期刊
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
卷 23, 期 13, 页码 1812-1819出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22025
关键词
TMS; neurophysiology; Parkinson's disease/Parkinsonism; Parkin; carrier/asymptomatic
资金
- Brain Research Trust, UK
Autosomal recessive parkin (PARK2) gene-related parkinsonism may be phenotypically and pathophysiologically distinct from idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). Furthermore, asymptomatic subjects carrying a single parkin mutation (parkin carriers) may show striatal dopaminergic dysfunction and increased cortical movement-related activation. Here, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to study corticospinal and intracortical excitability in manifesting parkin patients and asymptomatic carriers. We studied resting and active motor thresholds (RMT/AMT), central motor conduction time (CMCT), active recruitment curves short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI) and facilitation (ICF). SICI recruitment curve, and cortical silent period (CDP) in 8 patients off medication, 7 carriers, and two groups of age-matched controls (n = 21). Patients had longer CMCTs compared to controls with a significant negative correlation between CMCT duration and onset age (r = -0.83, P = 0.04). Carriers had increased RMT/AMT; the time course of SICI/ICF and the duration of CSP were normal in both patients and carriers; however slight abnormalities in the recruitment of SICI were found in the carriers. Prolonged CMCT and normal cortical inhibitory mechanisms in parkin patients may be of value in the differentiation from idiopathic PD. The subclinical electrophysiological abnormalities found in carriers may represent underlying compensatory mechanisms. (C) 2008 Movement Disorder Society.
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