occur more commonly in patients with PD than in an age-matched population. Although in one study depression in PD subjects was no more common than in subjects with arthritis (Gotham et al., 1986), more recent larger studies found depression to be significantly more frequent in patients with PD than in patients with ostheoarthritis or diabetes (Nilsson et al., 2002). Gotham et al. (1986) reviewed 14 studies with a total of 1500 PD patients and estimated a mean depression prevalence of 46% (range 20–90%). Approximately half of depressed patients with PD do not meet the criteria for major depressive disorder, but do meet the criteria for dysthymia (Cummings, 1992). Dysthymia typically has an insidious onset. Chronic long-term stress and female gender appear to be risk factors. Moreover, patients with dysthymia are at increased risk for developing a major depressive episode in the future. Hantz et al. (1994) reported that only 2.7% of PD patients met Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (American Psychiatric Association, 2000; DSM-IV) criteria for major depression, suggesting that this psychiatric disorder may occur at an equal frequency in PD and non-PD individuals. Tandberg et al. (1996) reported, in a community survey in Norway, that among 245 patients with PD, 7.7% had major depression and 45.5% had mild depressive symptoms. These two studies strongly suggest that the prevalence of major depression in PD is low, but a significant proportion of PD patients have mild depressive symptoms. Mood alterations, even in mild forms, contribute to impairments in daily functioning among PD patients. Fine motor skills and cognitive function in PD patients decline when depression superimposes (Troster et al., 1995; Kuhn et al., 1996). Moreover, depression is the strongest and most consistent factor that negatively affects health-related QoL measures in PD (Phillips, 1999; Kuopio et al., 2000). This negative impact

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE extends to care-giver burden (Aarsland et al., 1999a; Meara et al., 1999). 20.2.4.2. The problem of diagnosis of depression in Parkinson’s disease The diagnosis of depression in PD can be confounded by an overlap of the motor features of PD and the clinical features of depression. Masked facies, bradyphrenia, fatigue, insomnia or hypersomnia, akathisia or bradykinesia and weight loss, all features of PD, may suggest depression in a euthymic PD patient. Sleep disturbances, including sleep fragmentation, early awakening, vivid dreams and rapid-eye movement (REM) behavioral disorder commonly occur in PD patients who are not depressed, so that classic screening tools may be inaccurate for PD patients. Researchers have therefore looked for discriminatory symptoms. Starkstein et al. (1990) reported that anorexia, pain, loss of libido and sleep disturbances were very characteristic in depressed PD patients and uncommon in non-depressed PD subjects. Feelings of worthlessness, pathological guilt and suicidal ideation are possibly the best useful discriminatory elements to diagnose major depression in a PD patient. Due to these diagnostic difficulties, screening tests and clinical judgment often correlate poorly (Mayeux et al., 1981; Hantz et al., 1994). Shulman et al. (1997) submitted 103 PD patients without dementia to a neurological examination, asking physicians to report their immediate impression of depression. These patients were then administered the Beck Depression Inventory to determine whether depressive criteria were met. The two assessments agreed in only 35%. 20.2.4.3. Risk factors predisposing Parkinson’s disease patients to depression The risk factors for major depression in PD remain debatable. PD patients with akinetic-rigid parkinsonism, cognitive dysfunction, early onset of disease or right-sided motor symptoms appear to be at increased risk for depression (Starkstein et al., 1990; Cummings, 1992; Cole et al., 1996). Other reports do not support those findings. Moreover, age at PD onset, gender, current age, disease duration and motor severity have all been reported to influence the risk for depression in some reports, but not in others. Few consistent findings emerge from these reports. Most studies reveal no relationship between depression and patient age at assessment, duration of PD symptoms or onset of symptoms (Gotham et al., 1986; Barclay et al., 1997). In fact, depression often antedates parkinsonism, suggesting that the affective illness may be an early, premotor sign of PD (Santamaria et al., 1986).

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20.2.4.4. Cognitive decline and depression in Parkinson’s disease A difficult problem to solve is the relationship between intellectual impairment and depression in PD. This question is difficult considering that depressive patients may show inattention, lack of interest and dysphoria. Some researchers suggested that depression occurs independently from dementia and Mayeux et al. (1981) found a significant negative correlation between the severity of depression and cognitive impairment. In another study, the same group (Mayeux et al., 1990) examined the clinical characteristics of 250 nondemented PD patients and evaluated their association with the incidence of dementia during a 5-year period. The odds ratio for incident dementia with PD in this group was significantly increased in the setting of depression. Starkstein et al. (1989) applied a neuropsychological battery to PD patients and found that severity of depression was the single most important factor associated with the severity of cognitive impairment. PD patients with major depression performed significantly worse than non-depressed PD patients on all cognitive studies, with most severe impairments on frontal lobe tasks. In addition to disease severity, other factors that play a role in the prevalence of depression are older age and lower cognitive score (Tandberg et al., 1996; Cubo et al., 2000; Giladi et al., 2000). Troster et al. (1995) found that PD patients with and without dementia demonstrated impairment in immediate and delayed verbal recall, semantic fluency and problem-solving. Yet, when matched for demographic and disease variables, only the depressed PD groups demonstrated impairment relative to the normal controls in the areas of visual confronting, naming and lexical and semantic fluency. Moreover, pronounced impairment in immediate recall and semantic fluency was present only in the depressed group. 20.2.4.5. Antiparkinsonian drugs and depression Considering the large number of medications with which PD patients are treated, the risk of drug-induced depression has been studied. No antiparkinsonian drug has been associated with the induction or aggravation of depression (Cummings, 1992). Moreover, anticholinergic drugs have been considered to have a mild euphoric effect. Selegiline has been reported to have mood-elevating properties and some DA-receptor agonists have been associated with improvement in affective functions. However, although selegiline, amantadine and levodopa have minimal antidepressant effects, there are no clinical data supporting their use as a substitute for classic antidepressants.

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Corrigan et al. (2000) conducted an 8-week doubleblind, randomized trial of fluoxetine (20 mg) versus pramipexole (0.375, 1.0 or 5.0 mg) versus placebo. Patients receiving pramipexole had a statistically significant improvement on the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, the Montgomery-Ashberg Depression Rating Scale and the Clinician’s Global Impression – Severity of Illness scale. However, the greatest benefit was seen with high doses of pramipexole (5 mg/day) and side-effects were relatively common at this dosage (Corrigan et al., 2000). 20.2.4.6. Pathogenesis of depression in Parkinson’s disease The precise pathophysiology of depression in PD has not been completely elucidated. Decreased cerebrospinal fluid 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid levels, a serotonin metabolite, have been found in depressed PD patients (Mayeux et al., 1986, 1988; Asberg et al., 1984). The role of DA and norepinephrine in mediating depression in patients with PD is not fully understood. It is probable that depression is mediated by neuronal loss in dopaminergic, serotonergic and adrenergic pathways. Alterations of brainstem raphe–basal limbic systems may play a role in the pathogenesis of depression. Becker et al. (1997) described significantly reduced raphe echogenicity via transcranial sonography in depressed PD patients versus age- and sex-adjusted non-depressed controls. Over the last 25 years, evidence has accumulated to suggest that a derangement of the hypothalamic– pituitary–adrenal axis occurs in patients with major depression (Carroll, 1982). With the overnight lowdose dexamethasone suppression test, many depressed patients show adrenal cortisol hypersecretion, as well as flattened cortisol circadian periodicity and failure to suppress plasma cortisol concentrations. Carroll (1982) reported a 67% sensitivity and 96% specificity in the diagnosis of melancholia (or major depression) with the dexamethasone suppression test in hospitalized patients. In 1990, our research group submitted 32 PD patients (14 with dementia), all of them non-depressed, and 20 matched-age healthy controls to a dexamethasone oral test (1 mg) and measured cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone and beta-endorphin (Rabey et al., 1990). We found that about 50% of the patients were (as in a population with major depression) non-suppressors of cortisol plasma levels. As a consequence of these findings, we suggested that it was possible that non-depressed PD patients may share some pathophysiological features at the hypothalamic–hypophyseal–adrenal level with patients with major depression. The hypothesis to explain

those findings is that patients with depression may have higher levels of corticotropin-releasing factor as a result of a disturbance in the balance of neurotransmitters in the tuberoinfundibular pathway, which influence the release of the hormone (Eisler et al., 1981). If this is the case, considering that DA and norepinephrine are two neurotransmitters that may exert an inhibitory effect on the release of corticotropin-releasing factor at hypothalamic levels (and both are diminished in the brain of PD patients) (Hornykiewicz and Kish, 1986), we suggested that the decrement of these two neurotransmitters may induce high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor, resistant to exogenic dexamethasone. These alterations occur in both PD patients and patients with major depression. A study performed by Serra-Mestres and Ring (2002) may support this hypothesis. These authors found that non-depressed PD patients had a greater response to ‘sad’ words on the Emotional Stroop task than non-depressed healthy controls, suggesting that non-depressed PD patients ‘may be more sensitive to negative stimuli which may predispose them to develop depression’. 20.2.4.7. Antidepressant therapy and Parkinson’s disease Antidepressant therapy should be started without reservation if depression is interfering with the patient’s daily function and QoL. Although evidence-based clinical trials are lacking regarding the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and tricyclic antidepressants (TCA) in the treatment of depression in PD, their use is widespread in clinical practice and generally they are effective. In a recent paper Chung et al. (2004) performed a systematic review of antidepressant therapies in PD and found only three randomized controlled trials performed in 106 patients with PD. One was the study my group performed in the mid-1990s (Rabey et al., 1996). In this study, we randomly submitted 47 patients with PD and depression to fluvoxamine (mean daily dose 78 mg) versus amitriptyline (mean daily dose 69 mg) in a single-blind study. A 50% reduction in the Hamilton Depression Score was considered a good response for analysis. After 16 months, 55% of the amitriptyline group (15/27) and after 17 months, 60% of the fluvoxamine group (12/20) showed a 50% decrease in the Hamilton Score. We did not find any therapeutic advantage of one drug compared to the other. In addition, the rate of dropouts was relatively high (around 40%) in both arms of the treatment. Clinicians may be concerned that SSRIs may worsen the PD patient motor performance by decreasing DA

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE release in nigrostriatal pathways. However, clinical trial data and clinical experience do not support this concept. In fact, a large database study conducted in 199 PD patients by Gony et al. (2003) failed to identify any significant difference in the frequency of extrapyramidal symptoms between the different antidepressant classes utilized. Supporting this concept, Dell’Agnello et al. (2001) treated in an open way 62 depressed (nondemented) PD patients with four different types of SSRI (citalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine or sertraline) for 6 months. They also did not detect a significant change in the motor performances measured with the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale. At the same time, a good therapeutic response was measured with the Beck and Hamilton Depression Scales. Patients concomitantly receiving monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors and SSRIs may be at increased risk for developing serotonin syndrome. MAO-B inhibitors may interfere with serotonin metabolism, resulting in excessive stimulation of 5-HT1A receptors. Selegiline and rasagiline are selective inhibitors of MAO-B and, at the doses recommended for PD (10 mg/day selegiline; 1 mg/day rasagiline) there is minimal inhibition of MAO-A. In a review of 4568 PD patients treated with selegiline and an antidepressant, only 11 patients (0.24%) reported symptoms that were probably consistent with a serotonin syndrome (Richard et al., 1997). Concerning the use of TCA in PD patients, it is important to mention that these types of antidepressants also have an anticholinergic (antimuscarinic) effect, which makes them especially useful for the treatment of rest tremor frequently found in these patients. However, this pharmacodynamic property also constitutes its limitation. Clomipramine, amitriptyline, doxepin, imipramine and protryptiline have the highest risk of producing undesirable ‘atropinelike’ side-effects: dry mouth, confusion, constipation and orthostatic hypotension. As a consequence, it is advised that treatment with TCA should be started at the lowest possible dose. Further titration should be performed under medical surveillance. In addition, TCA should be avoided in patients with significant cardiac disease as they may produce arrhythmias (Roose and Dalack, 1992). A baseline electrocardiogram is recommended before initiating TCA treatment, especially in elderly patients. Aggravation of cognitive functions in aged PD patients is also a serious limitation in the use of TCA. 20.2.5. Mania Mania, hypomania and euphoria do not occur in untreated PD patients (Mayeux, 1990), but have all

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been reported as side-effects of dopaminergic medication (Lang et al., 1982; Boyson, 1991). In this respect, Goodwin et al. (1971) reported that the incidence of hypomania was 1.5% in 908 patients treated with levodopa. In another study, the same group (Goodwin, 1972) treated 11 depressed non-PD patients with levodopa and 6 of them (50%) with a previous history of mania or hypomania developed acute mania or hypomania while treated with 4–10 g/day. The main hypothesis to explain this feature is to assume that increased synthesis of DA in the VTA (V10) in the midbrain may overstimulate the limbic system, producing the symptomatology. O’Brien et al. (1971) reported an interesting case of a man who developed episodes of inappropriate laughter and grandiosity that occurred in cycles 90 minutes after each 6 g of levodopa. Jouvent et al. (1983) reported 2 of 10 PD patients who developed hypomania after receiving high doses of bromocriptine. Acute mania was also described in PD patients receiving selegiline (Boyson, 1991; Kurlan and Dimitsopulos, 1992). Some researchers (Suchowersky and deVries, 1990; Kurlan and Dimitsopulos, 1992) also warned against the concomitant use of selegiline and antidepressants (mainly fluoxetine) because of the possibility of precipitating mania. As a consequence of the information available today, it is advised that PD patients with a previous history of mania and hypomania should be treated cautiously with dopaminergic therapy with periodic monitoring of their mental performance to avoid the reappearance of this symptomatology. 20.2.6. Hypersexuality Hypersexuality seems to be a rare complication related to the treatment of PD. It is estimated to occur in 0.9–3% of patients (Goodwin, 1971, Lesser et al., 1979). It is more common in men and has been described with all dopaminergic medications, including apomorphine (Courty et al., 1997), pramipexole and ropinirole. Increased libido and return of penile erection after years of impotence have been reported in patients treated with levodopa (O’Brien et al., 1971). In these cases, aberrant behavior was not described. Other researchers described an increased preoccupation of PD patients with sexual activities after being exposed to dopaminergic treatment, out of proportion with their interest before this treatment (Uitti et al., 1989). Some patients become more voyeuristic or showed disinhibition, involving indecent exposure in public places or sadomasochism (Quinn et al., 1983). In many of these patients, the increased sexual desire and preoccupation

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were not accompanied by a return of sexual function. Goodwin (1971) reported an association between psychosis and hypersexuality in PD. Low doses of classic antipsychotics may overcome these features. However, these medications should be used with caution considering their possible motor complications. Low doses of atypical antipsychotics may be used in cases of hypersexuality with good results. It is interesting to mention that Fernandez and Durso (1998) reported a case of zoophilia (sexual contact with a domestic dog) in a PD patient, who responded to clozapine therapy. Also it is useful to remember that a diminution of the offending drug (levodopa or DA agonists) may help to abate the syndrome of hypersexuality. Impotence has been reported in 40–60% of male PD patients. Sildenafil has been reported to be useful in 22 PD patients with impotence (Brewer and Stacy, 1998). It has been reported that patients with PD may suffer from depression, anhedonia and sexual impotence due to low levels of testosterone. In these cases, substitutive therapy should be used (Okun et al., 2002). 20.2.7. Anxiety Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychophysiological responses to the anticipation of unreal or imagined danger, ostensibly resulting from unrecognized intrapsychic conflict. Autonomic concomitants include tachycardia, altered respiration rate, sweating, trembling, weakness and fatigue. Psychological concomitants include feelings of impending danger, powerlessness, apprehension and tension. Panic attacks are discrete periods of intense fear or discomfort that are accompanied by at least four of 13 cognitive symptoms (according to DSM-IV criteria: American Psychiatric Association, 2000): (1) palpitations, accelerated heart rate; (2) sweating; (3) trembling or shaking; (4) sensations of shortness of breath, (5) feelings of choking, (6) chest pain or discomfort; (7) nausea or abdominal distress; (8) feeling dizzy, unsteady or faint; (9) derealization or depersonalization; (10) fear of losing control or going crazy; (11) fear of dying; (12) paresthesias; (13) chills or hot flushes. It is well known that, in psychiatric populations, anxiety and depressive disorders commonly coexist. Lydiard (1991) reported that up to 60% of patients with depression also have anxiety and 20–30% of patients with major depression suffer from panic attacks. Anxiety is common in PD. Some publications suggest that the proportion of patients with PD experiencing clinically significant anxiety is greater than that of the general population, clinic attenders or

persons with other chronic medical conditions (Richard et al., 1997). Considering that depression is the most common behavioral disorder that accompanies PD, it is clear that anxiety will be the second most common behavioral disturbance. Cummings (1991) noted that depression in PD is distinguished from other depressive disorders by greater anxiety and less self-punitive ideation. Menza et al. (1993b) reported that 92% of PD patients who suffered an anxiety disorder also had a depressive disorder and that 67% of those with a depressive disorder also presented an anxiety syndrome. Although other studies have also found a close correlation between depression and anxiety (Fleminger, 1991; Vazquez et al., 1993), anxiety can occur in the absence of depression. A study by Liu et al. (1997) showed that, although in the cohort studied, general depression correlated with anxiety, 14 of 58 PD patients free of depressive symptoms suffered from general anxiety disorders (GAD) (applying DSM-IV criteria: American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Reviewing the epidemiology and comorbidity of anxiety disorders in the elderly, Flint (1994) concluded that GAD and phobias account for most anxiety in late life and that panic disorders are rare. This finding contrasts with what has been described in patients with PD. Moreover, it was noted that when panic disorders did occur in elderly patients, females accounted for all the cases. In contrast to elderly subjects, in PD the occurrence of panic disorder involved both males and females. Virtually all types of anxiety disorder have been described in PD, but GAD panic disorder and social phobia appear to be the ones most commonly encountered. The relation between anxiety and dementia is not clear. Depression seems to be equally frequent in PD patients with and without dementia (Cummings, 1992). Lauterbach (1993) studied 38 patients with familial parkinsonism and found no relationship between anxiety and cognitive decline. Similar conclusions were reported by Vazquez et al. (1993) and Fleminger (1991). 20.2.7.1. Pathogenesis of anxiety The main neurotransmitters implicated in the pathogenesis of anxiety include norepinephrine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). There is convincing evidence implicating noradrenergic dysfunction in the development of primary anxiety disorders, especially panic attacks (Charney et al., 1987; Nutt and Lawson, 1992). Interestingly, many abnormalities of the noradrenergic system have been described in PD brains (Agid et al., 1989). Studies have demonstrated a catecholaminergic cell

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE loss in the locus ceruleus in PD (German et al., 1992; Patt and Gerhard, 1993). In addition to the derangement of the nucleus ceruleus in PD patients, changes have been described in both central and peripheral adrenergic receptors. Studies have shown a decrease of a2-adrenoreceptors in the cortex of PD patients (Cash et al., 1984). Other studies also demonstrated a decrease in a2-adrenergic binding in platelets from PD patients (Villeneuve et al., 1985). Berlan et al. (1989) suggested that untreated PD is associated with a significant reduction in a2-adrenergic sensitivity. It has been suggested that PD patients are more vulnerable to panic attacks because they have an alteration of a2-adrenergic receptors. Probably the locus ceruleus is disinhibited in PD secondary to an alteration in other neurotransmitters. Lauterbach (1993) and Vazquez et al. (1993) provided data suggesting that locus ceruleus disinhibition in PD may lead to secondary panic attacks, whereas locus ceruleus degeneration and subsequent incompetence might explain attenuation of primary panic attacks. Supporting a possible link of norepinephrine and anxiety, it is important to mention that PD patients with a history of anxiety developed panic attacks at frequencies comparable with psychiatric patients with panic disorders when they were challenged with yohimbine (an a2-antagonist) (Richard et al., 1999). Serotonin is another neurotransmitter that has been postulated to play a role in the production of anxiety disorders, particularly obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobias, GAD and perhaps panic disorders (Charney et al., 1990). Selective abnormalities in the serotonergic system have been described in PD (Jellinger, 1987; Halliday et al., 1990). In the basal ganglia (putamen, caudate, globus pallidus), SN, hypothalamus and frontal cortex there is a selective decrease of serotonin (Jellinger, 1987). It is possible that interactions between noradrenergic and serotonergic systems are important for the manifestation of certain anxiety disorders, since serotonin can decrease locus ceruleus firing by 5-HT2 serotonin receptors (Charney et al., 1990). The potential role of GABA in the genesis of anxiety symptomatology is suggested by the fact that benzodiazepines are very effective for its treatment. These drugs work by activation of GABA receptors in the brain (Charney et al., 1990). In addition, in the brains of PD patients an increased concentration of GABA has been measured in the putamen and pallidus and a decreased concentration in cortical areas (Agid et al., 1989). There are some data to suggest that DA may be involved in the development of anxiety, social phobias

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and panic disorders (Pitchot et al., 1992; Potts and Davidson, 1992). If a derangement of DA is related to anxiety, this will explain why patients with PD show a high frequency of anxiety. Maricle et al. (1995) performed a study in which they administered levodopa in an infusion to PD patients and demonstrated a relationship between dopaminergic deficiency and anxiety, at least associated with motor fluctuations. In addition to the findings just mentioned, it has also been noted that DA decreases the firing rate of the locus ceruleus (Cederbaum and Aghajanian, 1977). Other researchers have also suggested that DA deficiency may result in an alteration of the noradrenergic system, which would explain its relationship with certain anxiety disorders (Iruela et al., 1992; Lauterbach, 1993; Vazquez et al., 1993). Concerning the relationship between cerebral lateralization and anxiety, some studies have shown that PD patients with predominant left-side symptoms (which imply a lesion in the right-brain hemisphere) suffer from more anxiety disorders than patients with right motor features (Rubin et al., 1986; Fleminger, 1991; Tomer et al., 1993). 20.2.7.2. Treatment of anxiety in Parkinson’s disease The drugs commonly used for treating anxiety in PD include benzodiazepines, TCA, SSRI, atypical cyclic antidepressants (trazodone), non-selective MAO inhibitors and buspirone. There are no controlled studies on medication for anxiety syndromes in PD. Stein et al. (1990) suggested that PD patients with anxiety may respond to benzodiazepines and antidepressants. Lauterbach and Duvoisisn (1992) cautioned that benzodiazepines may at times worsen PD symptomatology. Alprazolam (Small, 1997) was shown to be effective for anxiety symptoms in an elderly population after cardiac surgery. In my experience, alprazolam is a very useful drug for the management of GAD and other types of anxiety in PD patients. It is especially useful for the management of anxiety and discomfort related to ‘off’ episodes. Elderly PD patients may be more sensitive to anxiolytic medications due to their altered liver metabolism, low kidney filtration rate, injuries resulting from a tendency to fall if oversedated and their underlying medical conditions (Small, 1997). Higginson et al. (2001) examined which symptoms of anxiety diminish after surgical intervention for PD. Thirty-nine PD patients were screened using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 1 month before and 4 months after surgery (24 underwent pallidotomy, 10 underwent deep brain-stimulating electrode implantation in the internal segment of the globus pallidus, 4 underwent

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thalamic brain stimulation and 1 underwent left thalamotomy). According to the results obtained, the surgical procedures produced a significant reduction in terms of BAI total score as well as neurophysiologic autonomic and subjective factors from the BAI. These factors were distinct from the motor symptoms of PD. In other words, the amelioration in anxiety was not an epiphenomenon of parkinsonian symptoms improved by the surgical procedure. The explanation for a change in anxiety symptoms after basal ganglia surgery may be related to activation of neural loops (with secondary changes in blood flow in the limbic and frontal regions) obtained secondary to surgical procedures (Miyakawi et al., 2000). 20.2.8. Pathological repetitive behavior Patients with PD may suffer from stereotypies and perseverations in the course of their disease. Stereotypies consist of the persistent repetition of senseless acts or words. This may be a persisting maintenance of a bodily attitude (stereotypy of attitude), repetition of senseless movements (stereotypy of movement, echopraxia) or a constant repetition of certain words or phrases (stereotypy of speech, echolalia, verbigeration). Perseveration means the persistence or repetition of a response after the causative stimulus has ceased or in response to different stimuli (for example, the patient correctly answers a question, but later gives the same answer to succeeding questions) (Ridley, 1994). This condition has been studied in a variety of conditions (Ridley and Baker, 1982). It has been associated with dysfunction in the regulation–inhibition activity of frontal lobes, particularly in patients with subcortical pathologies. The terms stereotypies and perseverations are sometimes used interchangeably in the literature or with the implication that stereotypies are more severe than perseveration, or considering that stereotypy refers to motor acts whereas perseveration refers to the behavioral consequence of mental states (Ridley, 1994). The main neurochemical change found in PD consists of a derangement of DA in the nigrostriatal, mesolimbic and mesocortical pathways. As a consequence, the symptoms of PD may be explained as secondary to an underactivation and increased inhibition of behavioral sets (frontal region) with difficulties in changing responses according to external signals resulting in reduced behavioral output. In addition to these motor effects, there are also marked mental effects consisting mainly of perseverations of attentional sets. Bowen et al. (1975) were the first to show that some patients

with PD perform poorly on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). Subsequently, Flowers and Robertson (1985) showed that PD patients were also impaired on a simplified version of the same task in which they were required to make choices according to alternating rules. Sometimes only stimulus-bound behavior remains. A PD patient may make a rapid and skillful movement in order to avoid some perceived mishap, but may be unable to make the same movement under normal voluntary control. In patients with PD, perseverations usually occur in intellectual tasks and may be seen as difficulty in suppressing ongoing attention to prior stimulation and as the unrestrained perpetuation of a response beyond its proper point of completion. The difficulty in suppressing response tendencies may interfere with performance on tasks requiring delayed responses (Milner, 1971). In these cases perseverations are often associated with the intrusion of previous memory traces. Most commonly these features are found in patients with PD and early dementia. Gasparini et al. (2001) studied the role of frontal lobes in the production of perseverations in PD, by evaluating 32 patients with PD treated with levodopa in a visuospatial memory task to assess the effect of perseverations in visuospatial recall. They also performed the WCST in order to evaluate their shifting capabilities. The results of the study showed that there is a strong correlation between an increase in recurrent perseverations and a decrease in mnemonic retrieval in the Rey Complex Figure, as well as between an increase of stuck-in-set perseverations and a decrease in the number of categories achieved on the WCST. The results obtained suggested that perseverations interfere in the storage of mnemonic input, probably linked with an abnormal recall of memory traces. The phenomenon was similar at different stages of the illness. Chronic ingestion of large doses of amphetamines (which increases the release of DA and norepinephrine in the brain) produces psychosis and a special form of stereotype behavior termed ‘punding’ (Rylander, 1972). In this situation, the patient engages in long complex and repetitive behaviors such as sorting collections of small items or dismantling pieces of mechanical equipment. The behavior is ‘compulsive’ in the sense that the patient becomes distressed if prevented from pursuing the chosen activity. Although it is usually uncommon to note bursts of stereotyped behaviors in PD patients, obsessive-compulsive traits have been commonly observed in these patients more than in normal controls (Alegret et al., 2001). An excesive dopaminergic activity has been postulated to play a relevant role in the pathophysiology

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE of the punding phenomenon. Indeed, punding is known to appear occasionally in levodopa-treated PD patients and ‘behavior improves with a reduction in the dose of antiparkinsonian drugs’ (Fernandez and Friedman, 1999). Punding behavior has also been described in PD patients treated with quetiapine (Miwa et al., 2004). Quetiapine is an atypical antipsychotic, which interacts with multiple transmitter receptors in the brain, with a higher affinity for serotonin 5-HT2 than for DA D1 or D2. In addition, it has been suggested that quetiapine may have a glutamatergic action in the brain (Oh et al., 2002). It is clear from these studies that further research is needed to elucidate the pathophysiological mechanisms of punding behavior and serotonin. 20.2.9. Psychosis and Parkinson’s disease Intrinsic psychiatric disorders characterized by mood and cognitive dysfunction in PD were known in the pre-levodopa era, but the incidence of psychosis was low (Schwab et al., 1950). Psychotic symptoms have become much more common since the introduction of levodopa and other dopaminergic agents (Fischer et al., 1990; Cummings, 1991). Among the problems observed in PD patients, one of the most difficult to handle is the development of psychosis. It can be manifested by various symptoms, ranging from visual hallucinations, paranoid delusions (including agitation, aggression, accusations and sexual preoccupation) to confusion and delirium. Usually it occurs in the advanced stages of the disease and in older patients and is causally linked to treatment with levodopa, but also to all other antiparkinsonian drugs. In fact, psychiatric complications are a major risk factor for nursing-home placement of PD patients (Goetz and Stebbins, 1993). The psychiatric symptoms most commonly found are visual hallucinations and delusions. It is estimated that the prevalence of the syndrome varies between 10 and 50% (Goodwin et al., 1971; Cummings, 1991). In PD, hallucinations usually occur on a background of a clear sensorium; however, a concomitant confusional state is common in older or demented patients. Hallucinations are usually fully formed, non-threatening images of people or animals and tend to be nocturnal, recurrent and stereotyped for each patient (Cummings, 1991). Occasionally, especially in men, there will be an erotic content to the visions (Sanchez-Ramos et al., 1996) and about 28% of the time hallucinations may have a frightening or threatening characteristic (Moskovitz et al., 1978). Quite frequently, the patients when asked will recognize that the images seen are not real (hallucinosis).

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However, in the same interview patients may change their opinion and a few minutes later they may claim that they are ‘real’ (personal experience). Pure auditory hallucinations are extremely rare in patients with PD, but a secondary auditory component has been described in 26–40% of patients with visual hallucinations (Moskovitz et al., 1978; Graham et al., 1997). Another group (Inzelberg et al., 1998) reported that 8% of patients with visual hallucinations also suffered from auditory ones. In this report, patients described human voices that were non-threatening and often incomprehensible. True illusions, which are distortions of actual visual stimuli, are also uncommon, but do occur in some patients (Moskovitz et al., 1978; Graham et al., 1997). Typically, patients may report seeing faces in patterned fabric or misinterpret a curtain blown by the wind as a person moving. Although difficult to interpret as true hallucinations or illusions, some patients may report the sensation that ‘someone is standing beside or behind them’ (Sanchez-Ramos et al., 1996). Delusions are not as common as hallucinations in PD, but they usually constitute a more serious therapeutic problem. In PD they are usually paranoid in nature and most often occur on a background of a clear sensorium without any other element of a thought disorder (which differs from delusions found in schizophrenic patients). It has been estimated that they occur in 7–8% of PD patients (Factor and Friedman, 1997). However, other reports mention a prevalence of 17% (Cummings, 1991). Some examples include fear of being injured, poisoned and filmed (Serby et al., 1978). Delusions of conjugal infidelity and elaborate conspiring on the part of the family are also relatively common. Less commonly observed, sometimes PD patients believe that family members ‘have been replaced by identical-appearing imposters’ (the Capgras phenomenon). Related to this symptom there are also beliefs of reduplication, where persons or places are ‘duplicated or replaced’ (Roane et al., 1998). These features are classified as delusional mistaken identification syndrome. 20.2.9.1. Pathogenesis of psychosis in Parkinson’s disease The pathogenesis of the psychotic syndrome in PD patients is poorly understood. An unsolved question is why the appearance of psychosis is a relatively late complication of chronic levodopa treatment. Chronic levodopa administration to PD patients induces higher levels of DA synthesis, not only in the SN (area A9) where it is missing, ‘normalizing the reservoir of DA’, but also in the VTA (area A10) in the midbrain, where its accumulation produces an ‘inundation’ of

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DA into the limbic and frontal areas (nucleus accumbens, amygdala, olfactory bulbe, septum, prefrontal areas). Chronic loading of DA into those areas related to the control of emotions and feelings may play a role in the occurrence of psychosis. However, considering the fact that, from the beginning of treatment, PD patients are administered levodopa for years, it appears that chronic overloading of DA into the limbic and frontal region is not enough. Therefore, in addition it is necessary to receive another disturbance within time, which will play a part in the genesis of psychosis. One of the suggested possibilities is to consider that, with aging, the brains of PD patients suffer from a progressive loss of acetylcholine, an important neurotransmitter essential for normal cognitive functions. In this respect, it is important to remember that eosinophilic intracytoplasmatic bodies (considered the pathological hallmark for the diagnosis of PD) were first described by Lewy in cholinergic neurons in the forebrain (nucleus basalis of Meynert) in a patient who suffered from paralysis agitans (PD) (Lewy, 1912). This means that PD patients may suffer from a progressive loss of cholinergic input into the cortex, even when they are not yet clinically demented (Nakano and Hirano, 1984). Supporting this hypothesis, it is important to mention that Whitehouse et al. (1983) described loss of cholineacetyl transferase in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in the brain of PD patients without dementia. Kosaka (1990) was the first to describe cases of patients with dementia and an increasing number of atypical Lewy bodies in the cortex and suggested that this was probably a new entity. Years later, when Lewy bodies were easily identified in the cortex with monoclonal antibodies for ubiquitine, a list of symptoms which characterize the diagnosis of Lewy body dementia was established (McKeith et al., 1999). The diagnosis includes the presence of fluctuative cognition, parkinsonism and psychotic features (mainly visual hallucinations). Klawans (1978) suggested (according to animal studies) that some populations of cells may develop receptor hypersensitivity under chronic levodopa stimulation. In their laboratory experiment, they showed that chronic stimulation of DA receptors may cause dopaminergic-induced stereotyped behavior, which appears at subthreshold doses and with a shorter latency than in animals not chronically exposed to dopaminergic stimulation. Thus, chronic exposure to DA agonists causes hypersensitivity of DA receptors rather than the expected results of downregulation. Applying this model, Moskovitz et al. (1978) proposed that there may be two populations of sensitive neurons in the limbic cortex. They suggested that a

population of DA-facilitated neurons might predominate and thus be responsible for the psychotic symptoms observed with chronic levodopa treatment. In this case, they proposed that chronic levodopa therapy might result in dopaminergic kindling and supported the hypothesis that DA may play a role in the development of some types of psychosis via such a kindling mechanism. Another proposed mechanism by which levodopa may produce visual hallucinations and psychosis is by interfering with serotonin metabolism. Postmortem studies have shown that patients with psychosis have low brainstem levels of serotonin (Nausieda et al., 1982). In addition, it is known that acute administration of levodopa reduces brain serotonin levels (Goodwin, 1971; Nausieda et al., 1982). L-tryptophan treatment normalizes serotonin content in serotonergic neurons. This effect may explain the beneficial effect reported by our group (Rabey et al., 1977) of the addition of l-tryptophan to treat levodopa-induced hallucinations in elderly PD patients. Melamed et al. (1993) have also shown that stimulation of 5-HT2 receptors may overcome psychosis in PD-treated patients. Dysfunction of serotonergic systems has also been suggested by the frequent association of dopaminergic psychosis with sleep disturbances and altered dreaming, both of which seem to have a serotonergic basis (Nausieda et al., 1982; Sanchez-Ramos et al., 1996). 20.2.9.2. Treatment of psychosis Psychosis may first emerge after a levodopa dose increases or after the introduction of a new antiparkinsonian agent. It can occur after infection, emotional or physical trauma, surgery or stroke. Decrease or discontinuation of levodopa can improve the syndrome, but at the expense of rapid worsening of the motor signs of the illness. If the psychosis persists, there is a treatment algorithm that should be applied to overcome the condition. First anticholinergics and selegiline should be stopped. Then amantadine, DA agonists and entacapone should be discontinued in the order just mentioned. Finally, levodopa may be reduced. It is not advised to stop levodopa quickly as its interruption may lead to the development of a neuroleptic malignant syndrome (Henderson and Wooten, 1981). The syndrome is manifested by altered mentation, fever, increased rigidity with leukocytosis and increased blood creatine phosphokinase. One of the most common mistakes in the emergency room is to confound this syndrome with sepsis. The syndrome is considered a medical emergency, which

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE requires hospitalization in an intensive care unit. Usually the condition is treated with good hydration, bromocriptine orally and amantadine intravenously. Dantrolene has also been used. Takubo et al. (2003) reviewed 99 episodes of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (or malignant syndrome), which occurred in 93 patients in Japan. The most frequent precipitating event was discontinuation or dose reduction of antiparkinsonian drugs, particularly levodopa. Intercurrent infection was the next most common precipitating event. Although the first approach in treating a PD patient with psychosis is the diminution of antiparkinsonian treatment, these patients frequently require specific treatment. It is important to stress that classical antipsychotics should be avoided, except in cases of acute emergencies (butirophenon intramuscularly, for example), as they may worsen the motor condition of the patients. These PD patients, as a consequence of classical antipsychotic exposure, may also develop the malignant syndrome. Among the new class of atypical antypsychotics, isperidone and olanzapine are quite problematic as they may worsen extrapyramidal features due to their D2-receptor-blocking properties. Clozapine at low doses has been proven to be an excellent medication (Rabey et al., 1995; Klein et al., 2003) as an antipsychotic. However, its use requires periodic monitoring of blood white cell counts to avoid the occurrence of neutropenia. Quetiapine is another atypical antipsychotic that has been introduced in the treatment of psychosis in PD. It has a strong sedative effect, even at low doses (Juncos et al., 2004). However its antipsychotic therapeutic effect may be limited in PD. Recently (Rabey et al., 2005), we conducted a double-blind study for 6 months comparing quetiapine with placebo in 58 PD patients with and without dementia. The BPRS was utilized to evaluate patients. The study did not show a statistical difference between patients submitted to quetiapine or placebo in the intention to treat analysis. In this study we had a dropout rate in the quetiapine-treated group of about 40% (mainly due to lack of benefit of quetiapine). Juncos et al. (2004) reported a positive result in treating PD patients with psychosis. However, the patients we treated (Rabey et al., 2005) suffered from more severe symptomatology than the patients treated by Juncos et al. (2004). These results suggest that quetiapine is probably effective in patients with mild symptomatology, but the drug should be used with caution in psychotic patients with more severe symptoms. Whereas PD patients with serious cognitive or psychiatric impairments are generally not considered good

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candidates for brain surgery (Hallet and Litvan, 1999; Limousine-Dowsey et al., 1999; Lai et al., 2000), 19 PD patients with ‘mild’ psychosis were submitted to pallidotomy (Yamada et al., 2003). Their conclusions were that drug-induced psychosis (DIP), even if its degree is not severe, may also be a limiting factor of the therapeutic potential of pallidotomy. Another surgical approach for the treatment of PD is deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the subthalamic nucleus. Although ‘a priori’ it was considered that surgery could be considered more appropriate for DIP (considering that after surgery a substantial reduction in the dose of dopaminergic agents is possible), the available information does not support this presumption as, on the contrary, psychiatric symptoms like mania, depression, anxiety and cognitive disturbances developed after surgery (Hallet and Litvan, 1999; Limousine-Dowsey et al., 1999; Pillon et al., 2002; Trepanier et al., 2000; Krack et al., 2002; Romito et al., 2002; Daniele et al., 2003). 20.2.10. Apathy and amotivation Motivation is a state of being that produces a tendency toward action. The state may be deprivation (e.g. hunger), a value system or a strongly held belief (e.g. religion). In the process of learning and perception, biological mechanisms play an important role in motivating behavior (Kaplan and Sadock, 2003). Apathy means lack of motivation. Sometimes the concept is used instead of the concept of amotivation. Apathy may contribute to disability in several organic and psychiatric conditions and may also affect healthy adults. The failure to recognize the existence of apathy commonly leads to the misdiagnosis of the patient’s behavior as lazy, self-centered or as evidence of the existence of cognitive impairment (Campbell and Duffy, 1997). Physicians usually find the care of apathetic patients unrewarding since the patients are likely to be more passive, less interested in their condition and less compliant. Family members may become resentful and angry as the patient becomes increasingly withdrawn. Amotivation is more likely to be observed associated with other behavioral symptoms. Covington (1991) considered a feedback loop in which behavioral and organic symptoms together with inactivity and loss act synergically to increase suffering and disability. Motivational behavior is an important factor of successful adjustment to stressful life events and illness. Patients with self-determination and motivation are more likely to deal with health problems in a more constructive manner. In this respect, it is important to apply

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detailed health quality scorings to PD patients with and without apathy syndromes. Patients with motivation are more likely to be active, looking for current information about medical and surgical interventions as well as new clinical research opportunities. They like to be consulted about treatment strategies and will often provide detailed medical information. They also provide better feedback regarding their response to therapy. In contrast, the consequences of amotivation on self-management, lifestyle, family interaction, socialization and participation in community activities are likely to result in a greater loss of functional status and a consequent deterioration of self-esteem (Webster and Grossberg, 1996). Marin (1990) and Marin et al. (1991) elaborated a scale to measure apathy in two versions, one self-administered and one scored by the clinician. Apathy has been considered by some researchers to be a feature of depression. Criteria for the diagnosis of depression include, in addition to poor concentration, difficulty making decisions, feelings of fatigue and also loss of motivation (applying DSM-IV criteria: American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In contrast to depression, apathy and abulia are not characterized by anhedonia, hopelessness or low mood, but rather by isolated lack of motivation and initiative. Starkstein et al. (1992) administered a modified version of Marin’s Apathy Evaluation Scale (Marin, 1990) together with scales measuring depression, anxiety, cognitive functions and parkinsonian severity in 50 patients with PD: 42% of patients had significant apathy, 12% of those with apathy were not depressed and 30% had both apathy and depression. An additional 26% had depression but not apathy and 32% had neither apathy nor depression. PD patients with and without depression suffered from the same amount of apathy. Apathetic patients (with and without depression) showed a poorer performance on tests of verbal memory and time-dependent tasks. Basic clinical data (age, gender, PD duration, education, severity of akinesia or rigidity) were similar in PD patients with and without apathy. Moreover, the poor performance of PD patients with apathy in time-dependent cognitive tasks suggested a relationship between bradyphrenia and apathy. Levy et al. (1998) applied the NPI to study the discriminability of apathy and depression in 154 patients with PD, Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, Huntington’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy. PD patients showed apathy in 33% of cases. In this group, PD patients had a relatively higher functional status and relatively less cognitive impairment that the other patient subgroups that showed higher preva-

lence rates of apathy (varying from 59% in Huntington to 91% in progressive supranuclear palsy). There was no correlation between the presence of apathy and depression in the total sample and the authors concluded that apathy is a behavioral syndrome that is distinct from depression. Levels of insight may help to differentiate between apathy and depression. Ott et al. (1996) studied apathy and loss of insight in Alzheimer’s patients. In their study, apathy was highly correlated with loss of insight (P < 0.005), but not with general cognitive impairment. Behavioral difficulties correlated highly with apathy (P < 0.005), but not with level of insight or level of cognitive impairment. Patients suffering from severe apathy are particularly unlikely to report this feature spontaneously to their physician. On the other hand, physician training has emphasized disorders of emotions over disorders of motivation (Marin, 1997). Apathy, as an independent symptom unrelated to depression, is not usually easily diagnosed without awareness of its existence. 20.2.10.1. Pathogenesis of apathy The limbic system has been viewed as essential for the expression of emotions and motivation. The amygdala in particular is thought to play the role of a ‘motivational rheostat’ filtering environmental stimuli and influencing goal-directed behavior (Duffy, 1997). Duffy proposed four different neuronal circuits, all with limbic input, that are involved in generating motivational valence and translating motivation into behavior. This system makes contact with the basal ganglia. Important structures of the motivational circuits are considered to be the nucleus accumbens, the ventral pallidum and the VTA. Levy et al. (1998) suggested that apathy occurs when the cortex is functionally disconnected from key limbic imput and Mayeux et al. (1987) proposed that bradyphrenia results from neuronal depletion of the locus ceruleus. Apathy has been observed in different diseases that affect basal ganglia, such as Wilson’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, Huntington’s disease, dementia pugilistica and lacunar stroke (Duffy and Kant, 1997). Diminished motivation arises from prefrontal syndromes following lesions of the mesiofrontal cortex and its connections to the anterior cingulated cortex (this syndrome may be due to trauma, hydrocephalus, aneurysm or stroke affecting the anterior cerebral circulation). Starkstein et al. (1993) described neural pathways between the internal pallidum and the pedunculopontine nucleus with relays in the posterior limb of the posterior capsule and the SN that may cause bradyphrenia and apathy.

NEUROBEHAVIORAL DISORDERS IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE The prefrontal cortex is fundamental to real-life decision-making. Individuals with damage to the prefrontal cortex fail to act according to their understanding of the consequences of their acts and thus appear oblivious to their future (Nakano and Hirano, 1984). The left prefrontal cortex may play a role in setting positive goals and when this region is affected, apathy may occur. Functional imaging demonstrates an association between positive goal attainment and activity in the left prefrontal cortex. The left prefrontal cortex has been associated with positive, optimistic emotions, whereas the right prefrontal cortex is associated with withdrawn behavior (Davidson et al., 1999). Supporting this hypothesis, in a study performed in Alzheimer’s patients applying SPECT, apathy was correlated with decreased left temporoparietal perfusion, whereas loss of insight was correlated with decreased right temporo-occipital perfusion (Ott et al., 1996). DA is the main neurotransmitter of goal-directed behavior, modulating motivation, arousal and motor response (Duffy, 1997). There is abundant evidence of the action of dopaminergic input on goal-directed behavior, including the effects of amphetamines that initially produce enhanced focus and motivation, but with chronic use later result in stereotype behaviors. In contrast, chronic neuroleptic exposure is often associated with apathetic behavior. Other neurotransmitters have been implicated to interact with the DA effect in motivation, such as a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA), neurotensin, substance P, N-methyl-Daspartate (NMDA), as well as agonists of nicotinic and opioid receptors. Cholinergic and serotonergic pathways also play a role in the modulation of motivational circuits (Hooks and Kalivas, 1994; Duffy, 1997). Another approach to the topic of motivation and apathy has been presented by Cloninger (1987). Cloninger’s theory of personality describes three heritable major dimensions of personality: (1) novelty-seeking; (2) harm avoidance; and (3) reward dependence. Novelty-seeking has been associated with DA and includes behavior activation, exploratory behavior and avoidance of monotony. The other two behaviors have been related to serotonin and norepinephrine respectively. Evidence of DA’s role in novelty-seeking behavior includes the reduction of spontaneous investigatory behavior in animals following DA-depleting lesions (Stellar and Stellar, 1985), increased novelty-induced motor activity following DA microinjection in the ventral pallidum and nucleus accumbens (Hooks and Kalivas, 1994) and the appearance of self-stimulation

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behavior after electrode placement in the dopaminergic pathways (Fray et al., 1983). PD patients submitted to Cloninger’s Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ) have shown reduced novelty-seeking behavior as compared with a group of age- and disability-matched rheumatologic and orthopedic patients (Menza et al., 1990, 1993). Concerning harm-avoidance and reward-dependence ratings, there were no differences among the groups compared. The results obtained confirm the concept that PD patients have personality traits which are quite characteristic, like rigidity, seriousness, introversion (Todes and Lees, 1985; Eatough et al., 1990). Considering that these personality traits probably precede the diagnosis of PD led Menza et al. (1990) to repeat a questionnaire asking the PD patients and spouses to complete the questions as they would have been answered 20 years ago. PD patients persisted in scoring lower on novelty-seeking behavior based on the premorbid ratings. Novelty-seeking behaviors were negatively correlated with advanced age, in agreement with previous normative data received with the TPQ questionnaire (Cloninger et al., 1991). This finding is consistent with the common observation of increased passivity and amotivation among the elderly. 20.2.10.2. Treatment of apathy Most antidepressants are not effective in apathy or abulia and may cause unnecessary side-effects. Improvement of these disorders has been reported when treating patients with DA agonists (Barrett, 1991) and methylphenidate (Chatterjee and Fahn, 2002). Apathy scores improved in levodopa-induced ‘on’ states (Czernecki et al, 2002). Better control of parkinsonian motor symptoms may also improve apathy. Diagnosis and education of patients and carers regarding apathy and abulia as symptoms of PD different from depression or laziness are often helpful in improving patient and care-giver distress. 20.2.11. Sleep and behavior disorders in Parkinson’s disease REM sleep behavior disorder is a relatively common disorder (15–47%) in PD patients and may predate the onset of clinical features by several years (Schenck et al., 1996; Comella et al., 1998; Gagnon et al., 2002). The disorder is defined as the presence of muscle tone during REM sleep, associated with a history of active and complex sleep behavior in the absence of epileptiform activity (Thorpy, 1990). About 87% of patients with this disorder are male, with a reported mean age between 52.4 and 60.9 years (Schenck et al., 1996; Olson et al., 2000).

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The most common behavior reported was an actual assault on the spouse, but other behavior included flailing, kicking, punching and vocalization. Sometimes patients showed jumping out of bed and sleep-walking. This behavior is unusual during daytime naps. The pathophysiology of this disorder may be related to visual hallucinations (Nomura et al., 2003), although the individual hallucinations do not reflect REM intrusions such as hypnogogic or hypnopompic hallucinations.

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Chapter 21

Early detection of Parkinson’s disease CATHERINE GALLAGHER1* AND ERWIN B. MONTGOMERY JR1,2 1

Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and 2

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21.1. Introduction The hope that effective neuroprotective or neurorestorative therapies for Parkinson’s disease (PD) are ‘just around the corner’ has generated interest in detecting the disease at its earliest stages, when institution of these therapies is most likely to be beneficial. The development of valid early detection methods has proved a challenge. At the time of publication there were no prospectively validated tests to quantify the risk of developing PD in asymptomatic individuals. Only one detection battery, based on a select population of those with some symptom possibly suggestive of PD but insufficient to warrant a clinical diagnosis, has been prospectively validated (Montgomery et al., 2000a, b). The importance of developing predictive tests is clear but underappreciated in the science community. In the absence of a compelling marketable product, it will probably be up to governmental organizations and private foundations to support this type of research. There are reasonable concerns that governmental organizations, such as the National Institutes of Health, have bias against this research. Although this bias may not be evident in written policy, it may nonetheless exist in the study sections dominated by basic scientists who do not feel the daily press of caring for patients (personal observation). The following plea in the request for grant applications by the Michael J. Fox Foundation may be prescient: We appreciate that non-human animal and/or cell-based model systems may be necessary for identification and development of potential biomarkers [italics by Michael J. Fox Foundation]. Although we agree that understanding the biological function of an identified biomarker and its

possible contribution to disease are additional avenues that can arise from biomarker research, we imagine that successful proposals will be those that remain focused on biomarker development, refinement and/or validation. The purpose of this chapter is to consider what is required for the development of predictive tests in medicine and for PD specifically and to review the most promising current approaches. The lack of validated early diagnostic and predictive markers is not due to lack of past efforts and therefore, it is important to understand why these may have failed. Indeed, in the day-to-day activities of diagnosing and treating, the critical issues related to appropriate diagnostic or predictive assessments are seldom consciously realized, let alone actively considered.

21.2. Considerations in the development of predictive tests The development of predictive tests requires approaches unlike those typically used for testing hypotheses in basic and clinical research. Typical approaches in these disciplines might involve comparing a group with preclinical parkinsonism to a control group not at risk. Tests would then be developed to distinguish between the two groups. The first problem with this approach is that there is currently no way to identify the test group (patients with presymptomatic or preclinical parkinsonism). Consequently, most efforts begin by comparing those with clinically diagnosable PD to normal controls. This approach requires the assumption that the features studied in those with recognizable disease are relevant to those at risk. However, we know that a measure that

*Correspondence to: Catherine Gallagher, MD, Department of Neurology, H6/574 CSC, 600 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53792, USA. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ1-608-263-0755, Fax: þ1-608-263-0412.

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is abnormal at one stage of a disease process may be less abnormal at another stage of disease. For example, elevations in serum liver enzymes in patients with cirrhosis diminish with progressive loss of functioning liver cells. In the case of PD, one assumes that patients with clinically diagnosable PD have a high probability of reduced substantia nigra neurons; however, we know from pathologic studies that substantia nigra neurons are probably not affected at presymptomatic stages of the disease (Braak et al., 2003). Furthermore, there is suspicion that biomarkers for dopamine neurons may lack specificity and sensitivity, even in established PD. One study that examined the progression of dopamine loss inferred by [18F]fluorodopa positron emission tomography (PET) scanning found that 11% of subjects, although meeting the clinical criteria for PD, did not have attrition of dopamine terminals by imaging measures (Whone et al., 2003). 21.2.1. Defining disease From the above discussion, it would appear that studies to develop predictive tests would benefit from selecting subjects at the earliest possible identifiable stages of disease. At extremes of the continuum lie healthy individuals and those who meet clinical criteria for a diagnosis of PD. Intermediate to these extremes are those who will develop disease but who have no symptoms (presymptomatic) and subjects with some symptoms of insufficient degree to warrant a clinical diagnosis (preclinical disease). These definitions could be criticized because in some sense the presence of any degenerative process that will progress to result in clinical diagnosis constitutes disease. This is more than a semantic argument. On one hand, those diagnosable with preclinical parkinsonism already have ‘damage’ to the nervous system that cannot be compensated by normal mechanisms (otherwise they would not have any symptoms of any degree), whereas presymptomatic patients may not. This leads to the assumption that presymptomatic detection is inherently better than preclinical detection. However, if disease progression could be stopped at the preclinical level, with prevention of further disability, would this not also be considered a victory? When developing a diagnostic test it is important to define the ‘gold standard’ by which outcomes are to be evaluated. The dilemma is that in the case of PD there are no methods, other than prolonged observation, to distinguish those with some symptoms of PD who will go on to develop disease from those who will not. To date, the gold standard for PD is pathological confirmation; however, this is unfeasible for most developmental efforts due to the variability in the duration

between testing and obtaining postmortem tissue and the availability of that tissue. For PD, defining a presymptomatic population and following it until a pathologic diagnosis can be established may require prohibitive study duration. Alternatively, the gold standard could be considered a clinical diagnosis of PD based on clinical criteria, although the specificity and sensitivity of clinical diagnosis when compared in retrospective autopsy controlled studies are problematic (Hughes et al., 1992). A scheme commonly used for the clinical diagnosis of PD is that the presence of three of four cardinal signs (bradykinesia/akinesia, rigidity, tremor and postural/ gait abnormalities) constitutes clinically definite and two out of the four clinically probable PD (Calne et al., 1992). However, these are dichotomous assessments – that is, a symptom was either present or absent – the degree to which each symptom or sign was present and the thresholds were not addressed. Using clinical diagnosis as the gold standard, duration of follow-up would presumably be shorter using subjects in the preclinical population. However, in one study of 205 preclinical subjects followed for 2 years, only 59 became diagnosable as having PD and 40 subjects were found not to have PD with any confidence. The remainder either had some other neurological disorder or there was not sufficient confidence of either having or not having PD (Montgomery et al., 2000b). In a retrospective survey, 22% of patients stated they had to wait over 1 year between the time they first noted a problem and when the diagnosis was made. Eight percent had to wait over 2 years (Montgomery et al., 2000a). 21.2.2. Using biomarkers Any biomarker used for the prediction of disease will be, by definition, a surrogate outcome measure. Biomarkers are generally defined as ‘all detectable biologic parameters, whether biochemical, genetic, histological, anatomic, physical, functional, or metabolic’ (Smith et al., 2003). A surrogate outcome is defined as ‘a laboratory measurement or a physical sign used as a substitute for a clinically meaningful end point that measures directly how the patient feels, functions, or survives’ (Gotzsche et al., 1996). A surrogate marker may be a link in a causal pathway, or simply an epiphenomenon of disease that reflects disease severity, in this case the presymptomatic disease process. Here, we distinguish the notion of a surrogate or biomarker for the prediction of disease as opposed to surrogate markers for therapeutic interventions that captured considerable recent interest. The surrogate should accurately and reproducibly reflect disease progression, should be sensitive for any effect of treatment and should

EARLY DETECTION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE not be influenced by treatment, independent of the treatment’s effect on the disease. Three stages of surrogate marker development have been described: (1) type 0, natural history marker; (2) type I, biologic activity marker; and (3) type II, surrogate marker of therapeutic efficacy (Holloway and Dick, 2002). The Food and Drug Administration accepts type II surrogate markers as ‘validated’ (Katz, 2004). Although the use of surrogate markers allows for shorter clinical trials, there are multiple examples in the literature of non-beneficial or even harmful interventions made on the basis of surrogate outcomes (Fleming and DeMets, 1996). None of the surrogate outcomes used in the study of PD (SPECT findings, time to levodopa therapy, time to motor fluctuations or improvement in Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores) have been clearly validated as reflecting outcomes with ‘clear and convincing value to patients’ (Holloway and Dick, 2002). 21.2.3. Developing clinical prediction rules Clinical measures that are used to estimate the probability of a diagnostic outcome, such as the probability that a patient with chest pain is having a myocardial infarction, have been called clinical prediction rules: 1. In the development of clinical tests, both the results of the test and the outcome (target of prediction) should be clearly defined. 2. The patient population and sampling methods should be clearly defined. 3. An estimate of the error rate, or proportion of patients who are misclassified using the testing method, should be made. This should be done by prospectively comparing the sensitivity and specificity of the test derived from the group of patients initially studied (training set) with a new group of patients (test set) (Wasson et al., 1985). The study by Montgomery and colleagues (2000a) developed a battery of tests to predict PD using a mixed population. This population included some who were recently diagnosed with PD (clinical population) and those who were preclinical, as described above. The preclinical population contained a mixture of subjects, some of whom would develop parkinsonism and others who would not. A mixed population was selected so that subjects with recently diagnosed PD would help ensure specificity whereas the preclinical subjects would help ensure sensitivity. It was recognized that this approach could result in a tautology. In other words, statistical analyses use optimization procedures that are designed to determine if any correlation exists between data sets; the consequence is that any correlation that is discovered could

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the sensitivity and (1 – specificity) for each possible value of the threshold (Fig. 21.1). A test with no diagnostic or predictive value would lie along the diagonal of the ROC curve and the area under the curve would be 0.5. The greater the departure from the diagonal,the greater the diagnostic or predictive value and the greater the area under the curve. Thus, a decision of where to establish a cut-off can be drawn from examination of the ROC curve by determining the consequences of false positives and false negatives. Further, the area under the curve (Fig. 21.2) also indicates the diagnostic value of t (Montgomery, 2005). 21.2.4.2. Methods to improve specificity and sensitivity As will be demonstrated, the diagnostic and predictive value are greatly affected by the prior probabilities or prevalence of the disease or risk. Low prevalence requires greater specificity, which may come at the cost of sensitivity. One method of improving the situation is to have a hierarchy of tests such that the population that continues on to the next test has successively greater prevalence of the disease or risk. However, this often comes at the cost

of a significant reduction in sensitivity because more persons with disease or risk are lost with each successive test. An alternative is to create a test battery such that the combined results increase the specificity and sensitivity. There are several caveats. First, the individual tests should reflect different domains of the disease. For example, in one predictive battery, tests of motor function were combined with tests of olfaction and a mood inventory (Montgomery et al., 2000a). Multiple tests that relate to the same domain can actually worsen the predictive value (Stevens, 2002). However, there is a trade-off in the fact that the ratio of variables to subjects greatly increases and increases the risk for spurious correlations (see Generalizability, below). A number of variable reduction techniques are available, such as principal components analysis. Montgomery et al. (2000a, b) used a nested logistic regression analysis to reduce the number of variables. 21.2.4.3. Positive and negative predictive value Sensitivity and specificity are readily determined using data from clinical trials. However, much more meaningful value from the point of view of an individual

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test subject is the predictive value of the test. The positive predictive value is the likelihood that a person who has just received a positive test result actually has the disease (rather than the test result being a false positive). Predictive value depends on the prior probability of disease, or prevalence of disease in the population (which can be determined from epidemiological studies). If the condition is rare, the majority of positive test results will be ‘false-positive’ results; conversely, most negative tests will be true negatives because there are only a few cases of disease in the population. The likelihood that the patient has disease (prior probability) given additional information such as a positive test result (posterior probability) can be estimated using an extension of Bayes theorem: PðDjTÞ ¼ PðDÞPðTjDÞ= ½PðDÞPðTjDÞ þ PðHÞPðTjHÞ where P(D|T) is the positive predictive value, or probability of having the disease (or risk) given a positive test; P(D) is the prevalence, or probability of having the disease or risk within the population selected; P(T|D) is the probability of having a positive test if you have the disease (sensitivity); P(H) is the probability of not having the disease or risk (which ¼ 1 – P(D) and therefore determinable from epidemiological studies); P(T|H) is the probability of having a positive test if you do not have the disease or risk (falsepositive rate, which ¼ 1 – specificity and determinable by clinical studies) (Pegano and Gauvreau, 1993; Bernardo and Smith, 1994). P(D|T) is not directly calculable from specificity and sensitivity, but is modified by P(D) or disease prevalence, sometimes referred to as prior probability. The same considerations apply to the negative predictive value, meaning the test’s ability to predict the absence of disease or risk. Therefore, characterization of a test’s specificity and sensitivity is not a sufficient measure of its diagnostic or predictive value. Consider, for example, the influence of different disease prevalence rates on the predictive value of mammography for a surgical diagnosis of breast cancer. Depending on the study, the sensitivity of mammography alone is 85% (higher in some studies) and specificity about 96% (Thurfjell et al., 1997, 2000; Banks et al., 2004). The false-positive rate has been estimated at 6–8% in the USA, where 1/10 mammograms gives a false-positive result (Elmore et al., 1998). From this information, we can determine the positive predictive value of mammography for two different scenarios; when the prevalence of breast cancer in the population is 0.3%, the positive predictive value of mammography is calculated as P(D/T) ¼ (0.003)

(0.85)/[(0.003)(0.85)þ(0.997)(0.06)] ¼ 0.040, or about 4%. This means that a woman with a positive screening mammogram has a 4% chance of having breast cancer. This is quite similar to actual estimates; breast cancer is found in about 3% of women who have an abnormal mammogram (0.3% of all mammograms) (Elmore et al., 1998). However, assume for a moment that disease prevalence is 1%; then the positive predictive value of mammography is P(D/T) ¼ (0.01)(0.85)/ [(0.01)(0.85) þ 0.99(0.06)] ¼ 0.125, or 12.5%. This improvement in the positive predictive value of the test is a result of an approximately threefold increase in disease prevalence. In the first scenario (disease prevalence 0.3%), 6237 out of 100 000 patients will have further diagnostic testing to detect 255 cases of cancer and in the second scenario (disease prevalence 1%), 6790 patients will have further testing to detect 850 cases of cancer. In the USA, about 11% of mammograms are read as abnormal (but in Sweden only 2–5%) and the likelihood of a false-positive mammogram after 10 mammograms is nearly 50% – 18% of these women will eventually undergo negative biopsies and for every $100 spent for screening, $33 is spent in the evaluation of false-positive results (Elmore et al., 1998). This undoubtedly reflects societal choices about the cost of prevention and to an extent is driven by litigation. 21.2.4.4. Generalizability Whether a test remains accurate when generalized to new situations is called external validity. The test outcomes should be reproducible in a similar population and, ideally, transportable to new populations. Many characteristics of patient selection and sampling methods used in the initial study can influence transportability, including historical, geographic and methodological issues, disease stage and follow-up interval. The most heavily validated tests will be reproducible and transportable in all of these realms (Justice et al., 1999). The issue of generalizability becomes even more problematic when developing predictive tests. In this case, the ‘population that can be studied’, patients affected by the disease, is not equivalent to the ‘population of concern’, those who have not yet expressed the disease. Because most tests that have been advanced as predictive tests for PD were developed as tests to detect disease, it is assumed that these data can be extrapolated to the population of concern. Complicating this, the pattern of change in currently available biomarkers does not appear to be linear (Hilker et al., 2005). Typically, testing methodologies look for correlations between the results of the test and the presence of disease. In mathematical optimizing procedures such as linear regression models, lines of


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nomic impact of detection and prevention of PD in a hypothetical manner because as yet there are no neuroprotective or restorative therapies whose costs can be projected.

21.2.4.5. Social, economic and political considerations The ultimate measure of a clinical prediction rule is its effect on patient care. Instead of trying to minimize the number of misclassified patients, one should try to minimize the chance of a serious error in patient care. For example, it may be better to have 10 false-positive mammograms for each case of breast cancer detected than to miss one case of early breast cancer. Certainly, many of the same issues will confront the use of any diagnostic or predictive test for PD. It is amazing that in the vast majority of articles published on diagnostic or predictive tests, there is little mention of the social, economic, moral, ethical or political ramifications. An initial question is whether the availability of a predictive test is a benefit or detriment to the individual. For untreatable disease, little benefit (aside from genetic counseling) can be offered to those found to be at high risk. Possible detriments to the individual include being denied insurance based on the results of a predictive test as a ‘preexisting’ condition (Godard et al., 2003) and personal/ interpersonal conflict regarding sharing of test results with family members who may also be affected by the results of test (Doukas and Berg, 2001). Other issues are economic and societal: What if tomorrow a scientist discovers a preventive treatment for PD and its annual cost to the individual is 20% of the median household income? Who would be treated? Would society default to whomever is able to pay the cost? Could the health care system afford to pay for everyone at risk, especially in view of the fact that we currently have no predictors and everyone must be considered at risk? Would there be a lottery? These are not simple questions, as witnessed by past actions related to banning tobacco use, requiring motorcycle helmet use and removing carcinogens from the environment. The cost-effectiveness of screening for presymptomatic PD depends on the efficacy of neuroprotective therapies. Dorsey and Siderowf (2005) have presented varying scenarios on the eco-

21.3.1. Disease prodrome

21.3. What in the neurobiology of Parkinson’s disease can be used to develop predictive tests? Clinical, neuroimaging and pathologic studies suggest that the disease process of PD is initiated several to many years before clinical signs appear and provide hope that treatments that modify the course of this process will soon be developed.

It is generally held that a significant portion of the degenerative process occurs before PD is diagnosed. Indeed, the brains of individuals who have no recorded clinical symptoms of parkinsonism may contain immunoreactive inclusions suggestive of early-stage disease. The assumption that degeneration of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) is the cause of PD has made the loss of this neuronal group a target for developing diagnostic tests. However, degeneration of the SNpc could be a relatively late development in the pathogenesis of PD. Braak et al. (2003) have postulated, based on cross-sectional pathologic studies, that pathologic changes of PD advance in a topographically predictable caudal-to-rostral pattern. At (pathologic) stage 1, involved regions include the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus and olfactory bulb; at stage 2 these structures and the caudal raphe nuclei, gigantocellular reticular nucleus and locus ceruleus complex; at stage 3 all of the preceding structures and the midbrain, including pars compacta of substantia nigra. Brains of patients with a clinical diagnosis of PD typically corresponded to pathologic stages 4–6, during which the SNpc and temporal allocortex and mesocortex, followed by regions of neocortex, are involved. Most of the brains of PD patients obtained for this study were from Hoehn and Yahr stages III–IV, raising the question of whether some patients with (pathologic) stages I–III did have some clinical signs or symptoms of PD that had not been investigated. This topographic pattern of degeneration would fit well with the observation that olfactory degeneration, rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder, depression and autonomic nervous system dysfunction can significantly precede motor symptoms in patients who develop PD. Pathologic analyses are snapshots in time that strongly suggest that incidental brains with ‘incidental Lewy bodies’

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would develop PD if they continued living. Validation of this assumption requires prospective analysis. Some evidence for preclinical motor symptoms comes from retrospective clinical-type assessments. For example, Tetrud (1991) examined canceled checks written by a Parkinson patient over years prior to his diagnosis of PD. Abnormalities in the signature were noted 5 years before the diagnosis. Similarly, review of videotapes of soccer-playing showed symptoms 14 years before diagnosis in a professional soccerplayer (Lees, 1992). Calne and Snow (1993) reported a young man who volunteered as a normal control but was found to have reduced [18F]fluorodopa (18F-dopa) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET) and subsequently developed signs of clinically probable PD. Most investigators have estimated a preclinical period for PD of 5–7 years based on imaging and pathological studies (Morrish, 1997; Marek et al., 2003). However, there is variation in rate of disease progression between individuals with sporadic PD (Hoehn and Yahr, 1967; Zetusky et al., 1985; Morrish et al., 1996). In individuals at risk for PD based on genetic background and functional imaging of the dopaminergic system, latency to onset of PD may be as long as 20 years (Piccini et al., 1999). On the other hand, for patients with some degree of (preclinical) parkinsonism on initial screening measures, approximately one-half will develop PD within 3 years (Montgomery et al., 2000b). 21.3.2. What is the potential of developing neuroprotective or neurorestorative therapies? Rapid advances in our understanding of the neurobiology of PD gives confidence that neuroprotective (preventing or slowing further degeneration) and neurorestorative (restoring the organism to a former state of health) treatments are within reach (Dawson and Dawson, 2002). A number of clinical trials of candidate neuroprotective agents, some of which have proved promising, have been extensively reviewed (Halbig et al., 2004). The primary targets thus far include oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis and abnormal intracellular protein trafficking. Intracerebral administration of glial-derived nerve growth factor (GDNF) has improved parkinsonian features in laboratory animal models (Grondin and Gash, 1998) and one open-label study of intraparenchymal injections of GDNF in humans has had encouraging results (Patel et al., 2005; Slevin et al., 2005). Further clinical trials failed to show a significant change in the clinical end point but preserved F-dopa influx into the posterior putamen in the treatment group (Lang et al., 2006).

Viral vector delivery of GDNF has shown promise in primate models and may some day be applied to humans (Palfi et al., 2002).

21.4. Disease biomarkers: Previous efforts Potential biomarkers come from any number of domains that reflect the pathogenesis of PD. 21.4.1. Clinical biomarkers A number of clinical symptoms may precede motor symptoms of PD, but taken individually are non-specific. These include anosmia, mood and personality changes, sleep disturbances, subtle cognitive disturbance, micrographia and dysautonomia. 21.4.1.1. Olfaction Olfactory function is frequently abnormal in PD (Doty et al., 1992), Alzheimer’s disease, parkinsonism– dementia complex of Guam (Doty et al., 1988, 1991) and motor neuron disease (Elian, 1991), but generally unimpaired in essential tremor (Busenbark et al., 1992), restless-legs syndrome (Adler et al., 1998) and vascular parkinsonism (Katzenschlager et al., 2004). Smell is less severely impaired in other degenerative parkinsonian syndromes than in PD (Doty et al., 1993). Hyposmia was detected in 10% of relatives of patients with PD and was associated with reduced striatal dopamine transporter binding in 4 of 25 hyposmic relatives – 2 subsequently developed parkinsonism (Berendse et al., 2001). 21.4.1.2. Motor abnormalities Patients with early PD and unilateral symptoms have abnormal performance on visuomotor tracking tasks even when using the clinically unaffected limb (Hocherman and Giladi, 1998). Ocular smooth pursuits are initiated normally in PD but peak velocity and displacement are reduced and progressively decline with repetition, as found with limb movements (Lekwuwa et al., 1999). Simple reaction time is delayed (Heilman et al., 1976; Hallett, 1990). Speech and handwriting analysis have been proposed as possible screening tools for preclinical detection of motor changes (Tetrud, 1991). 21.4.1.3. Autonomic symptoms Older individuals with infrequent bowel movements (less than one per day) may be at higher risk for PD than those with more frequent movements (Abbott et al., 2001).


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Depression is common in PD and may even be associated with an increased risk of developing the disease (Schuurman et al., 2002). The evaluation of depression in PD is somewhat complex because the vegetative symptoms of PD resemble symptoms of depression assessed by most screening instruments (Leentjens et al., 2000; Wolters et al., 2000).

During voluntary muscle contraction, transcranial cortical magnetic stimulation induces a silent period in electromyogram activity. The duration of this silent period is reduced in patients with PD, significantly more so on the rigid side in patients with unilateral symptoms. This is felt to represent an alteration in cortical-cortical inhibition (Valls-Sole, 2000).

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21.4.2.4. Evoked potentials More than half of PD patients have delayed P300 visual evoked potentials (Wang et al., 2000); however, absence of this wave on visual evoked potential can also be a normal finding. Short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials showed reduced N30 amplitude in about 50% of PD patients but also patients with other neurological diseases (Rossini et al., 1989).

Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder appears to be a risk factor for the development of PD; Schenck et al. (1996) reported that 38% of older male patients presenting with REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) developed parkinsonism 3.7 1.4 (SD) years after the diagnosis of RBD and at a mean interval of 12.7 7.3 years after the onset of RBD. Some have suggested that patients with synucleinopathies (PD, multiple system atrophy and dementia with Lewy bodies) are particularly predisposed to the development of RBD (Boeve et al., 2003). 21.4.2. Neurophysiological studies A number of electrophysiological correlates of clinical abnormalities have been described in patients with PD. Currently, the sensitivity and specificity of these measures for PD and their usefulness as predictive measures have not been evaluated (Valls-Sole and Valldeoriola, 2002). Many of these neurophysiological measures are felt to reflect the integrity of inhibitory systems, e.g. the reflex amplitude is increased when normal inhibitory controls are disrupted. 21.4.2.1. Auditory startle reaction The auditory startle reaction to an unexpected loud stimulus is regarded as a brainstem reflex; auditory startle reactions are absent or reduced in progressive supranuclear palsy, may be delayed in PD and are normal or exaggerated in multiple system atrophy (Kofler et al., 2001). Audiospinal facilitation using the soleus H-reflex is reduced bilaterally, even in patients with a hemiparkinsonism, and is corrected by levodopa (Delwaide et al., 1993). 21.4.2.2. Long latency reflexes Electrical or mechanical stimulation of a mixed nerve can give rise to reflex responses in relatively distant muscles, known as ‘long latency reflexes’. These responses are elicited more easily during tonic contraction of the muscle. Long latency reflexes are abnormally enhanced in PD (Valls-Sole, 2000).

21.4.2.5. Sympathetic skin response Sympathetic skin response is reported as abnormal (of prolonged latency, reduced amplitude, or both) in 35– 59% patients with PD (Choi et al., 1998; ZakrzewskaPniewska and Jamrozik, 2003). Abnormal sympathetic skin response is even more common in multiple system atrophy (Bordet et al., 1996). In hemiparkinson patients, the sympathetic skin response is of lower amplitude on the motor affected side (Fusina et al., 1999). Skin wrinkling in response to prolonged water immersion, probably mediated by sympathetic effects on the sweat glands, is reported as showing greater abnormality on the motor unaffected side (Djaldetti et al., 2001).

21.4.2.6. Clinical batteries One method that can be employed to help improve the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic and predictive tests is to use a battery of sequential tests. The result of each test changes the prior probability of the following test. This method works well as long as the component tests are not highly correlated. A battery of tests, consisting of the Beck Depression inventory, University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test and speed of wrist movement task can be used to generate a PD score that distinguishes PD from normal with about 69% sensitivity and 88% specificity (Montgomery et al., 2000a). Prospective application of this test battery to a self-selected group of 208 patients (test set) with some degree of parkinsonism yielded 68% sensitivity and 92% specificity for the development of PD within 3 years (Montgomery et al., 2000b). Another group of investigators found that a battery consisting of finger-tapping rate combined with either olfactory assessment or measurement of visual contrast

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sensitivity discriminated mild PD patients from controls with 90% accuracy (Camicioli et al., 2001). 21.4.3. Biochemical markers Scientific observations of Parkinson disease have led to several interrelated theories of pathogenesis: (1) cellular energy deficiency; (2) oxidative stress; (3) glutamatemediated excitotoxicity; (4) inflammation; and (5) apoptosis (programmed cell death) as well as necrosis as pathways of cell death. Biochemical evidence of these processes has been found and in some cases investigated as a marker for early disease. To what extent these biochemical abnormalities are unique to PD with respect to other central nervous system neurodegenerative disorders is not clear. Mitochondrial complex I activity is deficient in PD in both substantia nigra and muscle (Schapira, 1994). Commensurate with this, the reduced form of coenzyme Q10 is deficient in platelets of patients with de novo PD, an abnormality that is partially reversed by selegiline treatment (Gotz et al., 2000). Platelets take up glutamate through an energy-dependent mechanism; platelet glutamate uptake rates can be measured as an indirect measure of impaired cellular energy metabolism. In PD, platelet glutamate uptake rates are 50% lower than in controls and patients with other parkinsonian syndromes; however, these changes can also be found in Down’s syndrome (Begni et al., 2003), Alzheimer disease (Ferrarese et al., 2000) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Ferrarese et al., 2001). Cytogenetic analysis shows that patients with PD have a higher frequency of markers of chromosomal damage, including single strand breaks, than controls (Migliore et al., 2001). Again these findings are not unique to PD (Petrozzi et al., 2002) The cerebrospinal fluid concentration of 8-hydroxyguanosine, a marker of oxidative RNA damage, is three times that of controls in early PD, but is also elevated in other neurodegenerative disorders (Abe et al., 2003). Levels of urinary isatin, an endogenous monoamine oxidase inhibitor, are increased in patients with PD and decrease with pharmacotherapy (Hamaue et al., 2000). Glutathione has several functions in the brain as an antioxidant and regulator of mitochondrial complex I activity; abnormal levels of reduced glutathione have been observed in the brains of patients with PD in numerous postmortem studies; however, cerebrospinal fluid glutathione levels have not proven a useful peripheral marker (Konings et al., 1999). Concentrations of regulators of apoptosis such as caspase-3 and Bcl-2 are altered in lymphocytes of PD patients (Blandini et al., 2004). Increased levels of inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis fac-

tor (TNF)-a, interleukin (IL)-1b, IL-6, transforming growth factor (TFG)-a, TGF-b and decreased levels of neurotrophins, such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor and nerve growth factor, are present in the ventricular and lumbar cerebrospinal fluid of PD patients (Nagatsu et al., 2000). Evidence of impaired dopamine metabolism can be found in peripheral blood lymphocytes of patients with PD (Caronti et al., 1999); dopamine content, tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity and dopamine transporter immunoreactivity are reduced and dopamine receptor expression is increased (Barbanti et al., 1999). 21.4.3.1. Genetic prediction Genetic testing could be considered a special case of biochemical markers. At least nine single genetic defects have been identified in kindreds with familial PD (Dawson and Dawson, 2003) and a search for polygenetic factors and susceptibility genes is under way (Momose et al., 2002). Many of the forms of parkinsonism associated with known genetic abnormalities differ clinically from those with the usual disorder, such as earlier age of onset and multiple affected family members. Lucking et al. (2000) found that, of 100 patients with isolated PD, 77% of those with symptoms beginning before 20 years of age, 26% of patients with symptoms beginning between 21 and 30 years of age and 2–7% of patients with symptoms beginning between 31 and 45 years carried a mutation in the parkin gene. Autosomal-recessive juvenile parkinsonism related to mutations in the parkin gene is highly penetrant; few patients have disease onset later than age 50. Therefore, the positive predictive value of the test (the likelihood of developing disease in a person who carries two parkin Whether heterozygous carriers of parkin mutation are at higher risk of developing late-onset disease has been debated; the incidence of late-onset PD in these carriers and in the general population is similar (Gasser, 2005). Patients with (sporadic) PD are more likely to have a first-degree family member with the disease (16%) whereas those without PD are less likely to have a family member with PD (4%) (Payami et al., 1994). Thus, it would seem reasonable to conclude that having a first-degree relative with PD is an identifiable risk factor and therefore indicative of a prodromal period. However, what these studies demonstrate is the probability of having a first-degree relative with PD if you have PD, or P(FH|PD), where FH is having a positive family history and PD is having PD. The real question is positive predictive value of a positive family history, or the probability of having PD if you have a positive family history, denoted by P (PD|FH). This latter probability is unknown but can be estimated using Bayes theorem (Bernardo and Smith, 1994). This requires knowing the disease prevalence,

EARLY DETECTION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE or probability of having PD in the general community, denoted by P(PD) and the probability of having a family history, denoted by P(FH). These latter probabilities can be estimated from epidemiological studies. PðPDjFH Þ ¼ PðFH jPDÞ PðPDÞ=PðFH Þ PðPDÞ Using an age-specific prevalence for the sixth decade (the age of greatest risk for a PD diagnosis) of 118.6 per 100 000 (average for P(PD) from values cited by Korell and Tanner (2005)), the P(PD|FH) is 0.47%. A person at this age of relatively highest risk is highly unlikely to get PD, even if he or she has a first-degree family member with PD. 21.4.4. Neurotransmitter receptor and transporterbased imaging biomarkers: positron emission tomography and single photon emission tomography Neuroimaging allows us to evaluate non-invasively a number of surrogate markers of PD: health and function of the dopamine neuron, morphology of the substantia nigra, changes in neuronal and muscular bioenergetics and even alterations in brain networks. There are several groups of dopamine-producing cells in the brain: the SNpc, ventral tegmental area, arcuate and periventricular hypothalamic nuclei, plexiform cells of the retina, zona incerta of posterior hypothalamus, dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus, nucleus tractus solitarius (Kline et al., 2002), periaqueductal and periventricular gray and periglomerular cells of olfactory bulb (Moore and Bloom, 1978). Nigrostratal projections are implicated in PD motor impairment and mesocortical projections in non-motor and dysexecutive symptoms. Peripheral nerves are also frequently involved, particularly those of the sympathetic nervous system and olfactory bulb. In dopaminergic neurons, dopamine is synthesized from tyrosine via tyrosine hydroxylase and dopa decarboxylase; additional biosynthetic enzymes in epinephrine and norepinephrine neurons produce these transmitters from dopamine. Many radiopharmaceutical agents imaged via PET and SPECT have been developed as markers of dopamine uptake, metabolism, and receptor binding. Animal studies have shown that 18F-dopa, a fluorinated analog of levodopa, administered as a PET tracer is transported into the central nervous system through the high-affinity large neutral amino acid carrier, taken up into neurons by dopamine transporter, decarboxylated to F-dopamine (Brooks, 2000), vesicularized in presynaptic terminals and degraded via monoamine oxidase and catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT)

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to form circulating metabolites that are excreted in the urine (Brown et al., 1999). Therefore, 18F-dopa uptake in the brain is a function of dopaminergic nerve terminal density, dopamine transporter function and dopamine metabolism (Pirker, 2003). Neurotransmitter transporters are classified into two categories: plasma membrane transporters such as dopamine transporter that are responsible for high-affinity uptake of the transmitter from the extracellular space into the neuronal cytoplasm and vesicular transporters such as the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT) that take up neurotransmitter from the cytoplasm into secretory vesicles. Tropane-based PET and SPECT tracers such as 123I-b-CIT and 99mTc-TRO-DAT-1 have a high affinity for the dopamine transporter but also for serotonin transporters. (þ)-alpha-[11C]Dihydrotetrabenazine (DTBZ) binds to the vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) located in presynaptic vesicles. Raclopride binds to D2-type dopamine receptors. 21.4.4.1. Image analysis/quantitation Because background activity and radiopharmaceutical dose vary from one study to another, radioactivity in specific regions of interest (ROIs) selected from PET or SPECT images is normalized by comparison with a region low in dopaminergic projections, usually the occipital cortex or cerebellum. Tracer uptake is expressed as a ratio: net striatal ROI counts-to-neutral ROI counts (for example, striatum-cerebellum/cerebellum). 18F-dopa uptake can be expressed as a striatalto-occipital ratio (SOR), but most research studies have used a multiple-time graphical analysis (MTGA) approach. MTGA generates a time–activity curve from dynamic images; a constant that represents rate of tracer uptake, Ki, is calculated using the Patlak equation (Patlak and Blasberg, 1985). Some investigators have suggested that the ratio method and MTGA approach perform equally well when using 18F-dopa PET for the detection of PD (Dhawan et al., 2002). 18F-dopa studies have varied in the method of ROI selection (and co-registration with magnetic resonance to assure anatomic specificity), techniques of data analysis (e.g. MTGA versus ratio method) and the way results are reported (as ratios of normal, ratios of baseline or absolute values). Percentage change (in Ki) from baseline will amplify tracer loss in PD patients, for whom ‘baseline’ tracer uptake is smaller than normal to begin with; therefore a consensus conference of experts suggested that investigators report both the absolute change and the percentage change (Brooks et al., 2003). In patients with PD, loss of 18F-dopa uptake in the posterior putamen is most sensitive to disease progression (Morrish

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et al., 1998). Comparison of a number of studies using this tracer shows that 95% confidence intervals (and, where available, range) for putamen Ki overlap between PD patients and controls. This is also the case for most types of dopamine transporter imaging (Brooks, 2000). For this reason, studies using 18F-dopa PET have relied on the application of several principles by experienced investigators to distinguish patients with PD from controls: (1) absolute Ki, particularly of the total striatum and putamen, is greatly reduced in PD; (2) in PD there is loss of tracer activity in the posterior putamen with relative preservation of tracer activity in the caudate head (Sawle et al., 1994); and (3) asymmetry of 18F-dopa uptake in the striatum suggests PD. 21.4.4.2. Sensitivity of radioligand imaging for Parkinson’s disease Note that the discussion below addresses the issue of sensitivity and specificity of radioligand imaging for the detection of diagnosable PD and not presymptomatic or preclinical parkinsonism. However, this review is helpful because the same issues that arise relative to these investigations with subjects diagnosed with PD will apply to studies hoping to detect presymptomatic and preclinical disease. The sensitivity and specificity of PET and SPECT imaging depend on both technical and biological factors. PET radiopharmaceuticals reliably produce two simultaneous orthogonally oriented annihilation photons – an inherent advantage in calculating detailed positional information from decay events. Therefore, PET generally has a higher sensitivity and spatial resolution than does SPECT (Palmer et al., 1992). PET radiopharmaceuticals require a cyclotron for production and decay rapidly; therefore imaging is performed shortly after tracer injection. Tropane-based agents accumulate slowly in the striatum, requiring a 24-hour delay between tracer injection and imaging. A critical factor that influences signal-to-noise ratio is the specificity of radiotracer binding or trapping. Particularly in the case of 18F-dopa PET, a large proportion of the radioactivity present at the time of scan acquisition represents circulating metabolite. Use of COMT inhibitor to prevent 18F-dopa metabolism and three-dimensional imaging can improve signal-to-noise ratio significantly (Brooks, 2000). Adaptations of the dopamine neuron to aging, external factors and disease state can also influence tracer uptake. In normal individuals, both number of dopamine neurons and dopamine transporter levels decline with age; smoking and female gender are associated with an increase in dopamine transporter binding (Piccini, 2003). 18F-dopa PET has been used to show that dopamine turnover increases in early PD and may be a more

sensitive marker for early PD than is plasma uptake rate constant Ki (Sossi et al., 2002). Consecutive C11-dopa and 11C-CIT-FE (a fluoroethyl analog of B-CIT) PET scans done on patients with PD and normal controls showed a greater reduction in 11C-CIT-FE activity in the striatum in comparison to L-C11dopa Ki, consistent with downregulation of dopamine transporter or increased dopa decarboxylase activity. Dopaminergic medications also present a potential confounding variable. Levodopa therapy produces slight downregulation of striatal dopamine transporter levels during treatment that resolves following wash-out (Innis et al., 1999). Results regarding the effects of dopamine agonist treatment are not consistent for pramipexole and pergolide, but it appears that these agents can cause alterations in dopamine transporter binding (Ahlskog et al., 1999, Guttman et al., 2001). 21.4.4.3. Specificity for Parkinson’s disease Discriminant function analysis emphasizing a pattern of reduced, asymmetrical 18F-dopa uptake in the putamen is able to assign probabilities of disease with high accuracy (Sawle et al., 1994; Berendse et al., 2001). However, other studies have revealed a significant misclassification rate using similar principles (Whone et al., 2003). Weng et al. (2004) found 99mTc-TRO-DAT-1 SPECT imaging distinguished 100% of 78 patients with early PD from 40 age-matched controls. Although techniques differ, some small studies suggest that radiotracer imaging distinguishes PD from parkinsonian syndromes (Otsuka et al., 1997; Pirker et al., 2000), essential tremor (Asenbaum et al., 1998) and dystonia (Jeon et al., 1998). 21.4.4.4. Misclassification rate The Requip as early therapy versus L-dopa-PET (REAL-PET) study found that approximately 11% of patients suspected clinically as having PD had normal 18 F-dopa PET studies; all of the patients in this group had normal scans at 2-year follow-up (Whone et al., 2003). Whether the PET scan results were false negatives and these patients will eventually progress as clinically probable PD is yet to be seen. The Parkinson study group found that, of 69 patients with essential tremor studied with 123Ib-CIT, 5 patients were misclassified by blinded readers and quantitative analysis as having PD. They considered various explanations for this, especially that ‘ET [essential tremor] may be an overlap syndrome with PD in a subset of cases’. Subsequent network analyses and follow-up shows that these subjects do not have PD (Eckert et al., 2007). In terms of the false-positive rate, estimates are hard to come by. In spite of the cumulative numbers of

EARLY DETECTION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE patients used as controls in these functional imaging studies, cases of abnormal studies in patients without a diagnosis of PD are rare (Snow et al., 1991). 21.4.4.5. Symptom threshold Establishing the threshold for imaging at which the disease is first established is important for presymptomatic detection. The difference between the imaging levels for controls and that which is associated with clinical diagnosis constitutes the range for presymptomatic and preclinical detection. 18F-dopa PET studies have shown that symptom onset appears to occur when putamen Ki is about 70% of normal and caudate Ki about 90% of normal on 18F-dopa PET (Morrish et al., 1998; Rakshi et al., 1999). In early hemi-PD, dopamine transporter activity is about 50% of normal contralateral to the affected limb (Marek et al., 1996). Pathologic studies have estimated that symptom onset corresponds to 68% cell loss in the lateral ventral substantia nigra and a 48% loss in the caudal nigra (Fearnley and Lees, 1991). These observations explain to some extent the differing estimates, based on functional imaging and pathologic studies, of the threshold for symptom onset; they are studying different parameters (aromatic amino acid decarboxylase activity, dopamine transporter density and cell number). 21.4.4.6. Sensitivity to progression The ability to measure the progression of imaging changes is important to the development of predictive tests. Forward analysis of the correlation with clinical progression and imaging measures can then be used to extrapolate backwards to determine the duration of the prodromal phase. In an issue of Experimental Neurology, Brooks et al. (2003) published an assessment of neuroimaging techniques as biomarkers of progression of PD. The criteria they considered were that: (1) a progression indicator should describe a biological process that changes with progression of PD; (2) it should correlate with clinical deterioration; (3) the biomarker should be objective, (4) reproducible and (5) sensitive for progression of disease; (6) the signal-to-noise ratio should be low; (7) it should be safe, tolerable and (8) relatively inexpensive; (9) it could be used repeatedly on individual patients; and (10) longitudinal data should be available on a sufficient number of patients to allow an informative assessment of the distributional properties (mean and variance) of the progression measure (Brooks et al., 2003). Based on these criteria, the researchers concluded that b-CIT SPECT, 18F-dopa PET and 11C-dihydrotetrabenazine PET performed well as biomarkers of pro-

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gression of PD. In studies of disease progression, striatal 18F-dopa and 18F b-CIFT have correlated well with UPDRS scores and with nigral cell density (Rinne et al., 1999; Brooks et al., 2003). Functional imaging has shown an average annual loss of 4–13% of 18Fdopa, b-CIT and 18F-CFT or 123I- b-CIT uptake in comparison to a 0–2.5% change in healthy controls (Marek et al., 2003). However, Morrish (2003) estimated that the sensitivity of dopamine transporter imaging to a 10-point change in the UPDRS score (clinically defined off) would range from 5 to 16%. Since patients recruited at symptom onset progress at average of 4–7 UPDRS points per year, this amount of change in the imaging data is expected to less reliable than clinical measures if reproducibility of the test is not perfect. Mean scan-to-scan variability for dopamine transporter PET and SPECT techniques ranged from 1.5 to 17%; Morrish points out that an average error of 17%, with a standard deviation of 13% allows a ‘normal range’ in error of 43%. 21.4.4.7. Predictive value of PET and SPECT Sensitivity and specificity of a test for disease do not necessarily translate to its sensitivity and specificity for transitional stages between health and disease, i.e. its predictive value. To determine how radionuclide imaging performs as a predictive test, one would need to image a cohort of persons at risk for the disease and then follow them forward in time to determine the accuracy of the initial test. A few groups of patients at risk for PD have been imaged, as described below. 21.4.4.7.1. Asymptomatic individuals with genetic risk factors for Parkinson’s disease 21.4.4.7.1.1. Parkin (PARK2) mutation carriers Khan et al. (2002) obtained serial 18F-dopa PET scans, separated by an average of 10 years, on 5 members of a family afflicted by early-onset PD. Four individuals carried at least one parkin mutation; 3/4 had extrapyramidal signs that worsened over 10 years; one individual who carried the parkin mutation remained asymptomatic. Each of the parkin carriers had reduced putamen 18F-dopa Ki in comparison to controls and the annual rate of loss of 18F-dopa Ki was significantly slower in parkin carriers than in PD. Kruger et al. (2001) studied a family with relatively mild phenotype due to mutations in the a-synuclein gene and found presynaptic dopaminergic alterations consistent with sporadic PD in two affected family members but normal 18F-dopa and 11C-raclopride PET in one presymptomatic mutation carrier. Hilker et al. (2001) used 18Fdopa and 11C-raclopride PET to investigate an Italian

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kindred that included asymptomatic carriers of the parkin mutation; asymptomatic carriers had posterior putamen Ki values between normal and sporadic PD values, many within the normal range. 21.4.4.7.1.2. Relatives of Parkinson’s disease patients Piccini et al. (1997) used 18F-dopa PET in asymptomatic members of 7 unrelated kindreds in which at least 2 members had parkinsonism. Eight (25%) of the 32 asymptomatic relatives showed abnormal putamen 18F-dopa uptake (2.5 sd below the normal mean). Berendse et al. (2001) screened relatives of PD patients for hyposmia and then performed 123Ib-CIT on 23 hyposmic individuals: 4 of these individuals had abnormal 123Ib-CIT binding and 2/4 developed signs of PD within 1 year. Several other studies suggest that subclinical central dopamine deficiency is present in some first-degree relatives of patients with PD but the predictive value of the finding has not yet been investigated (Piccini et al., 1997; Maraganore et al., 1999). 21.4.4.7.1.3. Twin studies Piccini et al. (1999) studied 18 monozygotic and 16 dizygotic twins discordant for PD with 18F-dopa PET and found that that the rate of subclinical striatal dopaminergic dysfunction was significantly higher in 18 monozygotic than in 16 dizygotic twin pairs (55% versus 18%, respectively). Four monozygotic twin pairs became clinically concordant for PD with a latency of 2–20 years. 21.4.4.7.2. MPTP-exposed patients Vingerhoets et al. obtained two 18F-dopa PET scans separated by 7 years on 10 patients who had been exposed to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) in the early 1980s; 5 patients were asymptomatic at the time of the first scan. They found that the (striatum-background)/background ratio in all MPTPexposed subjects decreased with an average slope of 2.3% per year, ‘significantly faster than controls’. Two patients remained normal during this interval. For 1 patient there was little change in fluorodopa accumulation between scans; for the other, there was a significant decline from a ratio of 0.77–0.61. In this study, fluorodopa accumulation ratios for subjects and controls overlap and the control group is not well matched in terms of age. The subjects selected for the study were at higher risk than the general population for the development of PD; therefore, it would be difficult to use this data to evaluate the predictive value of 18F-dopa PET. 21.4.5. Alternative imaging studies There are a number of imaging techniques that do not depend on imaging neurotransmitter receptors or trans-

porters. These depend on changes in anatomy; other aspects of the SNpc, such as iron content; or physiological/metabolic changes, such as glucose utilization. 21.4.5.1. Anatomic changes in Parkinson’s disease: ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging Pathologic studies have shown that, in PD, there is exponential loss of pigmented substantia nigra neurons with greatest loss in the lateral ventral nigra, a pattern opposite to that of normal aging (Fearnley and Lees, 1991). Hutchinson and Raff (2000) found that T1-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI) sensitive to cell volume showed loss of signal in a lateral-to-medial gradient in cases of PD, corresponding to the known neuropathologic pattern of degeneration. Severity of changes correlated with UPDRS scores. Other authors have described changes in volume of putamen (Lisanby et al., 1993; Vymazal et al., 1999; O’Neill et al., 2002), globus pallidus and prefrontal cortical gray matter and connections (Lisanby et al., 1993; O’Neill et al., 2002). Decreased volumes of striatal structures have not been reproduced in all studies (Schulz et al., 1999). Morphometric studies in normal patients have shown a non-linear decrease in volume of basal nuclei with age (Brabec et al., 2003). Furthermore, one fairly consistent finding from the psychiatric literature is that the volume of the basal nuclei seems to increase over time in schizophrenics treated with typical neuroleptics (Keshavan et al., 1994, Corson et al., 1999). This suggests that both age and pharmacotherapy with levodopa and dopa agonists are potential confounding factors that should be more closely controlled in future volumetric studies. 21.4.5.2. Substantia nigra iron content Several late-onset neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, PD and Huntington’s disease, have a higher accumulation of iron in affected brain regions as compared to age-matched controls (Connor et al., 1995; Moos and Morgan, 2004). In these disorders, regional changes in iron content exceed the increase in brain iron that occurs with normal aging (Bartzokis et al., 2004). Genetic conditions that cause excess iron accumulation in the nervous system (for example, pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration, formerly Hallervorden–Spatz disease, Friedreich ataxia) are also associated with neurodegeneration. The bulk of brain iron is stored in ferritin molecules. Absence of ferritin iron-binding protein in dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra (in which 10– 20% of free iron is bound to neuromelanin) may make these neurons particularly vulnerable to excess free iron accumulation (Bartzokis et al., 2004). Many studies have used MRI to show decreased T2 relaxation

EARLY DETECTION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE time in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra and other subcortical structures in PD, probably due to increased iron content (Antonini et al., 1993; Gorell et al., 1995; Ryvlin et al., 1995; Bartzokis et al., 1999, 2004; Vymazal et al., 1999). Male subjects with early-onset PD had increased ferritin-bound iron levels in several basal ganglia regions, suggesting that ferritin iron may be a risk factor for earlier-onset PD (Bartzokis et al., 2004). Substantia nigra iron content has been criticized as a biomarker of PD because in one large study T2 values in the substantia nigra did not correlate with disease duration or with clinical severity (Antonini et al., 1993). Another morphologic finding possibly related to increased substantia nigra iron content is increased echogenicity of the substantia nigra on ultrasound. An echogenic area of 0.25 cm or more in the substantia nigra in young individuals correlates with reduced putamenal and caudate 18F-dopa Ki on PET (Berg et al., 2002). Increased substantia nigra echogenicity correlates with extrapyramidal signs in ‘healthy’ elderly individuals (Berg et al., 2001). The prevalence of substantia nigra hyperechogenicity increases only slightly with age and correlates with increased substantia nigra iron content in postmortem studies (Berg et al., 2002). The authors postulate that increased substantia nigra iron content, through increased generation of hydroxyl and superoxide radicals, causes oxidative stress that will predispose these individuals to developing parkinsonism. Although substantia nigra hyperechogenicity is found in PD and 9% of ‘healthy’ individuals (Becker et al., 1995), a prospective study linking this finding to the development of PD has not yet been done. 21.4.5.3. Metabolic alterations: hydrogen magnetic resonance spectroscopy 1

H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can be used to evaluate the concentration of several cerebral metabolites: standard measurements are of Nacetylaspartate (NAA), a marker of viable adult neurons, creatine and phosphocreatine (Cr), indicators of energy metabolism, choline (Cho), a marker of cell (especially neuronal) membranes and myoinositol (mI). MRS is susceptible to misinterpretation mainly due to the complexity of calibrating results from spectra: ratio methods are susceptible to misinterpretation if reference metabolite (especially Cho or Cr) concentration varies (Dudek, 2004); furthermore, in the study of PD, voxel inhomogeneity is expected to be an issue in the brainstem and alterations in substantia nigra iron content may affect the results of spectroscopy (Jenkins et al., 1999). Results from MRS studies have varied; NAA/Cr ratios in the SN have been reported to be both

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increased and decreased in PD. Several studies found significant differences between PD and controls in the NAA/Cho or NAA/Cr ratios in the globus pallidus and putamen and cerebral cortex, whereas other studies have not found significant differences between PD and controls in these regions (O’Neill et al., 2002). A quantitative 1H MRS study of 10 PD patients and 13 age- and sex-matched controls showed significantly lower Cr in the substantia nigra of PD patients; there were no significant differences in NAA, Cho, or mI (O’Neill et al., 2002). 21.4.5.4. Phosphate and carbon spectroscopy Phosphorous MRS has also been used to investigate PD and parkinsonian syndromes. Metabolites that can be imaged using MRS include phosphocreatine (PCr), inorganic phosphate (Pi) and cytosolic free Mg2þ and pH. Preliminary studies have shown alterations in the concentrations of some of these metabolites in the occipital lobe of patients with PD in comparison to patients with multiple system atrophy (Barbiroli et al., 1999) and progressive supranuclear palsy (Martinelli et al., 2000). Regional high-energy phosphate and phospholipid metabolism may also be altered in the basal ganglia of patients with PD (Kudo et al., 1997). Penn et al. (1995) studied metabolite levels in skeletal muscle and found a significant difference in inorganic phosphate/ phosphocreatine (Pi/PCr) ratio between PD patients and controls. Other researchers have not found any significant difference in muscular energy metabolism between patients with PD and controls (Taylor et al., 1994). 21.4.5.5. Sympathetic failure in Parkinson’s disease: cardiac imaging 123

I-metaiodobenzylguanadine (MIBG), a physiological analog of norepinephrine, is taken up and vesicularized by presynaptic sympathetic nerve terminals. Cardiac MIBG uptake is reduced in PD and other disorders associated with autonomic failure. Patients with PD and symptomatic orthostatic hypotension display increased end-organ sensitivity to norepinephrine and severely decreased myocardial and lower-extremity MIBG uptake. However, patients with PD and decreased myocardial MIBG uptake do not invariably have clinical signs or symptoms of orthostatic hypotension (Takatsu et al., 2000). Heart/mediastinum MIBG uptake is significantly reduced in PD patients, even those in early stages of disease, in comparison to controls (Iwasa et al., 1998, Satoh et al., 1999) and is more severely reduced at advanced stages of disease (Hamada et al., 2003). Range of tracer uptake does overlap somewhat between young PD patients

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and controls but it is not clear if these results were normalized for age (Hamada et al., 2003). Reduced cardiac MIBG uptake in synucleinopathies (Lewy body disease, PD, multiple system atropy and pure autonomic failure) in contrast to tauopathies has led to the suggestion that MIBG scintigraphy be used and a diagnostic test undertaken to distinguish between these disorders (Taki et al., 2004). Of interest, cardiac MIBG uptake is also less severely reduced in multiple system atrophy than in PD, probably because the autonomic defect is postganglionic in PD but preganglionic/central in multiple system atrophy. Some investigators have proposed that cardiac MIBG uptake be used to distinguish PD from multiple system atrophy (Braune et al., 1999; Druschky et al., 2000). 21.4.5.6. Changes in network dynamics One intriguing concept that becomes more evident as we try to understand the effectiveness of lesions and deep brain stimulation for the treatment of PD is that motor and cognitive symptoms of the disease result from abnormal activity within different interconnected networks or subcortical nuclei and brain regions (Lozza et al., 2004). 18F fluorodeoxyglucose studies of PD have shown increased metabolic activity in the lentiform nucleus and thalamus associated with decreased activity in the lateral frontal, paracentral, inferior parietal and parieto-occipital areas correlated with degree of bradykinesia and rigidity in PD (Eidelberg et al., 1994). Lentiform nucleus hypermetabolism is improved following pallidotomy (Dogali et al., 1994). Subthalamotomy reduces basal ganglia output through internal globus pallidus/substantia nigra pars reticularis and also influences downstream neural activity in the pons and ventral thalamus (Su et al., 2001). Other investigators have suggested that patterns of alteration in regional glucose metabolism can be used to discriminate patients with suspected atypical parkinsonian syndromes from their counterparts with classic PD (Antonini et al., 1998). Diffusion tensor MRI uses preferential diffusion of water molecules along white-matter tracts to image neuronal connections. It has been used to show decreased fractional anisotropy in the region of interest between the substantia nigra and the lower part of the putamen/caudate complex (Yoshikawa, 2004), suggesting alteration in the connections between these structures. To what extent any of these observations could be used as specific or sensitive markers for preclinical PD remains to be seen.

21.5. Summary A number of techniques (clinical, electophysiological, biochemical, imaging and genetic) have been

used to detect or quantify pathophysiology of PD. These tests are candidates to be used singularly or as part of a test battery for the preclinical detection of PD. However, a number of questions need to be answered: 1. Assuming that a predictive test is applied at time X, what outcome will be accepted at time Y as indicating accuracy of the test? Establishing a gold standard that is accurate and feasible to use in validation trials remains an issue. 2. What is the required time duration between X and Y to determine if the primary outcome (e.g. clinical diagnosis of PD) has occurred? 3. Who should be screened for PD – patients known to carry genetic mutations correlated with PD, family members of patients with PD, the general population past a certain age? Prior probability of disease will vary significantly between these groups. 4. Although many techniques seem to perform well as diagnostic tests for PD, in many cases the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value and generalizability have not been assessed. Even tests that are well validated as distinguishing between PD and controls are expected to perform less well as predictive tests (due to greater overlap between normal and control groups) and can only be conscientiously used in patient care if prospectively validated.

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Section 4 Etiology


Chapter 22

Mitochondria in the etiology of Parkinson’s disease ANTHONY H. V. SCHAPIRA* University Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London and Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK

22.1. Introduction The identification to date of six different gene mutations and another five chromosomal loci linked to familial Parkinson’s disease (PD) indicates the etiological heterogeneity of this disorder. At the pathogenetic level, several biochemical abnormalities, including mitochondrial complex I deficiency and free radicalmediated damage, have been demonstrated in the substantia nigra of sporadic PD patients. Again, there is heterogeneity amongst these, with some patients exhibiting one defect and others multiple abnormalities. The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in PD now extends beyond that of a respiratory chain defect; mutations in two nuclear genes (PINK1 and DJ-1) encoding mitochondrial proteins have been described in familial PD. This chapter reviews the role of mitochondria in PD etiology and pathogenesis.

22.2. Mitochondrial DNA structure, function and inheritance Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a small circular double-stranded molecule 16 493 bases long encoding two ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs and 13 proteins (Fig. 22.1). These 13 proteins are all part of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system for generating energy by aerobic metabolism (Table 22.1). MtDNA remains dependent on the nucleus for the production of proteins involved in its transcription, translation, replication and repair. Mutations in nuclear genes encoding proteins involved in mtDNA maintenance, e.g. mtDNA polymerase gamma (POLG), can cause a variety of human disorders, including late-onset PD (see below).

MtDNA-encoded proteins are translated on mitochondrial ribosomes and incorporated directly into complexes I, III, IV and V on the inner membrane. Nuclear-encoded proteins are translated on cytosolic ribosomes and are imported into the mitochondrion through a complex receptor and transport system. For many proteins, this involves an N-terminal amino-targeting sequence that interacts with membrane receptors and signals the carrier protein’s import into the mitochondrion. The signaling sequence is then cleaved and the protein trafficked to the appropriate mitochondrial compartment. Some proteins are incorporated into the outer mitochondrial membrane and others directly into the intermembranous space. The vast majority of mitochondrial proteins are encoded by the nucleus and they have a wide range of functions. Many are involved in the metabolic pathways for which the mitochondrion is responsible, e.g. OXPHOS, beta-oxidation, urea cycle, apoptotic pathways. The OXPHOS system comprises the four respiratory chain complexes (I–IV) and adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase: complex V). These proteins are embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane and consist of a total of approximately 85 subunits, 72 being encoded by nuclear DNA and 13 by mtDNA. The OXPHOS system is not only responsible for adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, but is also an important source of superoxide radicals. Thus defects of the OXPHOS system have the potential not only to cause a failure of energy metabolism, but also increased free radical-mediated damage. MtDNA continuously replicates and this involves the nuclear-encoded enzymes mtDNA POLG, thymidine kinase 2 and deoxyguanosine kinase. MtDNA is inherited through the female line, although there has

*Correspondence to: Professor A. Schapira, University Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ44-207830-2012, Fax: þ44-20-7472-6829.

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Fig. 22.1. For full color figure, see plate section. Schematic representation of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the respiratory chain. (A) Included are the color-coded genes for respiratory chain proteins, ribosomal and transfer RNAs. The OH and OL are the origins of heavy- and light-strand replication respectively. The location of the more common mtDNA mutations is indicated. (B) The oxidative phosphorylation system. Each hexagon is the product of a single gene: white, nuclear; others color-coded to the mtDNA molecule in (A).

been one report of paternal inheritance of a mtDNA microdeletion in a complex I gene (Schwartz and Vissing, 2002). Over 100 mtDNA mutations have been associated with human disease. The majority of these result in a spectrum of encephalomyopathies. These include a variety of ocular and limb myopathies in addition to disorders such as mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) and myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF). MtDNA mutations responsible for mitochondrial diseases include point mutations of tRNAs or protein-coding genes and genomic rearran-

gements, including deletions and duplications. mtDNA mutations may be somatic, such as occur with senescence, or inherited. However, about 40% of patients with proven mtDNA mutations have no family history. Interestingly, patients with mitochondrial myopathies have an increased incidence of movement disorders over and above that expected in controls (Truong et al., 1990). Also, certain families with point mutations in complex I coding genes have Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), particularly associated with dystonia (Jun et al., 1994; De Vries et al., 1996). Furthermore, mitochondrial complex I deficiency has been identified

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in platelet mitochondria from patients with dystonia (Benecke et al., 1992; Schapira et al., 1997). mtDNA mutations are often present in heteroplasmic form, i.e. coexisting with normal wild-type mtDNA. The proportion of mutant to wild-type may vary between individuals and between tissues of the same individual. There is a relationship between the mutant load and the degree of biochemical defect, although this is both tissue-dependent and recessive: from studies undertaken so far, 5–20% of wild-type mtDNA can compensate at the biochemical level.

22.3. Mitochondrial complex I deficiency in Parkinson’s disease A mitochondrial defect in PD was first identified in 1989 in substantia nigra from patients with PD (Schapira et al., 1989a, b). This study has been expanded over the years and results to date show that there is a specific 35% complex I deficiency in PD nigra (Mann et al., 1994). This defect in complex I activity does not affect any other part of the respiratory chain. In addition, no defect in mitochondrial activity has been identifiable in any other part of PD brain, including caudate putamen, globus pallidus, tegmentum, cortex, cerebellum or substantia innominata (Schapira et al., 1990b). The discovery of complex I deficiency in PD raised many questions, specifically regarding its primary or secondary role in etiology/pathogenesis. As virtually

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all the brains taken from PD patients had been exposed to levodopa, an important question related to whether levodopa caused the complex I deficiency. However, there is no deficiency of complex I activity in PD striatum which one might expect from the rat model (Cooper et al., 1995). Levodopa does not appear to cause any deficiency of complex I activity in platelet mitochondria, which again might be expected given the relatively high circulating levels of levodopa in the periphery. Most importantly, it has been shown that patients with multiple system atrophy (MSA) who have taken levodopa in quantities and for duration comparable to patients with PD have no defect of mitochondrial activity in their substantia nigra (Gu et al., 1997). Furthermore, cell loss in the nigra is at least as severe in MSA as it is in PD and so one would expect that, if the mitochondrial defect in PD were simply a reflection of this degeneration, the same abnormality should be present in MSA. Its absence in MSA therefore suggests that its presence in PD is the result of a more specific cause than simple cell loss. Following the report of complex I deficiency in PD substantia nigra, respiratory chain abnormalities were described in skeletal muscle mitochondria from PD patients. This particular area has proved very contentious, with several groups describing either similar defects, or no abnormality whatsoever (Schapira, 1994). Two magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies on skeletal muscle mitochondrial function in PD have shown conflicting results (Taylor et al., 1994; Penn et al., 1995). Finally, mitochondrial complex I deficiency was also identified in platelet mitochondria of PD patients (Parker et al., 1989; Krige et al., 1992; Haas et al., 1995). In contrast to skeletal muscle there is a consensus amongst several laboratories that complex I deficiency does exist in PD platelet mitochondria. The majority of studies, however, suggest that this deficiency, at least based on a group-to-group analysis, is modest (circa 20–25% Schapira, 1994). The complex I deficiency in PD lacks the sensitivity to allow its use as a biomarker of PD.

22.4. Mitochondrial DNA mutations in Parkinson’s disease Several studies have investigated the structure of mtDNA in tissues from PD patients to determine whether the complex I defect is associated with an underlying mtDNA mutation. An early study suggested increased levels of the common deletion in PD brain (Ikebe et al., 1990). However, this study did not use age-matched controls and the increase in the common deletion was in fact no greater than would

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be expected from the aging process. Other studies using properly matched controls found no increase in this mitochondrial mutation in PD substantia nigra (Schapira et al., 1990a; Lestienne et al., 1991). Several studies have sequenced mtDNA in PD but these have all used unselected patients in terms of their complex I activity (Ozawa et al., 1991; Ikebe et al., 1995). Although some reports have suggested an increased frequency of certain mtDNA polymorphisms in PD, this has not been replicated in all studies (Shoffner et al., 1993; Lucking et al., 1995; Kosel et al., 2000; Richter et al., 2002; Vives-Bauza et al., 2002). Certain mtDNA haplotypes influence PD expression and haplotype J was associated with a significant decrease in risk for PD, which in turn is strongly associated with the presence of a single nucleotide polymorphism at A10398G (van der Walt et al., 2003). A second study showed a 22% decrease in PD in those with the UKJT haplotype cluster (Pyle et al., 2005). In contrast, a smaller study reported an increased risk for PD with haplotypes J and T (Ross et al., 2003). It is possible to use a cell complementation system to assess whether mitochondrial or nuclear DNA determines a respiratory chain deficiency. This system makes use of rho-zero cells in which mtDNA has been eradicated by ethidium bromide, but which are still capable of surviving in medium supplemented with uridine and pyridine. These cells have a nucleus but no functioning respiratory chain. mtDNA taken from donor cells may then be fused into these rho-zero cells. The production of a respiratory chain defect in the recipient cells will indicate that this is derived from the donor mtDNA. This system has been used to show that the respiratory chain defects of LHON 3460 (Cock et al., 1998) and mtDNA depletion syndrome (Bodnar et al., 1993) have a nuclear component. Others have shown that the biochemical deficiency associated with mtDNA deletions and the 3243-basepair tRNALeu (UUR) mutation associated with the MELAS phenotype follow the transfer of mtDNA from donor to recipient rho-zero cells (Dunbar et al., 1996). Two studies have used genetic transplantation to investigate the potential for PD mtDNA to determine the complex I defect. In one, unselected PD platelets were fused and grown in mixed culture (Swerdlow et al., 1996). In another, PD patients were selected on the basis of demonstrating a peripheral complex I deficiency. These patients’ cells were then fused with rho-zero cells and grown in both mixed and clonal culture (Gu et al., 1998). In both, mtDNA transferred from the PD patients induced a complex I defect in the recipient cybrid cells. These results indicate that the mtDNA in these patients caused the complex I

deficiency through either inherited or somatic mutations. Further experiments suggested that the recipient cells also developed abnormal calcium handling and a lower mitochondrial membrane potential. A mutation in the mtDNA 12S RNA was found in a patient with maternally inherited early-onset PD, deafness and neuropathy (Thyagarajan et al., 2000), but this has not been found in other cases of PD. In summary, at the time of writing, no specific mtDNA abnormality has been consistently found in PD patients to explain the complex I deficiency.

22.5. Nuclear mitochondrial mutations causing Parkinson’s disease As explained above, nuclear DNA encodes approximately 97% of mitochondrial proteins. Several gene mutations causing familial PD have been described. These include POLG mutations and mutations in PINK1 and DJ-1, all of which code for mitochondrial proteins. POLG mutations have been demonstrated in patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO) and parkinsonism. Autosomal-dominant or recessive inheritance of PEO with age of onset ranging from 10 to 54 years was followed some years later (range 6–40 years) by the development of an asymmetric, levodopa-responsive bradykinetic rigid syndrome together with resting tremor in some patients. Additional features included variable limb, pharyngeal or facial weakness, cataracts, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy and premature ovarian failure (Luoma et al., 2004). Muscle biopsy demonstrated ragged red, cytochrome oxidase-negative fibers in all patients with multiple mtDNA deletions on Southern blotting. Symmetrically reduced striatal [18F]b-CFT was seen in 2 patients. Brain histology was available on a further 2 patients; both showed severe loss of substantia nigral dopaminergic neurons but without the development of Lewy bodies or other synuclein aggregates. Four families had the same A2864G mutation, inherited in autosomal fashion in three and with a founder effect in the fourth. Mutations in the exonuclease or polymerase portions of the gene were identified in the autosomalrecessive families. A further patient with autosomaldominant PEO-parkinsonism and an A2492G mutation has been reported (Mancuso et al., 2004). Recently, recessive mutations in PINK1 were found to be responsible for a familial form of early-onset parkinsonism, previously mapped to chromosome 1p36 (the PARK6 locus; Valente et al., 2004a). The PINK1 gene is ubiquitously transcribed and encodes a mitochondrial kinase (Unoki and Nakamura, 2001; Valente et al., 2004a). Preliminary data have suggested that

MITOCHONDRIA IN THE ETIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE PINK1 may play a role in protecting cells against stress conditions that affect mitochondrial membrane potential (Valente et al., 2004a), but the downstream targets through which PINK1 mediates its protection have not been identified. As 11 out of the 14 reported mutations fall into the kinase domain of PINK1 (Hatano et al., 2004; Rohe et al., 2004; Valente et al., 2004a, b), altered phosphorylation of target proteins probably represents a key pathogenic mechanism, leading to abnormal stress response and neurodegeneration. How phosphorylation of these target proteins affects mitochondrial function is not known. The reversible phosphorylation of proteins is an important method of regulating cellular activities (Hunter, 2000). Up to 30% of eukaryotic proteins are phosphorylated (Cohen, 2002) and there are more that 500 human genes encoding protein kinases (Manning et al., 2002). The phosphorylation of mitochondrial proteins is considered pivotal to the regulation of respiratory activity in the cell and to signaling pathways leading to apoptosis, as well as for other vital mitochondrial processes. Recent investigations demonstrated that a number of the subunits of the respiratory chain enzyme complexes are phosphorylated, including several subunits of complex I (Bykova et al., 2003; Hojlund et al., 2003; Schulenberg et al., 2003, 2004; Chen et al., 2004; Murray et al., 2004). As PINK1 protects cells against stress conditions that affect the mitochondrial membrane potential, which is maintained by the respiratory chain enzymes, it is tempting to speculate that PINK1 mediates its protective role through phosphorylation of certain respiratory chain enzyme subunits. Even though PINK1 provides the first direct genetic link between a mitochondrial defect and parkinsonism, several earlier observations have implicated mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of other forms of familial PD. A parkin knockout mouse model has been described (Goldberg et al., 2003). This showed an increase in striatal extracellular dopamine, a reduction in synaptic excitability and a mild non-progressive motor deficit at 2–4 months. There was no loss of dopaminergic neurons and no inclusion formation. Dopamine receptor-binding affinities and parkin E3 ligase substrate levels were normal. Interestingly, these mice had decreased striatal mitochondrial respiratory chain function and reductions in specific respiratory chain and antioxidant proteins (Palacino et al., 2004). Parkin knockout flies developed muscle pathology, mitochondrial abnormalities and apoptotic cell death (Greene et al., 2003). Overexpression of parkin in PC12 cells indicated that it is associated with the mitochondrial outer membrane (Darios et al., 2003; Shen and Cookson, 2004). Parkin-positive patients have

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decreased lymphocyte complex I activity (Shen and Cookson, 2004).

22.6. Mitochondrial toxins and Parkinson’s disease The neurotoxin 1-methyl 4-phenyl 1,2,3,6 tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) causes dopaminergic cell loss in the nigrostriatum and induces parkinsonism in humans, other primates and rodents. This is achieved via specific uptake and conversion pathways. MPTP is converted to 1-methyl 4-phenylpyridinium (MPP) via the intermediate 2,3-dihydropyridinium (MPDP) by monoamine oxidase (MAO) A and B, preferentially by MAO-B (Singer et al., 1986). This conversion probably occurs in glia, as MAO-B is predominantly located in astrocytes and serotinergic neurons in the central nervous system, where it is located on the mitochondrial outer membrane (Levitt et al., 1982). Inhibition of MAO can prevent MPTP toxicity. MPDP is capable of passing across cell membranes and so the conversion of MPDP to MPPþ probably occurs in the extracellular space by autooxidation (Di Monte et al., 1992). MPPþ is a substrate for the dopamine reuptake system (Javitch et al., 1984; Chiba et al., 1985). Blockade of MPPþ uptake by, for instance, nomifensine can prevent MPTP toxicity (Melamed et al., 1985; Schultz et al., 1989). Thus MPPþ is actively concentrated into dopaminergic neurons. Although taken up via the nerve terminals in the striatum, MPPþ may be concentrated in the cell body through its affinity with neuromelanin (Lyden et al., 1983; D’Amato et al., 1987). Thus neuromelanin, which is an autooxidation product of levodopa, may act as a toxic sink in the cell body. Once inside the cell, MPPþ is concentrated to millimolar proportions by an energy-dependent mitochondrial ion-concentrating system. Within mitochondria, MPPþ inhibits complex I. There is also evidence that MPPþ generates free radicals and recent evidence that the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, 7-nitroindozole, can prevent MPPþ toxicity in monkeys (Hantraye et al., 1996). The current assumption is that MPPþ induces cell death through a combination of inhibition of ATP synthesis and free radical generation. The emergence of the neurotoxin MPTP as an experimental tool to produce a model of PD has provided some insight into the etiology and pathogenesis of idiopathic PD. MPTP was originally synthesized as a meperidine analog ‘designer drug’ and sold as an injectable narcotic on the streets of northern California (Davis et al., 1979; Langston et al., 1983). It is likely that hundreds of people injected MPTP but a few individuals who repeatedly used this drug developed an akinetic rigid syndrome with or without

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resting tremor within 7–14 days. These patients responded well to levodopa, although subsequently went on to develop fluctuations and dyskinesias in response to treatment (Langston and Ballard, 1984). 18 F-dopa positron emission tomography (PET) scans of some of these patients showed reduced uptake. Interestingly, a less severe reduction of 18F-dopa uptake was also seen in individuals exposed to the drug who had not developed clinical features of parkinsonism (Calne et al., 1985; Martin et al., 1986) and subsequent repeat scans have shown further progressive loss of the nigrostriatal system as determined by 18F-dopa uptake over time. Although MPTP-induced parkinsonism has clinical, pharmacological and 18F-dopa uptake parallels with idiopathic PD, in the few cases that have come to postmortem the pathological changes are similar but not identical to PD. Severe loss of nigral neurons in the substantia nigra is seen, but without evidence of classic Lewy bodies (Langston et al., 1983). Systemic injection of MPTP into non-human primates also produces parkinsonism with bradykinesia, rigidity and freezing. Tremor may also develop but it is not the typical resting tremor of parkinsonism, usually being a postural or action tremor (Martin et al., 1986; Tetrud and Langston, 1992). Like humans, MPTP-treated monkeys develop severe dopamine depletion in the striatum with marked nigrostriatal neuronal loss. There is also cell loss in the locus ceruleus in MPTP-treated monkeys similar to that seen in idiopathic PD. In MPTP-treated monkeys eosinophilic intraneuronal inclusions have been observed but they lack the structure typical of Lewy bodies (Forno et al., 1988). Other complex I inhibitors have also been shown to induce dopaminergic cell death. Rotenone is a potent and specific complex I inhibitor and is commonly used in the USA as a pesticide. Infusion of low doses of rotenone over 1 month into rodents induced nigrostriatal cell death and Lewy-like inclusions (Betarbet et al., 2000). Subsequent studies have indicated that the damage induced by rotenone is also related to free radical generation and is more widely distributed than in PD (Hoglinger et al., 2003b). Annonacin is a complex I inhibitor and is found in sour-sop, a drink used in the Caribbean, and when injected into rats this compound induces nigral degeneration (Champy et al., 2004). Acute carbon monoxide poisoning results in complexing of carbon monoxide with the ferrous iron, protophorphyrin IX, and this prevents the carriage of oxygen. In addition carbon monoxide is a potent inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase (complex IV) of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Survivors of carbon monoxide poisoning have developed parkinsonism

within a few days or weeks of exposure (Grinker, 1926; Gordon, 1965; Klawans et al., 1982). The affected patients show necrosis of the globus pallidus on computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scanning. The effects of this toxin therefore contrast with MPTP; carbon monoxide induces a postsynaptic defect whereas MPTP produces a presynaptic lesion more in keeping with PD. A postsynaptic pallidal lesion may similarly be produced by manganese. There have been numerous reports of manganism developing amongst individuals exposed to manganese dioxide ore, usually by inhalation of manganese dust. Exposure is typically chronic over 6 months to 16 years and the onset of manganism is slow, beginning with apathy, muscle weakness and cramps and general irritability. Progression occurs and is characterized by dysarthria and psychosis followed by severe rigidity, anarthria and dystonia with little or no tremor (Huang et al., 1993). Manganese predominantly appears to affect the globus pallidus with relative sparing of the substantia nigra (Kish et al., 1985).

22.7. Mitochondria, oxidative stress and the proteasomal system There are several lines of evidence which indicate the presence of free radical-mediated oxidative stress and damage to biomolecules in PD substantia nigra. Glutathione (GSH) in its reduced form is an important compound in antioxidant defense and in the repair of oxidized proteins. It is oxidized to its disulfide, GSSG. High GSH/GSSG ratios are maintained by glutathione reductase (GSSG), which converts GSSG to GSH. One study reported a decrease in the activity of glutathione peroxidase in PD nigra, putamen and globus pallidus (Mena, 1979), but this has not been reproduced by others (Riederer and Wuketich, 1976). However, there is evidence that GSH levels are decreased in PD substantia nigra (Perry et al., 1982; Sian et al., 1994). Total GSH levels appear to be slightly lower in PD substantia nigra. This combination suggests enhanced free radical generation in the PD nigra. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) exists in cytosolic (copper/zinc, Cu/Zn) SOD and mitochondrial manganese (Mn) SOD forms and is important in dismutating superoxide ions. Thus levels of this enzyme are indicative of superoxide generation. Both copper/zinc and manganese SOD appear to be increased in PD substantia nigra (Marttila et al., 1988; Saggu et al., 1989). High levels of copper/zinc SOD are expressed at the mRNA level in control and PD nigral pigmented neurons (Hirsch et al., 1989; Ceballos et al., 1990). Taken

MITOCHONDRIA IN THE ETIOLOGY OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE together these observations suggest that PD nigral neurons in particular are exposed to increased superoxide generation. Levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids (Dexter et al., 1986), malondialdehyde and hydroperoxides (Jenner, 1991) are increased in PD substantia nigra. These are the products of free radical damage to lipid membranes and imply oxidative damage in PD. Free radical damage to DNA produces intracellular 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine. Elevated concentrations of this product are seen in PD in the nuclear DNA and particularly in the mtDNA fractions from patients with PD (Sanchez-Ramos et al., 1994). Levels of these products are also particularly high in control brains in the substantia nigra and striatum, confirming that, even in controls, this area of the brain is a site of high oxidative stress. Animal studies have implicated nitric oxide (NO.) in the nigrostriatal neuronal loss in PD. Nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity is at its highest in the nigrostriatal system in non-human primates and humans. Inhibition of NOS protects against MPTP toxicity in primates (Hantraye et al., 1996) and in the methamphetamine animal model of PD (Itzhak and Ali, 1996). Attempts to demonstrate altered levels of NO. in the brains of PD patients have been inconclusive, with both decreased and increased levels of cerebrospinal fluid nitrate, a marker of NOS activity, being seen (Kuiper et al., 1994; Molina et al., 1994; Qureshi et al., 1995). Nitrotyrosine residues have been identified in Lewy bodies, implying NO-mediated damage to proteins (Good et al., 1998; Giasson et al., 2000). The ubiquitin proteasomal system (UPS) is the primary mechanism responsible for the elimination of mutant, damaged and misfolded intracellular proteins and for regulating the levels of short-lived proteins that mediate cellular activities such as gene transcription and neurotransmission (Pickart, 2001; Sherman and Goldberg, 2001). Polyubiquitin-protein conjugates and free (non-ubiquitinated) proteins/peptides are respectively degraded by 26S and 20S proteasomes, which are multicatalytic proteases found in the cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum, perinuclear region and nucleus of eukaryotic cells. Proteasomal degradation of proteins is achieved by a series of ATP-dependent peptidases (Voges et al., 1999). A defect of mitochondrial respiratory chain activity results in impaired oxidative phosphorylation and an increase in free radical generation (Benaroudj et al., 2003) and thus will affect UPS function by both limiting activity and increasing the substrate load of oxidized protein. This interaction has been elegantly demonstrated in primary mesencephalic cultures (Hoglinger et al., 2003a).

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The activities of the UPS are normally upregulated to clear unwanted proteins but failure of this process to occur normally results in the accumulation of abnormal proteins; their aggregation forms insoluble inclusion bodies, disruption of cellular homeostasis and integrity. Such defects often lead to cell death via an apoptotic mechanism (McNaught and Olanow, 2003). However, UPS activity is reduced in the PD brain (McNaught et al., 2003) and this may promote or contribute to abnormal protein aggregation, cell dysfunction and death. Mutant and damaged proteins are known to saturate and inhibit activity of the UPS, leading to the accumulation of a wide range of poorly degraded intracellular proteins (Bence et al., 2001). Parenteral administration of proteasomal inhibitors to rodents has been reported to induce neuronal cell loss in a pattern comparable to PD and motor abnormalities that respond to dopaminergic therapy (McNaught et al., 2004). Epoxomicin or Z-Ile-Glu (OtBu)-Ala-Leu-al) (PSI) was injected intraperitoneally (epoxomicin) or subcutaneously (PSI) six times over 14 days. After a latency of 2 weeks, rats developed a progressive motor deficit with rigidity and bradykinesia that was responsive to apomorphine and a bilaterally and symmetrically reduced striatal fluorodopa PET signal at 17 weeks. The loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) and the presence of microglial activation were confirmed by tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) and OX-42 staining respectively. There was a 53% loss of THþ cells at 2 weeks and a 72% loss at 6 weeks with a corresponding fall in striatal dopamine levels. Neuronal degeneration also occurred in the locus ceruleus, dorsal motor vagal nucleus and nucleus basalis of Meynert. Ubiquitin-rich intracytoplasmic protein aggregations with structural similarities to Lewy bodies were observed in neurons of the SNc, locus ceruleus and dorsal motor vagal nucleus. This model appears, therefore, to have many clinical, morphological and pharmacological parallels to PD.

22.8. Conclusions There are several different causes of PD, which include, at the time of writing, 11 separate loci associated with familial PD. Environmental risk factors have been defined but no single environmental agent has been identified as causing idiopathic PD. It is clear that mitochondria play an important role in PD pathogenesis. However, rather than necessarily contributing directly, it seems more likely that mitochondrial dysfunction operates as part of a complex network which includes oxidative stress and abnormal protein handling.

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Chapter 23

Iron as a trigger of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease ANDRZEJ FRIEDMAN1*, JOLANTA GALAZKA-FRIEDMAN2 AND ERIKA R. BAUMINGER3 1

Department of Neurology, Medical University in Warsaw, Poland 2

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23.1. Introduction Iron plays an important role in all living cells and is essential for many metabolic functions in the central nervous system (Sipe et al., 2002). The concentration of iron in human substantia nigra (SN) increases with aging up to the third decade and then levels off (Hallgren and Sourander, 1958; Zecca et al., 2004). Under normal conditions iron in SN, as in other organs, catalyzes various reactions. It constitutes an essential component of enzymes in the oxidative metabolism, yet it is a double-edged sword and may also be deleterious by triggering oxidative stress. In oxidative reactions in the central nervous system, as in any other tissue, iron generates free radicals via the Fenton reaction: Fe2þ þ H2 O2 ! Fe3þ þOH þOH Free radicals, produced in this process, are neutralized under normal conditions by free radical scavengers. It is the excess of free radicals, caused either by an increase in production of free radicals or by decreased abilities to neutralize them, which may become a starting point for oxidative stress (Halliwell, 1992). Broken iron homeostasis in SN may therefore be the trigger for neurodegeneration, leading to Parkinson’s disease. The causes of this broken iron homeostasis may be related to a change in iron concentration, a change in the iron redox state or a change in the forms of iron binding. This chapter will present and discuss the results of investigations dealing with these items. Presenting the problem of the change in the concentration of iron in parkinsonian SN, we will discuss

results of studies performed on postmortem specimens by various techniques and studies on living subjects using non-invasive methods – magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transcranial sonography (TCS). Though the correlations between signals obtained by these last two techniques and iron concentration are not completely solved, such studies have attempted to compare the amount of iron in different tissues. A review of the results reported for MRI and TCS dealing with the comparison between iron concentration in parkinsonian and control SN will be presented. The redox state of iron, as well as the forms of iron binding, can only be assessed in postmortem tissues, though MRI and TCS may be able to show iron inside ferritin. There is a wide range of published results dealing with the concentration of iron in SN and its redox state. The differences in the obtained values may be due to artifacts in the experiments or may also reflect, to some extent, the wide range of iron concentrations in individual cases, both in disease and control. Though in some papers large differences in iron concentrations between normal and PD SN were reported, in others only non-significant changes could be detected. It has to be emphasized, however, that biological processes are not linear, and even small changes may lead to a process destroying nervous tissue in SN (Galazka-Friedman and Friedman, 1997). At the end of this chapter we will present various speculations about the scenario of broken iron homeostasis in Parkinson’s disease.

*Correspondence to: Andrzej Friedman, Department of Neurology, Medical University, ul. Kondratowicza 8, 03-242 Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: [email protected], Tel: þ48-22-3265815, Fax: þ48-22-3265815.

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A. FRIEDMAN ET AL. measurement, the amount of tissue needed for the measurement and the sensitivity of the method. With some techniques additional information, like the iron valence and/or the identification of iron-binding compounds or the concentration of other elements in the tissues, can be obtained. The iron concentrations measured by different techniques yield very different results – ranging from 48 to 480 mg/g for wet control tissues and from 85 to 280 mg/g for wet PD tissues (Table 23.1 and Fig. 23.1). The lowest concentrations were measured by spectrophotometry. Spectrophotometry requires homogenization of samples in hydrochloric acid and pepsin (Sofic et al., 1988, 1991) and much of the iron may be lost during this procedure. On the other hand total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF), measured in 5 samples of control SN, gave a very high iron concentration, though with a comparatively large standard deviation (410 223 mg/g). This result may therefore be due to large differences between concentrations measured in each of the samples. The results cited in the tables give the concentration of iron in mg/g tissue. In two papers, one applying inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy (Mann et al., 1994) and the other colorimetry (Loeffler et al., 1995), the results are given in ng/mg protein. It is difficult to compare these results for iron concentrations with all others, yet the results of these two experiments are inconsistent with each other (1159 379 and 5600 400 ng/mg protein respectively).

23.2. Iron concentration in normal and parkinsonian substantia nigra 23.2.1 Postmortem studies SN has been known for its high iron concentration since 1958, when Hallgren and Sourander published the results of a quantitative assessment by colorimetry of iron concentration in normal human brains. These authors measured 52 samples of SN. The average iron concentration in SN calculated from these measurements was 184.6 65.2 mg/g wet tissue, which was higher than that measured by these authors in human liver (134.4 93.6 mg/g). Since the late 1960s many researchers tried to assess the iron concentration in parkinsonian and normal SN. The normal SNs were usually obtained from control subjects, who died without any clinical or pathological signs of neurodegenerative disease. The results obtained in these measurements on postmortem SN are summarized in Tables 23.1 and 23.2 and Figs. 23.1 and 23.2. The data presented are based on all available papers published up to the end of 2004 and only include references to papers in which data obtained from certain experiments were described for the first time. As shown in these tables and figures, iron concentrations were assessed in postmortem tissue by different techniques. Each technique has its advantages and disadvantages depending on several factors, such as the tissue preparation necessary for carrying out the

Table 23.1 Iron concentration in substantia nigra in control (C) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) measured in wet tissues Method

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Col, colorimetry; XRF, X-ray fluorescence; SPH, spectrophotometry; TXRF, total reflection X-ray fluorescence; AA, atomic absorption; NAA, neutron activation analysis; MS, Mo¨ssbauer spectroscopy; ICP, inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy. a These numbers are based on data from Galazka-Friedman et al. (1996) and data obtained from additional samples.

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Table 23.2 Iron concentration in substantia nigra in control (C) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) measured in lyophilized tissues Method

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No. of C samples

Iron concentration (mg/mg)

No. of PD samples

Iron (mg/mg)

ICP AAE MS

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Reference Dexter et al. (1989) Uitti et al. (1989) Galazka-Friedman et al. (1996)

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1200 Iron concentration in control 1000

Iron concentration in PD

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AAE

MS

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AA caudal

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As seen from the tables, TXRF and neutron activation analysis were only applied for control SN. All other methods mentioned above were used to measure iron concentrations in both control and PD SN. As in the control samples, the low concentration for SN iron measured by spectrophotometry is also notable for PD samples. Most methods used need chemical pretreatment of the samples. In some this pretreatment may affect the estimate of the amount of iron in the samples. Mo¨ssbauer spectroscopy – recoil-free resonance absorption – is the only method used on postmortem samples that does not need any pretreatment of the samples once they are removed from the brain. In this respect it is the most reliable, though not the most sensitive method used. It requires about 15 mg Fe (which always contains 0.3 mg (2.1%) of the Mo¨ssbauer-sensitive isotope Fe57) in a sample in order to give a signal. It will detect any iron in the sample that is present in an amount higher than that, irrespective of its valence or spin state (Galazka-Friedman et al., 1996). This method, which is able to assess not only the iron concentration but also the iron redox state (divalent versus trivalent iron) and iron-binding compound, was used by Bauminger et al. (1994), Gerlach et al. (1995) and Galazka-Friedman et al. (1996, 2004), but the concentration of iron in SN in PD and controls was assessed in only two experiments (Bauminger et al., 1994; Galazka-Friedman et al., 1996). As seen in Tables 23.1 and 23.2, the concentrations of iron in SN obtained with this method are similar to those obtained by colorimetry, atomic absorption and neutron activation analysis in wet tissues for control SNs and by atomic absorption and emission and inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy in lyophilized tissues. Among all methods mentioned, neutron activation analysis is the most sensitive for determining the iron concentration. This method was used to measure iron concentration in control samples of various ages (Zecca et al., 2001a). Only two samples in this study were obtained from subjects of age typical for PD. The results obtained for these two cases differ significantly from each other (109 and 199 mg/g). Even with this very sensitive method, results so different from each other were obtained. This probably points to a wide variability in iron concentration from case to case. The gaps between the results cited in Tables 23.1 and 23.2 may be due to a wide range of iron concentrations in different individuals and to a non-homogeneous distribution of iron within SN. The size of investigated samples ranged from 10 mg (Mann et al., 1994) up to 1125 mg for pooled samples (Galazka-Friedman et al., unpublished). The high sensitivity of some methods, requiring only small sizes of samples, may make

it possible to estimate the concentration of iron in specific regions of SN. However, due to the non-homogeneous distribution of iron in SN, these results may not represent the amount of iron in whole SN per unit weight. The large range of concentrations of iron obtained in PD SN may be further magnified by problems with the diagnosis of PD. The paper by Sofic et al. (1991) compares the iron concentrations in SN between controls and patients with severe parkinsonism and dementia (referred to in this paper as PD plus) and patients with dementia of Alzheimer type. It is not obvious that patients with parkinsonian symptoms and dementia do represent typical Lewy body Parkinson’s disease (Litvan et al., 2003). Nevertheless, as can be seen in Fig. 23.1, with the exception of spectrophotometry studies (Sofic et al., 1988), there is general agreement concerning the total concentration of iron in SN measured by the different methods. The smaller concentrations measured by spectrophotometry in both parkinsonian and control SNs, as well as in measurements on pars compacta and pars reticulata of SNs, may, as discussed earlier, probably be due to an artifact of the method. The results of measurements performed on lyophilized samples (Fig. 23.2) do not show such discrepancies, except for those made separately for the oral and caudal part of SN (Riederer et al., 1989). There were several experiments comparing the iron concentration in PD SN with that in control SN. The paper by Jean Lhermitte et al. (1924) is often cited as the first description of an increased iron concentration in Parkinson’s disease (Go¨tz et al., 2004), sometimes even as a first description of increased iron in parkinsonian SN (Kaur and Andersen, 2004). However Lhermitte et al. (1924), who used Perls and Turnbull staining, showed only abnormal iron deposits in the globus pallidus of 1 patient who died with the clinical diagnosis of PD. In effect, the authors mentioned explicitly that ‘[iron] in the substantia nigra was present in normal amounts’ (Lhermitte et al., 1924). In nine studies the concentrations of iron in SN were assessed for PD and control. X-ray fluorescent spectroscopy was used in one study to determine the iron content in 11 parkinsonian SNs and the results were compared with an unknown number of measurements of control samples (Earle, 1968). In this study a twofold increase of total iron content in parkinsonian SN versus control was found. No error of this calculation was given. These measurements were performed on samples kept in formalin for a long time. Some of the samples were stored for more than 70 years in formalin, and control brains were stored for longer than PD. It was shown that this type of storage

IRON AS A TRIGGER OF NEURODEGENERATION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE promotes a leak of iron from the tissue (Bauminger et al., 1994; Chua-anusorn et al., 1997) and it is possible that this leak is different in control and PD tissue. The same may also be true for experiments applying spectrophotometry, where iron is lost during sample preparation. Table 23.3 demonstrates the ratios of iron concentrations in PD versus control with their errors, as calculated for each of the nine studies. As can be seen from the table, five of the obtained ratios show an increase in iron in PD SN, whereas three results show

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no significant change and one even shows a decrease. It seems that it is hard at this point to confirm the oftencited statement, that there is a substantial increase in the total concentration of iron in parkinsonian SN compared to control. In some experiments a comparison of nigral iron between PD and controls was made separately on pars compacta and pars reticulata or the oral and caudal part of SN. These results are presented in Table 23.4. A higher concentration of iron in pars reticulata than in pars compacta in control brains was found by Sofic

Table 23.3 Ratio of iron concentrations between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and control (C) substantia nigra as obtained by different methods Method

No. of PD samples

No. of C samples

Ratio Fe(PD)/Fe(C)

Reference

XRF SPH AA MS ICP COL ICP AAE MS

11 8 6 9 18 14 7 9 1

? 8 6 20 22 8 9 12 1

2.0 ? 1.77 0.37 2.01 0.24 1.02 0.16 1.56 0.23 0.82 0.08 1.34 0.17 1.07 0.13 0.93 0.18

Earle (1968) Sofic et al. (1988) Griffiths and Crossman (1993) Galazka-Friedman et al., unpublisheda Mann et al. (1994) Loeffler et al. (1995) Dexter et al. (1989) Uitti et al. (1989) Galazka-Friedman et al. (1996)

XRF, X-ray fluorescence; SPH, spectrophotometry; AA, atomic absorption; MS, Mo¨ssbauer spectroscopy; ICP, inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy; COL, colorimetry; AAE, atomic absorption and emission. The first six studies were made on wet tissue, whereas the remaining three were done on lyophilized tissue. a These numbers are based on data from Galazka-Friedman et al. (1996) and data obtained from additional samples.

Table 23.4 Iron concentrations assessed in parts of substantia nigra (SN) (pars compacta versus pars reticulata or oral versus caudal) Method and part of SN

Sample W or L

Sample weight (mg)

No. of control samples

Iron amount (mg/g)

No. of PD samples

Iron amount (mg/g)

PD/C ratio

Reference

SPH pc

W

?

9

62 7

7

89 9

1.44 0.22

SPH pr

W

?

9

91 15

7

89 9

0.92 0.18

AA oral

L

50–80

4

340 100

11

430 100

1.26 0.47

AA caudal

L

50–80

4

230 100

11

280 100

1.22 0.59

ICP pc

L

100–250

3

740 60

8

960 60

1.30 0.13

Sofic et al. (1991) Sofic et al. (1991) Riederer et al. (1989) Riederer et al. (1989) Dexter et al. (1989)

PD, Parkinson’s disease; C, control; W, wet tissue; L, lyophilized tissue; SPH, spectrophotometry; AA, atomic absorption; ICP, inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy; pc, pars compacta; pr, pars reticulata.

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et al. (1991), and also in a semiquantitative assessment by Jellinger et al. (1990). On the other hand the study by Dexter et al. (1989) suggests a higher concentration of iron in pars compacta. Comparison of the total amount of iron in parkinsonian and control SN was also made semiquantitatively with the use of Perl’s and Turnbull staining (Jellinger et al., 1990). In these measurements a twofold increase in the iron concentration in parkinsonian SN in pars compacta was found, whereas no such increase was found in pars reticulata of SN. The same method of Perl’s staining, modified by Smith et al. (1997), has been used by Faucheux et al. (2002), who compared the iron content in parkinsonian and control SN. These authors found a large increase of about 10 times in the amount of iron in parkinsonian pars compacta of SN compared to control. This staining method is, however, only sensitive to redox active iron and only a small percentage of the tissue-bound iron is available for redox activity (Smith et al., 1997). The very large difference in the amount of this redox active iron found by Faucheux et al. (2002) may be due to iron, which is safely stored in neuromelanin or ferritin in control tissue, but is present outside these storage compounds as redox active iron in pathological tissues in Parkinson’s disease. 23.2.2. Magnetic resonance imaging studies The observation by Drayer et al. (1986) that the brain areas known for high concentration of iron display a characteristic form of contrast in magnetic resonance images became a starting point for MRI investigations of iron in human brain. The iron-rich regions appear darker than the surrounding areas with low iron concentration. This iron-related contrast is fielddependent. Higher magnetic fields make it visible, whereas at magnetic fields of 1.0 T or below it disappears (Schenck et al., 1990). The nuclear magnetic resonance signal is proportional to the degree of proton magnetization and to the rate of Larmor precession. Attempts to relate the MRI signal with the concentration of iron were presented by Schenck et al. (1990), but no unequivocal conclusions were reached. The aim of the studies reviewed below was to obtain a semiquantitative comparison between the iron content in various brain areas in control and PD patients and/or to find which of the parameters obtained by MRI relate best to the iron concentration in tissues. As in the postmortem studies reviewed above, the conclusions of MRI in vivo studies, concerning the difference of iron concentrations between control and PD SN, are not conclusive. Although some

authors found an increase of iron concentration in SN of PD patients (Gorell et al., 1995; Ryvlin et al., 1995; Graham et al., 2000), in one of the first assessments of the concentration of iron by MRI a decrease of iron was found in parkinsonian SN (Rutledge et al., 1987). Other authors found only non-significant changes (Vymazal et al., 1999). Several MRI studies aimed to assess iron in other basal ganglia, showing an increase of iron in PD caudate, pallidum and putamen (Ye et al., 1996). These findings are at odds with the results on postmortem studies, in which either no increase in the iron concentration in PD in these structures was found (Riederer et al., 1989) or even a significant decrease in PD was reported (Dexter et al., 1989). Assessment of brain iron has typically involved the measurements of proton transverse relaxation rates, R2 (1/T2) or R2’ (1/T2’). Transverse relaxation rates are assumed to depend on inhomogeneities in the local magnetic field. Such inhomogeneities may be caused by the presence of iron, which is mainly stored in ferritin (Gelman et al., 1999). In earlier studies R2 was believed to be a good indicator of iron levels (Drayer et al., 1986; Vymazal et al., 1999). Some authors even claimed they could distinguish with this method iron in pars compacta and pars reticulata of SN (Drayer et al., 1986; Ryvlin et al., 1995). Others however, doubted the possibility of a precise separation of these two parts of SN by MRI (Antonini et al., 1993; Gelman et al., 1999). Doubts also arose whether T2 (or R2) is the right parameter to assess iron concentrations. Brooks et al. (1989) and Chen et al. (1989) independently compared the results of MRI assessment of iron and ferritin concentrations, based on T2 measurements in whole postmortem brains or excised specimen, with the concentrations of iron and ferritin determined by atomic absorption or neutron activation analysis (for iron) and radioimmune assay (for ferritin) in the same samples. Both studies failed to show any correlation between MRI findings and iron or ferritin concentrations in specific brain areas as determined by the other methods. It was also suggested by others that low signal intensity on T2-weighted images is only a non-specific marker of a neurodegenerative process (Stern et al., 1989). According to Gelman et al. (1999), the only possibility of assessing the amount of iron in a small-size structure like SN by MRI is in high-field-strength (3.0 T) measurements of R20 (R20 ¼ R2* – R2). These authors compared the results obtained by their R20 measurements on healthy volunteers with data from the literature on postmortem samples from various brain areas. The highest iron concentration was found

IRON AS A TRIGGER OF NEURODEGENERATION IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE by this method in globus pallidus, followed by SN. These results are in agreement with those found in control human brain samples by Hallgren and Sourander (1958). In this MRI study the authors did not evaluate the amount of iron in PD patients. Another method of MRI assessment of iron content in SN, partially refocused interleaved multiple echo (PRIME), was used by Graham et al. (2000). These authors compared their MRI (in vivo) data with brain iron concentrations published in the literature on postmortem tissues by Hallgren and Sourander (1958) for controls and by Griffiths and Crossman (1993) for PD. In this study the R2* and R20 relaxation rates were higher in SN of PD patients than in controls. No correlation with the disease duration or severity was found in this study. Bartzokis et al. (1999, 2004) proposed another method of increasing the specificity of MRI iron measurements. This method, field-dependent relaxation rate increase (FDRI), measures the difference of R2 obtained with two different field-strength MRI instruments. These authors state that FDRI is a specific measure of the total iron contained in ferric oxyhydroxide particles within the iron core of ferritin. In this study no significant differences in FDRI between PD patients and controls were found. They did, however, find a tendency in SN, and especially in pars reticulata, for a higher FDRI, corresponding, according to them, to higher amounts of iron in young PD patients compared to age-matched young controls. This difference, though, was reversed with higher FDRI for controls in the old age groups of PD and controls. Two more MRI comparisons of nigral iron between PD patients and controls have since been published (Mondino et al., 2002; Atasoy et al., 2004). In both studies the authors compared T2-weighted images using 1.5 T systems. In the first one no difference was found between PD and controls (Mondino et al., 2002). In the second one PD patients had lower T2 intensities in SN compared to controls (Atasoy et al., 2004). In that study this decrease correlated with severity of PD as measured by Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale. The results obtained by MRI for the change of iron concentration in SN between PD patients and controls are summarized in Table 23.5. Six out of nine studies suggested a somewhat higher concentration of iron in parkinsonian SN and two found only non-significant differences. In the first MRI experiment a lower concentration of iron in parkinsonian SN was found. These results show that so far MRI data have not solved the dispute over iron increase in PD SN. Though this method is surely promising, the interpretation of MRI data regarding iron concentrations seams still not completely solved.

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23.2.3. Transcranial sonography Ultrasound technique was introduced 10 years ago to the study of Parkinson’s disease (Becker et al., 1995). Becker et al. presented the results of a transcranial color-coded real-time sonography of patients with PD compared to controls. This study, although only a semiquantitative assessment, demonstrated a substantial increase in SN echogenicity in PD (70% of patients), whereas in controls hyperechogenicity was only seen in a minority of subjects (

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