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This study finds that elevated free-water in limbic regions (notably the left insula and mid-cingulate, plus hippocampus and right orbitofrontal cortex) combined with RBD and anxiety scores predicts conversion from prodromal to clinical Parkinson's disease with a combined-model AUC ~0.76.
Provides a noninvasive, translatable biomarker signature that could be used to enrich and stratify prodromal PD cohorts for early intervention trials and longitudinal therapeutic evaluation, though it does not yet reveal targetable disease mechanisms.
Resting-state fMRI and UPDRS-III data from 55 PD patients show that bilateral STN- and GPi-DBS both improve motor symptoms but differentially reduce motor asymmetry depending on baseline laterality, with motor gains linked to altered homotopic connectivity in the lateral occipital/extrastriate body…
Provides clinically actionable insight for DBS target selection and a candidate imaging biomarker in visual networks that may help predict and optimize motor outcomes, offering moderate translational value though not addressing disease-modifying mechanisms.
This human study found elevated motoneuron excitability and PIC-related amplification in people with Parkinson's disease compared with age-matched controls, and that dopaminergic medication did not fully normalize these measures.
By implicating persistent intrinsic motoneuron changes and PICs that are insensitive to dopamine replacement, the work points to non-dopaminergic targets (ion channels, alternate monoaminergic systems) and electrophysiologic biomarkers that could be exploited for therapeutic discovery.
Geo-Mamba is a geometry-informed dual-path state-space model that operates on Riemannian manifolds of fMRI/EEG functional connectivity to produce compact SPD representations and improves classification robustness across multiple neuroimaging datasets, including three Parkinson's cohorts.
Although it does not address molecular mechanisms or interventions, the method has moderate translational value by potentially improving PD biomarker detection, patient stratification, and cross-modal neuroimaging analyses for clinical studies and trial endpoints.
Using resting-state fMRI from 104 PD patients (plus 34 external validation), the study applied nine machine-learning algorithms to classify subthalamic nucleus DBS ON vs OFF and found that global connectivity metrics with linear models or nonlinear SVMs achieved up to AUC 0.82, supporting…
Identifies validated fMRI-derived features and analytic approaches that could become objective biomarkers to standardize and personalize DBS programming and to track network-level effects relevant for therapeutic optimization in Parkinson's disease.
Quantitative ultrasound radiofrequency Nakagami imaging detected increased muscle scattering (higher m parameter) across multiple muscles in Parkinson's patients versus controls, with the gastrocnemius medialis m strongly correlating with disease severity and good diagnostic performance in a small…
This noninvasive, rapid, low-cost imaging biomarker could provide an objective tool for diagnosis and longitudinal monitoring to improve patient stratification and endpoint sensitivity in clinical studies, although findings are preliminary given the small sample and lack of mechanistic linkage to…
The paper presents a robust rank-based longitudinal global percentile outcome and associated regression/estimation methods (including dropout handling and variance estimation) to integrate multiple time-varying endpoints and applies it to a Parkinson’s disease clinical trial.
This approach improves sensitivity and interpretability for PD trial analyses and risk-factor detection—helpful for trial design, endpoint selection, and translational prioritization—even though it does not identify biological mechanisms or direct therapeutic targets.
Developed a task-specific machine learning system with wearable sensors to automatically score multi-limb bradykinesia (MDS‑UPDRS III tasks) showing promising accuracy (peak F1≈0.87) in a small cohort (21 PD, 8 controls).
Delivers an objective, automated bradykinesia measurement that could standardize assessments and improve outcome measures and monitoring in clinical trials and care, but requires larger validation for therapeutic decision-making.
Sensor-equipped insoles measuring plantar pressure detect subtle and dual-task-specific gait abnormalities in early-stage Parkinson's disease that conventional spatiotemporal metrics largely miss.
Validating an affordable, clinic-ready biomarker that is more sensitive to early and cognitively-challenged gait deficits could improve early detection, patient stratification, monitoring of progression, and outcome measurement in PD therapeutic trials.
Prospective study of 10 advanced unilateral tremor-rigid PD patients treated with stereotactic radiofrequency ablation of the caudal zona incerta and Fields of Forel showed very large, sustained UPDRS III improvements over 3 years with minimal transient adverse effects.
Provides clinically relevant evidence that infrathalamic ablation can be a durable, relatively safe alternative to DBS in selected patients or low-resource settings, but offers little mechanistic or biomarker insight for pharmacologic therapeutic discovery.
Graph-theory analysis of inter-muscular coherence from instrumented gait EMG shows PD patients have increased muscle network density and reduced modularity versus controls, which move toward normal levels 12 months after bilateral subthalamic DBS and correlate with UPDRS-III improvement.
Offers a noninvasive, quantitative network-level biomarker for gait motor control and DBS response that could be used to monitor treatment efficacy or as an objective endpoint in clinical studies, though it provides limited new mechanistic or target-discovery insight.
A focused review examining how chaperones (Hsp90, Hsp110, Hsp27, and DJ-1) regulate proteostasis and how their dysfunction may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's, with discussion of mechanisms for folding, aggregation prevention, and degradation pathways.
Highlights chaperone-based mechanisms (including the PD-linked DJ-1 and mitoprotection) that suggest actionable targets for modulating proteostasis, but remains a conceptual review with limited new experimental or translational data.
Using in vivo negligible-depletion SPME in a 6‑OHDA rat model, the study quantified free and total anandamide (AEA) and 2‑AG, finding significantly elevated striatal free AEA in lesioned animals while 2‑AG was undetectable in vivo.
Provides a minimally perturbing in vivo method to measure biologically active endocannabinoids and highlights AEA as a candidate early PD biomarker, supporting translational biomarker development though it offers limited immediate therapeutic mechanistic insight.
This study reports that Huntington's disease patients exhibit dual pallidal oscillatory signatures—posterior GP theta (2–8 Hz) linked to hyperkinesia and high beta (20–30 Hz) linked to hypokinesia—mapped to distinct pallidal subregions and indirect/direct pathway connectivity and proposed as…
Although HD-focused, the paper provides circuit-level biomarkers, pallidal subregion mapping, and DBS-targeting insights that are translatable to Parkinson's therapeutics for improving stimulation strategies and monitoring motor-state biomarkers.
Longitudinal analysis in PPMI shows accelerated epigenetic aging in blood associates with worsening tremor phenotypes in Parkinson's disease—particularly in men—while associations with gait, rigidity, and bradykinesia are weaker or absent.
This supports blood-based epigenetic clocks as candidate biomarkers for monitoring tremor progression and for patient stratification in trials, providing translational value despite limited direct mechanistic or therapeutic targets.
A computational mean firing-rate model incorporating cortex, thalamus and PPN identifies how dopaminergic parameter interactions, synaptic weights, delays and time constants can produce pathological beta-band oscillations in basal ganglia circuits.
The work highlights circuit-level drivers (cortex–thalamus coupling, STN–GPe loop strength, connection delays, and PPN dynamics) that are actionable targets for neuromodulation or DBS parameter optimization and generates testable quantitative hypotheses, but it lacks molecular mechanisms and in…
Resting-state EEG microstate transition patterns (reduced D→B and increased E→F and F→C) differentiate PD patients with visual hallucinations with ~89.5% accuracy.
Identifies a noninvasive, high-temporal-resolution biomarker of large-scale network imbalance that can help stratify patients, monitor hallucinatory risk, and inform network-targeted interventions (e.g., neuromodulation) though it lacks direct molecular or therapeutic mechanisms.
Using 3D motion capture, force plates, and EMG from 106 participants performing a sit-to-walk task, the authors identified three biomechanical features (mean COM speed, anteroposterior CoP–COM displacement during gait-initiation, and forward thoracic range of motion) and trained a random forest…
The work offers objective, noninvasive biomechanical biomarkers and a proof-of-concept ML screening tool that could aid earlier detection and functional monitoring of PD, though it does not provide molecular targets or direct therapeutic interventions.
A 6-month prospective, open-label US observational study found add-on opicapone improved motor and non-motor fluctuations and was generally well tolerated in Parkinson's patients with OFF episodes.
Supports real-world symptomatic efficacy and tolerability of opicapone as a levodopa adjunct—useful for clinical practice and therapeutic positioning but offering limited mechanistic or novel discovery insights for Parkinson's drug development.
In a retrospective longitudinal cohort, Parkinson's patients with baseline neurogenic orthostatic hypotension experienced significantly faster decline in global and multiple domain-specific cognitive scores (MoCA) over time, without accelerated motor or nonmotor symptom progression.
This identifies nOH as a clinically assessable prognostic biomarker that could help stratify PD patients for cognitive-risk, monitoring, and trials and suggests autonomic/cerebral-perfusion pathways as potential but currently underexplored therapeutic targets.