The altered multiscale dynamics of spontaneous brain activity in depression with Parkinson's disease.

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BackgroundDepression is one typical mood disorder in Parkinson's disease (DPD). The alterations in the resting-state brain activities are believed to be associated with DPD. These resting-state activities are regulated by neurophysiological components over multiple temporal scales. The multiscale dynamics of these spontaneous fluctuations are thus complex, but not well-characterized.ObjectiveTo characterize the complexity of the spontaneous blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) of fMRI in DPD. We hypothesized that (1) compared to non-depression PD (NDPD), the complexity in DPD would be lower; and (2) the diminished complexity would be associated with lower connections/communications between brain regions.MethodsTwenty-nine participants (10 in DPD and 19 in NDPD) who were naïve to medications completed a resting-sate functional MRI scan. The BOLD complexity within each voxel was calculated by using multiscale entropy (MSE). The complexity of the whole brain and each of the 90 regions parcellated following automated-anatomical-labeling template was then obtained by averaging voxel-wised complexity across all brain regions or within each region. The level of connections of regions with diminished complexity was measured by their own global functional connectivity (FC).ResultsAs compared to NDPD patients, the whole-brain complexity and complexity in 18 regions were significantly lower in DPD (F > 16.3, p ConclusionThe results from this pilot study suggest that the resting-state BOLD complexity may provide critical knowledge into the pathology of DPD. Future studies are thus warranted to confirm the findings of this study.

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